George Glasgow: Mid Calder baptism, not a testament

Look at the strokes

1. xvij is formed by crossed x strokes, a v, two short i minims and a descending final j.
2. The j descender drops below the numeral line and curls left.
3. The following month abbreviation begins with a tall f and a raised abbreviation mark.

Reading limits: The day numeral is clear; the expanded source excerpt preserves the complete raised month flourish with surrounding margin.

Look at the strokes

1. The capital J has a long descending stroke that loops left below the line.
2. James ends in a long s whose stroke can resemble f.
3. glasgow begins on the following line with a tall looped g and a compact final w.

Compare in this hand: The wider witness crop repeats this same James glasgow at the entry start.

Reading limits: The name is clear; the line's formula identifies him as the named parent, not necessarily the father under every possible register convention.

Look at the strokes

1. The initial b rises in a tall narrow loop.
2. The p descends below the body letters, while the t near the end rises and crosses lightly.
3. The final -zit is compressed into angular strokes typical of the clerk's connected hand.

Reading limits: The action is baptism; the word supplies no birth date.

Look at the strokes

1. namit is a low run of joined humps ending in a taller t.
2. george starts with a looped descender and contains a second rounded g-like form near its end.
3. A visible word gap separates the naming verb from the child's forename.

Compare in this hand: The witness's Georg at the far right of the wider crop has the same open capital-like initial but a different role after W.

Reading limits: George is the child named by the baptism formula; this sample does not name a mother.

Look at the strokes

1. The large J descends below the line before returning into ames.
2. The long s at the end of James runs toward the next word.
3. The surname's opening g descender overlaps the space used by the following line.

Compare in this hand: This is the same entry-start name isolated in the baptism step.

Reading limits: The register formula names James as parent; it does not display a separate kin word such as father.

Look at the strokes

1. The marker is visually isolated after the child's name and before Georg.
2. Its two broad joined downstrokes form a compact W unlike the surrounding lower-case words.
3. The following dot reinforces its abbreviated function.

Reading limits: The role change is clear in context; the exact singular/plural expansion is editorial.

Look at the strokes

1. The opening G is a dark looped form larger than the following letters.
2. The internal eor is a sequence of small connected loops.
3. The final g descends and finishes just before the line break.

Compare in this hand: The child's george occurs earlier on this same line, but this occurrence follows the witness marker.

Reading limits: The forename is secure; its surname must be taken from the next line.

Look at the strokes

1. The surname restarts at the left margin directly below Georg.
2. The opening g has a deep looped descender.
3. The final w is a compact zig-zag of connected strokes.

Compare in this hand: The same surname shape appears after James at the start of the preceding line.

Reading limits: The expanded source excerpt preserves the full continuation and its lower margin; the line break, not the surname, is uncertain.