1 small anvil. 4 hammers. 28 moulds. 1 engine to make brass rules with a plane. 1 wyer sieve. 332 dressing sticks. {149} 2 great vices. 2 hand vices. 21 great files. 1 pair of sheers. 2 iron pots. 4 dressing planes. 3 dressing blocks. 3 plyers. 2 rubbing stones. 1 grinding stone. 26 copper borders. 32 copper letters. 7 printing presses, with all things belonging to them. 2 rolling presses, with all things necessary to them. 132 upper and lower cases. 5 pair of capital cases. 5 pair of fund cases. 13 pair of Greek cases. 50 chases. Dr. Fell supplemented this gift by a further signal service, which is thus recorded by Bagford:― “The good Bishop provided from Holland the choicest Puncheons,[263] Matrices, etc., with all manner of Types that could be had, as also a Letter Founder, a Dutchman by Birth, who had Served the States in the same quality at Batavia, in the East Indies. He was an excellent workman, and succeeded by his son, who has been since succeeded by Mr. Andrews.”[264] The Dutchman here spoken of was Walpergen, who, as will be seen later on, preceded Sylvester Andrews as typefounder in Oxford. Fell was a zealous defender of the privileges enjoyed by his University, and in 1679 drew up a report setting forth its claims in the matter of printing.[265] In this report he mentions that, in the year 1672, several members of the University, himself included, taking into consideration the “low estate of the manufacture of printing” in the kingdom, and particularly in the University, “took upon themselves the charges of the press in the said University, and at the expence of above four thousand pounds furnisht from Germany, France and Holland, an Imprimery, with all the necessaries thereof, and pursued the undertaking so vigorously, as in the short compass of time which hath since intervened, to have printed many considerable books in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, as well as in English; both for their matter and elegance of paper and letter, very satisfactory to the learned abroad and at home.” It is probable that the transaction here recorded constituted a portion of what became known as Dr. Fell’s gift to the University; a series of benefactions which doubtless extended over several years—from 1667 to 1672—and included, when complete, the whole of the types and implements named in the above Inventory. Mores, who is responsible for the date, 1667, leads us to suppose {150} that the gift was completed in that year; but he gives no authority; and the absence of any second inventory of the acquisitions made in 1672, points strongly to the conclusion that the two transactions were part of the same gift.