A. D. 1474. 689 



' them large volumes, and many of them tranflated by himfelf. How 

 ' produdive is incefHint labour, and how worthy are fuch men as Cax- 

 ' ton of a place in the hiftory of their country*.' 



Several foreigners, probably brought over as workmen by Caxton, 

 and alfo Thomas Hunt and fome other JLnglifhmen, fucceeded him in 

 the bufinefs of printing in England, which profpered fo well in their 

 hands that we fhall foon fee printed books an article of exportation. 

 [Middletoti's Origin of printing in Engl and. "^ 



There is no certainty of any eftablifliment of a printing prefs in Scot- 

 land before the year 1507, when Walter Chepman, a merchant of Edin- 

 burgh, obtained the king's patent for himfelf and Andrew My liar to 

 carry on the bufinefs of printing f . 



May — The Scottifh parliament, ftill anxious to fill the country with 

 money, and thinking they could command it to flow in, direded the 

 officers of the cufloms to make the merchants give fecurity, that they 

 fliould bring to the mint two ounces of filver for every ferplaith, four 

 ounces for a lafl of hides, two ounces for a lafl; of falmon, and propor- 

 tional quantities for cloth or other goods, before they fhould give them 

 cockets for their exportation. \_Acis Jac. Ill, c. Q\t^.'\ 



Odober — In the parliament of England the adl 12 Edw. IV, c, 5, 

 againfl fmuggling wool was renewed : and, inflead of Middleburg, the 

 town of Byrwick in Brabant was declared the only place, befides Calais, 

 to which the northern wools might be fhipped from Newcaftle, a power 

 being however vefted in the king to name any other port inftead of 

 Byrwick, upon giving three months notice. \^AB,s 14 Edw. IV, c. 3.] 



December 19'" — King Edward acknowleged himfelf indebted to the 

 merchants of Guipufcoa in Spain in the fum of 1 1 ,000 crowns, as a com- 

 penfation for damages done to them by the Engli{h :• and he alfigned 

 to them half the cuftoms payable on goods imported and exported by' 

 the merchants of Spain, till the debt fliould be difcharged at the rate of 

 ^/4 fterling for every crown. {Fosdera, V. xi, p. 841.] 



1475, February 3'' — A large fliip built by James Kennedy bilhop of 

 S'. Andrews, called the Salvator, and alfo, by way of eminence, the 

 Bifhop's barge, as being the finefl vefl^el hitherto built in Scotland J, was 

 wrecked in March 1473 at Bamburgh, where the cargo was plundered, 



* The two laft fentences are taken verbatim f The original patent was difcovcred a few years 



from Doftor Henry, H'ljl. V. x,/>. 203. — See alfo ago by Mr. William Rubcrtfon of the Regifter 



Ameses Hift. of printing, p. 2 AlitUletort^s Origin of office, who made the fearch in order to gratify Mr. 



printing in England. — jljlk's Origin of ivritlng, p. Chalmers : and the later, by mentioning, it in his 



222 There was a book printed at Oxford by Life of RudJiman, p. 80, has given the knowlege 



Corfelis, a foreigner, dated mcccclxviii : but Doc- of it to the public. 



tor Middleton, Mr. Lewis, and Mr. Aftle, who J So the great fliip belonging to the king of 



have bellowed much attention upon the fubjeft of Sweden {fee p. 671) was called the King's barge. 



printing, are of opinion that an x mud have dropt 



out, and that mcccclxxviii is the real date of the 



book printed by Corfelis. 



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