Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

21st May 1760

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Just Published, Price bound 8 s.

The Fourth EDITION, (The PLATES newly Engraved by the best Hands)

BRACHYGRAPHY: OR, SHORT-WRITING Made easy to the meanest Capacity:

The Persons, Moods and Tenses, being comprized in such a Manner, that little more than the Knowledge of the Alphabet is required to the writing Hundreds of Sentences in less Time than spoken.

The whole is founded on so just a Plan, that it is wrote with greater Expedition than any yet invented, and likewise may be read with the greatest Ease.

By T. GURNEY, Writer of these Proceedings.

Sold by Mr. Buckland, Mrs. Cooper, Mr. Keith, Mr. Field, Mr. Dilly, Mr. Kearsley, Mr. Gretton, Mr. Enion, Mr. Horncastle, Mr. Herbert, and other Book-sellers, and by the Author, at his House, near Christ-Church, Surry.

We whose Names are subscribed to the Book, (having Learned this Method of SHORT HAND) do, in justice to the Author, affirm, that this Book alone is sufficient to teach the Art perfectly, it being adapted to the Capacities of Learners in General, and to the most useful Purposes of the Art, with respect to Law, Physic, Divinity, &c.

William Chinnery < no role > , Junior, Writing Master, &c. at the Globe and Sun, in Chancery Lane.

Isaac Hartman < no role > , Clerk to Thomas Watson < no role > , Esq; Lambeth.

Frederick Miller < no role > , and John Dell < no role > , Clerks to Mr. Price, Swallow Street.

Josiah Lewis < no role > , Upholder, &c. the Corner of Barnaby Street, Southwark, who, for his own private Use, has wrote, in this Method, the New-Testament in one Hundred Hours, the Book of Psalms in thirty Hours, and the Books of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Solomon's Song, in twenty four Hours; all which the Curious may freely inspect.

W. Holdsworth, at Mr. Rook's in Boswell Court.

Thomas Harper < no role > , Schoolmaster, Wigmore Street, Oxford Road.

Richard Hale < no role > , Ewer Street, in the Park, Southwark, Writing-Master and Accomptant.

John Payne < no role > , at Mr. Buckland's, Paternoster Row.

Isaac Padman < no role > , at the Bank of England.

Lawrence Pitt < no role > , Book-keeper, George Inn, Snow-Hill, W. Beckly, Watch-maker, Civet Cat, Norton Falgate.

Joseph Bedder < no role > , at Mr. Stanley's, Basing Lane.

Joseph Collett < no role > , at Mess Barnardston and How's, Stationers, in Chancery Lane, And

Thomas Wells < no role > , Chaser, West Harding Street, Fetter Lane.




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