_Fabulous Account of the Lion._--Many thanks to J. EASTWOOD (Vol. i., p.
472.) for his pertinent reply to my Query. The anecdote he refers to is
mentioned in the _Archæological Journal_, vol. i. 1845, p. 174., in a
review of the French work _Vitraux Peints de S. Etienne de Bourges_, &c.
No reference is given there; but I should fancy Philippe de Thaun gives
the fable.

JARLTZBERG.


_Caxton's Printing-office_ (Vol. ii., p. 122.).--The abbot of
Westminster who allowed William Caxton to set up his press in the
almonry within the abbey of Westminster, was probably John Esteney, who
became abbot in the year 1475, and died in 1498. If the date mentioned
by Stow for the introduction of printing into England by Caxton, viz.
1471, could be shown to be that in which he commenced his printing at
Westminster, Abbot Milling (who resigned the abbacy for the bishopric of
Hereford in 1475) would claim the honour of having been his first
patron: but the earliest ascertained date for his printing at
Westminster is 1477. In the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for April, 1846, I
made this remark:

"There can, we think, be no doubt that the device used by
Caxton, and afterwards by Wynkyn de Worde, (W. 4.7 C.) was
intended for the figures 74, (though Dibdin, p. cxxvii, seems
incredulous in the matter), and that its allusion was to the
year 1474 which may very probably have been that in which his
press was set up in Westminster."