William Addy (

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1685) was a writing-master based in

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, and the author of a system of shorthand published in 1685. The method, a modification of that of Jeremiah Rich, was so much practised that the

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, the

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, and the Singing Psalms were published, according to its system, two years later. The 1695 edition of his work was entitled ''Stenographia, or the Art of Short-Writing completed in a far more compendious methode than any yet extant''. It was engraved throughout. The Bible was engraved by

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. In subsequent editions of the Bible the preliminary leaves were changed, and the book dedicated to King William. All the title-pages are dated 1687.

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