_Pepys's Grammar_ (Vol. viii., p. 466.).--I am unable to answer MR.
KEIGHTLEY'S Query, not having the slightest knowledge of short-hand; but I
always understood that the original spelling of every word in the _Diary_
was carefully preserved by the gentleman who decyphered it.
No estimate, however, of Pepys's powers of writing can be formed from the
hasty entries recorded in his short-hand journal, and, as I conceive, they
derive additional interest from the quaint terms in which they are
expressed.