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  Posted by Jim Shead (U15006358) on Monday, 17th October 2011

  On yesterdays programme your expert examined a small book of shorthand
  characters, which he thought was a shorthand edition of the Bible. Is it
  not more probable that it was Jeremiah Rich's "The Whole Book of Psalms
  in meter" that was published about the year mentioned, i.e. 1660.
  
  The expert seemed to think that the shorthand system used was the
  invention of Jeremiah Rich but it seems to me that it was more likely to
  be Thomas Sheldon's shorthand system, which he started developing in
  1626, and was largely used by Pepys when he started his diary in 1660.

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  Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Monday, 17th October 2011

  Not having seen the programme, or therefore the book, I can only assume your doubts are well founded, Jim.
  
  However it is worth noting that there were several bibles also published in the period using Rich's system of shorthand, most notably by William Addy Though if that were the case then the "expert" was remiss in not noticing the rather conspicuous engraving of Addy in the frontispiece of the bible - one of the rare occasions when a living person's portrait was included in any edition of the book.
  
  Rich's own name as "author" also appeared on a 1660 shorthand edition of the New Testament.

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  Posted by raundsgirl (U2992430) on Monday, 17th October 2011

  Jim, you are unlikely to get any response from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ to your interesting comment. This message board is one of many on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ website for people to discuss topics of common interest, but no one posting on it has any connection with the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ whatsoever, in fact I believe the day-to-day running and hosting of it is outsourced too.

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