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A History of the Old English Letter Foundries

Note 249 — Chapter VI · THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDRY.

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According to documents in the Record Office, the fine was entered Feb. 18, 163 3⁄4, “Fined for errors in printing the Bible, Barker £200, Lucas £100.” It was allowed to stand over from time to time, “to see whether they would set up their press for the printing of Greek.” On June 23, 1635, it was ordered that all Bibles now in Stationers’ Hall which had been erroneously printed should be redelivered to them “with charge to see all the gross faults amended before they vent the same.”

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