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printed before his Eleftion, I know none that will allow of 
Printing 2LtLeyden^ (or even in Ljons^ fo very early. 
One Objeftion may be urg'd againft what is faid of 
Kofier s or the old printed Books above-mentioned, being 
printed upon Paper about A. D. 143O5 or foon after. For 
fome Authors are of opinion, that Paper made of Linnen 
Rags wasfirft made at Bafil^ by fome Gr^ei*/ who fled out of 
their Country after the SdiCczgt oiC onJiantinople^A, D. 
in Imitation of the Cotton Paper^ commonly ofed in the Levant. 
But this can have no force, our Paper being much older: 
For I have a piece^the Writing upon v/hich feemsto be about: 
350 years old, and agrees very well with a Charter which 
i have leen of Thomas Beuchamp Earl oVyVarmckj^ht^nug date 
A. U. 1358. and 52 Edvp. III. In the Archives of the Library 
belonging to the EIR. Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, I fav^^ 
an Inventory of the Goods of lienry Prior of Chrifts Church 
there^taken upon his Decea(€,(ast remember) the QOtH year 
of K. Edward III. and this is written upon Paper, In the 
Cottonian Library, tho' fearching after other matters, I could 
not but obferve feveral Writings upon our f^/?er, in the 
time of moft of our Kings and Queens, as high as the 1 5 th of 
K. Edward IIL and I doubt not but that there are others 
more antient in the fame place. But in the Eafl^ the ufe of 
Cotton Paper is much more antient, and I have in the Bod- 
kyan Library, feen an Jr^fei- Manufcript (amcngft thofe 
which the tlniverfity bought of Dr Huntingdon) ^xmi^n in 
the 427th of the year Eegira/h e. AD. 10.19, and others in 
the fame place, without Dates, feem cider. 
The Proximity of the fubjed, cv. :rc to take no- 
tice, that tho the Invention of rrejs is commonly 
afcribed to Lipfus ^ yet it fcenis older than bis time, from a 
printed Bookin the Library, placed LAVD. D-i^S. 
This is'diMifak fecundum i^f/fmEcrkfi^tJc-rbipokn/rXh tM-nrtz- 
hiirg in G>irt7uviy ,)Rodolfns Arch Bifliop of that Church fets 
forth in an Inftrument at the beginning of the book,the rea- 
Tons why he cauG^d thisMiffal to be publifhed,wbich Inftru- 
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