The above considerations go far towards supporting the suggestions I have thrown out (see pages 323-348) in regard to the dates when, and the parties by whom, the _Speculum_, _Donatuses_, &c., were printed. And these suggestions are further confirmed by the extracts cited by Dr. Van Der Linde from the archives of Utrecht, in a note on p. 85 of Hessels’ Translation, where it is stated that in the year 1466, the name of Peter Dircxsz, described as a “beeldedrucker”--a _prenter_,--appears. “Perhaps,” adds Dr. Van Der Linde, “the printer of the plates of the Speculum.” FOOTNOTES: [147] The name of Lourens Janszoon, the sheriff of Haarlem who died in 1439, is mentioned seventy-six times in the archives of the city, but _never_ with the name of _Coster_. The name of the tallow-chandler Lourens Janszoon Coster, appears much later, (as late as 1483); _but his name was never brought before the public_, in connection with the origin of printing, until the year 1867.--See _Haarlem Legend_, pp. 124, 125. IV.--CUT WOODEN, _versus_ CAST METAL TYPES. However much my views may be found to coincide with those of Dr. Van Der Linde, Mr. Hessels, and Mr. Bradshaw, upon the Origin of Printing, and the date of the production of the so-called _Costeriana_, there may be wide differences of opinion on the question, whether the types made use of in the production of those works were made of wood or of metal. Dr. Van Der Linde writes upon this point in very dogmatic strains. In his eleventh chapter,--“A Beech in ‘Den Hout,’”--the object of which is to shew the impossibility of Junius’s statement about Coster having printed with wooden types, he quotes the following from Enschedé, written about the year 1770.