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Part 1 of 3. The City of London Corporation. The centre of the World, the Keystone of Western civilisation. This unlocks the map. Language, Religion & Laws & above all Education. The Keystone, the Cornerstone of Western civilisation. Here is where the English language was first written. The first time it was ever seen. All started here. All started by these 3 men & their printers. The Printers moved into City of London. William Claxton moves next to Westminster & Westminster abbey. Richard Pynson move to Fleet Street (which will become the Media headquarters of the World. Wynkyn de Wordes, assistant. Moved their Printers next to the 4 Inns of Court & printed the Laws & Religious texts into English. William Caxton (c. 1422–1491): brought the press to England, set up at Westminster near the Abbey and court in 1476, first English printed book (Recuyell of the Histories of Troy), and shaped early English spelling and translation. Wynkyn de Worde: Caxton’s associate, moved printing to Fleet Street near St Bride’s and just outside the City walls, right next to the Inns of Court. Direct physical link between the early press and the legal quarter. Richard Pynson (c. 1449–1529): One of the first major London printers, King’s Printer to Henry VII and Henry VIII, printed official legal documents and religious texts (including the Roman Missal and rites in English), early user of Roman type, large output (~400 titles), based near Temple Bar / the Inns before moving further into the City. Linked printers: John Lettou, William de Machlinia (including early property-law work such as Littleton’s Tenures). Fleet Street / Inns of Court placement: the same printers who set up next to the legal quarter were also feeding (and being studied by) the university libraries that trained the next generation of lawyers. The King’s Printer role under the early Tudors sits right in the middle of that circuit Linked printers: John Lettou, William de Machlinia (including early property-law work such as Littleton’s Tenures). This tightens the earlier Fleet Street / Inns of Court placement: the same printers who set up next to the legal quarter were also feeding (and being studied by) the university libraries that trained the next generation of lawyers. The King’s Printer role under the early Tudors sits right in the middle of that circuit. Inns of Court radiating outward as the legal arteries, feeding into (and drawing from) the universities, the courts, the financial City, and eventually the wider English-speaking legal and political world. Oxford & Cambridge Universities & the 70+ colleges they control were the only education systems allowed 1300's until the early 1820's. The Inns of Court is where ALL of the western worlds Lawyers, Barristers, Judges & all our laws were written. The 4 Inns, [ ] Gray Inn [ ] Lincoln Inn [ ] Middle Temple [ ] Inner Temple The connections between the Inns and the older universities (especially Oxford and Cambridge) are deep: many of the early common-law practitioners and the later reform-minded lawyers moved between the two systems, and the Inns effectively became the practical counterpart to the more theoretical university training.