the strain in eighty-eight, by admitting into the kennel a base mongrill of another litter. They are supposed to be on the hunt for prey in the north. They go a full dog-trot by night, for fear of being catch'd. They answer to the names of Hector and Plunder, and will jump and dance at the sound of the French horn, being us'd to that note, by an old dog master at Paris. They will prick up their cars also at the musick of a Lancashire hornpipe. This is to give notice, that whoever can secure this couple of currs, and bring them back, either to the Pope's Head at Room, near St. Peter's Church, or to the Cardinall's Cap at Versailes, or to the King's Arms at Newcastle, or to the Thistle at Edinburgh, or to the Three Kings at Brentford, or rather to the signe of the Axx on Tower-hill, shall have the reward of Thirteen Pence Halfpenny, or any other sume under a Crown; and the thanks of all the Powers of Europe, except France, Spain, and the Pope. N.B. They have each a French collar on, stampt with the father's arms, a warming-pan, and the flower de leue, with this inscription,-"Wee are but young puppies, of Fencins Pack, beware of them, for they have got a little of the Scotch mange, and those that are bit by them run mad, and are call'd Jacobites." town he bequeathed a charitable gift. In After the accession of Elizabeth, Daye received a large share of the patronage of those labourers in the cause of the Reformation, with whom he had previously suffered; and became one of the principal publishers (to use the modern word), trading in England, now so conspicuously and permanently Protestant. He was chosen Warden of the Stationers' Company in the years 1564, 1566, 1571, and 1575, and Master in 1580. In 1572 he erected a new shop in St. Paul's Churchyard; regarding which, Misprinted Dulwich in Dibdin's edition of Ames's Typographical Antiquities; where (following Herbert the former editor) it is also supposed that Daye was "descended from a good family buried at Bradley-Parva;" but for " descended from" we should read merely "married into," as will be perceived by the account of his family given on the present occasion. It is to be regretted that Dr. Dibdin should not have rewritten this life, as what he has reprinted from Herbert is really a mere collection of unarranged notes, with considerable tautology and repetition. With regard to Daye's descent, it would rather seem that it was of foreign origin, if his son Richard had any better reason than caprice for writing his name D'Aije, as he did in the reign of James the First. Stow's Survey.-Though Daye erected new buildings, his presses did not help to keep the old Gate in repair; it was rebuilt in 1617. Fox's Book of Martyrs, p. 1356. Rogers detailed to Daye his plan for providing the churches throughout the country with Protestant readers, so as wholly to exclude the Popish priests; and it was probably related to Fox by Daye himself. The facts of Daye's imprisonment and exile have been overlooked by all his biographers; though copied from Fox by Strype; Ames and his followers only saying, "It looks as if he forbóre printing during the reign of Queen Mary." GENT. MAG. November, 1832. and the important patronage he received from Archbishop Parker, some interesting particulars will be found in the following extract from a letter* of that prelate to Lord Burghley, dated on Dec. 13 that year. The Archbishop was then anxiously engaged in providing suitable replies to the great work of the popish polemic, Nicholas Sanders, "De Visibili Monarchiâ Ecclesiæ;" and, after informing Lord Burghley that he had engaged Dr. Clercke, of Cambridge, to assist in that task, he proceeds thus "To the better accomplishment of this worke and other that shall followe, I have spoken to Daie the printer to caste a newe Italian letter, which he is doinge, and it will cost him xl marks: and loth he and other printers be to printe any lattin booke, because they will not heare bee uttred, and for that Books printed in Englande be in suspition abroade. Nowe, sir, Daye hath complained to me that, dwellinge in a corn' and his bretherne envienge him, he cannot utter his books, weh lie in his handes, jor iij thousand pownds worthe. frendes have procured of Pawles a lease of a little shop to be sett up in the Church yearde, and it is confermed; and what by the instant request of sum en His viouse booksellers, the Maior and Aldermen will not suffer him to sett it up in the Church yearde, wherein they have nothing to doe but by power: this shop is but little and lowe, and leaded flatt, and is made att his greate cost to the sum of xl or 1li, and is made like the terris, faier vailed and posted fitt for men to stande uppon in any triumphe or shewe, and can in noe wise either hurte or deface. the same.§ And for that you of the Councell have written to me and other of the Commission, to helpe Daie, &c. I praie y LP to move the Q. Matic to subscribe her hand to this or such letters that all this entendement maye the better goe forward. Wherein yo LP shall deserve well both of Cbristes Churche and of the Prince, and State, &c." It is well known that at the date of this epistle, and for many years after, English books were almost entirely printed in the type now called Black Letter; the Roman type was only occasionally used for quotations, &c.; and the Italic, as may be perceived from Archbishop Parker's statement, was still more rarely employed. It is noticed by Herbert that the only portions of Clercke's Responsio printed in Italic, are the quotations; but it is very remarkable, with reference to the • Preserved in the Lansdowne MSS. (Brit. Mus.) xv. 50. + The history of this controversy, and of those engaged in it, will be found in Strype's Life of Parker, pp. 377 et seq. Such was the ubiquitous superintendance of the great minister Burghley, that he received from the Archbishop from time to time, portions of Dr. Clercke's book in quires, as they came from the press. In order to complete the printing, other works were laid aside; in particular, it is recorded that Bishop Field's book of Epigrams was delayed from February until after Easter. Dr. Clercke's essay was finally published without his name, under the title of "Fidelis servi subdito infideli Responsio;" and was accompanied or shortly followed by another treatise by George Acworth, LL.D. which, in parody of Sanders's title, was called "De Visibili Rom' Anarchia." (See the full titles given by Herbert and Dibdin, among Daye's books of the year 1573.) This shop is mentioned in the imprints of four several books printed by Daye in 1578, but not in any other year. The imprint of "The Governaunce of Vertue," 1578, is thus minutely conceived: "Printed at London by John Daye, dwellyng over Aldersgate, beneath Saint Martins; and are to be solde at his long shop at the Northwest dore of Paules." In the next year, however, whether the St. Paul's shop was given up or no, we read instead, "and sold at his shop under the gate." The imprints do not bear Herbert out in his assertion that Daye "kept at the same time several shops in different parts of the town;" for more than two cannot be traced at any one period. § Notwithstanding this assertion of the worthy prelate, it will be readily imagined how much the erection of shops and small houses against St. Paul's, tended both to deface and dilapidate the edifice. A zealous promoter of the repairs in the reign of James I. had a painting made of the cathedral, stuck over with mottoes, one of which was Viewe, O King, howe my wall-creepers Have made mee worke for chimney-sweepers. The same painting shows, also, how the shops were converted into stands for spectators on occasion of a procession. It is in the possession of the Society of Autiquaries; one portion is engraved in Wilkinson's Londinia Illustrata, and another in Nichols's Progresses, &c. of King James the First. clause of Parker's letter "this worke and other that shall followe," that about this time the Archbishop's own work, "De Antiquitate Britannica Ecclesiæ, was printed by Daye in a type which Dr. Dibdin terms " a fullsized, close, but flowing Italic letter."* As that great work, however, is dated 1572, and the answers to Sanders appeared in 1573, and the size of the type employed in the former (a folio) may be larger than that of the latter (which are in quarto), this circumstance may only show the Archbishop's partiality for the " Italian" style of printing. An honour of much greater importance in the annals of type-founding, belongs to the memory of John Daye. He was the first, and in 1574 the only, printer who had cut Saxon characters. This is recorded by Archbishop Parker himself, in his preface to Alfredi Regis Res Gestæ, printed in 1574 together with Walsingham's Ypodigma Neustria: but the types had then been used for three former works,for a Saxon homily edited by the Archbishop, under the title of "A Testimonie of Antiquitie," &c. in 1567; for Lambarde's Archaionomia, in 1568; and for the Saxon Gospels edited by Fox, under the patronage of Parker, in 1571. In addition to his Saxon and Italian types, Herbert states that Daye brought the Greek to a very great perfection. "Daye seems indeed," remarks Dr. Dibdin, while speaking of this subject, "to have been (if we except Grafton) the Plantin of old English typographers; while his character and reputation scarcely suffer diminution from a comparison with those of his illustrious contemporary just mentioned." In 1573 Daye's life was threatened by a journeyman, who appears to have been actuated by a spirit of religious fanaticism. This circumstance is handed down to us by another letter of Archbishop Parker, evidently written in haste, and of which the greatest portion is here given : SIR,-This mornyng ca' the warden of • Dibdin's Ames, vol. IV. p. 126. 66 the p'nters, harrison, and brought me one other boke in quayers, and told me that one Asplyn, a p'nter to Cartwrightes boke, was after examinatio' suffered agay' to go a brode, and taken in to s'vice in to Mr. Dayes house, and purposed to kyl hy' and his wiff, &c. and beyng asked what he ment, yt he answered the spryte movd hy', so that thei be al taken and in p'son [prison] as he told me syns I sent to yo' L. this massenger-this he tolde xiii Nov. [1573). me. To the Lord Treasurer. " Cartwright's book mentioned in this note, was a political pamphlet intitled an Admonition to the Parliament; and at the end of a Second Admonition to the Parliament," we are informed of the cause of offence which had been given by Daye. It is there stated that Day the Printer, and Toy the Bokebinder, assisted with a pursuyant and other officers, at the appointment of the Bishops, were, by their diligence in endeavouring to seize the books at the press, the cause of their being printed with so many faults, and of some other things not being published which we meant and minded to publish." Herbert has noted, from the books of the Stationers' Company, that one Thomas Asplyn was bound apprentice to Mr. Daye, from the Annunciation 1566, for 8 years; and that one Robert Asplyn, apprentice to Edward Sutton, was made free 5 Oct. 1570. In a note of the offices, and other speciall licences for printing, graunted by her Matie to div'se p'sons, with a coniecture of the valuation," written for Lord Burghley by Christopher Barker, the Queen's English printer, in December 1582 (a curious document which Mr. Ellis lately introduced to the notice of the Society of Antiquaries), is this account of Mr. Daye. In the priviledge, or private licence graunted to Mr. Daye, are among other things the Psalmes in meeter, with notes to singe them in the Churches, as well in foure p'ts, as in playne songe, wch being a parcell of the Church service, prop'ly belongeth to me. This booke being occupied of all sortes of men, women, and children, and requiring no great + Jam vero cùm Dayus typographus primus (et omnium certè quod sciam solus) has formas æri inciderit, facilè quæ Saxonicis literis perscripta sunt, iisdem typis divulgabantur." Burghley MSS. (Lansd. coll. Brit. Mus.) xlviii. 82. |