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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Caxton Abroad Caxton's Mercantile Pursuits Restrictions On Trade Caxton's Commission Merchants' Mares Beginnings Of Printing Plating Cards Wood engraving Block books MovAble Types Quttenberg Guttenbero's Statue Festival At MENTZ. Robert Large, the master of Caxton, became Lord Mayor of London in 1439 40. He died in 1441. That he was a man of considerable substance appears by the record of his bequests in Stow's Survey of London : ' Eobert Large, mercer, mayor 1440, gave to his parish church of St. Olave, in Surrey, two hundred pounds; to St. Margaret's, in Lothbury, twenty five pounds; to the poor, twenty pounds ; to London bridge, one hundred marks ; towards the vaulting over the watercourse of Wai brook, two hundred marks; to poor maids' marriages, one hundred marks; to poor householders, one hundred pounds.' By his last will he bequeathed to his servant, William Caxton, twenty marks, a considerable sum in those days. Prom this period it would seem that Caxton resided abroad. In the first book he translated, the ' Eecuyell of the Historyes of Troye,' which bears upon the title to have been 'ended and finished in the holy city of Cologne, the 19th day of September, the year of our Lord one thousand, four hundred, sixty, and eleven,' he says, ' I have continued by the space of thirty year for the most part in the We believe that the text of Stow, ' St. Olave in Surrey,' is a mistake for ' St. Olave in Jewry,' for Robert Large was buried in St. Olave in the Jewry, where a plated stone in the ground, in the south aisle, recorded his death on the 24th of April, 1441. countries of Brabant, Flanders, Holland, and Zealand.' The Eev. John Lewis, who wrote the Life of Master William Caxton, about a century ago, sa3S, ' It has been guessed that he...
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