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

by Henry Robert Plomer

HALL (HENRY), printer at Oxford, 1642-79 (?). Apprentice to William Turner, q.v., and upon the death of the latter, in 1643, purchased his "presses, letters, and utensils." Hall was elected printer to the University in Turner's place on November 21st, 1644. [Madan, Chart of Oxford Printing, p. 29.] He was the printer of the famous Oxford news-sheet, Mercurius Aulicus. In October, 1649, he was bound over in a sum of £300 not to print seditious or unlicensed books or pamphlets. [Calendar of State Papers, 1649-50, p. 524.] Hall married Dorothy Bowring not later than 1644, and had six children born between 1645 and 1653, in St. John the Baptist's parish, Oxford.