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Settlement or publick Profeffion of it at Mentz, it quick- 
ly fpread over the beft parts of _ , . 
Europe, * and was commonly ufed in f.o^Te„t ofpiW "of 
Other Countries before 'twas known in ^^^^'^ where, wherein 
Ef^gland (notwithftanding what fome Sl-ifelSudi 
Writers do affirm to the contrary^jthe thtttumr. udick, Rm^n, 
firft Book that we pretend to have been ^''^* ^^^''^ 
T). ji i- rr- - « nm.Ptea, Primer, Br»vier,$c.', 
Frmted here, being ii/^r^;5^e ;or rather 
Rufinus) on the Creed^ Printed at Oxford^ A. D. 1468, 
To prove this in fome raeafbre (not to mention tfee 
progrefs of Printing in other Countries ) I inftance in 
Italj/y and particularly Rome. Here, not to infift on 
the large Catalogue of Printed Books deicribed in an 
Epiftle to Pope Xyjlus IV. Publiflied at the beginning of 
the V. Tome of the Bible printed with Lyra*s Commentaries 
at Rome^ A. D. 1472, and tranfcribed by Boxhormus 3 I 
(hall only relate the fum of what I meet with in BernarJ 
Monntfauconp Diarium Italicum^ Tom. i. page 355, 25^6. 
'Tis that Joannes Alerienfis^ in a. flattering Epijlle to Pope 
Paul II. ( who was eleded A. D. 1464.) congratulates him^ 
hecaufe Printing vpos firji usd at Rome, under h'k Pontificate 
Which if fpoken of the very firft pradice of the Art at 
Rome^ and not of an eftabliflied Imprimery, feems to be 
falfe^» becaufe this learned Monk, in the fame place, fays^e 
faw a LaSantius in the Muf^um (or Study) of Monfieur de U 
ThuiUiere^ which has thefe words at the End^ L a&antii Firsni^ 
ani Inftitntiones cuf£ in venerabili Monajierio Suhlacenfi anna 
1461. antepenultimaOciobris. Now unlefs a man will fup- 
pofe Printing to be invented in this Monaftery, he muft 
believe it to be brought hither from S^ome^ which is but 
about 20 Miles diftant from it. And the fame Author fays, 
that Floravantes Martinellus in his RomaSacra^ affirvis that 
Printing was pra&ifed at Rome in the Palace of the Maximi, 
J. D. 145 5*5 ufider Pope Nicolaus V. by Conrad Svveynheim 
and Arnold Pannartz, who were both Germans ^md con- 
tinued Printers there for many Years after. 
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