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A57289	Short-hand yet shorter: or, The art of short-writing advanced in a more swift, easie, regular, and natural method than hitherto Whereby the former difficulties in placing the vowels are removed; they, the dipthongs and consonants, further contracted; the particles, pronouns, degrees of comparison, persons, moods, tenses, contrarieties, repetitions, sentences negative and interrogatory, are shortned. The rules are plain, easie to be remembred and applied to any other short-hand, that such as have learned other authors may have hence a very considerable help to write more swiftly without altering their foundation. By George Ridpath.	Ridpath, George, d. 1726.	1687 (1687)	Wing R1466; ESTC R220838	19,704	49

shall be saved but for whosoever believeth not in Christ Jesus shall be condemned Of leaving out Syllables There are Syllables which are common for ending many words as ed est eth c. which for swiftness sake may be left out and yet the Sense not be marred to any understanding Person for if the root of the word be writ the Sense will easily direct to the last Syllable as if one should write thou understa me sense will teach that it must be read thou understandest me so thou lov me for lovest teach for teachest and so of any other word Many times half a long word may be left out and yet be easily read as Comis for Commission Command for Commandment and thus the unright Pers. shant inher the Kingd of Heav will easily be read the unrighteous Person shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven These last Rules being well considered will be found more useful and practicable than Tables of Marks for words as is hinted more at large in the Preface Of Repetitions In case of Repetitions consider if the Sense may not be compleat tho the word repeated be but once set down as instead of whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just c. write whatsoever things are true honest just c. Or if the Repetitions follow one another immediately you may write down the number under the words to be repeated as for The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord write The Temple of the Lord. I shall now give you the Names of the Scripture Books contracted as they use to be quoted in Authors which you may practise in your Short-hand Letters according to your Rules until you can do them perfectly Gen. Ex. Lev. Num. Deut. Jos. Judg. Ruth Sam. K. Cr. Zr. Neh. Est. Job Ps. Prov. Ec. Cant. Is. Jer. Lam. Ez. Dan. Hos. Jol. Am. Ob. Jon. Mich. Nah. Hab. Zef Zec. Hag. Mal. Note that any number of Psalms above 66 may be expressed by the Figures only without mentioning the Psalm it being known that there is no other Book hath above that number of Chapters For Chapter write Cap. For Verse write ver Mat. Luk. Mar. Jo. Ac. Rom. Cor. Gal. Ef. Fil. Col. Thes. Tim. Tit. Ph. Heb. Ja. Pet. Jud. Rev. Note that I have writ f for ph because it is sooner writ and cr for chr because h is not sounded after c. Here follows a Table of Analogical Marks which will quickly be learned most of the words therein being signified naturally by the Marks for which I refer you to the Copper Plate at the end of the Book where you will find them numbred as the words are here so that if you look for the same number there that you find against any of the Words or Sentences here the Mark against which the said number is placed signifies the same I did not think it material to bring them into exact order of Alphabet which I hope the Learner will excuse for they will be attained at twice or thrice writing over A. 1 Altogether 2 all that is in the World. 3 Angel. 4 Angels that fell or fallen Angels 5 Antichrist 6 Apostle 7 Apostles of Christ. 8 false Apostles 9 to ascend B. 10 Back to back 11 Babylon 12 come out of Babylon my People 13 thou Hypocrite thou canst not see the Beam that is in thine own Eye 14 to backslide or backsliden 15 backward 16 black 17 before 18 behind 19 before and behind 20 above and below 21 belong beginning of the World 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 25 near the beginning 26 at the beginning 27 after the beginning 28 from the beginning 29 from the beginning to the end 30 from the 11th to the 14th 31 the 14 and 15 compared 32 good beginning 33 bad beginning 34 about the beginning 35 between 36 both together 37 bottomless Pit. 38 blind 39 before the Foundation of the World. 40 beneath 41 broad Gate or Way 42 broad is the Gate that leads to Destruction and many there be that enter thereat 43 broken Cistern that will hold no Water 44 broken 45 broken in pieces 46 broken in two C. 47 Christ. 48 Christian. 49 Christianity 50 Christ coming into the World. 51 Christ came into the World to save Sinners 52 Cross. 53 Christ's Humiliation 54 Christ's Exaltation 55 Christ sitteth at the right-hand of God. 56 Christ's Ascenfion 57 Christ's Burial 58 Christ's Death 59 Christ's Resurrection 60 Christ crucified 61 Christ will come to judg the World. 62 Christ's Blood. 63 Christ sweat drops of Blood. 64 the Blood and Water that came out of Christ's side 65 the Sufferings of Christ. 66 Children of Christ. 67 in Christ. 68 in and through Christ. 69 in and by Christ. 70 through Christ. 71 out of Christ. 72 near Christ. 73 far from Christ. 74 from Christ. 75 by Christ. 76 rely on Christ. 77 forsake Christ. 78 many are called but few are chosen 79 in Covenant with Christ. 80 Christ received into the Heart 81 Cross of Christ. 82 he that will be my Disciple must take up his Cross and follow me 83 Jesus Christ. 84 Christ Jesus 85 our Lord Jesus Chr. 86 Church 87 Church of Christ. 88 Reformed Church 89 Church of Rome 90 Church of England 91 Church of the Jews 92 corrupt Church 93 Church militant 94 Church triumphant 95 suffering Church 96 Church of God. 97 Covenant of Works 98 Covenant of Grace 99 Covenant 100 broken Covenant 101 Covenant-breakers 102 in Covenant with God. 103 Conscience 104 Conscience awakened 105 bad Conscience 106 sear'd Conscience 107 Circumcision 108 uncircumcision 109 coming into the World. 110 compassed 111 compassed about 112 compassed round D. 113 Darkness 114 blackness of darkness 115 Devil 116 the Children of the Devil 117 the Devil can turn himself into an Angel of Light. 118 the Devils believe and tremble 119 Chains of darkness 120 Doctrine 121 point of Doctrine 122 1st 2d and 3d Doctrine 123 false Doctrine 124 corrupt Doctrine 125 Doctrine of Devils 126 downward E. 127 Eye 128 Eyes of God. 129 Eyes of the Lord. 130 Eyes of Angels 131 Eyes of Devils 132 Eyes of the World. 133 Eyes of the People 134 proud look 135 even 136 equal 137 unequal 138 uneven F. 139 Fall headlong upon 140 fall headlong into the bottomless Pit. 141 from the one side to the other 142 from one end to the other 143 from top to bottom 144 Foundation of the World. 145 before the Foundation of the World. 146 Fragments G. 147 God. 148 great God. 149 God in Christ. 150 God in Christ reconciling the World. 151 Gospel 152 Gospel of Christ. 153 go forward 154 go backward 155 go to the left-hand 156 go to the right-hand 157 go upward 158 go downward 159 go up and down 160 go forward and backward 161 go out of the World. 162 gathered together H. 163 Heart 164 upright Heart 165 covetous Heart 166 Heart set on the World. 167

Short-hand yet shorter OR The Art of SHORT-WRITING advanced in a more swift easie regular and natural Method than hitherto WHEREBY The former Difficulties in placing the Vowels are removed they the Dipthongs and Consonants further contracted the Particles Pronouns Degrees of Comparison Persons Moods Tenses Contrarieties Repetitions Sentences Negative and Interrogatory are shortned The Rules are plain easie to be remembred and applied to any other Short-hand that such as have learned other Authors may have hence a very considerable help to write more swiftly without altering their Foundation By GEORGE RIDPATH If any desire to be expeditiously taught the Author may be heard of in Eagle and Child Court in St. Giles in the Fields near the Church or upon the Scots Walk at Exchange-time most Saturdays s London Printed by J. D. for the Author 1687. To the Right Honourable PHILIP Lord Wharton Baron of Wharton My Lord BEing about to publish the ensuing little Book These are humbly to beg your Lordship's Patrociny which I am emboldened to do on the following Reasons First Because it had its Birth under your Lordship's Roof while I had the Honour to be one of your Lordship's Domesticks And in the next place because it is in it self improveable for promoting of Piety and Business in both which respects your Lordship hath rendred your self eminent amongst those of your Rank By a long and undaunted owning and professing of the former both in publick and private Capacities your Lordship is no less signalized than your renowned Ancestor was at the famous Battel of Solan Mosse where he purchased Victory for his Country entailed Honour upon his Family and enrolled himself in the Registers of Fame as a Hero of the first Magnitude whose Atchievement occasions one of the noblest Passages that the History of the Kingdom affords By your Lordship's Skill and Dexterity in managing the latter you have aggrandized your Revenues and made them more adaequate than formerly to the Splendor of your Family These things being considered it seems very natural for this Enchiridion to cast it self at your Lordship's feet and beg your Protection which tho the subject matter thereof be but mean and seemingly below your Lordship's Grandeur to Patronize yet being the best way I can conceive my self able to express my Gratitude for Obligations I am under to your Lordship I hope it will be taken in good part from him who shall always look upon it as his Honour to have been and ambitious still to entitle himself My Lord Your Lordship 's much obliged and very humble Servant Geo. Ridpath Courteous Reader THE Usesulness of Short-hand is so generally known and readily apprehended that it is needless for me to say any thing in its Commendation and therefore I shall here only give an Answer to an Objection some make against it and an account of this present Essay Object It teaches to spell false Answ. They will scarcely be capable to learn this Art that are not before-hand able to read and write and consequently so acquainted with the Rules of spelling true that they will be in no hazard of learning to spell false I desire such also to consider that there is a great difference betwixt spelling false and short for in this Art we acknowledg that the leaving out of superfluous Letters is injoyn'd but will not so readily grant that therefore we teach to spell false Some able Criticks in our Language do wish that this Method were more in Practice for as it is no Perfection in any Language to have more Letters in its Words than are sufficient to sound it it can be no injury to it to have what is unnecessary expunged and surely if this course were taken it would make our Language more easie to our own Youth to read and to Foreigners both to read and speak These Considerations have prevail'd with the French of late to leave out a great many of such Letters as they do not pronounce and since we Apify them in many worse things it will be no great Crime to do it a little in this In the next place I desire such Objectors to consider that we do not teach them to write the same way in Long-hand that they do in Short but make the difference between the two plainly appear and consequently teach true spelling in their Sense over again for the Examples are first given as they should be in Long-hand and then as they should be in Short-hand But some will still object and say that by writing Short-hand they will get a habit of spelling false Answ. They may with as much Reason argue against learning Latin and French because in the former they are accustomed to pronounce all the Letters and so because they read fine finé in Latin they must needs read the English Word fine so too or because they are accustomed to read nostre notre in French they must needs read the English word Oister Oter too or because in Arithmetick we express Numbers by Figures we should in other cases get a habit of doing so too But the contrary is so evident that to make such Objections would be justly accounted ridiculous I shall now give you an account of this present Essay as followeth Being very desirous to learn Short-hand I perused all the Authors I could meet with for that end but missing that Satisfaction I expected in them I set about this Composure for my own use In prosecution of which I discovered several considerable things not taken notice of by former Authors that fall very naturally under Rules of Contraction which after several Years Practice and Experience of their Usefulness I now publish for common Benefit in the ensuing Method 1. Here is an easie Alphabet in composing whereof I took care to make the Characters distinct in their shapes and easie to be joyned together which several of our late Authors not observing have discouraged their Learners on that account in the very Threshold 2. Here are all the double Consonants except two intirely framed of the Letters of the Alphabet whereas others make such Marks as have no dependance upon the same and is consequently a double charge to the Memory 3. You have here the places of the Vowels in better order than hitherto others having assigned the place of a and e both at top and o and u both at bottom or a just above the Letter and u just underneath it the inconvenience of both which Methods you may see by these Examples for according to the former where e and u are only distinguished from a and o by their greater distance from the Letter before them if one were writing in haste it will be difficult to keep due distance and so the places being the same there is hazard of confounding words of different Signification or if according to the latter one were to write Baruch it must be writ thus r b and then one is at a loss where to joyn ch or humane it must be writ

thus h m and then you are at a loss again where to dispose of your following Letters and so of all words of these sorts but both these Inconveniences are avoided here as you may see by looking upon Figure 3 in the Copper Plate 4. All others having enjoyned the proper Character of a Vowel to be writ when it begins a Word instead thereof I have ordered a prick to be put in the Vowels place which is sooner writ than any other Character and will be also more beautiful 5. Whereas others have only given a general hint and some few instances to leave out superfluous Letters I have given a particular account of them all with Directions to know when they are to be left out which must needs be a considerable help to the Younger who cannot discern them and the Elder who have not leisure to consider which they are 6. I have given you such Rules for exchanging Letters of like sound by which one may often serve for two or three and such a plain Table of Syllables for beginning and ending of words as hath more dependance upon the Alphabet than any yet extant 7. You have here Rules how to express the words of to with from by and for without writing any thing for them and such a short way of expressing the small Particles a the this that these those and the Pronouns ours yours theirs c. and the degrees of Comparison or the words more most than of the among them c. as was never hitherto published by any 8. Such Rules for shortning the Persons Moods and Tenses as will be of exceeding good use whereby the words thou he we ye they let wish may can might ought would should may or can hereafter are contracted the words do am was have had shall and will are left out 9. The Moods Tenses and Persons are improved in the same manner in Sentences Interrogatory and Negative 10. You have here Rules for contracting of short words when they come together and for abreviating of long words expressing of Contrarieties and Repetitions as short as any yet extant which being well adverted to will sufficiently supply the want of and be much more useful and practicable than such Tables wherewith some Authors abound which have neither sufficient dependance upon the Letters of the Alphabet nor do naturally represent the thing signified and consequently are difficult to learn burdensome to the Memory and hard to retain as may appear by this instance Some Authors prescribe ab to be writ for abominable and such like which with as much reason may signify absolute abundance and any other word that begins with ab whereas by adding an m in the place of o according to the Rules here given the root of the word is fully expressed and consequently no doubt what it is neither doth it occasion any burden to the Memory nor difficulty in reading both which are necessary Consequents of the former Method 11. You have here a Table of Analogical Marks wherein the Characters for the most part represent naturally the thing signified and will consequently make a quick Impression on and be no burden to the Memory 12. You have also a Specimen of other Tables with Directions how to compose them if so be you approve of them I desire the Ingenuous Reader before he gives his Censure of the Work to consider well the constant use there will be of the above-mentioned Rules for shortning and leaving out of words which are so common in all Discourses and in the next place to consider the natural Method in which they are laid down so as they may be quickly learned and not burdensome to the Memory to retain and I doubt not but he will easily be perswaded that besides the removal of former Difficulties there is a very considerable Essay made here towards the Improvement if not Perfection of Short-hand I shall conclude with some Directions for the better learning this Art. 1. You are desired either to unfold the engraven Sheet at Pag. in which the Examples are and let it lie before you turning from the Rule to the Example in the said Sheet to which the Number will direct you or to cut it out that you may have it ready on all occasions and by laying the Book upon it and moving it to the several Examples they will be as readily seen against every Rule as if they were writ on the same Page The Reason of my taking this Course was both to avoid the Expenses of engraving the whole Book and because I judg it a readier way of teaching for having once read over and understood the Rules the unfolding of this Sheet and looking upon the Examples will instruct you sufficiently without turning to the Book the Sheet is also more portable upon all occasions 2. Learn but a little at a time lest you make it burdensome to your self the best way is to write the Examples over and over till you can do them readily But be not discouraged tho you cannot read what you write at first for that is common to all Beginners 3. Observe there are several things peculiar to the Scotish Dialect which are marked S so that the English Learner may omit them and that there are several Anglicisms or things peculiar to the English Dialect which are marked A so that my Country-men may do therein as they judg best 4. If there be any thing you do not understand advise with those of riper Years and Understanding 5. Such as have learned other Short-hands and desire a further improvement are desired to peruse the whole Book wherein they will find several things of good use but more especially the Contraction of the Verbs Moods Times and Persons I hope you will excuse the length of this seeing it serves both for Preface Contents and Directions Farewell 1. NOte that there are two Characters for I the first of which must always be used instead of J Consonant as in these words Jerusalem Jericho There are also two Characters for S that the Learner may take which of them he shall find most convenient to joyn with other Letters See the Alphabet For the better understanding of the following Rules the Learner is desired to observe that the Letters a e i o u are called Vowels and the rest of the Letters are called Consonants It must be observed that the Letters J and V coming before themselves or any other Vowel in the same Syllable are Consonants as in the words Judah Vertue 2. When two or more Consonants come together they must be joyned one to another without taking off the Pen. The most difficult are given you for Examples in the Copper Plate at the Figure 2. but all of them except th and wh are the Letters of the Alphabet and so will be easily learned 3. How to express the Vowels When a word begins or ends with a Vowel the said Vowel must not be expressed by its proper Character but by a