> >I was hoping to find someone who had additional evidence for this character.
I happened to come across it the other day in a modern printed edition of 17th- to 19th century handwritten English letters (Miller, Kerby A., Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, & David N. Doyle. 2002. _Irish immigrants in the land of Canaan: letters and memoirs from colonial and revolutionary America, 1675-1815._ Oxford: Oxford UP) I haven't got it here just now, but if it is important I might be able to provide a few scans. If I remember correctly, it was being used just as an handwritten ligature of the word "per", as in "per day", "per year", etc. Lukas
