GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON-
1707
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-1856)
Name
Edmund Willis
Title
Mr
Gender
Male
Lived
b. d. (old)
Linked Sermons
Sermon on Psalms 37:16
(autograph: No )
- scribe?
Sermon on Psalms 145:17-18
(autograph: No )
- scribe?
The Second Sermon preached vpo[n] St Ste[p]hens Day dec. 26. 1602
(autograph: No )
- scribe?
The third Sermon
(autograph: No )
- scribe?
The fourth sermon
(autograph: No )
- scribe?
Sermon on Galatians 6:10
(autograph: No )
- scribe?
The Second Sermon
(autograph: No )
- scribe?
The third sermon
(autograph: No )
- scribe?
Source of Data (Contributor name)
Hannah Yip
Biographical Sources Consulted
ODNB (Article: 9274); Adele Davidson, Shakespeare in Shorthand: The Textual Mystery of King Lear (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009); Alexander Tremaine Wright, John Willis, S. T. B. and Edmond Willis (n. p.: The Willis-Byrom Club, 1926), Chapter Five
Other note
Edmund Willis was the author of the shorthand manual entitled 'An Abbreviation of Writing by Character' (London, 1618; second edition printed in 1627), in which he states, in a dedicatory epistle addressed to Nicholas Felton, that he had recorded Felton's sermons by shorthand 'by the space of many yeeres' (sig. Ar). He was also a member of the Company of Merchant Taylors.
GEMMS record created
March 29, 2018
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024