Note 358 — Chapter VIII · JOSEPH MOXON, 1659.

Writing to Dr. Marsh of Dublin, Jan. 17th, 1681–2, Boyle refers to a projected Irish Grammar, and offers the use of his type. “I am glad that so useful a designe as that of frameing a compendious Irish Grammar has been conceived by one that is so able to execute it well; but I presume you will want letters for many of the Irish words; in which case you may please to consider what use may be made of those I have already, that may be consistent with the printing of the Old Testament in the language they relate to; for all the designe I had in having them cut off was, that they might be in a readiness to print useful bookes in Irish, whether there or here” (Mason’s Life of Bedell, p. 301).