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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 249864, member: 25&quot;]<i>lithographed as a standard content form with blank areas for specific details and signatures. Similar to modern contracts.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>They were always hand written&nbsp; on parchment or vellum, too many variables for a standard form to be useful,(the term indenture encompassed virtually any legally drawn agreement) and up to the end of the 19th C everything was hand written, and always indentures were done&nbsp; in what was referred to a &#039;clerkly hand&#039;, you had to be a very neat writer to get any kind of clerical job, although run of the mill paperwork was less elaborate.</p><p>It was also important to get it right first time, up to the end of the 19th C an eraser was a small very sharp knife to shave the parchment clean.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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