sufficient deputy or deputies for thirty years, from the determination of the several and respective estates and interests therein then formerly granted to Robert Barker the younger, and Charles and Matthew Barker. And whereas the said office hath been usually from time to time granted by the crown for the term of thirty years, in reversion as aforesaid. Your petitioners most humbly pray your Majesty would be graciously pleased to grant unto them the said offices and premises, to hold to them, their executors and assigns for thirty years, from the determination of the several and respective estates and interests now in being. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray, &c. It appears that this petition was received and granted the 13th day of Oct. 1713, the twelfth year of Queen Anne. Per breve de privato sigillo. COCKS. John Baskett, esq, some years ago, bought out Tooke's moiety, and also that of Alderman Barber's; soon after the fire, which burut the printing house: had a new patent granted him by George II. for 60 years, with the privilege to serve the parliament with sta tioners' wares, added to it. Thirty years of this grant was then conveyed for á valuable consideration to Charles Eyre, esq. and his heirs. In the year 1769, Mr. Baskett's term of the patent expired, and the consigned reversion for 30 years, being the sole property of Charles Eyre, esq. he took possession of the same, and appointed the late William Strahan, esq. his printer, who, for the purposes of carrying on the same, built a convenient and extensive office near his dwelling-house, the front of which is in East-Harding Street, now Goldsmiths' Place, with the side entrance in Printers Street. He was succeeded by his son, Andrew Strahan, esq. M. P. 5. In 1574. 1. The Lady Elizabeth Tirwit's Morning and Evening Prayers, 16mo. In 1575. 2. The Bible, 8vo. 3. The Glasse of Gouernment, 4to. 4. Gascoigne's Poems, 4to. The Booke of Faulconrie, 4to. In 1576. 6. The Bible, Folio. 7. The New Testament after Beza. Again in 77, and frequently. 8. Excellence of a Christian Man, 8vo. In 1577. 9. The Chris tian confession of Count Palatine Frederick 3rd, 16mo. 10. A Sermon preached at the Christening of a certain Jew in London, 16mo. In 1578 11. De Oliva Evangelica, Svo 12. Ser. mon before the Countess of Cumberland, 8vo. 13. The Bible, Fol. and frequently in various sizes. 14. Treatise for such as are troubled in Minde, 16mo. again in 85. 15. Allarme to England, 4to. 16. Form of Prayer for Nov. 17th, 4to. 17. Erastus' and Beza's Treatises on Sacraments, 16mo. 18. An Excellent and Godly Sermon, &c. 16mo, again in 80. 19. Two Concordances, 4to. In 1579, 20. A Concordance to the New Testament, 8vo. 21. An abstract of all the penal statutes, 4to. 22. The New Testament, 16mo. 23. Articies in the Convocation, 4to. 24. Pourtes of Controversie, &c. 8vo. Rastall's Collection of the Statutes, Fol. frequently printed. In 1580. 26. A notable treatise of the Church, 12mo again in 80, 81. 27. Sweet Consolacion for such as are afflicted, 8vo. 28. 25. *In the London Gazette of Saturday, February 17, 1770, which now lies before us, (printed by E. Owen and T. Harrison, in Warwick Lane,) we find the following:"The Public are desired to take Notice, that his Majesty's PrintingOffice is removed from Blackfriars to New Street, near Gough Square, in Fet Street, where all Acts of Parliament, &c. are Printed and Sold by Charies Eyre and Wilham Strahan, his Majesty's printers." JOHN HARRION Printed in 1579, and was Master of the Stationers' Company in 1583, R. Walkins and R. Newbury being then Wardens. ABEL JEFFS resided at the Golden Cup, in the Old Bailey, in 1561, and in 1584 at the sign of the Bell, in Philip-lane. He put his sign at the end of his books, and this motto, With harp and sopa praise the Lord. THOMAS SCARLET Printed in 1576, and continued in business till 1596. RICHARD WEBSTER printed in 1578. EDWARD AGGAS resided at the West end of St. Paul's Church-yard, and printed from 1558 to 1594. JOHN WOLFE, City Printer. A Fishmonger, used the art of printing, and (as Stow says, in his Survey of London, p. 223) in a contest between the patentees and the Stationers' Company, taking upon him as a captain in this cause, was content with no agreement, but generally affirmed, that he might and would print any lawful book, notwithstanding any commandment of the Queen. And to that end had incensed the popularity of London, as in a common cause, somewhat dangerously. And with him several of the rest changing their minds, were associated, and laboured to overthrow those privileges the Queen had granted, or could grant. Whereupon the abovesaid committees of the Stationers' Company, finding them so disordered, would have bound them to appear before the Queen's council, which they promised to do; but after conference with their abettors refused; and still prosecuted their complaints to her Majesty, garnishing the same with pretences of the liberties of London, and the com mon wealth of the said Company; and saying, the Queen was deceived by those that were the means for obtaining such pri vileges. He afterwards was in such favour with the citizens, that he was made printer to the honourable City of London. In Martin Mar-prelates piece, p. 23, he is represented cruel, and calledJohnWoolfe dle of the Stationers, executioner of Waldedwelt at Paul's Chain, over against the sign a shop in Pope's-head Street, in 1598; used lis, seeding, and someflorescit. He was City succeeded by (alias Machivill), bea and most tormenting graves goods, &c. He and in Distaff Lane, of the Castle, and had Alley, in Lombard the mark of a fleur-detimes about it, Ubique printer in 1581,and was John Windet. ROGER WARD Dwelt near Holborn Conduit, at the sign of the Talbot, and s (Strype's edition of Stow says, p. 223,) Wolfe was one of these unruly printers, so Roger Ward was another, who would pris any book, however forbidden by the Queen's privilege, an |