A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Griffin (Anne)

by Henry Robert Plomer

GRIFFIN (ANNE), printer in London; Old Bailey, St. Sepulchre's parish, 1634-43. Widow of Edward Griffin I, printer, 1613-21. She continued to carry on the business, and in 1638 her son, Edward Griffin II, was in partnership with her. Anne Griffin appeared as a witness against Archbishop Laud in January, 1642/3, and is described in her depositions as a widow, forty-eight years of age. She deposed to reprinting, in 1637, Thomas Becon's Displaying of the Popish Masse, for which she was reprimanded by Laud, who threatened to put down her printing house. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 500, No. 6.]