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 ''here is invented an Instrument of small Bulke and price, easily made, and very durable, whereby any Man, even at the first sight and handling, may write two resembling Copies of the same thing at once, as serviceably and as fast (allowing two lines upon each page for setting the Instruments) as by the ordinary way. Of what Nature or in what Character, or what Matter soever, as Paper, Parchment, a Book, &c. the said writing ought to be upon made.''

''The Use hereof will be very great to Lawyers and Scriveners, for making of Indentures, and all kinde of Counter-parts, to Merchants, Intelligencers, Registers, Secretaries, Clarks; &c. for copying of Letters, Accompts, Invoices, Entring of Warrants, and other Records, To Schollers, for Transcribing of rare Manuscripts, and preserving Originals from falsification, and other injuries of time. It lesseneth the Labour of Examination, serveth to discover forgeries and surreptitious Copies, and to the transacting of all businesses of writing, as with ease and speed, so with much privacy also.'' Rh