I write. The minutes of acts, &c., were always taken in a kind of cypher, or short hand; such as the notes of Tyro in Gruter: by which means the notaries, as the Latins called them, or the επιγραφηται and ταχυγραφοι, as the Greeks called them, were enabled to keep pace with a speaker or person who dictated. These notes, being understood by few, were copied over fair, and at length, by persons who had a good hand, for sale, &c. These persons were called calligraphi; a name frequently met with in the ancient writers.the art of fair writing. Calligrates is said to have written an elegant distich on a fefanum feed. Junius speaks of a person, as very extraordinary, who wrote the apostles creed, and beginning of St John's Gospel, in the compass of a farthing. What would he have said of our famous Peter Bale, who in 1575 wrote the Lord's prayer, creed, ten commandments, and two short prayers in Latin, with his own name, motto, day of the month, year of the Lord, and reign of the queen, in the compass of a single penny, enchased in a ring and border of gold, and covered with a crystal, all so accurately wrought as to be very legible?