It is curious to observe the small points which break the smooth course
of ordinary printing in these earlier times, some of them marking
progress, some a perturbation in the office, some stupidity. The
following are random notes of some bibliographical interest.
1. The change of use in the case of _u_ and _v_ (_Vniuersity_ being
the old spelling, and _University_ the new) may be remarked in
progress in 1589, no. 5, and is practically completed by 1610. But a
capital U is not found at all in the period dealt with, its place
being in a few cases supplied by a large lower-case u.
2. For “at Oxford” the common Latin is _Oxoniæ_, but _Oxonii_ occurs
sporadically. _Bellositi Dobunorum_ occurs in 1628: and _Rhydychen_
(in Welsh books) in 1595, 1600.