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1593, AprU 19. Died, Giles Bevs, a cele- brated Parisian printer, who was the first after those who printed the works of Ramus, that made a distinction in his printing between the consonants j and t, and the vowels i and u. Ramus was the inventor of this distinction, and employed it in his Latin Grammar of 1557, but we do not find it in any of bb works printed after that time. Beys adopted it first in Claude Mignaut's Latin Commentary on Horace.
Giles B^ married Magoalen, the third and youngest daughter of Christopher Plantin, of Antwerp, by whom he had a son (Charles) who was perhaps that very clever French poet, who was born at Paris, and died September 26, 1659, by extravagance and folly. After the death of Giles Beys, his widow married Adrian Perrier, a
frinter of Paris. He was the son of Charles 'errier, a"libraire," who occasionallv employed the Greek printers of Paris to print tor him.
1593. Died, Hugh Shyngleton, or Single- ton. He resided first in Tem-strete,ouer agaynste the Styliardes, at the sygne of the Dobbel-bood ; 2dly, at the Golden Sun, in Creed-lane; 3dly, at the sygne of St. Augustine, in St. Paul s Church-yud ; be kept a shop at the north door of Christ's Hospital, next the Cloister. He was free of the Old Stationers' Company, as he bound an apprentice in 1562. He wrote his name Shjrngleton in the Hall book. He was unsettled in his habitation, and in 1562-3, was fined for speaking unseemly words before Mrs.
. In 1566-7, he was authorised, with Thos.
Purfoot, to search for unlicensed and disorderly books. About two years afterwards he received from the company xj. perhaps on the same ac- count as the year after ne received ijj. viz. for taking up books at the water-side. He appears to have been but an indifferent ceconomist, and bis principles were rather loose. Sept. 17, 1577. Whereas Hu. Singleton is indebted to James Askell Ivij J. It is ordered that he shall pay the same at yj. a week. And if default be made in anie payment, then Askell bath libertie to seek his remedie by lawe. This money Mr. Daie to pay as long as Singleton workes with him. And after, Yt to be demaunded at Singleton's house. 17. M'cij, 1577-8. Yt is ordered that Hu. Singleton shall redeliuer vnto Wva. Dickens a pair of Sbetis & a diaper towel at or before the 27th day of this instant M'che, upon pain to be committed to' ward. Octo. 23, 1584, he bor- rowed of the Company 6l. on bond; and for which John Charlewood was security. In 1585-6, he had xx.<. given him by the company, but no mention for what. In 1581, he and John Charlewood supplicated the Lord Chancellor against a privilege to John Wolf, for printing books of less than six sheets of paper. In 1584, he was appointed printer to the city of London. He died between July, 1592 and July 1593, in which year Rob. Robinson dischaigea his bond for bL to the company.
In 1561-2, he had license to print, An trufmc- tion fuU of heavenly coatolation. The pretiout perle. How a christian man ought to hehaue him -
lelfe in the datmger of Deathe. Declarynge how God doth calle vs to Itepentaunce. In 1565-6, A compUiynle bettvene nede and pouerte. In 1566- 7, The commandementet ^ leiton ofolde Cato at he lay vpon his death bedd. A tretys which ys prouvyd that the sowle of man doth lege ^ wake after the departure of this world. The Court of Venus moralized by Thomas Bryce. In 1567-8, An history of lyf jr vertu, wKerein ys towched the Couurce of mans lyf. In 1568-9, The Justi- fication of a christian Fayth. The Retome of olde well spoken no body. In 1579, A necessarte insiruccion of the promises of God. Translated from the Latin by Urb. Regius. An aunswere to a Rebellious Ltbell. The Shepherds calender, conteyning xij eclogues, ^e. In 1583, xxtd ser- mons of Hen. BuUenger itpon the Oration of the prophet Jeremye, ^c. Which book he is appointed to print by his deputye. In 1586, A ihanks- gyvmgefor our deli^y from the intended tyrannye of the Antichristian Pharao. In 1687, To Wyn- det and him. A brief instruccion ir manner how to keepe bookis of accoumptis, ice.
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The device of this printer was of that kind called rebus, or an image of the name or ideas of the inventor, and hence as his name was Singleton, and he dwelt at the Golden Tun, in Creed-lsuie,he assumed the figureof aSingleTun, with a monogram mark above it, on an ancient shield, surrounded by a motto set in the above wood -cut
1693, July 29. The privv council addresses letters to both universities, aated Oatlands, pro- hibiting the common players from performing either in the universities, or at any place within the compass of five miles, and 'especially (at Cambridge,) in the village of Chesterton, on uie water side.
1593. Macao, or Amacao, a seaport town of China, situate on an island in the bay of Canton. Peignot assigns this year as the period of the introduction of tvpographv into this place ; but Scheuchzer, in his introduction to Ksempfer's History of Japan, (fol. London, 1737) mentions a rare and curious book, containing an account of an embassy from the court of Japan to that of Rome, which was printed in Japanese and Latin, In Macaensi portu Sinici regni, in domo Societatis Jesu, cum facullate ordinarii et supe- riorum, anno 1590, 4to. A copy of this book is in the rich collection of Mr. W. Marsden. It is
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