NOTARY, JULIAN (fl. 1498–1520), printer, was probably a Frenchman by birth. The statement of Bagford, ‘that he had seen of his printing in France before he printed in England’ (Ames, Typogr. Antiquities, ed. Herbert, i. 303), is believed to be inaccurate. In 1498 Notary and Jean Barbier, a Frenchman, produced a ‘Missale secundum usum Sarum’ at King Street, Westminster, for Wynkyn de Worde. Jean Barbier printed several books at Paris in 1505 and 1506, and became ‘libraire juré’ on 28 Feb. 1507. Lacaille calls him ‘un des plus habiles imprimeurs de son temps et tres estendu en son art’ (Histoire de l'Imprimerie, 1689, p. 79). He printed at Paris down to 1511. A facsimile of his mark is given by Brunet (Manuel du Libraire, 1864, v. 1191).
Notary henceforward printed alone. He brought out at Westminster the ‘Liber Festivalis’ (1499), taken from the ‘Legenda Aurea;’ ‘Quatuor Sermones’ (1490) in English; ‘Horæ ad usum Sarum’ (1500); and Chaucer's ‘Love and Complayntes betwene Mars and Venus’ (no date). In 1503 Notary was living, possibly in Pynson's house, ‘without Temple Bar, in St. Clement's parish, at the sign of the Three Kings,’ and there produced ‘The Golden Legend,’ containing some woodcuts used by Wynkyn de Worde and some metal cuts. During the next six or seven years there came from his press ‘The Cronycle of Englond’ (1504), ‘Scala Perfectionis’ (1507), and other works, about thirteen in number. In 1510 he had a second shop in St. Paul's Churchyard, at the sign of the Three Kings, ‘besyde my lorde of London palays.’ His next dated books were the ‘Cronicles of Englond’ (1515); two small grammatical treatises by Whittinton, ‘De Metris’ and ‘De Octo Partibus Orationis’ (1516), at the sign of St. Mark against St. Paul's (copies of which are in the Cambridge University Library); and the ‘Lyfe of Saynt Barbara’ (1518), in St. Paul's Churchyard, at the sign of the Three Kings. Dr. H. Oskar Sommer places about 1518 the date of Notary's famous edition (the fifth) of ‘The Kalender of Shepardes,’ of which no perfect copy is known (The Academy, 20 Dec. 1890, p. 593). His last known productions are ‘The Parlyament of Deuylls’ (1520) and ‘Life of Saynt Erasmus’ (1520), also printed at the Three Kings. Herbert mentions two other lives of saints, but furnishes no particulars.
The date of Notary's death is unknown. Specimens of his printing are rare and few in number. His name appears in about twenty-eight works. His productions are not remarkable for beauty, except perhaps a ‘Book of Hours’ (1503), of which the only copy known to be extant belongs to the Duke of Devonshire. Like other printers of his time, Notary bound his own books, and specimens of the original calf covers are in existence, bearing stamped panels with the royal arms (Prideaux, Historical Sketch of Bookbinding, 1893, pp. 18–19). Two of his devices are reproduced by Dibdin.
[Ames's Typogr. Antiq. (Herbert), 1785, i. 303–7; the same (Dibdin), 1812, ii. 574–603; Gordon Duff's Early Printed Books, 1893, pp. 143–46; Warton's Hist. of English Poetry (Hazlitt), 1871, iii. 155; Hazlitt's Handbook and Bibliographical Collections, 1867–89; Timperley's Encyclopædia, 1842, pp. 226–7.]
NOTHELM (d. 739), tenth archbishop of Canterbury, a priest of London, and apparently not a monk, was a friend of Albinus [q. v.], abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, who employed him to convey to Bede [q. v.], both by letter and by word of mouth, information respecting the ecclesiastical history of Kent. Nothelm visited Rome during the pontificate of Gregory II, and, with his permission, searched the registers of the Roman see, and copied several letters of Gregory the Great and other popes, which, by the advice of Albinus, he gave to Bede, that he might insert them in his ‘Ecclesiastical History.’ He is described as ‘archpriest of the cathedral church of St. Paul's, London’ (Thorn, col. 1772). Archbishop Tatwin having died in 734, Nothelm was consecrated to the see of Canterbury in 735, the archbishopric of York being re-established about that time, and probably a little earlier than Nothelm's consecration by the gift of a pall from Gregory III to Egbert (d. 766) [q. v.] Nothelm received his pall from Gregory III in 736, and then consecrated Cuthbert (d. 758) [q. v.], who succeeded him at Canterbury, to the see of Hereford; Herewald to Sherborne, and Ethelfrith to Elmham (Sym. Dunelm. Opp. ii. 31, 32). He received a letter from St. Boniface, then archbishop in Germany, asking for a copy of the letter containing the questions sent by St. Augustine [q. v.] to Gregory and the pope's answers, together with Nothelm's opinion on the case of a man's marriage with the widowed mother of his godson, and for information as to the date of Augustine's landing in England (Ecclesiastical Documents, iii. 335 sq.). Either in 736 or 737 he held a synod which was attended by nine bishops. In 737 a division was made between the Mercian and Mid-Anglian bishoprics by the consecration of Huitta to Lichfield and Totta to Leicester. Nothelm witnessed a charter of Eadbert, king of Kent, in 738. He died on 17 Oct. 739 (Sym.
