Note 625 — Chapter XV · JOSEPH AND EDMUND FRY, 1764.

“However desirous the proprietor of another Foundery may be to persuade the public into an idea of a superiority in his own favour, owing to Rapid improvements for upwards of Sixty years, a little time may, perhaps, suffice to convince impartial and unbiassed Judges that the very elegant Types of the WORSHIP STREET MANUFACTORY, though they cannot indeed boast of their existence longer than about Twenty years ! will yet rank as high in Beauty, Symmetry, and intrinsic Merit as any other whatever, and ensure equal approbation from the Literati not only in this Country but in every quarter of the Globe.”