Buckingham's health

Somebody mentuioned Buckingham in a recent post - which I can't find now -
and I just wondered whether anybody had really looked at Buckingham's
writing as seen on the paper signed at Stony Stratford, from a medical
perspective. It's extremely thready, faint and erratic - in an age when
thready writing must have been a rarity, because the accepted hand was very
rounded - and looks as if he was either very drunk or had some neurological
problem. If he was either an alcoholic or had e.g. a brain-tumour it would
explain a lot about his erratic behaviour.

"Claire M Jordan" wrote:
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> Somebody mentuioned Buckingham in a recent post - which I can't find now - and I just wondered whether anybody had really looked at Buckingham's writing as seen on the paper signed at Stony Stratford, from a medical perspective. It's extremely thready, faint and erratic - in an age when thready writing must have been a rarity, because the accepted hand was very rounded - and looks as if he was either very drunk or had some neurological problem. If he was either an alcoholic or had e.g. a brain-tumour it would explain a lot about his erratic behaviour.
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Carol responds:

I mentioned him in relation to "The Ballad of Lady Bessy." Maybe that's what you were thinking of? We've commented on his motto but not on his handwriting that I can recall.

Carol