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• Hellenistic tachygraphy consisted of word stem signs and word ending signs.
• Therefore, between 1626 and 1710 more than 20 editions of his " Tachygraphy " were printed.
• Hellenistic tachygraphy is reported from the 2nd century BCE onwards, though there are indications that it might be older.
• A disadvantage of Shelton's shorthand was that vowels and diphthongs were not always distinguished ( see " Tachygraphy " for details ).
• In the year of his death, 1650, Shelton published yet another shorthand system called " Zeiglographia ", but it did not become as widespread as his " Tachygraphy ".
• It was popular, and under the two titles of " Short Writing " and " Tachygraphy ", Shelton's book ran to more than 20 editions between 1626 and 1710.
• The Pepys Library being at Magdalene, Bright resolved to re-decipher the whole of Pepys's'Diary,'and to this end he learnt the cipher from Thomas Shelton's " Tachygraphy ".
• Bright's book was followed by a number of others, including John Willis's " Art of Stenography " in 1602, Edmond Willis's " An abbreviation of writing by character " in 1618, and Thomas Shelton's " Short Writing " in 1626 ( later re-issued as " Tachygraphy " ).