the imprints to the two following pamphlets: Certain Queries touching the ordination of ministers. By. A. W., 1647, 4o, and Vox Populi, 1646, 4o. [Hazlitt, i. 440.]
POWEL (EDWARD), bookseller in London; White Swan, Little Britain, 1660. Mentioned in the Hearth Tax Roll for the half-year ending Lady-Day, 1666, as a bookseller in Little Britain. [P.R.O. Lay Subsidy 25232.]
POWELL (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Bethlehem [i.e., the precincts of Bethlehem Hospital], 1622-41. A stationer of this name took up his freedom March 1st, 1622. [Arber, iii. 685.] He is named in a list of secondhand booksellers who, in 1628, were ordered to send catalogues of their books to the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1641 he figures as a publisher of political pamphlets.
PRICE (JOHN), bookseller (?) in London, 1642. His name occurs in the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Copy of the Queens Letter, 1642.
PRICE (NEHEMIAH), bookseller (?) in London, 1660. His name occurs in the imprint to W. Prynne's pamphlet Title of Kings proved to be Jure Devino, 1660.
PRIDMORE (ISAAC), bookseller in London, (1) The Falcon neer the New Exchange, 1656; (2) The Falcon beyond the New Exchange in the Strand; (3) At the Golden Falcon neere the New Exchange. 1656-9. His name is first met with on an eight-leaf pamphlet entitled Death in a New Dress, or Sportive Funeral Elegies, published in August, 1656. [E. 885 (11).] Dealer in plays and broadsides.
PULLEYN, or PULLEIN (OCTAVIAN), the Elder, bookseller in London, (1) The Rose in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1636-66; (2) neer the Pump in Little-Brittain, 1667. Took up his freedom December 14th, 1629. [Arber, iii. 686.] First book entry February 12th, 1636 [ibid., iv. 354.] He is found in partnership with Geo. Thomason from 1639 until about 1643. They occupied one of the houses built by Reginald Wolfe on the site of the charnel house on the North side of the Cathedral between the Great North Door and the church of St. Faith's, known by the name of the Rose. Next to it on the East side was the Three Pigeons, occupied by
