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and good character".

The type and layout which Hayes used, from this
time, was among the best, from the point of view ©f ap-
pearance, of any used in Baltimore during this - or
perhaps any subsequent - period. He printed in French,
but so did Philip Edwards and William Pechin. He is
the only Maryland printer of the decade who, as far as
can be ascertained, printed more than short massages
in the Latin language. While there is ne evidence
that he did much printing in Greek, his fonts included
Greek letters; he used them in Prophetic Conjectures
on the French Revolution;¹⁵ but there is evidence in
that same imprint that he did not have Hebrew charac-
ters.

It could not have teen long after he acquired the
Caslon type frcm England, that he received the important
assignment of printing the first, as far as is known,
Ordo Divini Officii Recitandi Missaeque Celebrandae
ever published in the United States. With the conse-
cration of Reverend John Carroll as the first bishop
of Baltimore in 1790, Baltimore had become an Episco-
pal See, and developed into the center of Catholic
life in the United States. One cf the principal refer-
ence books required by the clergy was the annual Ordo,

15 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 199.