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Show Firit Shorthand Modern shorthand dates from the patent granted on July 26, 1588, 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-llshe, pub-llshe, 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, "Chnracterle. An arte of Bhorte, swlfte and secret writing by character." |