sometimes two, intended to illustrate some event mentioned in it. This news-sheet ran till the close of the year 1646. Wright and Bates were also the publishers of another news-sheet, The True Informer. John Wright married Katherine, the daughter of Christopher Hatfield, citizen and cutler of London, and is mentioned in his will [P.C.C. 83, Soame.] He had a son, John Wright, junior. John Wright, senior, died in May, 1658, being buried on the 11th of that month. [Smyth, Obituary, p. 47; Library, April, 1905, pp. 184-207.]
WRIGHT (JOHN), junior, bookseller in London; Kings Head, Old Bailey, 1634-67. Son of John Wright, senior, and in partnership with him. On June 13th, 1642, he took over the copyrights, sixty-two in number, which had belonged to Robert Bird and Edward Brewster. In addition to theological literature it included The History of Gargantua, A Book of Riddles, and Robinson's Citharine book. [Stationers' Registers.] Either he or his father was a large holder in the ballad stock of the Company, and with Fr. Coles, T. Vere, and W. Gilbertson was the chief publisher of this class of literature.
WRIGHT (JONAS), bookseller (?) in London (?) 1642. His name is found on the imprint to the following pamphlet. Blazing Starre seen in the West at Totneis in Devonshire, 1642. [Hazlitt, i. 424.]
WRIGHT (M.), printer (?) in London; Kings Head in the Old Bailey, 1658-62. This name, in company with that of Robert Ibbotson, q.v., is found on the imprint to Thomas Gouge's Christian Directions, 1661. [Ames Collection, 3019.] Hazlitt has several entries under it [Gray's Index to Hazlitt, p. 835.] It may apply to another son of John Wright, senior, q.v.
YORK (SIMON), bookseller (?) in Dover, 1654. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled An Antidote against Anabaptisme . . . . By Jo. Reading, B.D. . . . . London, Printed by Tho. Newcombe, for Simon York and Richard Barley, dwelling in Dover, 1654. [Ames Collection of Title-pages, 2410.]
YOUNG (JAMES), printer in London, 1643-53. Son of Robert Young, printer. On July 22nd, 1644, his father's copyrights, numbering 131 works, were transferred to him. [Stationers' Registers.]
