In 1682, a few years after Berkeley wrote, a printer named William Nuthead came to Jamestown, then the capital of Virginia, proposing to serve the government by printing the acts of the Assembly. He was ordered by the Governor’s Council to await royal approval. Several months later a new governor arrived with an order from the king that “no person be permitted to use any press for printing upon any occasion whatsoever.” Nuthead moved to Maryland, and printing in Virginia was delayed fifty years. [Illustration: _Title page of TYPOGRAPHIA, printed by William Parks upon the establishment of his press in Williamsburg; reproduced from the only surviving copy—in the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island._] _TYPOGRAPHIA._ AN ODE, ON PRINTING. Inſcrib’d to the Honourable WILLIAM GOOCH, ^_Eſq_; His Majesty’s Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief of the Colony of _VIRGINIA_. —— _Pleni ſunt omnes Libri, plenæ ſapientum voces, plena Exemplorum vetuſtas; quæ jacerent in Tenebris omnia, niſi Literarum Lumen accederet._ Cic. Orat. pro Archia. _WILLIAMSBURG:_ Printed by William Parks. M,DCC,XXX. Before 1730, however, a more tolerant attitude had developed. With the permission of Governor William Gooch, the English-born William Parks moved that year from Annapolis to Williamsburg, which had succeeded Jamestown as the capital of Virginia in 1699. He was designated public printer of Virginia, at an annual salary of £120 a year, eventually increased to £280. Parks continued to print the acts of the Virginia Assembly, which he had begun several years before in Maryland, and soon advertised for subscriptions for a proposed _Virginia Miscellany_ “at his House, near the Capitol, in Williamsburg.” Before the year was out he had printed several works, at least five of which are known by title. One of these is an ode to printing, _Typographia_, by one “J. Markland,” which salutes Gooch for his encouragement of printing. In the high-flown style of its day, the ode concludes: “_A Ruler’s gentle Influence Shall o’er his Land be shewn; Saturnian Reigns shall be renew’d Truth, Justice, Vertue, be pursu’d Arts flourish, Peace shall crown the Plains, Where GOOCH administers, AUGUSTUS reigns._”