Voskens, the Dutch founder, had Anglo-Saxon matrices at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but, except in England and Holland, the character was not used. Caslon and most of his successors cut Saxon founts. Mores noted eleven different founts existing in England in 1778. This number was afterwards increased by numerous new founts cut by Fry, Figgins, and Wilson; and Hansard enumerated twenty-three in 1825. The Anglo-Norman Saxon character in which the _Domesday Book_ was written, was twice imitated in type during the eighteenth century, once by Cottrell, whose attempt was not wholly successful, and again by Joseph Jackson, under the supervision of Abraham Farley, in 1783. Jackson’s types were used in the facsimile printed by Nichols in that year, and the matrices, it is stated, were deposited with the British Museum. {75} IRISH. The first fount of this character was that presented by Queen Elizabeth to O’Kearney in 1571, and used to print the _Catechism_, which appeared in that year in Dublin, at the press of Franckton. The fount, which is on English body, is only partially Irish, many of the letters being ordinary Roman or Italic. Its general appearance is, however, neat. It was used in several works during the early years of the seventeenth century, notably in the Daniel’s _New Testament_, printed by Franckton in 1602, and the _Common Prayer_, issued from the same press in 1608. This interesting fount was stated by some to have been secured by the Jesuits, and transferred by them to one of their seminaries abroad; but there appears to be no foundation for such a statement. As late as 1652 it was used in Godfrey Daniels’ _Christian Doctrine_, printed in Dublin; and still later occasional words mark its gradual extinction. The Irish seminaries abroad, meanwhile, were better supplied with Irish type than our countrymen. At Antwerp, in 1611, O’Hussey’s _Catechism_ was printed in an Irish fount, which subsequently reappeared in 1616 at Louvain, and was afterwards used to print a number of works published by the Irish College in that place. In 1645 a second and larger Irish fount appeared at Louvain, in Colgan’s _Acta Sanctorum Hiberniæ_. In 1676 the press of the Propaganda at Rome published Molloy’s _Lucerna Fidelium_ in a handsome and bold character, Great Primer in body, which was used again in the following year in Molloy’s _Grammar_, and in 1707 for the _Catechism_ of O’Hussey. Previous to this, however, Irish printing had revived in England, and Moxon, in 1680, had cut the curious fount of Small Pica Irish,[148] used in Boyle’s _New Testament_, printed by Robert Everingham in 1681, followed by Bedell’s _Old Testament_ in 1685, and in several further publications from the same press. Until the year 1800 this fount was the only Irish in this country. Abroad, a new fount appeared at Paris in 1732, where it was used in McCuirtin’s _Dictionary_, and in 1742 in Donlevey’s _Catechism_, printed by Jas. Guerin.