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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
Ludgate, as belonging to the earles of Pem- brooke in the times of Richard II. the eighteenth yeere, and of Heniy VI. in the fourteenth veere. It was aftemards called AburgavennyJioiue, and belonged to Henry late lord Aburgovennie. But the woi-shipfull company of stationers have since that purchased it, and made it the hall for the meeting of the societie, converting the stone worke into a new faire frame of timber, and applying it to such serviceable use, as themselves have thought convenient for the amending it in some particulars in which it had been found defective."— Stwiw, edition 1618, page 649.
" The preceding owners," Mr. Pennant says, " might boast of their rwhility, their successors of their wealth, for the loss sustained by this company in the fire of London, lord Clarendon computed was not less than dC2(K»,000."
1611. The art of printing introduced into the town of Coire, an ancient town of Switzer- land, capital of the county of the Orisons. The first work was an edition of The Pialmt of David in verse, in the Romanesche dialect of the Grey League, executed in the year 1611, which is not only interesting as being the Jint portion of tcripture, but as being the wry Jint book printed in that dialect. Dr. Coxe, in his Travels in Switzerland,Te\a.tes that a typographi- cal society had been established in Coire, for the publication of Latin, German, and Romanesche books. In the year 1718, a Romanetche, or Griton version of the Bible was printed here, in two folio volumes, with a dedication to king George I. of England; a fine copy of which curious work may be seen in the Bodleian library. On the interesting subject of the variety of the Romanesche dialects, the reader will be gratified by the perusal of an able paper from the ^jen of ftr. Planta, which is published in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. Ixvi.
1611. Nicholas Zchneider conducted the printing-press, erected in the religious house of the Paraclete, at Zittau, a town of Upper Lu- satia. In 1608, this press, together with a great part of the town, was consumed by fire, but was re-established about three years afterwards.
1612, 3foy. A Remembrance of the Honours due to the Life and Death of Robert Earle of Salisbury, Lord Treasurer of England, ^c.
Imprinted at London, for John Wright, and are to bee sold at his shop, neere Christ Church.
This is a tribute to the memory of Robert Cecil, earl of Salisbury, by Richard Johnson. It is partly in prose and partly in verse, and to which a portrait of the earl is prefixed.
Robert Cecil, earl of Salisbury, was the son of lord Burghley, and born June 1, 1560. The repeated disappointments which he encountered in his endeavours to supply the wants of the treasury, had a sad effect on his health. He tried the waters of Bath, but without receiving the desired benefit; and he expired at Marlbo- rough, on his way back to town. Lord Bacon remarked of this nobleman, " that he was a more fit man to keep things from getting worse, but no very fit man to reduce things to be much better."
1612. Died, John Norton, printer to qnea Elizabeth, in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and at alderman of London. In 1593, he lived at tht sign of the Queen's Arms, in the house fomiCTlv inhabited by his cousin Bonham Norton; axA being a man of eminence, employed others to print for him. He was the first person whs carried on printing in the college of Eton, (see page 449, ante.) He was master of the company of stationers in 1607, 1610, and 1612, the year in which he died. He gave £150 to the minister and churchwardens of the parish of St. Faitb, to purchase, in fee-simple, lands, tenements, and hereditaments; from the produce of which, ten shillings to be annually paid for a sermon at St. Faith's, on Ash Wednesday; and, weekly, to twelve poor persons (six to be appointed by the company of stationers, and six by the parish) 2d. each, and a penny loaf, the vantage leaf (the thirteenth, allowed by the baker) to be the clerks; the residue of the revenue to arise by such pur- pose to be laid out in cakes, wine, and ale, for the company of stationers, either betore or after the sermon. — He also gave to the companT £1000 to be laid out in like manner, in fee- simple purchases; and the produce to be applied, by the master, wardens, and assistants, at their discretion, for the benefit of the poor mem- bers of the company. This benevolent testator's intentions are substantially fulfilled. The weekly pensions continue to be paid. The sermon is also annually preached; to which the lirery at large are regularly invited; and every one who attends receives six buns. A guinea is presented to the preacher for his sermon, half a guinea to the reader, and 6s. to the sexton. The conrt of assistants dine together on that day, in com- memoration of this bountiful benefactor; whose legacy was paid to the company by Bonham Norton, Esq. who was also an alderman, and master of the company in 1610, 1616, and 1619.
When Paul Stephens, the son of Henry, visited London, about the year 1594, he formed an intimacy with some of our best scholars, and contracted an intimate friendship with John Norton, then possessing in London the honour- able distinction of " Regius in Latinis, Grscis, et Hebraicis Typographus," to whom Paul Stephens permitted the use of his familv mark or symbol. This mark was first used by Koiton in the year 1605.
1612. Ralph Blower printed a tract en- titled, T%e Court of Good Counsell.
Wherein is set doune the true Rules how a Man should choose a good Wife from a bad, and a Woman a good Husband from a bad.
Wherein is also expressed the great care that Parents should have fur the bestowing of tbeir Children in marriage, and likewise how Children ought to behave themselves towards their Pa- rents, and how Maisters ought to goveme their Servants, and how Servants ought to be obedient towards their Maisteis. Set forth as a patteme for all people to leame wit by. Published by one that hath dearely bought it by experience. At liondon. Printed by Ralph Blower, and
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