Fonts for Paleography
If you have looked at the wills and seen only strange characters, the reason is that you need to install special fonts in order to be able to read the wills. The fonts can be downloaded by clicking on the link below. They are in a ZIP file called FONTS.ZIP. To extract the fonts you must use PKUNZIP or better still WinZip. If you don't have WinZip, you can download it from their Web site, http://www.winzip.com.
When you have extracted the four font files, COURT1.TTF, COURT2.TTF, TUDOR1.TTF and STUART2.TTF, you must use the Control Panel to install them. If you have Netscape running, you must close it and open it again to ensure that it uses the new fonts.
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