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HERRINGMAN—HIERONS.
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Printing House, and in 1682 was defendant in a suit brought in the Court of Chancery by the trustees of Charles Bill, one of the children of John Bill II. [Chan. Proc, P.R.O., Mitford, 298, 69.] Mr. Arber, in his reprint of the Term Catalogues [vol. ii. p. 64a] says that Herringman was apparently the first London wholesale publisher in the modern sense of the words. He turned over his retail business at the Blue Anchor to F. Saunders and J. Knight, and devoted himself to the production of the Fourth Folio Shakespeare, Chaucer's works, and other large publishing ventures. His last entry in the Term Catalogues was in Trinity, 1693, shortly after which he appears to have retired to his native place, Carshalton, in Surrey. Here he died on January 15th, 170 3/4, and was buried in Carshalton Church, where a monument was erected to his memory. [Manning, History of Surrey, vol ii. p. 516.] By his will, which was dated the day before his death, he left to his "kinsman" John Herringman all his copies and parts of copies when he attained the age of twenty-three, the profits meanwhile to go to his widow. To the Company of Stationers he left a sum of £20 to purchase a piece of plate. [P.C.C. 40, Ash.]

HEWER (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Old Bailey, 1638-53 (?) Took up his freedom October 1st, 1638. [Arber, iii 688.] Associated with W. Moulton in 1642. His name is found on a pamphlet entitled A subsidie granted to the King 1653. A "T. Hewer" is described as a printer in the imprint to Sylvanus Morgan's Armilogia, 1666. This may be the same as the above.

HEYRICK, see Herrick.

HICKMAN (JOHN), (?) bookseller in London, 1648. Took up his freedom April 1st, 1639. [Arber, iii. 688.] Published Borialis Guard's Jovial Tinker, 1648. [Hazlitt, i. 446.] His address has not been found.

HIERONS, or HIRONES (JEREMIAH), (?) bookseller in London; Bottle, Near the Great North Door of St. Pauls, 1656. Entered in the Registers on June 19th, 1656, a book or pamphlet entitled The Unparaleled Thiefe, or an exact relation of the notable exploits Acted by that matchless Robber Richard Hanum. [Stationers' Registers, liber F, p. 473.]