LEGATE (JOHN), printer in Cambridge and London; Little Wood Street, 1620-58. Son of John Legate, printer at Cambridge (1588-1620). Admitted Freeman of the Stationers' Company, September 6th, 1619. [Arber, iv. 45.] Appointed printer to the University of Cambridge by Grace, July 5th, 1650, in succession to Roger Daniel, q.v. His patent was cancelled for neglect October 10th, 1655, after which he appears to have come to London and settled in Little Wood Street. Smyth in his Obituary, p. 49, has this entry, "Novr. 4th 1658, Mr. Legat in Little Wood Street, printer, once printer at Cambridge, since distempered in his senses, died." [R. Bowes, Biographical Notes on the University Printers, p. 306.]
LEIGH (JOSEPH), bookseller in London; Upper end of Bassinghall Street, near the Naggs-Head-Tavern, 1662-5. Publisher of broadsides and medical tracts. [Bibl. Lind., 95; Hazlitt, iii. 28.]
LEWIS (STEPHEN) and (THOMAS), booksellers in London; Shoe-Lane, at the signe of the book-binders, 1657-8. Their names are found in the following work: H. Bold's Wit a sporting in a pleasant grove of new fancies, 1657.
LEY (WILLIAM), see Lee (W.).
LEYBORNE, or LEYBOURN (ROBERT), bookseller and printer in London, (1) Star, Cornhill; (2) Monkswell Street in Lambes Chappel neer Criplegate. 1645-61. Began as a bookseller and publisher of political pamphlets. Printer of the news-sheet called the Moderate Intelligencer, 1647-8. In partnership with William Leyborne, or Leybourn, and printed numerous scientific and mathematical books.
LEYBORNE, or LEYBOURN (WILLIAM), bookseller, printer, and mathematician in London; Monkswell Street Cripplegate, 1645-65. Possibly a brother of Robert Leyborne, with whom he was in partnership as a printer from about 1651, and carried on the business until the year 1665. Together they printed books on mathematics, and it is as a mathematician that William Leyborne is best remembered. He was the author of several works on the subject, notably one entitled Panarithmologia, being a
