GUY (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, 1643. Only known from the imprint to the following pamphlet, Votes and Declarations of both Houses of Parliament concerning the taking away … the power of the Clergy … Printed for Francis Leach and William Guy, 1642. [Hazlitt, ii. 449.]
GYLES (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) David's Inn, Holborn, 1642; (2) Furnivall's Inn, 1648 (1643-48). His name has been found on the following: (1) The True Petition … of the Kingdome of Scotland, 1642. A broadside. [Bibl. Lind. Catal. of Broadsides, No. 28]; (2) Works of … Judge Jenkins, 1648, [Harl, 5921 (341).]
HALES (THOMAS), bookseller in London, 1641. Took up his freedom June 5th, 1626. [Arber, iii. 686.] To the Right Honourable the House of Peers … the humble Petition of many thousands … inhabiting within the cities of London and Westminster, 1641. A broadside. [Lutt. Coll., 3, 66.] His address has not been found.
HALL (HENRY), printer at Oxford, 1642-79 (?). Apprentice to William Turner, q.v., and upon the death of the latter, in 1643, purchased his "presses, letters, and utensils." Hall was elected printer to the University in Turner's place on November 21st, 1644. [Madan, Chart of Oxford Printing, p. 29.] He was the printer of the famous Oxford news-sheet, Mercurius Aulicus. In October, 1649, he was bound over in a sum of £300 not to print seditious or unlicensed books or pamphlets. [Calendar of State Papers, 1649-50, p. 524.] Hall married Dorothy Bowring not later than 1644, and had six children born between 1645 and 1653, in St. John the Baptist's parish, Oxford.
HALL (RICHARD), bookseller in London ; Westminster Hall at the sign of the Golden Ball, 1661-62. Associated with Thomas Bassett, q.v., in the publication of the Life and Death of Thomas Cawton, 1662. He was also the publisher of a tragedy called Andronicus in the previous year.
HALL (WILLIAM), bookseller in Colchester, 1663. The Arithmetical Questions, by John Duke or Le Duke, were advertised in the Mercurius Publicus of June 25th, 1663, to be sold by this bookseller. His name is also found on another book of local interest, John Le Duke's Tables for the ready casting up of the price of Colchester Bays, 1663.
