This story of Atkyns is dismissed by Madan (as it had previously been dismissed by Humphreys and Blades) as a “clumsy forgery.”[60] It is of interest, however, as indicating the theory of the Crown, or at least the theory which the Crown was supposed to favour at the time of Charles II., concerning the relation of the printing-press to the Crown and the historic foundation for the royal claim to control and supervise printed literature. If the corrected date of 1478 be accepted for the _Rufinus_, it still appears that the work of printing in Oxford began very promptly after the establishment of the Caxton Press in Westminster. It is further evident from the comparison of the typography and other manufacturing details of this first Oxford volume and of its immediate successors, that the methods and instruction of the Oxford printers were not derived from London or from Bruges, but are to be connected directly with the undertakings of the printers of Cologne, and more particularly with the orifice of Ulrich Zell, whose name has already been referred to. The second Oxford publication, bearing an unquestioned date of 1479, is an edition of a treatise by Bishop Ægidius de Columna, of Rome. The third work, issued in the same year, was a Latin translation, prepared by Brunus of Arezzo, of the _Ethics_ of Aristotle. The fourth publication, issued in 1480, was an edition of the oration of Cicero, _Pro Milone_. Both Madan and Blades are of opinion that the book probably belonged to Oxford and to this year, although the evidence is not conclusive. If the book has been correctly placed, it is the first Latin classic printed in England, the second being a _Terence_ issued (in London) in 1497.[61] The work of the first printing-press of Oxford came to a close suddenly in 1487. The printing at St. Albans ceased at about the same time. The first printers in Oxford did not connect their names with their volumes. The name of the printer of the _Rufinus_ and of the _Ægidius_ has not been traced. The printer of the _Cicero_, and of some works following the _Cicero_, is identified as Theodoricus Rood de Colonia. The same name appears in connection with that of Thomas Hunt (Anglicus) as the printers together, in 1485, of the _Letters of Phalaris_. Thomas Hunt’s name is recorded in 1473, as that of a _Universitatis Oxoni Stationarius_. A record has been preserved, bearing date 1483, in which Sir Thomas Hunt agrees to sell certain books in Oxford at fixed prices. Madan suggests that the stopping of the Oxford Press in 1487 may have been due to the departure of Rood for Cologne, as he finds record of the printing in Cologne in that year of certain books in a type similar to that used for the preceding Oxford volumes, by a printer registered as _Theodoricus_.