{"title":"Secret Writing and the Popish Plot: Deciphering the Shorthand of Sir George Treby","authors":"A. Mckenzie","doi":"10.1353/hlq.2021.0044","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This essay examines the previously undeciphered shorthand notes of Sir George Treby, a Whig mp and lawyer and the chairman of the House of Commons Committee of Secrecy investigating the Popish Plot (1678–81). Andrea McKenzie’s exposition of how she cracked Treby’s particular system of “secret writing,” and the challenges, features, and practical principles of early modern stenography more broadly, will prove useful to other scholars attempting to decode seventeenth-century shorthand. Not least, these documents provide a fascinating snapshot of the private thoughts of one of the principal Whig opponents of Charles II and James II during two watershed moments in British history: the Exclusion Crisis and Tory Revenge.","PeriodicalId":45445,"journal":{"name":"HUNTINGTON LIBRARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"HUNTINGTON LIBRARY QUARTERLY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2021.0044","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, CHARACTERIZATION & TESTING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract:This essay examines the previously undeciphered shorthand notes of Sir George Treby, a Whig mp and lawyer and the chairman of the House of Commons Committee of Secrecy investigating the Popish Plot (1678–81). Andrea McKenzie’s exposition of how she cracked Treby’s particular system of “secret writing,” and the challenges, features, and practical principles of early modern stenography more broadly, will prove useful to other scholars attempting to decode seventeenth-century shorthand. Not least, these documents provide a fascinating snapshot of the private thoughts of one of the principal Whig opponents of Charles II and James II during two watershed moments in British history: the Exclusion Crisis and Tory Revenge.
本文考察了辉格党议员、律师、下议院秘密委员会调查教皇阴谋(1678-81)主席乔治·特雷比爵士(Sir George Treby)之前未被破译的速记笔记。安德里亚·麦肯齐阐述了她如何破解特雷比的“秘密书写”系统，以及更广泛的早期现代速记的挑战、特点和实践原则，这将对其他试图破译17世纪速记的学者很有帮助。尤其重要的是，这些文件提供了一个迷人的快照，在英国历史上的两个分水岭时刻:排他危机和托利党复仇，辉格党反对查理二世和詹姆斯二世的主要对手之一的私人思想。
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