The first type for this language was cut by John Day in 1567, under the direction of Archbishop Parker, and appeared in _Ælfric’s Paschal Homily_ in that year, and in the _Ælfredi Res Gestæ of Asser Menevensis_, published in 1574. Parker, in his preface to the latter work, makes mention of Day as the first who had cut Saxon characters. This interesting fount[146] is rather less than a Great Primer in body, and in general appearance is handsomer than many of its successors. Day used the type in several other works, and added another fount on Pica body. Saxon type was used by Browne in 1617, in Minsheu’s _Ductor in Linguas_; and Haviland, who printed the second edition of that work in 1626, had in 1623 already made use of the character in Lisle’s edition of _Ælfric’s Homily_. Another fount was used by Badger in 1640 for Spelman’s _Saxon Psalter_, {74} so that, as Mores points out, at that date there were already four founts in the country. Hodgkinson, one of the Star Chamber printers, had a Pica Saxon, which was used in _Dugdale’s Monasticon_, 1655; and Mores mentions two founts, a Great Primer and a Pica, in use at Cambridge in 1644, in Wheelock’s edition of _Bede_. In 1654 Francis Junius had a fount of Saxon “cut, matriculated, and cast,” at Amsterdam, which, after printing _Cædmon’s Paraphrase of Genesis_ in 1655, and some other works in that town, he brought over to England, and in 1677 presented to the University of Oxford. As early as 1659 the University had possessed a Saxon fount, and a second had been included among the purchases made, probably, about the year 1672. Junius’ fount was used in Hickes’ _Thesaurus_, 1705, and his Saxon _Grammar_ in 1711, but was not employed by the printer of the _Oratio Dominica_ of 1700, where a different fount appears—the same, apparently, which in 1709 Bowyer used to print Miss Elstob’s _Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory_. The Amsterdam printers of the _Oratio Dominica_ of 1715 used a handsome fount of their own. The great interest taken in the study of the Northern languages at this period in England produced many Saxon works, and some of our scholars devoted themselves to the study of the most beautiful of the old manuscripts, with a view to the improvement of the character in print. But the failure of the typefounder Robert Andrews to do justice to Humphrey Wanley’s drawings, in cutting the punches for Bowyer’s new fount in 1715,[147] apparently discouraged further endeavours. Miss Elstob’s _Anglo-Saxon Grammar_ was printed in that year in the new type, the matrices of which were subsequently presented to Oxford, where they still remain.