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»f mmrture for men* larvanU. He was fined
- for that he ded piynt the nut browm mayde
witbont license iu. vjd." Salomoiu vroverbu, 8n>. Lmeat uriali*, Nifee wanton Impaeiens p o v e tte . The tquyre of Low degre. A play called Jmaemtut. A hook called Albertu* magnut. Lup- tetU works. The lytlle herball. The greate Her- hmli. The medynne for Horsei. He phihably died about the latter end of the year 1561 ; for then T. Marshe had license to print the CronaeU, Snt. which he bought of John Kynjfe's wyfe.
1561. Owen Rooers was made free of the stationers' company in 1555, and dwelt at the Spread Eagle between both St. Bartholomew's, inSmithfield. Heappeais to have been adisorderly member of the company, and was often fined for printing other men's copies without license.
1561. Robert Lekprevik, a printer of Edin- boTf^b, printed the Mirrour of ane chritlen, the production of Richard Nomell, a native of Ar- mes. 4to. This Robert Lekprevik appears to hare been the principal printer in Scotland, for hit press was at Edinburgh, St. Andrew's, and Striviling, and his name is affixed to a great many books. In a work which he printed at Edinburgh, in July, 1563, he laments his want of Greek characters.
1561. Died Claude Garamond, a French engraver and letter-founder, who was a native of Paris, and began to distinguish himself about 1510. He brought his printing types to so great a degree of perfection, that ne can neither be denied the glory of having surpassed what- erer had been done in this way before, nor that of not being excelled by any of his successors in the art of letter-founding. His types were in sach high repute in every part of Europe, par- ticolarly the small roman, that the printers of Italy, Germany, England, and even Holland, took care, by way of recommending their works, to distinguish them by the name of Garamond's small roman.
1562. In the black booh in Long Melford, in Suffolk, are the following entries; the church lequiring to be again cleajosed after the death of queen Mary.
Item. Payde to Prime for the scraping out of the pay'tinges all ye lengthe of the quire, x». virf.
Item. Payde for the injunctions, iiiirf.
Item. For U bokes of prayer and of fasting, that were lately set forth, viiiid.
The following extracts are taken from the third volume of the Britith Magazine, p. 417, and are from the " churchwarden's accounts," of the correspondent, who says " The reform- ation then commencing, the altars* in the churches were taken down, the rood-lofts re- moved, crucifixes, pixes, censers, chrismatories, gradnals, manuals, antiphonars, were sold, and careful provision made lor our ' reasonable ser- vice.' " These itenu rektte chiefly to books.
- In mr small chnreb, (nji the correspondent) there
were "Utt awltan:" the hiJKh altar, that In oar Ladv'a dispel, and thoae belonging to "the brotherhood of St. Geargc and St, Lake."
1548. Itm. payd the haufle to the hyenge a the pafiary v». i. e. Erasmus's Paraphrase of the New Testament.
1550. Itm. for a boke of the omylys in eng- lysshe xvjd..
1553. Itm. for ij bokes of the Common pray- ear vij>. uijd.
1557. Itm. for a peynt of malmese on Alho- Undy day ijd. ob.
1559. Itm. for a boke of the paflrases of erosemaa of Rotherdame A pone the pestells* vji. viijrf.
1561. Itm for a paper of the x Commann. dements xvjti. Itm. for setteng it Jn wayne skott to a yonnar [joiner] ijs. iiijd.
1563. Itm. for a gennepore nor the cherche ijid. as a preservative against infection in the time of " the sicknesse.'
1563. Itm. for iij yardes of browede [query, broad or embroidered ? It is conceived the Utter] grene clothe and a haffe for the Comunyon table XXXI. vjd.
1568. Itm for presenteng them that ded not pay ther dew to ye cherch ij«. vjrf.
1 570. Itm. for vijballyts consameng y* rebells to be soung vijd. This relates to the insurrec- tion in the northern counties, under the earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland.
1572. Itm. for a boke of thankesgeveng for vectory of [over] y* towrke iiijrf. This was the great naval victory of Lepanto, which was fought on Oct. 7, 1572, when the Turks suffered a signal defeat, which was echoed over all the Christian world.
1573. Itm. payd for ij cheynes and eyes and staples ffor the ij parafirasis of Erasmus is. nd. The " march of intellect" since 1548 and 1559 is here very conspicuous !
1575. Itm. payd for a newe bible for the churche coste i/. viijt.
Itm. for a book of the lives of the Saintes j». viijd.
1580. paid the viij of may for wyne for a greate Comunyone to say iiij quarts and a pinte of muscadle the somma of 00 03 00.
1581. paide the same daye [November 17, queen Elizabeth's birthday] flbr ij leggs of mot- ton and bread and drinke for the ringars their dynner the somma of 00 02 00.
1582. the xxvjth of October sent to Mr. Jef- ferson the preacher where he dyned a quart of wyne yd.
paied for an howre glasse xij({.
paied for an almanack and a sand box for the churche iij({. The almanack cost id.
1585. Item, paide for a pynte of Secke iij<^.
1662, March 29. Philip II. king of Spain and the Netherlands, to prevent the circulation of the scriptures, or books and tracts favourable to the reformation, issued a placard, that " the officers were ordered not only to visit the houses of booksellers, but likewise diligently to take care that no pedlars went about with books for sale, and to search their packs, and among their other wares for them." — Brandt's History of the Re- fomatton.
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