This kind of flourish is also known as a paraph.

Its date (only the last two figures) in the upper paraph on the back.

But the final paraph, the flourish which in time Scott was to recognize as habitual, was still to come.

"He has now added this crown and this paraph to his coat-of-arms," said Miss Holland.

Conall traced the letters carefully-Conall Interrex-finishing with the flourished paraph, almost impossible to forge, that made the signature unique.

"Yes, he bears the royal arms on his shield, but yet, if we remember rightly, the crown and paraph of our ancestor Edward the Third are wanting."

Moreover, the paraph also could be marked with a full-height sign similar to (cents) or with a double slash, originally symbols indicating a note from the scribe to the rubricator.

The pilcrow ( ), also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea (Latin: a lineā, "off the line"), or blind P, is a typographical character for individual paragraphs.

A quarter of an hour later, Morgan scrawled his signature at the bottom of the crucial letter and added his paraph, the highly personal flourish at the end of the stroke to guard against forgery.

There are very few physical remainders of Frederick in Hesse today; one of them is his large Royal Swedish paraph (FR) over the old door of the University of Marburg's former riding hall, now the Institute of Physical Education.