The date of Moxon’s death is uncertain. A third edition of the _Mechanick Exercises_, not including the typographical portion, was issued in 1703. Unless this was a posthumous publication, Moxon must have been seventy-six years old at the time. Mores states that he founded in London from 1659 to 1683, from which it would seem that he retired from the type business a considerable time before his death. He was a voluminous writer on scientific and mathematical subjects, and many of his works ran through several editions. {192} Mores describes him cordially as an admirable mechanic and an excellent artist, and states that he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, 30th November 1678. He was succeeded in his office of Hydrographer to the King by Mr. George Adams, whom Mores describes as “our ingenious friend . . . and a successor to Mr. Moxon as well in skilfulness and curiosity as well as office.”[366] Our portrait of Moxon is taken from the frontispiece to the fourth edition of his _Tutor of Astronomy and Geography_, 1686, printed by Samuel Roycroft for the author. It is doubtful whether his investigations and theories had any sensible effect on the practice of English letter-founding. They may have tended to encourage the favour with which Dutch letter was regarded at the beginning of the eighteenth century; but it is not clear that his attempt to confine to rule and compass the art of letter-cutting either secured general adoption or was productive of any appreciable reform in our national typography. * * * * * The following is the title of the only specimen known to have been issued by Moxon:― 1669. Prooves of the Several Sorts of Letters cast by Joseph Moxon. Westminster, printed by Joseph Moxon in Russell Street, at the sign of the Atlas, 1669. Fo. . . . . (B. M., _Harl. MS._ 5915, fo. 160.) [Illustration] {193} [Illustration] CHAPTER IX. THE LATER FOUNDERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. THOMAS GORING, 1668.     JOSEPH LEE, 1669. Of these two founders nothing is known beyond what is recorded in two short entries on the books of the Stationers’ Company, viz.:― 1668. The Master and Wardens requested to certify to the Archbishop of Canterbury that Thomas Goring, a member of this Company, is an honest and sufficient man, and fit to be one of the _four_ present founders; there being one now wanting, according to the Act of Parliament. 1669. Mr. Joseph Lee and Mr. Goring to give at the next Court an account in writing, what sorts of letter they have made, and for whom, since the Act of Parliament in that case was provided. The names of both these founders occur in the list, already referred to, of former Stewards of the Brotherly Meeting of Masters and Workmen Printers, issued in 1681.[367] {194} ROBERT ANDREWS, 1683.