MASON (EDWARD), (?) printer in London, 1660. Found in the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Sir Arthur Hesilrigs lamentation & Confession, 1660. [E. 1016 (4).] The name is probably a pseudonym.
MATHEWES (JOHN), (?) bookseller in London, (?) 1647. Hazlitt, iii. p. 37, records the following: A True Abstract of a list, In which is set down the severall entertainments allowed by His Majesty to the Officers and other souldiers of his Army … London, Printed for John Mathewes [about 1647].
MATTHEWS (THOMAS), bookseller in London, (1) ad insigne Galli Gallinacei in cœmeterio Paulino juxta portam Borealem minorem; (2) At the Cock in St. Pauls Church-Yard; (3) White Horse in St. Paul's Church yard, 1651-7. Published amongst other things in 1652 an edition of Ant. Buscher's Ethicæ Ciceron., of which the first edition was printed at Hamburg in 1610. [Schweiger, Handbuch der classichen Bibliographie, 1832, p. 252.] The title-page of Matthews' edition is preserved amongst the Ames Collection (No. 2254), but no copy of the book has been seen.
MAWBORNE, or MAWBURNE (FRANCIS), bookseller in York, 1662-6. This bookseller was doubtless in business some years before his name appears in the imprint to the Visitation sermon printed for him by Stephen Bulkley, the York printer, in 1663. In 1666 Mawburne and Bulkley were arrested, the one for printing seditious papers, and the other for selling foreign printed Bibles and seditious papers. Mawburne petitioned Lord Arlington for release from custody, and one John Mascall wrote a letter to Secretary Williamson, dated October 15th, on behalf of the prisoners, in which he described the bookseller as "quiet but weak in business," who "would not wilfully disperse any unlicensed book or pamphlet." On giving bond for his good behaviour Mawburne was released after a few weeks' imprisonment. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 175 (28); Library, January, 1907.]
MAXEY (THOMAS), printer in London; Bennet Paul's Wharf, Thames Street, 1637-1657. Took up his freedom October 2nd, 1637. [Arber, iii. 688.] First book entry June 23rd, 1640. Amongst the famous books that passed through his press was Izaak Walton's Complete Angler, 1653, which
