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See also:BALES [BALESIUS], See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
PETER (1547–1610?) , See also:English calligraphist, one of the inventors of shorthand See also:writing, was See also:born in See also:London in 1547, and is described by See also:Anthony See also:Wood as a " most dexterous See also:person in his profession, to the See also:great wonder of scholars and others." We are also informed that " he spent several years in sciences among Oxonians, particularly, as it seems, in See also:Gloucester See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall; but that study, which he used for a diversion only, proved at length an employment of profit." He is mentioned for his skill in micrography in See also:Holinshed's See also:Chronicle. " See also:Hadrian See also:Junius," says See also:Evelyn, " speaking as a See also:miracle of somebody who wrote the Apostles' Creed and the beginning of St See also:John's See also:Gospel within the See also:compass of a See also:farthing: what would he have said of our famous Peter Bales, who, in the See also:year 1575, wrote the See also:Lord's See also:Prayer, the Creed, See also:Decalogue, with two See also:short prayers in Latin, his own name, See also:motto, See also:day of the See also:month, year of the Lord, and reign of the See also:queen, to whom he presented it at See also:Hampton See also:Court, all of it written within the circle of a single See also:penny, inchased in a See also:ring and See also:borders of See also:gold, and covered with a crystal, so accurately wrought as to be very plainly legible; to the great admiration of her See also:majesty, the whole privy See also:council, and several ambassadors then at court?" Bales was likewise very dexterous in imitating handwritings, and between 1576 and 1590 was employed by Secretary See also:Walsingham in certain See also:political manoeuvres. We find him at the See also:head of a school near the Old See also:Bailey, London, in 1590, in which year he published his Writing Schoolemaster, in three Parts. This See also:book included an Arte of Brachygraphie, which is one of the earliest attempts to construct a See also:system of shorthand. In 1595 he had a great trial of skill with one See also:Daniel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, for a See also:golden See also:pen of 20 value, and won it; and a contemporary author further relates that he had also the arms of calligraphy given him, which are See also:azure, a pen or. Bales died about the year 1610.
End of Article: BALES [BALESIUS], PETER (1547–1610?)
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