Note 13 — Chapter VIII
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He always, in these marks, associated the device of Caxton with his own; glorying, as he well might, in succeeding to the business of his honoured master, and continuing for so many years the good work which he had begun.
[14] These are the words with which this book closes.
[15]
"Wynkyn de Worde this hath set in print, In William Caxton's house:—so fill the case." Stanzas to 'Scala Perfectionis,' 1494.
[16] To "fill the case" is to put fresh types in the case, ready to arrange in new pages. The bibliographers scarcely understood the technical expression of honest Wynkyn.
[17] There is a record in the parish books of St. Margaret's of the churchwardens selling for 6s. 8d. one of the books bequeathed to the church by William Caxton.