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

by Henry Robert Plomer

MILNER (PETER) (?) bookseller in Warrington, Lancashire, c. 1641. In the will of James Milner, of Warrington, co. Lancashire, stationer, proved on the 18th April, 1639, occurs the following passage: "To Peter Milner my servant the half of the books in my shop in Warrington and all such patternes, workloomes, and colers w^ch I use to paint and drawe worke withall." [Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 37, pp. 67-115; Booksellers and Stationers in Warrington, 1639-1657. By W. H. Rylands, F.S.A.]