Note 254 — Chapter VI · THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDRY.
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Thomas Smith at a later date referred to the same gift:—“Circa id temporis . . . D. Guilielmus Laudus . . . postquam ingentem Codicum omne genus manu exaratorum molem pecuniis largissime effusis, ubi ubi merx ista literaria erat reperienda, conquisivisset, elegantissimos typos, omnium ferè linguarum, quæ hodie obtinent, efformari procuravit” (Vitæ, quorundam Virorum . . . Patricii Junii, London, 1707, 4to., p. 27).