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

by Henry Robert Plomer

BENSON (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) St. Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet Street, 1641; (2) Chancery Lane. 1635-66/7 . Was chiefly a publisher of ballads and broadsides. In 1647 he was associated with John Saywell, q.v., in the publication of Francis Quarles' Hosanna, or Divine poems on the Passion of Christ, which was entered on May 29th, 1647. [Stat. Reg., Liber F, p. 95.] In 1651 he began to issue music books in partnership with John Playford, q.v. He died on January 23rd, 1666/7. [Smyth's Obituary, p. 73.]