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

by Henry Robert Plomer

MOTTERSHEAD (EDWARD), printer; St. Bennet, Paul's Wharf [near Doctors Commons], 1641-65. Took up his freedom January 20th, 1640. [Arber, iii. 688.] In the Churchwardens' Books of St. Bennet, Paul's Wharf, he is described as cousin germane to Thomas Mottershead of that parish. In partnership with T. Ratcliffe, q.v. In 1664 he was arrested at the instance of the Company of Stationers for illegally printing law books. [Chan. Proc. Before 1714, Reynardson, bundle 31, Stationers' Co. v. Flesher.]