[246] Clementis ad Corinthios Epistola prior. 4to. Oxonii, 1633.
[247] Augustin Linsdell.
[248] Wilkins (D.) Concilia, iv, 485.
[249] According to documents in the Record Office, the fine was entered Feb. 18, 163 3⁄4, “Fined for errors in printing the Bible, Barker £200, Lucas £100.” It was allowed to stand over from time to time, “to see whether they would set up their press for the printing of Greek.” On June 23, 1635, it was ordered that all Bibles now in Stationers’ Hall which had been erroneously printed should be redelivered to them “with charge to see all the gross faults amended before they vent the same.”
[250] Catena Græcorum Patrum in Beatum Job . . . operâ et studio Patricii Junii, Bibliothecarii Regii, etc. Londini, ex Typographio Regio. 1637. Fol. In his dedication to the Archbishop, Young thus refers to the care taken by Laud in the purchase of the type: “Quod quidem si eâ fronte acceperis . . . quâ Britanniam denique characterum elegantiâ in omni linguarum genere locupletas, ac vicinis gentibus, non minus pulchrâ, quam politâ et accuratâ veterum scriptorum editione, invidendam reddis, etc.”
[251] The matrices of this fount, as will be seen hereafter, passed into Grover’s foundry, and were sold at the dispersion of James’s foundry in 1782.
[252] State Papers, Domestic, 1637–8. No. 75.
[253] Probably from the Elzevirs, who in 1626 (as noticed p. [66], note) had succeeded in outbidding the representatives of Cambridge University for the Oriental press and matrices of Erpenius.
[254] Thomas Smith at a later date referred to the same gift:—“Circa id temporis . . . D. Guilielmus Laudus . . . postquam ingentem Codicum omne genus manu exaratorum molem pecuniis largissime effusis, ubi ubi merx ista literaria erat reperienda, conquisivisset, elegantissimos typos, omnium ferè linguarum, quæ hodie obtinent, efformari procuravit” (Vitæ, quorundam Virorum . . . Patricii Junii, London, 1707, 4to., p. 27).
[255] Works of Laud, v. 168.