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

13th September 1758

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Just published, Price bound 8 s.

(The Third Edition corrected)

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

The Persons, Moods and Tenses, being comprised 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.

Improved (after upwards of Thirty-seven Years Practice and Experience)

By T. GURNEY, Writer of these Proceedings.

N. B. The Book is a sufficient Instructor of itself; but if any difficulty should arise, the Purchaser, by applying to the Author, may depend upon all proper Assistance, without any further Expence.

Sold by the Author, at his House in Christ-Church Parish, Surrey; and by the Booksellers in Town and Country.

Note, We whose Names are hereunto subscribed having learned the above Method of Short-Hand by the Book only, declare, that we find it to be adapted in a most concise and intelligible Manner, so as to be easily attained by a common Capacity, and that it can be wrote with the greatest swiftness, and read with equal ease at any distance of Time. Nevertheless, in regard to the Author, and for encouraging the Spread of so useful and pleasant an Art, if any Purchaser should find the least difficulty in his progress therein, we are ready to forward such one, on application to either of us, &c.

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Also a complete Apparatus to the first principles of the art of SHORT-HAND-WRITING; the whole consisting of but THIRTY-SIX-CHARACTERS, and those so easily adapted to the Occasion of COMMON PRACTICE, that a few Hours Application will render them perfectly familiar and reducible to general Use; chiefly intended for the Use of those who have not Leisure to attend to the divers Rules laid down in the former BOOK. Price 2 s. 6 d.




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