Yet it is certain, that about one half of what has thus gone under the name of Lily, ("because," says one of the patentees, "he had _so considerable a hand_ in the composition,") was written by Dr.
Colet, by Erasmus, or by others who improved the work after Lily's death.
And of the other half, it has been incidentally asserted in history, that neither the scheme nor the text was original.

The Printer's Grammar, London, 1787, speaking of the art of type-foundery, says: "The Italians in a short time brought it to _that_ perfection, that in the beginning of the year 1474, they cast a letter not much inferior to the best types of the present age; as may be seen in a Latin Grammar, written by Omnibonus Leonicenus, and printed at Padua on the 14th of January, 1474; _from whom our grammarian, Lily, has taken the entire scheme of his Grammar, and transcribed the greatest part thereof, without paying any regard to the memory of this author_." The historian then proceeds to speak about types.
See also the same thing in the History of Printing, 8vo, London, 1770.

This is the grammar which bears upon its title page: "_Quam solam Regia Majestas in omnibus scholis docendam prcaecipit_." 7.

Murray was an intelligent and very worthy man, to whose various labours in the compilation of books our schools are under many obligations.

But in original thought and critical skill he fell far below most of "the authors to whom," he confesses, "the grammatical part of his compilation is _principally indebted for its materials_; namely, Harris, Johnson, Lowth, Priestley, Beattie, Sheridan, Walker, Coote, Blair, and Campbell."-- _Introd.