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The first printer in New York was William Bradford, who began work there on the 10th April 1693. Among his most famous publications before the close of the seventeenth century was Keith's _Truth Advanced_, a quarto of 224 pages, printed on paper manufactured at his own mill and issued in 1694; in the same year he also printed _The Laws and Acts of the General a.s.sembly_.
[Footnote 13: _Dom. S. P., Chas. II._, vol. 243, p. 181.]
APPENDIX No. I
LIST OF ENGLISH PRINTERS 1649-50
NAME OF PRINTER ADDRESS
Alsop, Bernard, Grub Street.
Austin, Robert, Addlehill.
Bell, Jane, Christchurch.
Bentley, William, Finsbury.
Bishop, Richard, St. Peter Paul's Wharf.
Broad, Thomas, City of York.
Brudenell, Thomas, Newgate Market.
Buck, John, Cambridge.
Buck, or Bucks, Thomas, Cambridge.
Clowes, John, Grub Street.
Coe, Andrew, ...
Cole, Peter, ...
Coles, Amos, Ivy Lane.
Constable, Richard, Smithfield.
Cotes, or Coates, Richard, Aldersgate Street.
Cottrell, James, ...
Crouch, Edward, ...
Crouch, John, ...
Dawson, Gertrude, Aldersgate Street.
Dugard, William, Merchant Taylors' School.
Ellis, William, Thames Street.
Field, John, ...
Fletcher, or Flesher, James, Little Britain.
Griffith, or Griffin, Edward, Old Bailey.
Grismond, John, Ivy Lane.
Hall, Henry, Oxford.
Hare, Adam, Red Cross Street.
Harper, Thomas, Little Britain.
Harrison, Martha, ...
Heldersham, Francis, ...
Hills, Henry, Southwark.
Hunscott, Joseph, Stationers' Hall.
Hunt, William, Pie Corner.
Husbands, Edward, Golden Dragon, Fleet Street.
Ibbitson, Robert, Smithfield.
Lee, William, Fleet Street.
Leyborne, Robert, Mugwell Street.
Litchfield, Leonard, Oxford.
Mabb, Thomas, Ivy Lane.
Maxey, Thomas, Bennett Paul's Wharf.
Mayc.o.c.k, John, Addlehill.
Meredith, Christopher, St. Paul's Churchyard.
Miller, Abraham, Blackfriars.
Mottershead, Edward, Doctors' Commons.
Moxon, James, Houndsditch.
Neale, Francis, Aldersgate Street.
Newcombe, Thomas, Bennett Paul's Wharf, near Baynards Castle.
Norton, Roger, Blackfriars.
Partridge, John, Blackfriars.
Payne, or Paine, Thomas, ...
Playford, John, ...
Purslowe, Elizabeth, Little Old Bailey.
Ratcliffe, Thomas, Doctors' Commons.
Raworth, Ruth, ...
Ross, Thomas, ...
Rothwell, John, ...
Royston, John, } ...
Royston, Richard,} Roycroft, Thomas, ...
Simmons, Matthew, ...
Thompson, George, ...
Tyton, Francis, ...
Walkeley, Thomas ...
Warren, Thomas, ...
Wilson, William, ...
Wright, John, ...
Wright, William, ...
APPENDIX No. II
List of severall printing houses taken ye 24th July 1668:--
The Kings printing office in English.
The Kings printing office in Hebrew, Greek, and Latine. Roger Norton.
The Kings printer in ye Oriental tongues. Thomas Roycroft.
Collonell John Streater by an especial provisoe in ye Act. [The same who in 1653 had been committed to the Gatehouse for printing seditious pamphlets.]
The other Masters are
Mr. Evan Tyler.
" Robert White.
" James Flesher.
" Richard Hodgkinson.
" Thomas Ratliffe.
" John Mayc.o.c.ke.
