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iy a catholic priest, u^ich uxu present thereat. iVhereunto it annexed certayne verses, made by tundrie persons. I6mo.
1582. Dted, Henry Dyszell, Disley, or DisLE, for his name is thus variously spelled, resided at the north-west door of St. Paul's, and was a stationer by company, having served an apprenticehip of thirteen years to W. Jones, from the feast of St. John tlieBaptist, 1563, and was loose from his apprenticeship at Midsummer, 1676. On December 30, in the same year, he received from the ma.ster and wardens of the stationers' company a licence to print an Epitaph vppon the death oj Syr Edw. Sanders, Knight, late chief baron of thexchequer: but on June 20, 1577, he was fined 20«. "for printinge a booke vnlawfullie and vnallowed." On January 26, 1579-80, Disle procured a license from the bishop of London, and the wai'dens of his com- pany, to print the Englishe skoolmaster,set forth iy James Bellot for teaching of stravngers to pronounce Englishe. The only work to which this printer's name appears, is the Paradyse of Daynly Devises, already noticed at page 363. Disle must have died young, for the nrsl of the licenses of his books granted to Thomas Rider, is dated July 26, 1582, and he is therein stated to be deceased.
Robert Redborne lived at the sign of the Cock in St. Paul's church yard, and printed an edition of the famous romance of Arthur of Brytayn, without date, in folio, with the rude types and worn wood cuts used by some of his predecessors, which is all that remains of this typographer.
1582. Richard Keel printed at the long shop in the Poultry, under St. Mildred's church, and in T<ombard-street, at the sign of the Eagle, near unto the Stock Market. He printed seven works from 1548 to 1582.
1582. A vietv of the seditious Bui, sent into Englande from, Pius Quintus,* bishop of Rome, anno 1 569. Taken by the reuerende father in God, John Jetvel, late bishop of Salisburie. Whereunto is added, a short treatise of the holy scriptures. Both which hee delivered in diners sermons in his cathedral church of Salisburie, anno 1570. ]2fRo.
1582. Francis Stephens the second, was the son of the first Robert, has by La Caille been erroneously considered as a sou of the first Francis Stephens. Concerning him little more
- Pope Fills V. findinK that Elizabeth cooUoued to be
the professed adversary of the Catholic cause in Europe, prepared a bull, in which he pronounced "pretended" right to the crown of Engrland, and absolved her subjects from their allegiance. But the pontifT delayed to siR-n this instrument uniil he was informed of the failure of the in. snrrection in favour of the queen of Scots, and that up wards of eight hundred of the northern Catholics had ■ufRa^d under the hands of the executioners. He then ordered it to be published. " If the pontiff," observes Mr. Llngard, ■' promised himself any particular benefit ftom this measure, the result must have disappointed his expec- tations. The time was gone by when the thunders of the Vatican could shake the thrones of princes." It was for afUxine this bull on the bishop of London's gate, that John Felton suffered as a traitor.— Sec page 357, ante Plus V. died September 30, 1572, aged 68 yean.
is recorded, than that he was deeply skilled in the learned languages; and that having em- braced the reformed religion, he practised the typographic art at Geneva from the ^ear 1562, to 1582. He gave to the public various works of Calvin, several impressions of the New Testa- ment, both in French and Latin, in the years 1567 and 1568; and if we may credit La Caille, La saint Bible, bearing those dates: Histoire de Portugal, folio, a translation from the Latin of Osorius, and Grammatiea Greeca Sr Latina a Roberto Stephana scripta. Perhaps, says Mr. Greswell, the latter work is dubious. Maittaire says he had never met with it. Francis Stephens doubtless printed various other works on his own account, or at the request and charge of others. According to La Caille, he finally settled in Normandy, married there, and became the father of a numerous family; amongst whom are men- tioned Ger\aise and Adrien Stephens, who were " libraires" at Paris, and a daughter, Adrienne. This second Francis Stephens generally used as his ensigne, a variety of the family device. — Sometimes he exhibited the olive, with its broken branches, in an oval, without the human figure. His impressions, recordedby Maittaire, are seven in number.
1582. Printing introduced in the island of Walcheren, at Middleburg, the capital, when an English book entituled, Robert Brown's* Lives of all true Christians, was printed by Richard Painter, in quarto.f Several other English works were printed at Middleburgh before the close of this century, among whicn are Dudley Fenner's Song of Songs, and some pieces of that eccentric character, Hugh Broughton. In 1584, R. Schilders, who styles himself printer to the states of Zealand, put forth at this place a Dutch translation of lord Burleigh's celebrated tract On the Execution of Justice in England, which was first printed at London, in 1578.
A History of France under Charles IX. in three volumes 13mo, bears for imprint, Meidel- bourg, par Henrich Wolff. But whether Middle- burg is meant, cannot be asceitained.^
• Robert Brown, though he was not particularly dia- tinguished by his literary attainments, has acquired some degree of celebrity by his having been the founder of a sect, called after his own name, the Brownistt, who were very rigtd and narrow in point of discipline. What ren- ders these separatists worthy of notice is, that tbey became, in time, the origin of the Independents, who attaiined sach high power in the government of this country. Having formed, about 1560, a religious society at Norwich, he waa Imprisoned; hot by means of treasurer Burleigh, to whom be was related, be obtained his liberty. Brown then went to Zealand, and set up a church of Independents, bavin; no communion with any other Christians. In 1S85 he waa in England, and under some trouble for a book he had written against the church. At length, after all the con- tests in which R. Brown was engaged, he returned Into the bosom of that church which he had pronounced to be popish and antichristian, and all the ordinances and sacra- raents of which he had declared to be invalid, and was preferred to a living in Northamptonshire, but never offici. ated, leaving the care of his church to a curate. He was sent to Northampton gaol for assaulting a constable, and insulting a magistrate, at the age of 80, and died there in the year 1630.
t This version may be seen in the library of Trinity college, Dublin. — Cotton.
t A copy of this work Is in Marsh's library, Dublin. — <i.
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