Claim: Timothie Bright was an Early Modern English teacher, clergyman and inventor of modern shorthand who wrote the treatise Bright's Treatise of Melancholy, 1586 and abandoned the medical profession and took holy orders until his death on 1615.
Evidence: Timothie Bright, M.D. (1551?–1615) was an Early Modern English physician and clergyman, the inventor of modern shorthand.