The output of Richard Pynson was only about half that of Wynkyn de Worde, and his taxable property amounted to only L60 against over _L_200 at which De Worde was assessed. Nevertheless the fact that for the last twenty-two years of his life (1508-30) he was the King's Printer helped to procure him a few important books, and also kept his workmanship at a considerably higher standard. As already mentioned, he probably came to England about 1490 and took over Machlinia's stock, employing Guillaume Le Talleur of Rouen to print two law books for him while his own type was being made. He probably began work with a fine edition of Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_, but his first dated book is an ugly little edition of the _Doctrinale_ of Alexander Gallus, issued in November, 1492. A copy of this was unearthed a few years ago in the library of Appleby Grammar School, and to secure the first dated book printed by Pynson the British Museum had to pay over L300 for it. In 1494 Pynson brought out Lydgate's poem on the _Falles of Princes_, translated from the Latin of Boccaccio, illustrating it with woodcuts borrowed from Jean Du Pre's French edition of the same book.[51] In 1495 he printed a _Terence_. Up to the close of the fifteenth century he had printed about eighty-eight books known to Mr. Gordon Duff, against the 110 printed by Wynkyn de Worde. In 1500 he moved from the parish of S. Clement Dane's, outside Temple Bar, to the sign of S. George, at the corner of Chancery Lane and Fleet Street, the change bringing him inside the city walls. Among the best of the books printed by him after this are Alexander Barclay's _Ship of Fools_ (1509), a translation of Sebastian Brant's _Narrenschiff_; Fabyan's _Chronicle_ (1516), Barclay's translation of Sallust (about 1520), Henry VIII's _Assertio Septem Sacramentorum_ (1521), and Lord Berners' translation of Froissart's _Chronicles_ (1522-5). He also printed some fine service-books, notably a Sarum Missal, called after Cardinal Morton who favoured it the Morton Missal (1500). Mr. Duff conjectures that in the Latin books he printed from 1518 onwards Pynson was aided by Thomas Berthelet.[52]