crowned about the Midfummer following \a'\ j
\a\ See Caxton'8 Chrbniele.
. - and
Origin of Printing in England. 325^
and yet we have no Fruit of all this Labour
and Expence till near ten years after, when the
little Book, defcribed above, is fuppofed to have
been publifhed from that Prefs.
Secondly^ The Silence of Caxton concern-
ing a Fa<5t in which he is faid to be a principal
A6tor, is a fufficient Confutation of it : For it
was a conftant cuftom with him, in the Prefaces
or CoDclufions of his Works, to give an hiftori-
cal account of all his Labours and TranfadlionS,
as far as they concerned the publilhing and
printing of Books. And, what is ftill ftronger,
in the Continuation of the Polychronicon^ compiled
by himfelf, and carried down to the end of
Henry the Sixth's Reign, he makes no mention
of the Expedition in queft of a Printer ; which
he could not have omitted, had it been true :
whilfl in the fame Book he takes notice of the
Invention and Beginning of Printing in the City of
Mentz ; which I Ihall make fome ufe of by
and by.
There is a further Circumftance in Caxton's
Hiftory, that feems inconfillent with the Re-
cord i for we find him ftill beyond Sea, about
twelve years after tiie fuppofed Tranfaflion, [/»]
learning '-juith great charge and trouble the Art of
Printing -, which he might have done with eafe
at home, if he had got Corfellis into his hands,
[h] Rccale of the HiHories of Troy e, ia the end of the
2d and 3d Books.
X 4 "as
22 8 A Differ tation concerning the
«s the Record imports, fo many years before i
But he probably learnt it at Cologn^ where he
refided in 1471? [^] and whence Books had
been firft printed with date, the year before.
To the Silence of C ax ton, we may add
that of the Dutch Writers : for it is very ftrange,
as Mr. Chevillier obferves, if the ftory of the
Record be true, [^] That Adrian Junius, who
has colle^fed all the groundlefs ones that favour
the fretenfions of Harlem, fhould never have
heard of it.
But thirdly \ the moft diredl and internal
Proof of its Forgery, is its afcribing the Origin
of Printing to Harlem ; where John Guttemberg
the Inventor^ is faid to have been perfonally at
work, when Corfellis was brought away^ and the
Art itfelf to have been firfi carried to Mentz by a
Brother of one of Guttemberg's Workmen : for it
is certain beyond all doubt, that Printing was
firfi invented and propagated from Mentz. Cax-
ton's Teftimony feems alone to be decifive ;
who in the Continuation of the Poly chronic on, [^]
fays. About this time (viz. anno 1455.) ^^^
crafte of emprynting was firfi; found in Mogunce
in Almayne, (^c. He was abroad in the very
Country, and at the time, when the firft Pro-
jed: and Thought of it began, and the rudeft
[c] Recule, ^c. ibid.
[/j'] L'Origine de rimprimerie de Paris, c. i. p. 25.
W Fol- 433-
Eflays
Origin ^/Printing in England. 329
Eflays of it were attempted •, where he continued
for thirty years, viz. from 1441 to 147 1 : and,
as he was particularly curious and inquifitive
after this new Art, of which he was endeavour-
ing to get a perfe(5t Information, he could not
be ignorant of the Place where it was firft ex-
ercifed. This confutes what Palmer conjec-
tures, to confirm the Credit of the Record f/] i
That the Compiler might take up with the common
report^ that paffed current at the time in Holland,
in favour of Harlem ; or probably receive it from
Caxton himfelf : For it does not appear that
there was any fuch report at the time, nor many
years after ; and Caxton, we fee, was better
informed from his own knowledge : and, had
Palmer been equally curious, he could not have
been ignorant of this teftimony of his in the
very cafe,
Befides the Evidence of C a x t o N, we have
another contemporary Authority, from the
Black Book, or Regijhr of the Garter, publiflied
by Mr. Anjlis [^], where, in the thirty-fifth year
c/ Henry VI. anno 1457, it is faid. In this year
of our mcfi Pious King, the Art of Printing Bookes
firft began at Mentz, a famous City of Ger-
many.
Fabian likewife, the Writer of the Chronicle,
an Author of good credit, who lived at the
[/■] Hid. of Printing. Book iii. p. 318,
[^] Hiil. of Garter, Vol. ii. p. 161,
fame
d^o A Differ iati on concerning the
fame time with Caxton, though fome years
younger, fays, This yere {v\z. 35th Henry VI.)
after the opynyon of dyverfe wryters, began in a
Citie of Aimaine, namyd Mogunce, the Crafte of
empryntynge Bokys^ which fen that tyme hath had
wonderful encreace. Thefe three Teftimonies
have not been produced before, that I know of;
two of them were communicated to me by Mr.
Bakery who of all Men is the moft able, as well
^ the inoft willing to give Information in every
]fK)int of curious and uncommon Hiftory.
I need not purfue this Quseftion any farther i
the Teftimonies commonly alledged in it, may
be feen in Mr. Maittaire, Palmer, iic. I fhall
only obferve, that we have full, and authentic
Evidence for the Caufe of Mentz, in an Edi-
tion of Livy from that place, anno 151 8, by [^]
John Scheffer, the Son of Peter, the Partner
and Son-in-law^ of John Faujl : where the Pa-
tent of Privilege granted by the Emperor to
the Printer -, the Prefatory Epiftle of Erafmus •
the Epiftle Dedicatory to the Prince by Ulrich
Hutten ', the Epiftle to the Reader of the two
Learned Men who had the Care of the Edition ;
[/^^] D. Vitalis de Furno ollm Cardinalis, Archiatri ut
Infignis, ita & peritilfim. pro confervanda Sanitate, &c.
Moguntias mdxxxi.
Libri medicinalis, feu medicamentoi'um D. Vitalis de
Furno, &c. Finis. Moguntiae apud Ivonem Schoeffer (a
cujus proavo Joanne Fauft, Chalcographice olim in Urbe
Moguntiaca primum, nee ufquam alibi inventa, exercita-
que eft) menfe Augullo, Anno m.d.xxxi.-
all
Origin 0/ Printing in England. 331
all concur in aflerting ihe Origin of the Art to
that City, and the Invention mid firji Ex^rcife of
it to Faufl : And Erafmus particularly, who
was a Dutchman, would not have decided a^
gain ft his own Country, had there been any
ground for the Claim of Harlem.
But to return to the Lambeth Record : As it
^vas never heard of before the Publication of
Athens's Book, fo it has never fince been feen or
produced by any Man ; though the Regifters
of Canterbury have on many occafions been dili-
gently and particularly fearched for it. They
were examined without doubt very carefully by
ArchbifJjop Parker, for the compiling his Anti-
quities of the Britijh Church ; where, in the Life
of Thomas Bourchicr, though he congratulates
that Age on the noble and ufeful Invention of
Printing, yet he is filent as to the Introdu5iion of
it into England by the Endeavours of that Arch-
hifbop', nay his giving the Honour of the Inven-
tion to Strafburg, clearly fhews, that he knew
nothing of the (lory of Corfellis conveyed from
Harlem, and that the Record was not in being
in his time. Palmer himfelf owns, That it is
>jot to be found there now •, for that the late Earl
of Pembroke affured him, that he had employed
a Perfon for fome time to fearcb for it, but in
vain [/].
[/] Hift. of Engl'ijf} Printing, p. 314,
On
2^2 -^ Differ tation concerning the
On thefe grounds we may pronounce the Re-
cord to be a Forgery ; though all the Writers
above-mentioned take pains to fupport its cre-
dit, and call it an Authentic Piece.
Atkyns, who by his manner of writing feems
to have been a bold and vain Man, might pof-
fibiy be the Inventor; for he had an Intereft in
impoling it upon the World, in order to con-
firm the Argument of his Book, that Printing
was of the Prerogative Royal ; in oppofition to
the Company of Stationers, with whom he was
engaged in an expenfive Suit of Law in defence
of the King's Patents, under which he claimed
fome exclufive Powers of Printing. For he
tells us, [k^ Thar upon confidering the things he
could not hut think that a Public Perfon^ more
eminent than a Mercer^ and a Public Purfe muji
needs be concerned in fo Public a Good: and the
more he confidered^ the more inqiiijiti've he was to
jind out the Truth. So that he had formed his
Hypothefis before he had found his Record^
which he publilhed, he fays, as a Friend to
Truth ; not to fuffer one Man to be intituled to the
worthy Atchievements of another; and as a Friend
to himfelf^ not to lofe one of his bejl Arguments of
intituling the King to this Art. But, if Atkyns
was not himfelf the Contriver, he was impofed
upon at leaft by fome more crafty ; who ima-
gined that his Intereft in the Caufe, and the
. W See page 3-
Warmth
Origin
Warmth that he fhewed in profecuting it, would
induce him to fwallow for genuin, whatever
was offered of the kind.
We have now cleared our hands of the Re-
cord y but the Book (lands firm, as a Monu-
ment of the Exercife at Printing in Oxford fix
years older than any Book of Caxton with Date.
The Fa6t is ftrong, and what in ordinary cafes
paifes for certain Evidence of the Age of Books;
but in this, there are fuch contrary Fafts to
balance it, and fuch Circumftances to turn the
Scale, that to fpeak my mind freely, I take the
Date in quasftion to have been falfified originally
by the Printer, either by defign or miitake, and
an X to have been dropt or omitted in the Age
pf its Imprefllon,
Examples of the kind are common in the
Hiftory oF Printing. I have obferved feveral
Dates alter'd very artfully after Publication, to
give them the credit of greater Antiquity.
They have at Harlem^ in large Quarto, a
Tranflation into Dutch of Barthclomaus de pro-
frietatibus rerum^ printed anno m.cccc.xxxv,
by Jacob Bellart; I'his they Ihew to confirm
their Claim to the earlieft Printing, and de-
ceive the Unflvilful. But Mr. Bagferdy who
had feen another Copy with a true [/] Date,
cjifcovered the Cheat y by a which the l had
[/] Mr. BagfortTs Papers.
ton
^^4 ^ Differ tat ion concerning the
been crafed fo cunningly, that it was not eafy
to perceive it. But befides the Frauds of an
After-contrivance, there are many falfe Dates
originally given by the Printers ; partly through
Defign, to raife the Value of their Works, but
chiefly through negligence and blunder. There
is a Bible at Aujburg^ of ann. 1449, where the
two lafl Figures are tranfpofed, and fhould ftand
thus, 1494: C^m//i^r mentions three more, \nf\
one at Paris of ann. 1443 ; another at Lyons^
14.46 ; a third at Bajil, 1450 ; though Printing
was not ufed in any of thefe places till many
years after. Orlandi defcribes three Books with
the like Mi flake from Mentz: And Jo. Koel-
hoffi who firft printed about the year 1470, at
Colcgn^ has dated one of his Books ann m.cccc,
with a c omitted; and another, anno 1458;
which Palmer imputes to Defign rather thaii
Miftake [«].
But what is mofl; to our Point, is a Book
from the famous Printer, Nicolas Jenfon •, of
which Mr. Maittaire gave the firft notice, called
T)ecor Puellarum\ printed anno m.cccc.lxi.
All the other Works of Jenfon were publifhed
from Venice^ between ann. 1470 and 1480 ;
which juftly raifed a Sufpicion, that an x had
been dropt from the Date of this, which ought
to be advanced ten years forward ; fince it was
riot credible, that fo great a Mafter of the Art,
[w] L'Orig. de rimprim. de Paris, c,v. p. "j^.
[«] Hill, of Printing, p. 179.
Origin 6/ P R I N T I N o in England. 33 r
who at once invented and perfedtcd it, could
Jie fo many years idle and unemployed. The
Sufpicion appeared to be well grounded from
an Edition of Tullfs Epijiles at Venice ^ the firft
Work of another famed Printer, John de Spira^
mno 1469 : Who, in the four following Vcrfes,
at the end of the Book, claims the Honour of
being the Firji^ who had printed in that City.
Primus in Adriaca formis imprejftt aenis
Vrbe libros Spird genitus de jlirpe Johannes.
In reliquisfit quanta, vides, /pes, LeBor, habenda,
i^tim labor hie primus calami fuperaverit Artem,
It is, I know, the more current Opinion,
Confirmed by the Teftimony of contemporary
Writers, that Jenfon was the Tirjl Printer at,
Venice [0] : But thefe Verfes of John de Spira,
publifhed at the time, as well as the place, in
^hich they both lived, and in the face of his
Rival Jenfon, without any contradidion from
him, feem to have a weight too great to be
over-ruled by any foreign Evidence whatfo-
?ver.
But whilfl I am now writing, an unexpeded
Inftance is fallen into my hands, to the fupport
of my Opinion -, an Inauguration Speech of the
rVoodicardian Profeffor, Mr. Mafon, juil frefh
from our Prefs, with its Date given ten years
[0] Maittaire Ahnal. Typ. Tom. i. p. 36, {jfr. It. Ap-
pend, ad Tom. i. p. 5, 6,
earlier
23^ A Differ taiion concerning the
earlier than it fhould have been, by the omiffwn
of an X, viz, m.dcc.xxiv. and the very Blun-
der exemplified in the laft Piece printed at Cam-
h'idge, which I fuppofe to have happened in the
firft from Oxford.
Thefe Inftances, with many more that might
be collefted, fhew the Poflibility of my Con-
jedturc -, and, for the Probability of it, the Book
itfelf affords fufficient Proof : For, not to infift
on what is lefs material, the Neatnefs of the
Letter^ and Regularity of the Page, dec. above
thofe of Caxton : it has one mark, that feems
to carry the matter beyond probable, and to
make it even certain, viz. The life of Signatures^
or Letters of the Alphabet placed at the bottom
of the Page, to fhew the Sequel of the Sheets
and Leaves of each Book : an Improvement
contrived for the Diredtion of the Bookbinders ;
which yet was not pra6lifed or invented at the
time when this Book is fuppofed to be printed :
for we find no Signatures in the Books of Faujl
or Scheffer at Mentz ; nor in the more improved
and beautiful Impreffions of John de Spira, and
Jenfon^ at Venice^ till feveral years later. We
have a Book in our Library, that feems to fix
the very time of their Invention, at leaft in
Venice \ the Place where the Art itfelf received
the greateft Improvements : Baldi leElura fuper
Codic. &c. printed by Jo. de Colonia and Jo.
Manthen de Gherretzem^ anno m.cccc.lxxiiii.
It is a large and fair Volume in Folio, without
Signatures^
Origin 0/ Printing in England. ^^37
Signatures, till about the middle of the Book,
in which they are firft: introduced, and fo con-
tinued forward : which makes it probable, that
the lirft Thought of them was fuggcfled during
the time of the Imprefllon : for we have like-
wife Leolura Bartholi fttper Codic. &c. in two
noble and beautiful Volumes in Folio, printed
the year before at the fame place, by Vindelin de
Spiray without them : yet from this time for-
ward they are generally found in all the Works
o^ the Venetian Printers^ and from them propa-
gated to the other Printers of Europe. They
were ufed at Cologne^ anno 1475; at Parisy
1476; by Caxton, not before 1480: but if
the Difcovery had been brought into England^
and prad:ifed at Oxford twelve years before, it
is not probable that he would have printed fo
long at JVeJlminJler without them.
Mr, Palmer indeed tells us, That Anthony
Z AROT was ejleemed the Inventor of Signatures [p'] j
and that they are found in a Terence printed by
him at Milan in the year 1470, in which he firft
printed. I have not fcen that Terence, and can
onely fay, that I have obferved the want of
them in fome later Works of this, as well as of
other excellent Printers, of the fame place.
But allowino; them to be in the Terence, and
Zarot the Inventor, it confutes the Date of
aur Oxford Bock, as effectually, as if they were
\f\ PaJ»ierslliR. p. xSo, 54.
Vol. V. y \i
^^1 ^ DiJferiatioH eoncerning the
of later origin at Venice ; as I had reafon to ima-
gine, from the Teftimony of all the old Books
that I have hitherto met with.
What further confirms my Opinion is, that
from the time of the pretended Date of this
Book, anno 1468, we have no other Fruit or
Production from the Prefs at Oxford for eleven
years next following •, and it cannot be imagined
that a Prefs, eftablilhed with fo much Pains and
Expence, could be fuffered to lie fo long idle
and ufelefs : whereas if my conjefture be ad-
mitted, all the Difficulties that feem infuperable
and inconfiftent with the fuppofed ^ra of
Printing there, will vaniffi at once. For allow-
ing the Book to have been printed ten years
later, ann. 1478; thtn t\\€ Ufe of Signatures z.zx\
be no objection ; a foreign Printer might import ■
them i Caxton take them up from him ; and
the Courfe of Printing and Sequel of Books
publifhed from Oxford will proceed regularly.
Expoftcic SanEii Jeronimi in Simbolum Apofiolorum.
Oxonie mcccclxxviii. 1478
Lecnardi Aretini in Arijiot. Ethic, Comment.
ib. 1479
JEgidiiis de Rojna, ^c. de peccato originali.
ib. 1479
Ctiido de Colmnna de Hifioria Trojand^ per T. R.
ib. 1480
Alexandri ah Hales, i^c. expofitio fiper 3 Librum
de A?iimdy per me ^heod. Rood. ■ ib. 1481
Franc,
Origin ^/Printing in England. ^^q
Franc. Aretini Oratoris Phalaridis Epiftolarum e
Grtfco in Lntinum Vcrfio. Hoc opufculum in
Alma Univerfitate Oxonia, a tiatali Chriftiano
ducentcftma G? nonagcfima feptima Olympiade
feliciter imprejfum ejl. That is, ann, 1485
[q] Hoc Thecdoricus Rood quern Collonia mifu
Sanguine Germanus habile pjjit [r] opus.
Atquefibi focius Thomas fuit Angliciis Hunte
Dii dent ut Venetos exuperare queant.
i^am Jenfon Venetos docuit Vir Gallicus artem
Ingenio dtdicit terra Brit anna fuo.
CelatoSy Venetiy nobis tranfmittere libros
Ceditey ms aliis v^nditnus^ O Veneti.
^e fuerat vobis ars p-imiim not a Latini
Efi eadem nobis ipfa reperta pres [j].
^amvis fe^os [j] toto canit orbc Britannoi
Virgilius plac^ [j] his lingua Latina tamen.
[f] The only Copy of thb Book, that I have heard c»f>
is in the poffefTion of the Rev. Mr. Randolph of Deal ; and
the firft notice of it was communicated by the Rev. Mr.
Lezvis of Margate ; who, having been informed that 1 had
drawn up this little Diflertatidn, very kindly offered me the
ufe of his Notes and Papers, that he had colleacd with great
pains, on /he Hijiory and Progrefs sf Englijh Printing, to th
Endof^een Elifabtth"! Reign. From the perufal of which,
though I found no reafon to make any Alteration of mo-
ment in the prefent Treatife, yet I had a pleafure to ob-
ferve a perfect Agreement between us, in tlie chief Poi*«
on which my Argument turns, and to find my own Opinion
confirmed by the Judgment of fo able an Antiquary,
[A prcfit.
fO prrmtns ^fejun^os; pUKtU
Y 2 Thdi
34C> A J3i[fertation eoncernh^ the
Thefe are all the Books printed at Oxford be-
fore ann. 1500, that we have hitherto any cer-
tain notice of. I have fet down the Colophon
and Verfes of the laft, becaufe they have fome-
thing curious and hiftorical in them. I had
feen one inftance before of the Date of a Book
computed by Olympiads ; Atifonii Epigrammatun
libri, &c. printed at Venice y ann. 1472, with this
Defignation of the year at the end ; Anativitate
Chrijti ducenteftma monageftm
anno. 11 \a\ Where the Printer, as in the
prefent Cafe, follows the common miflake,
both of the Ancients and Moderns, of taking
the Olympiad for a term of five years compleat-,
whereas it really included but four, and was
celebrated every fifth; as the Lujlrum likewife
of the Romans. In our Oxford Book, the year
of the Olympiad is not diftinguifhed, as in that
of Fenice, fo that it might polTibly be printed
fomewhat earlier, and nearer to the reft in order
of time : But as the 7th Verfe feems to refer to
the Statute of the iji of Richard III. prohibiting
the Italians from importing and felling their
wares in England by retail, i^c. excepting ^(?(?^^
written or printed; which Aft palTed anjio 1483,
fo it could not be printed before th^t year,
The third Verfe refcues from oblivion the Name
of an Englifh Printer, Thomas Hiinte^ not men-
tioned before by any of our EngUflo Writers, nor
^ [a] Mr. l.latt. Anmal. Typ. p. 98. not,, h.
'- - . dif.
Origin of Printing in England. ^4*
difcovered in any other Book. But what I take
for the moft remarkable, and lay the o^reatell
ftrefs upon, is, that in the fixth Verfe, the Art
and Ufe of Printing is affirmed to have been firfi
fet on foot and pra5iifed in this Ifland by our own
Countrymen: which rouft confcquently have a
reference toCAXTON; who has no Rival of this
Country to difpute the Honour with him. And
fo we are furnilhed at laft from Oxford itfelf,
with a Teftimony that overthrows the Date of
their own Book.
Theodoric Rood, we fee, came from Cologn ;
v/hcre C a xt on had refided many years, and
inftrucfted himfelf in the Art of Printino-, ann.
147^' And being fo well acquainted with the
Place, and particularly the Printers of it, might
probably be the Inihument of bringing over
this, or any other Printer, a year or two bctbre
(il there really was any fuch) to be employed at
Oxford y and the obfcure Tradition of tJiis Fad:
give rife to the Fidlion of the Record. But
however this be, it feems pretty clear, that
Caxton's being fo well known at Cologn, and
his fetting up a Prefs at home immediately after
his return from that pla,ce, which could hardly
be a Secret to Rood, mud be the ground of the-
Compliment paid to our Country, and the very
thing referred to in the Verfes.
We have one Book more, without the Name
of Printer or Place, which, from the Compari-
Y 3 Ton
^42 ^ Dijfertation concerning the
fon of its Types with thofe of Rood^ is judged
to be of his Printing, and added to the Cata-
logue of his Works \b'] j viz.
Expoficio ac moralifacio tertij capituli trenormn
Jheremie prophete, Fol. mccccjlxxxii.
And at the end of the Index ;
Explicit tabula fuper opus trcncrum compilaium
t>er Johann. Latteburij ordinis minor um.
But the Indentity of the Letter in different
Books, though a probable Argument, is not
always a certain one for the Ideptity of the
Prefs.
*
Befides this early Printing at Oxford, our
Library gives us proof of the ufe of it likewife,
about the fame time, in the City of London^
much earlier than our Writers had imagined,
with the Names of two, the firjl Printers there,
that none of them take notice of-, John Lettou,
and Will, de Machlinia. Of the firft, we have.
Jacobus de Valencia in Pfalterium, i^c. excuf.
in civitate Londonienjiy ad expenfas IVilhelmi
Wilcock, per me Johannem Lettou mcccclxxxi..
Fol. Of the fecond •, Speculum Chrifiianiy &c,
and at the end ; IJle libellus imprejfus eft in opu-
lentijfima civitate Londoniarum per IVilhelmum de
Machlinia y ad infianciarA necnon expenfas Hen-
{h] yit. Icnji-is's MSS. Papers.
rici
Origin of Fkihtiijc hi England. 34 j
rid Urankerhergh mcrcatoris. Qiiarto ; without
Date, but in a very coarfe and Gothic Chara(?ter,
more rude than Caxton's: And from both
thefc Printers in Partnerlhip, we have the firji
Edition of the famous LittlctorCs Tenures ; print-
ed at Londo7i, in a fmall Folio, without Date;
which his great Commentator, the Lord Chief
Juftice Coke^ had not (t^n or heard of : for in
the Preface to his Inftitutes, he fays, That this
fVork was not publijhed in Print either by Judge
Littleton himfelfy or Richard his Son ; and that
the firji Edition^ that he had feen^ was printed at
Roan in Normandy, ad injlanciam Richardi Pyn-
fon. Printer to King Henry VIII. We have this
Edition alfo in our Library, but it is undoubt-
edly later by thirty or forty years than the other
we are fpeaking of; which, as far as we may
colleft from the time noted above, in which
Joh. Lettou printed, was probably publifhed, or
at lead put to the Prefs by the Author himfelf^
who died ann. 1481.
Whilft Printing was thus going forward at
Weftminjicr^ Oxford, and London-, there was a
Prefs alfo employed at St, Albans, by the
Schoolm after of that place ; whofe Name has
not had the fortune to be tranfmitted to us,
though he is mentioned as a man of merit, and
Friend of Caxton. He had drawn up and
printed in Englifi, a Book of Chronicles, com-
monly called Fruuius Tcmporum, ann. 148^,
which I have never been able to meet with:
Y 4 but
344 -^ Dijferiation concerning the
but in a later Edition of it after his death, there
is the following Colophon :
Here endyth this prefent cronycle of England
with the frtite of tymes^ compiled in a hooke and
emprynted by one fometyme Scolemayjler of St. Al-
iens, on whoos foule god have mercy, and newly
emprynted at Wefimefire by Wynkyn de IVorde
' MCCCCLXXXXVII.
It was the fame School m after, without doubt,
who printed three years before in Latin :
Rhetorica [ <; ] nova Fratris Laurentij Gulielmi