5. Netherlands (Utrecht, about 1471–3: Alost, 1473).
6. Austro-Hungary (Buda-Pesth, 1473: Trient, 1475).
7. Spain (Valencia, 1474: Saragossa, 1475).
8. England (Westminster, 1477: Oxford, 1478: St. Alban’s, 1480 [1479?]: London, 1480).
9. Denmark (Odensee, 1482: Schleswig, 1486).
10. Sweden (Stockholm, 1483: Wadsten, 1495).
11. Portugal (Lisbon, 1489: Leiria, 1492).
12. Montenegro (Cettinje, 1494).
It is hoped that the above summary statement of the arguments for and against the date of the Jerome will serve to make the present position of the question clear. What general conclusion can be arrived at before further facts are discovered? Caxton, who began to print in England in 1477, nowhere claims to have introduced printing into England. Is it still conceivable that Oxford preceded Westminster by nine years? The answer is that it is still conceivable, but not probable. The ground has been slowly and surely giving way beneath the defenders of the Oxford date, in proportion to the advance of our knowledge of early printing, and all that can be said is that it has not yet entirely slipped away. All the new contributions to the argument and all the chief bibliographers are against it, while no fresh defending forces are in sight. But it is still allowable to assert that the destructive arguments, even if we admit their cumulative cogency, do not at the present time amount to proof.