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Show First Shorthand Modern shorthand dates from the patent granted on July 2G, 15S8, for fifteen years, to Dr. Timothy Bright, resident physician at St. Bartholomew's Bartholo-mew's hospital, London, which licensed him "to teache, imprynte. and pub-lishe, pub-lishe, or cause to be taughte, Impryn-ted, Impryn-ted, and published, in or by character not before this time commonlye knowne and used by other oure subjects." sub-jects." In the same year Bright published pub-lished a description of the system in his book, "Characterie. An arte of shorte, swifte and secret writing by character." |