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

by Henry Robert Plomer

CROFT, or CROFTS (EDWARD), bookseller in London; Against St. Botolph's Church, Little Britain, 1666–67. His name occurs in the Hearth Tax Roll for the half-year ending Lady Day, 1666, as having premises in Little Britain. [P.R.O. Lay Subsidy, 252/32.] His death is recorded in Smyth's Obituary (p. 77), under date December 29th, 1667/8: "Edw. Croft bookseller against St. Buttolph's Church in Little Brittain died hora 5 ante merid.: his relict, remarried since to Mr. Blagrave, an honest bookseller, who live happily in her house in Little Brittain."