oggbashan
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Most interesting, Og. Thanks for sharing it. I love how public has a k at the end and often the s is replaced by the f, both indicators of its age.
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In 1666, there wasn't a nationally agreed standard of spelling. But most words that now end in a hard c like public, were often printed with -ck as the ending e.g. politick, aspick.
If you look very carefully, you can see that the f used as an s does not have the full crossing that an f has. The part of the crossing to the right isn't there.