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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
1666. An ordinance was decreed for the re- formation of dirers disorders in printinff, and uttering of boois. Printed on a sheet by Henry Denham, at the sign of the Sun, in Paternoster- row.
1666. The Byhle in Englyshe, of the largest and greatest volume, that is to saye, the contentes of all the Holy Scripture, booth of the Ouldeand ffeux Testament, according to the translation apoynted by the Queenes Majesties Injunctions, to be read in all churches within her Majesties Realme. At Rouen, ot the coste and chargis of Richard Carmarden, 1666. Folio. This is called the Rouen Bible, from its being printed at that place.
1667. From a letter of the high commissioners to queen Elizabeth, concerning superstitious books belonging to All Soul's college, Oxford, some light is derired relative to the materials used for the covers of books during this period. They are described as — "A P«a//er covered with skin ; a pricksong book, covered with a hart's skin ; live other of paper bound in parchment ; and the founder's Mass book in parchment, bound in boards." — Nichol's Progresses, 4rc.
1567. Anthony Kvtson dwelt, or keptashop in St. Paul's church-yard, at the sign of the Sun. Ames says that l^e had seen but few books printed by him, one of which seemed very old, and has this title. A little book whych he hat to name. Why came ye not to court ? compyled by mayster Skelton, poet laureate ; and another called. Clout compiled by master Skelton, poete laureate.
He put up a monument for his wife in the north aisle of St. Faith's, on which were these lines:
Here lyetb the bodie taken firom lyfe Of Margaret, Anthony Kytson's wyf ; Whose vertues every where were such. As his great want bcwayleth mach. Ten fair babes she brought to blys, And of th' eleventh now departed she ys. She ys gone before, he is yet bchinde. And hoopea in heaven bis wyfe to fynde : Whose leeke on earthe, for his degree. He never lookes aUve to see.
Omt xxl November, 158?.
The last mention of Kytson is in the year 1573, when William Williamson printed an almanack for him, and Legat at Cambridge in the same year.
1867, Aug. 27. Died, William Rastell, who was, according to Ames, the son of John Rastell, the printer, mde page 262, ante, and Elizabeth, the sister of Sir Thomas More. He was bom, and entered into the rudiments of grammar, in the city of London ; and about 1525, at the age of seventeen, he was sent to Oxford, where he studied logic and philosophy, and which he left without taking a degree, for Lincoln's Inn. He there made a considerable progress in the knowledge of the English law, and in 1546, he became the summer or autumn reader of that house; but on the changes in the religion of England, he left the country with his ingenious and learned wife, Winifred, daugh- ter of John Clement, Esq. and retired to the university of Lourain, in the duchy of Brabant.
He did not return until queen Mary ascended the throne, but on October the 16th, 1654, he was made a serjeant at law ; on the 8th of July, 1665-66, a commissioner for a severe way of pro- ceeding against heretics; and a short time before the queen's death, one of the justices in the court of common pleas. When Elizabeth came to the crown, and Protestantism again became the established religion of England, although she renewed his patent as a justice of the queen's bench, on November the 18th, 1569, Rastell once more returned to Louvain, and died there. As WilUam Rastell was certainly a literary man, there are several works attributed to hun, of which, however it is doubtful whether he were the author. There is ascribed to him a life of his maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas More, but it is without any extant authority. Herbert imagined that William Rastell did not print much beyond the year 1634, when Protestantisiii was spreading rapidly throughout England, and bis zeal for Popery was well known ; but it is perhaps more probable, that on his being advanced into the high law offices which he after- wards occupied, that he resigned his occupation of printing. It is not requisite to suppose that there were two families named Rastell, to recon- cile the opposite employments of the judge and the printer, since an instance has been suready mentioned in the cause of John Butler, vide page 229, ante, of a person in whom the duties of both were united. Fifteen works bear his imprint.
1667. Mr. Bacon gave to the stationers' com- pany "a bowle parcell gylt." In the same year, Mr. Jugge and Mr. Daye gave each " a spoone all gylt'."*
1667. William Powell was an original member of the stationers' company, and had Ucense to print as follows : Feb. 6, 1659-60, the boke of fortune, in folio. Nov. 30, 1661, .Ray- no We the Foxe. Oct. 27, 1564, A cronicall table. 1^65, Ludlowes prayers. 1 666, A petyous Lamen- tation of the miserable estate of the churche of christe. A warning for wydoips that aged be, how lusty yonge yough and age can agree. Her- bert's manuscript memoranda state, that Powell was fined for printing Nostradamus's Prognosti- cation, the copy of John Waley. His residence
- Such bowls and spoons were at that period the osuaj
gin of the master and wardens ; and were snbscrlbed either with their names, tlteir arms, or a posey ; and so con- tinued tiil 1 58 1, when it was agreed that every master, oo quitting his office, should give a piece of plate, weighing M ounces at least ; and every upper or under warden, on election, to give a piece of plate of at least three ounces. In 1604, Mr. East was excused from serving offices, on giving a piece of plate weighing 31 ounces. In l6o$, a silver salt, with a cover gilt, weighing 1 1 ounces, was presented by Mr. Dawson and Mr. Hs^s ; and a silver salt, with a cover gilt, by Mr. Edward Bishop. In 16«7, two gilt bowls were given by Mr. White and Mr. Leake, late wardens. In 1617, three silver cups were given by Mr. Mann, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Matthew Lane, late master and wardens,weighing3€ ounces wanting 12 grains. —Nichols's Lit. Anne. vol. ill. p. 589.
Shakspeare, referring to these cups, makes the hostess say to sir John FalstafT, '* Thou didst swear t<j me upon a parcel- ffili goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber, at the round table, by a sea cosl fir^ and upon Wedn^ay in Wheetsun week," Itc— Henry IV. part 11. act », scene 1.
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