Cælando promptior alter erat, inquit _Johan. Arnoldus_ in Libello de Chalcographiæ inventione, _Scheffer_ primas finxit quas vocant _Matrices_. Hi tres exercuerunt artem primo in communi. mox rupto fœdere seorsim sibi quisq; privatim. _And again_ (_in a later hand_) Inventionem artis _Typographicæ_ ad Annum 1453. aut exerciter referunt Sabillicus _En._ 10.lib.6. & _Monsterus_. Alij ad Annum 1460. Vide _Polid. Virg._lib. 2. de Invent. Rerum, _Theod. Bibland. de Ratione communis linguarum._ cap. de _Chalcographia._ _At_ Harlem _and some other places in_ Holland, _they pretend to have Books Printed somewhat ancienter than this; but they are most of them_ (_if not all_) _done by way of Carving whole Pages in Wood, not by single Letters Cast in Mettal, to be Composed and Distributed as occasion serves, as is now the manner._ _The chief Inventer at_ Harlem _is said to be_ Laurens Jansz Koster. _After these two places_ (Mentz _and_ Harlem) _it seems next of all to have been practised at_ Oxford: _For by the care, and at the charge of King_ Henry _the_ 6_th, and of_ Thomas Bourchier _then Arch-Bishop of_ Canterbury (_and Chancellour of the University of_ Oxford) Robert Turner _Master of the Robe, and_ William Caxton _a Merchant of_ London _were for that purpose sent to_ Harlem, _at the charges partly of the King, partly of the Arch-Bishop, who then_ (_because these of_ Harlem _were very chary of this secret_) _prevailed privately with one_ Frederick Corseles _an under-Workman, for a sum of Money, to come over hither; who thereupon did at_ Oxford _set up the Art of_ Printing, _before it was exercised any where else in_ England, _or in_ France, Italy, Venice, Germany, _or any other place, except only_ Mentz _and_ Harlem (_aforementioned_): _And there be several Copies yet extant (as one in the Archives of the University of_ Oxford, _another in the Library of Dr._ Tho. Barlow, _now Bishop of_ Lincoln) _of a Treatise of St._ Jerome (_as it is there called_ (_because found among St._ Jerom’s _Works_) _or rather _ Ruffinus _upon the Creed, in a broad_ Octavo) _Printed at_ Oxford _in the year_ 1468. _as appears by the words in the close of it_. Explicit expositio Sancti _Jeronimi_ in sembolo Apostolorum ad papam Laurentium Impressi _Oxonie_ & finita Anno Domini M CCCC LX VIII. xvij die _Decembris_. _Which is but three years later than that of_ Tullies Offices _at_ Mentz, _in_ 1465. _and was perhaps one of the first Books Printed on Paper_; (_that of_ Tully _being on Vellom_.) _And there the excercise of_ Printing _hath continued successively to this day._