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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
1600, /on. 13. Died, Francis Coldock, sta- tioner and printer, whose dwelling was at the sign of the Green Draf^on, in St. Paul's church vud. He was master of the stationers' company in 1091, and again in ld95, and gave them " a silver college pot" On a pillar in St. Faith's church, under St. Paul's, was the following in- scription :
Near to this place Ueth buried the body of Francis Col- dock, twice muter of the compuij of stationere, who de- parted fliis life the xiii daj of January, |600, beinf; of the a^ of three score and twelve years; who married Alice, the widow of Richard WatersoQ j and had issue by her two daughters. Joane, married to William Ponsonby, sta. tloner } and Aone, who died young. The said Alice was the daughter of Simon Burton, citizen and waxchandler of London.
1600. Thomas Porfoot was a printer and stationer, and had a shop in St. Paul's church wd, at the sign of the Lucretia, within the New Rents, in Newgate market; he likewise dwelt opposite St. Sepulchre's church, and other places. "The first work with the imprint of Thomas Pur- foot is dated 1A64. In 1588 he printed as the assign of Richard Tottle. He printed sixty works, to which he affixed the annexed mono- gram as his device.
1600. Gabriel Simpson printed a consent of teripture, by Hugh Broughton.* Dedicated to queen Elizabeth. Finely printed, with many good engravings upon copper; also, a large map of tJhe north part, from the equinoctial, with the ancient seats of the first families. 8vo. Printed with William White. His dwelling was at the White Horse, in Fleet-lane.
1600. Thomas Charde dwelt in Bishopsgate church-yard, and had carried on business from 1582, though few works bear his imprint.
• No En^ish biblical writer attracted so much notice daring the latter part of this century, and tiie commence- ment of the next, as Hui;b Broughton, whose skill in the Hebrew language occasioned a learned Jew to say to him, " O that yon would set over all your New Tatamtntt into such Hebrew as you speak to mc, you should turn all our nation." He was born at Oldhnry, iu Shropshire, in IU9, and was indebted for his education to the excel- lent Bernard Oilpin, who sent hhn to Cambri.lge. He waa afterwards a prebendary of Durham, and reader of dirinlty. In I5SS, he published a work, entitled The ComnU of Seriptur e. I t wa* the fruit of immense labour, and is a kind of system of scripture chronology and genealogy, designed to show from the scriptures, the chronological order of events from Adam to Christ It was dedicated to qneen Elizabeth, to whom It was presented, by himself, on her inauguration day, Nov. i;th, issg. He died August 4th, Iflia, aged U years. His works were collected and printed In London, In 1663, with his life prefixed by Dr. Lightfoot, in one large volume folio. Several of his manuscripts are in the British Museum, bound in one vol. 4to.i beside his manuscript Harmony of the Bible.
1600. Belvidere; ortheOarden ofOieMutet, made by John Bodenham. This is a curious, and at Uie same time, a very whimsical poetical miscellany, as the author, in another edition, made it a rule, to give place to no more than a single quotation of single line, or a couplet of ten syllables. There was another edition in 1610,"entitled the Garden of the Mutes, without the previous title of Belvidere, but they are one and the same collection. An imperfect copy of this work produced at the sale of Mr. Allen's library, jC I lU.6d.
In 1600 also was published England't Par- nassus, or the choycett Flowers cf our modern Poets, with their poetical comparisons, hyR. A. R. A. means Robert Allot, concerning whom the reader may consult Walton's History of English Poetry, vol. iii. p. 280.
Another poetical miscellany was also published in this year, entitled England't Helicon, in 4to. A second edition was published in 1614. 1600. Died, Thomas Nash, a writer of very considerable bearing, but of great severity of style. He is called by Dr. Lodge, in his frtl» misery and Worlds Madness, discovering the Devil's Incarnate of tite Age, the true English Aretine. He was the writer against the Martin Marprelatet. He wrote a great deal, both in prose and verse, particularly of the satirical kind. He obtained considerable reputation as an author, and was praised by many of his co- temporaries. He is thus described by Michael Drayton :
And surely Nosh, tho* he a proser were, A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear I Sharply satyrick was he, and that way He went i since that his being to this day; Few have attempted, and I surely think. These words shall hardly be set down in ink. Shall scorch and blast, so as his could when he Would inilict vengeance.
In a very curious and scarce play, called the Return from Pamassui; or, the Scourge of Simony, acted by the students of St. John^ college, Cambridge, 1606. After introducing Spencer, Constable, Lodge, Daniel, Watson, Drayton, Davis, Marston, Marlowe, Shakspeare, and Churchyard, the Interlocutors, Ingenioso and Judicio, thus proceed :
Thomas Nash Ingenioso I here is a fellow, Judicio, that carried the deadly stocke in his pen, whose muse was armed with a jag tooth, and bis pen possest with Hercules furyes.
Judicio.
Let all his fiiults sleepe with hi* mouniefhl cheat.
And there for ever with his ashes rest; His stile was witty, though he had some gall; Something he might have mended, so may all. Yet this 1 say, that for a mother wit Few men have ever seen the like of it
Nash was born at LeostoSe, in the county of Suffolk. His father was descended from the Nashes of Herefordshire, as he himself informs us in his whimsical production, called the Praise
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