In a minute contemporary hand, with many contractions.

The handwriting in its minuteness resembles that of Hooker himself, but is at once shown not to be his by the occasional addition in brackets of corrections such as these: "for w[hi]ch [such?] institutions", "relious [religious]", "ligitious [litigious]", which show that the writer copied a MS. which had some doubtful words. The word 'are' is always written "r", and "ň" stands for 'not'.