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1819, Malcolm Laing, The History of Scotland, volume 1, page 373:
It begins like a transcript, at the top of the page, without the least appearance or form of an intended original : it is written in the common secretary hand of ,the age, which Crawford mistook for a chancery hand;[…].
1830, John Pinkerton, The Literary Correspondence of John Pinkerton, Esq., volume 2, page 112:
Her name, from Crawford's example of it, seems to me to be written in the same chancery hand, which renders the supposed forgery a mere copy, mistaken by Welwood for the original.
2009, Stanley Morison, Selected Essays on the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print, page 165:
But, unlike his posterity, Hercolani did not carry this sort of pleasantry too far, and his book remains a splendid specimen of the late chancery hand distinguished by decorative treatment of the ascenders and descenders and a discreet flourishing of initial and terminal letters.
