 He presented the school with its first printed textbook, the "Elegantiolae", which was the first book printed at the press, and he was a printer, probably in St Albans in 1479.However, the historian Nicholas Orme, in his “Medieval Schools, From Roman Britain to Renaissance England”, states, “Books were also acquired by schools and institutions.One of the earliest known is a "Priscian Major" [the first sixteen books of Priscian's Latin grammar, the "Institutiones grammaticae"] given to St Albans school by John Haule, apparently before 1310."