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MARSH—MARTIN MAR-PRIEST PRESS.
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MARSH (HENRY), bookseller in London, (1) Princes Armes at the lower end of Chancery Lane, neer the Inner Temple Gate in Fleet Street; (2) Over against the golden Lyon tavern in Princes Street; (3) Swan Alley, Ludgate Hill. 1641-65. Took up his freedom October 5th, 1635. [Arber, iii. 687.] Associated with Francis Kirkman in publishing plays. He died before the end of the year 1665, and by his will dated September 10th left everything to his mother, Susan Tyton, widow, of St. Andrew's, Holborn. His brother, Michael Marsh, administered the will, but Kirkman took over the business. A list of books on sale by Marsh in 1661 occupies the last three pages of Montelion's Don Juan Lamberto, 1661, 4o. Amongst the folios was Ed. Grimstone's edition of Polybius; amongst the quartos, Walker's History of Independency; and amongst the octavos, Quarles' last poems. [B.M. E. 1048 (6); P.C.C. 100. Hyde.]

MARSHALL (JOHN), bookseller in London; Hand and Pen in Corn-hill over against the Royall Exchange, 1646. William Bentley, q. v., printed for him Dr. Peter Chamberlen's Voice in Rhama … London, 1647. [E. 1181.(8).]

MARTIN (EDWARD), bookseller in Norwich; Upper Half Moone in the Market Place, 1646. His name is found on a pamphlet entitled Hue and Cry after Vox Populi, 1646. [E. 355. (13).]

MARTIN, or MARTYN (JOHN), bookseller in London; Bell in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1649-80. Partner with James Allestry, q.v., and succeeded him as publisher to the Royal Society. The last entry to him in the Term Catalogues is in May, 1680. [Arber, T.C., i., p. 398.]

MARTIN (R ), bookseller in London; At the Venice in the Old Bayly, 1641. His name is found on the following work: Antipathie betweene the French and Spaniard Englished by Robert Gentilys, 1641.

MARTIN MAR-PRIEST PRESS. The writings of Richard Overton against the Presbyterians, under the pseudonym of Martin Mar-Priest, were printed at a secret press in Bishopsgate Street, supposed to have belonged to William Larner, between April 8th, 1645, and January, 164 5/6. [Library, October, 1904, p. 382.]