which year he had two presses. [Arber, iii. 699.] In 1618, in company with Matthew Lownes and Bartholomew Downes, Felix Kingston was appointed by Privy Seal one of the King's Printers in Ireland. He also held a share in the Latin stock, in which he was one of the second rank, but only paid £35 out of the £50 due him, and subsequently withdrew from the venture. [Library, July, 1907, p. 290 et seq.] Master of the Company of Stationers, 1635-6. One of the twenty printers appointed under the Act of 1637. Mr. Sayle states that he used five devices before 1640. At the time of his death he must have been one of the oldest printers in London. For a list of books printed by him the reader is referred to Gray's Index to Hazlitt, p. 425. In the will of John Reeve, of Teddington, co. Middlesex, husbandman, proved on December 24th, 1621, several bequests are made to a Felix Kingston and other persons of the name of Kingston, but there is no evidence that they refer to the printer. [P.C.C. 89 Savile.] The second imprint given above occurs in Richard Bernard's Thesaurus Biblicus seu Promptuarium Sacrum, 1644.
KIRBY (GEORGE), (?) bookseller in London, 1642. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Organs Funeral, 1642.
KIRKMAN (FRANCIS), bookseller in London, (1) John Fletcher's Head, over against the Angel-Inn, on the back side of St. Clements, without Temple Bar, 1661-2; (2) Princes Arms, Chancery Lane, 1662, 1666-8 (?); (3) Under St. Ethelborough's Church in Bishopsgate Street, 1669; (4) Ship, Thames Street; over against the Custom House, 1671; (5) Over against the Robin Hood, Fenchurch Street, near Aldgate, 1674; (6) Next door to the Princes Arms, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1678. 1657-78. Francis Kirkman was the eldest son of Francis Kirkman, citizen and blacksmith of London. In the "Preface to the Reader," in the Second Part of the English Rogue, printed in 1668, he gives some interesting particulars of his life. He was first apprenticed to a scrivener, but in 1656 set up as a bookseller, but "having knaves to deal with" he abandoned bookselling and confined himself to his business as a scrivener. He then lived in the East of London, possibly in Ratcliff, where his father was then living. After the Restoration he moved into the West End, probably to the house known as the John Fletcher's Head, and again set up as a scrivener and bookseller. From his boyhood he had been a collector of
