Mirror Breviate Treasure Mate for merchants … a work that was long popular and better known as the Ready Reckoner or Trader's sure Guide. The year of William Leyborne's death is uncertain, but it is believed to have occurred about 1700.
LEYBOURN, see Leyborne.
LIACH (F.), (?) printer in London, 1657. See Hazlitt, 4th series, p. 138. Probably a misprint for Leach, F., q.v.
LICHFIELD (ANNE), bookseller in Oxford, 1657-69. Widow of Leonard Lichfield, senr., was for a time in business with her son, Leonard Lichfield, junr.
LICHFIELD, or LITCHFIELD (LEONARD), printer in Oxford; Butcher Row [Queen's Street], 1635-57. Son of John Lichfield, and succeeded his father as University printer in 1635. He was a staunch Royalist, and was described in Puritan tracts as the "malignant printer." About 1643-4, he was churchwarden of St. Martin's (Carfax) Church. His printing office was destroyed in the great fire that broke out on October 6th, 1644. His imprint was frequently forged for books printed in London. Amongst the curiosities of his press is an imperfect copy of part of the Epistle of Barnabas in Greek and Latin belonging to an edition printed in 1642. The remainder of the edition was entirely destroyed in the fire, and this copy owes its preservation to the fact that it was wrongly imposed and is supposed to have been taken home by the printer or compositor. [Madan, Chart of Oxford Printing, p. 40.] Lichfield died in 1657.
LICHFIELD (LEONARD), junr., bookseller in Oxford. Son of Leonard Lichfield, senr. On the death of his father in 1657 he and his mother, Anne Lichfield, were appointed University printers.
LILLIECRAP, or LILLIECROP (PETER), printer in London, (1) Crooked Billet on Addle Hill; (2) The Five Bells near the church in Clerkenwell Close. 1647-72. Son of Peter Lillicrap, of Queatheack, co. Cornwall. Apprentice to Miles Fletcher, or Flesher, for seven years from April 5th, 1647. At the outbreak of the Civil War he made a discovery of arms, hidden by a Parliament man, and gave information to the High Sheriff of Cornwall, by whom they were seized. Lilliecrap afterwards served in the
