Note 351 — Chapter VIII · JOSEPH MOXON, 1659.

“The publication of everything valuable in this language by the fathers of Donegal was unfortunately prevented by the troubles of the time of Charles I, by Cromwell’s usurpation. These fathers had procured a fount for this purpose, which, when forced to fly, they carried with them to Louvain, where some fragments of this fount are yet to be found” (Theoph. O’Flanagan on the Ancient Language of Ireland. Transac. of the Gaelic Soc. 8vo, Dublin, 1808, p. 212). Others stated that the fount had been removed to Douay, and there used to print several Catholic tracts. No Irish work whatever is known to have been printed at Douay. Respecting the various foreign Irish founts, the reader is referred to the account given in chapter ii, p. 75.