His press will always be remembered for the magnificent edition of the _Works of St. Chrysostom_, in eight folio volumes, printed at Eton in 1610, at the charge of Sir Henry Savile, the editor. The late T. B. Reed, in his _History of the Old English Letter Foundries_ (p. 140), speaks of this edition as 'one of the most splendid examples of Greek printing in this country,' and further describes the types with which it was printed as 'a great primer body, very elegantly and regularly cast, with the usual numerous ligatures and abbreviations which characterised the Greek typography of that period' (p. 141). [Illustration: FIG. 31.--Dedication of Savile's _St. Chrysostom_. Eton, 1610.] The work is said to have cost its promoter £8000. The title-page to the first volume was handsomely engraved, and a highly ornamental series of initial letters were used in it. Another Greek work that Norton completed at Eton in the same year was the _Sancti Gregorii Nazianzeni in Julianum Invectivae duae_, in quarto. In addition to his patent for printing Greek and Latin books, Norton also acquired from Francis Rea his patent for printing grammars, and by his will he directed a sum of money to be paid out of the profits of this patent to his wife Joyce. John Bill was the son of Walter Bill, husbandman, of Wenlock, county Salop, and on the 25th July 1592 he apprenticed himself to John Norton. In 1601 he was admitted a freeman of the Company. He appears to have been a man of shrewd business ability and some scholarship, as we find him writing in Latin to Dr. Wideman of Augsburg on the subject of books. He was also looked upon by the Government as an authority on matters concerning his business. Under his partnership with Bonham Norton, he secured a large share in the Royal business. John Norton bequeathed him a legacy of £10, and a similar sum to his wife. John Bill died in 1632, and on the 26th August of that year the whole of his stock was assigned to Mistress Joyce Norton, the widow of John Norton, and Master Whittaker. The list fills upwards of two pages of Arber's _Transcripts_ (vol. iv. pp. 283-285), and includes the following notable works:-- Beza's _Testament_ in Latin, Camden's _Britannia_, Comines' _History_, Cornelius Tacitus, Du Moulin's _Defence of the Catholique Faith_, Gerard's _Herball_, Goodwin's _History of Henry VIII._, Plutarch's _Works_, Rider's _Dictionary_, Spalato's _Sermons_, Usher's _Gravissimæ questiones_, Verstegan's _Restitution of Decayed Intelligence_. The reversion of John Norton's patent for Greek and Latin books had been granted in 1604 to Robert Barker (Dom. S. P. 1604), but the year following Norton's death it was granted to Bonham Norton for thirty years (Dom. S. P. I., vol. 72, No. 5), and he also seems to have acquired the patent for printing grammars.