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1579

Short description:

2nd of Allde's simplified spelling publications

Medium description:

2nd of John Allde's publications to use a simplified spelling influenced by Mulcaster's ideas. The first was a ballad by John Cornet and this one a piece by Leonard Stavely entitled "A breef discovr"

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history of English

orthography

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influenced by

Mulcaster's "A Methode" according to

Salmon, Vivian, 1999

Salmon, Vivian (1999). Orthography and Punctuation. in Lass, Roger. The Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume iii 1476-1776. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.13-55 [p.26]