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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
1662. Richard Harrison was an original member of the stationers' company, and doubt- less one of the old livery, as he was chosen under warden in this year, without being called on the livery when new revived, or serving collector ; but he died before the expiration of this year. The company attended his funeral sermon; and Mrs. Harrison gave them ». He had license to print Cooper's Tlutawnu Lingua RomatuB tt BrilannictB. His residence was in White Cross-street. In 1662 he printed the Bible, with the following title : 7%« Bible in Englith : that i$ to laye, the Contentes of al the Holy Scrip- tures, both of the Olde and Newe Tettament, according to the Translation that it required to be read in churches. Imprinted at London, in White Crosse Strete, by Richard Harrison.
Of the rebus kind also, is the annexed device of Richard Harrison, which Camden, defines to be " an hare by a sheaf of rye in the sun, for Harrison.
1562. In a work printed in this year, mention is made of a paper mill at Fen Ditton, near Cambridge.
1662. An entire version of the Psalter, with tunes chiefly German, was published, and added for the first time to the Book i^ Common Prayer, with the following title : The whole Booke of Psalms collected into English metre by Thomas Stemhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Ebreu, with apt notes to sing them withal.
1562. The Thirty-nine Articles of the church of England, which were agreed upon in convo- cation, in this year, were confirmed by act of parliament,iti 1571, were intended "for the avoid- ing diversity of opinions, and for the establish- ing of consent touching true religion." But, says an elegant writer, to avoid diversity of opinions, and to establish consent touching true religion,cannot in thenatureof things be attained.
1562. Rowland Hall went to Geneva with several refugees at the death of Edward VI. where he printed the Psalms and the Bible. It is not known where he learnt the art of printing. On his return from Geneva he resided in Golden lane, near Cripplegate, at the sign of the Three Arrows ; then removed to Gutter lane, and adopted the Geneva arms for his sign.
The Geneva arms, or as Rowland Hall called it in his sign, the Half Eagle and Key, was his device, and was doubtless taken from the sign of
his second habitation in Gutter lane, which be erected in memory of the protection he enjoyed in Geneva, during the persecution in England. His motto evidently alludes to the reformation under queen Elizabeth ; he used to border his device with a translation of the motto on the Geneva arms " Post Tenebra* Lvx." " after DARKNESS LiOHT." " Sometimes," says Herbert, " he used the device of a boy in a loose garment, lifting up his right leg, his right arm winged, stretched out towards heaven ; and taking his left hand from off a ball, upon the ground. In the clouds is a representation of the Deity, as a royal personage, and as saying, Set your affec- tions on things above, j-c. Enclosed in an oval broadways. Hall printed twenty-six works from 1559 to 1563. At the end of a book which he printed in 1 563, the most ancient and learned Play, called the Philosopher's Game, it appears that he had a shop in Cheapside, under Bow church : —
All thinp IselonKing to lliia game
for reason 70a may bye At Uie booke sbop vnder Bochnrch, in Cbepeaide redilye.
The Philosopher's Game, was dedicated to lord Dudley, whose head is on the back of the title, and at the end of the epistles are the above lines.
1563, Feb. James Robothom bad a patent from queen Elizabeth, for the term of his natu- ral life, for printing " all and every suche alma- nacks and prognosticacions, as are, or shall be toUerable, and authorised by our injunctions in the Englyshe tonge, together withe the breef cronycles." Any person infringing upon this privilege, " or to procure to be ymprynted, utter- ed, or solde, any almanack, prognosticacion, or brief chronycle, withoute the assignment of the same James Robothom, or his assignes, during his natural! lief, shall forfeit for every suche almanack, or prognosticacion, or brief cronycle, so printed, uttered, and solde, the somme of three shillings and four pence, of lawful! money of England.
1562. Thomas Powell dwelt in Berthelet's house in Fleet-street, where he appears to have done his printing. On July 21, he was made free of the stationers' company, and though not fined by them, had license for only one book.
1563, March 27. A bill was brought into the House of Commons, that the bible, and the divine service, may be translated into the Welsh or British tongue, and used in the churches of Wales.* The first part of the Welsh Scriptures which was printed after the passing of the act, was the New Testament, pnnted in 1567, by Hennr Denham, who had a privilege granted him K»r printing the New Testament in Welsh. It was a small quarto, printed with the gothic or black-letter type, containing 399 pages, di- vided into books and chapters, but not into verses, except towards the conclusion.
- See Journals of the House of Commons at that time.
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