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Bales, Peter

Bales, Peter (1547–?1610),
a calligraphist, who was employed in connection with state service and intercepted letters. Bale's The Writing Schoolmaster (1590) contains a section on shorthand, expanded in 1597 and published as The Art of Brachygraphy. However, the system seems too cumbersome to have been much use recording plays in performance.

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