P/m Crease follow up

[Bruce Scott]

I just wanted to mention that it's incorrect to use the letter f to replace the letter s as in "perfon".

The original 18th century type had two forms of lowercase s, the one we still use today and the "long s".

The long s was literally a long s, elongated or stretched out. It was not an f (lacking the horizontal stroke that the letter f has).

Whenever I see such errors made it makes me question the validity of the whole.

Aside from the incorrect use of 'f' for the long s, the wording in my post appears to be identical to the report of the finding in The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 16, for the year 1746.

https://books.google.com.au/books?id...Rebels&f=false