William Addy ( fl. 1685) was a writing-master based in

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, and the author of a system of shorthand published in 1685. The method, a modification of that of

Jeremiah Rich Jeremiah Rich (died 1660?) was an English stenographer, who published a pioneering system of shorthand writing. Life Rich's uncle, William Cartwright, taught him shorthand, and he became a noted practitioner of the art. He dedicated his ''Semigr ...

, was so much practised that the

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, the

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, and the Singing Psalms were published, according to its system, two years later. The 1695 edition of his work was entitled ''Stenographia, or the Art of Short-Writing completed in a far more compendious methode than any yet extant''. It was engraved throughout. The Bible was engraved by John Sturt. In subsequent editions of the Bible the preliminary leaves were changed, and the book dedicated to King William. All the title-pages are dated 1687.

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