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    John Willis was a British clergyman and inventor in the late 16th/early 17th century. He developed a simple style of shorthand based on an earlier system. In 1602 he published "The Art of Stenographie", creating a more practical shorthand system using one symbol for each letter of the alphabet. Willis graduated from Cambridge University and later held clergy positions in London and Essex until his death in 1625.

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    John Willis was a British clergyman and inventor in the late 16th/early 17th century. He developed a simple style of shorthand based on an earlier system. In 1602 he published "The Art of Stenographie", creating a more practical shorthand system using one symbol for each letter of the alphabet. Willis graduated from Cambridge University and later held clergy positions in London and Essex until his death in 1625.

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    John Willis, (ca. 1575 – 28 November 1625[1]) was a British clergyman, stenographer and
    mnemonician. He developed a simple style of shorthand based on the work by Timothy Bright.[2]

    Early life
    Willis graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1592.[1]

    Clergyman and later life


    On 12 June 1601 he was admitted to the rectory of St. Mary Bothaw, Dowgate Hill, London. He
    resigned in 1606 on being appointed rector of Bentley Parva, Essex.

    Shorthand
    In 1602 he published The Art of Stenographie, which was a new and more practicable system to
    capture speech in short writing. His shorthand was based on a system of arbitrary equivalent
    symbols, one for each single letter of the alphabet.[3]

    Works
    The Art of Stenographie, London, 1602

    References
    1. "Willis, John (WLS592J)" (http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo
    =c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=WLS592J&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50). A Cambridge
    Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
    2. Vivian Salmon (1 January 1988). The Study of Language in 17th-Century England: Second Edition
    (https://books.google.com/books?id=8bhHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA159). John Benjamins Publishing
    Company. p. 159. ISBN 978-90-272-8611-6.
    3. Frances Henderson. " 'Swifte and Secrete Writing' in Seventeenth-Century England, and Samuel
    Shelton's Brachygraphy" (http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2008articles/pdf/ebljarticle52008.pdf) (PDF).

    Attribution

    "Willis, John (d.1628?)"  (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-


    1900/Willis,_John_(d.1628%3F)). Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
    1885–1900.

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