At the sign of the elephant within a door or two of Golden-Posts Tavern at Charing-Cross dwelleth a person that writes all the usual hands of England and teacheth to write a good hand in a months time ... . 1680 Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A26120 Wing A4102 ESTC R38550 17758185 ocm 17758185 106586

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 eng Penmanship -- Study and teaching. Shorthand -- Study and teaching -- England. Tutors and tutoring -- England. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-12 Sampled and proofread 2008-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
At the Sign of the ELEPHANT Within a Door or two of the Golden-Poſts Tavern at Charing-Croſs,

DWelleth a Perſon that Writes all the uſual Hands of England, and Teacheth to Write a good Hand in a Months time, his way of Teaching abſolutely differing from all Maſters, as to his conciſe Method and pains taking; he having Taught many from 7 and 8 years of age to 50, to write in a Month or ſix Weeks at fartheſt to great perfection; for in his way of Teaching, the Scholar cannot miſs of Writing an exact and true Hand: By reaſon for want of a right grounding and pains taking on the Maſters ſide at firſt, in the knowledge of the reaſon and humour of Hand and Pen, how the Letters are leaning and depending one upon another, that the Scholars writes not ſooner and better then they do; for in moſt of the Hands of England, from 5 or 6 Letters Infallibly doth the whole Alphabet depend, and in making ſome one Letters, there is no avoiding the making 4 or 5 exact Letters, and ſo eaſy and plain, that Young Ladies and Gentlemen of 7, 8, and 9 years of age, hath in a month or ſix weeks at fartheſt, readily attained to ſuch Perfection, as to be judged to have learnt Months or Years: who ever is pleaſed to diſcourſe the Profeſſor hereof, may receive a more ample ſatisfaction.

Short-hand alſo he Teacheth with great expedition, he having abreviated, corrected, and amended the ſame, to make it the more facile, eaſy, and plain to the Learner.

The Authour makes and ſells a curious ſort of ſhining Ink, an Ink that is everlaſting, that decays not in Paper or Parchment, that neither Moth nor Mice will touch or come near.

Likewiſe a Liquor may be had of the Authour, that recovers any loſs or decayed Writing, either in Paper or Parchment.

Alſo any Writing or Buſineſs may be fairly Writ and Copied to great content.