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Show Shorthand Pioneer. That tho ancients wero thoroughly conversant with shorthand is an undisputed un-disputed fact, it subsequently became a lost art until revived or rediscovered rediscov-ered toward tho end of tho sixteenth century. At this tlmo thero lived William Wil-liam lawrence, who died In 1C21 -jnd wns burled In the cloister of Wt minster abbey. There tho visitor mi rend his epitaph, which includes the following lines: Short-hand he wrote; his Mower In ti-l- did fade And haty death short-hand of h'm hm made. " |