A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Blaiklock, Blakelock, Blacklock (Lawrence)

by Henry Robert Plomer

BLAIKLOCK, BLAKELOCK, or BLACKLOCK (LAWRENCE), bookseller in London, (1) Sugar Loaf next [near] Temple Bar; (2) Middle-Temple-Gate. 1638-53. Took up his freedom March 5th, 1638. [Arber, iii. 688.] Amongst his publications were Fr. Beaumont's Poems, 1652; W. Bosworth's Chaste and lost lovers, 1651, and H. Mill's Poems, 1639. During the Civil War, in company with Fr. Coles, and Lawrence Chapman, he printed a news-sheet called the Perfect Diurnall of some passages in Parliament, 1643-49. The last heard of him is in 1653, when he issued a law book, Young, W., A Vade Mecum, etc.