No particular notice appears to have been taken of the proceedings, and the rebellion was short lived. Previous to its outbreak, Ilive had published a pamphlet on The Charter and Grants of the Company of Stationers; with Observations and Remarks thereon, in which he recited various grievances and stated the opinion of counsel upon several points. “I have a copy of this pamphlet,” says Mr. Hansard, “now lying before me, the twentieth page of which concludes with the line, ‘Excudebat, edebat, donabat, Jacob Ilive, Anno 1762.’‏” Ilive died in the following year.

THE WESTONS.

Some founders of this name are mentioned by Ames; but Mores supposes that Ames, “who,” he adds, “was an arrant blunderer,” has made Englishmen of the Wetsteins of Amsterdam, who founded in that city about 1733–43. The Wetsteins, though they doubtless had considerable type dealings with this country, are not known at any time to have practised type-founding in England.

JOHN BAINE, 1749.

After the dissolution of partnership between Wilson and Baine in 1749,[730] the latter appears to have come to London, where, Rowe Mores informs us, “he published a specimen (very pretty) without a date. It exhibits Great Primer and Pica Greek and (we take no notice of title letters) the Roman and Italic regulars beginning at Great Primer; and the bastard Small Pica. Mr. Baine left England and is now (1778), we think, alive in Scotland.” He appears to have carried his foundry with him, for we find in a specimen of types belonging to a printer, John Reid, in Edinburgh, in 1768,[731] two founts, a Small Pica and a Minion marked as having been supplied by him. In 1787 was published a Specimen by John Baine and Grandson in Co. at Edinburgh, a copy of which is in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. {350}

About the same date they established a foundry in Philadelphia, the grandson having probably taken charge of the new venture before being joined by his relative. Isaiah Thomas[732] speaks in high praise of the mechanical ability of the elder Baine, and adds that his knowledge of type-founding was the effect of his own industry; for he was self-taught. Both, he says, were good workmen and had full employment. They appear to have been moderately successful in America.[733] The elder Baine died in 1790, aged 77. His grandson relinquished the business soon after, and, says Mr. Thomas, died at Augusta in Georgia about the year 1799.

SPECIMENS.