A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Bridges, Bruges, or Brugis (Henry)

by Henry Robert Plomer

BRIDGES, BRUGES, or BRUGIS (HENRY), printer in London; Sir John Oldcastle, Py-Corner, 1660–83. He is mentioned in a list of booksellers, printers, and stationers against whom search warrants were granted in 1664 [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 99, 165] and again as a printer in the survey of the press made on July 24th, 1668, but the number of his presses is not given. [Plomer, Short History of English Printing, pp. 224, 225.] In 1670 the Company of Stationers ordered that his press and materials should be defaced, and himself indicted for printing a Popish book entitled Think well on't, [Records of the Stationers' Company.] The name of Michael Brugis is found in the imprint to a political tract of the Commonwealth period.