writing was offered by Dr. Gill, the celebrated Master of St. Paul's School in London. Dr. Gill was followed by Charles Butler, a man who did not want an understanding, which might have qualified him for better employment. He seems to have been more sanguine than his predecessors, for he printed his book according to his own scheme.
"In the time of Charles I. there was a very prevalent inclination to change the orthography; as appears, among other books, in such editions of the works of Milton as were published by himself. Of these reformers every man had his own scheme; but they agreed in one general design of accommodating the letters to the pronunciation, by ejecting such as they thought superfluous. Same of them would have written these lines thus:
Bishop Wilkins afterwards, in his great work of the philosophical language, proposed, without expecting to be followed, a regular orthography; by which the Lord's prayer is to be written thus:
Yar Fádher høitsh art in héven, halloed bi dhyi nam, dhi cingdym cym, dhy sill bi dyu in erth as it is in héven, etc."
