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 ... . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A26120 of text R38550 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A4102). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A26120 Wing A4102 ESTC R38550 17758185 ocm 17758185 106586 2240858100

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A26120) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 106586) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1626:30) 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 ... . 1 broadside. s.n., [S.l. : 1680] Caption title. Date of imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. eng Penmanship -- Study and teaching. Shorthand -- Study and teaching -- England. Tutors and tutoring -- England. eebo 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 [no entry] 1680 1 378 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 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 .