His contemporary, PYNSON, who also acknowledged Caxton as his “Worshipful Master,” appears to have been in regular correspondence with the typographers of Rouen, one of whom printed in his name.[160] It is also supposed that he was on friendly terms with Froben of Basle, whose woodcut designs occasionally figure in his works. It is, therefore, probable he may have imported some of his founts, including the Roman, which he had the honour of first introducing into England in 1518, from abroad. His first types, which appeared in the _Dives and Pauper_, printed by him in 1493, were extremely rude; but in this particular he seems to have made rapid progress, and some of his later {92} works are distinguished as fine specimens of typography. Mores’ account of Pynson’s types is incomplete, and in one particular at least, that of the Roman letter in 1499, incorrect. He says: “His types in the year 1496 were Double Pica, Great Primer and Long Primer English (_i.e._, Black-letter), all clear and good; a rude English English, an English and a Long Primer Roman in 1499 (_sic_), an English and a Pica Roman with which was printed Bishop Tonstal’s book, _De Arte Supputandi_, in 1522. They are thick, but they stand well in line . . . He had another and better fount of Great Primer English, with which was printed the _Gallicantus_ of Bishop Alcock . . . in 1498.” The pretty Secretary letter, which Mores mentions as having been used in _Statham’s_ and _Fitzherbert’s Abridgments_ belonged to Le Tailleur, the Rouen printer, whom Pynson employed to print several law books, on account, it is supposed, of the greater correctness of the Norman compositors in setting the law language of the day. “However,” says Ames, “he had such helps afterwards that all statutes, etc., were printed here at home.” In 1518 he printed his first work in Roman type, the _Oratio in Pace nuperrimâ_,[161] by Richard Pace. Only one fount is used throughout this interesting little work, of which we here reproduce the colophon. [Illustration: 18. From the _Oratio in Pace nuperrimâ_. Printed by Pynson, 1518.] A document still preserved in the Record Office, dated June 28, 1519, contains an interesting mention of Pynson’s types. It is an indenture between Wm. Horman, Clerk and Fellow of the King’s College at Eton, and Pynson, for printing 800 copies of such _Vulgars_ as be contained in the copy delivered to him, “in suffycient and suyng stuff of papyr, after thre dyverse letters, on for the englysh, an other for the laten, and a thyrde of great romayne letter for the tytyllys of the booke.” {93}