publishers of The True Informer, and Bates was also associated with F. Coles, q,v., in the issue of the Diurnall Occurrences in 1642. In connection with this he was imprisoned for a short time in the year 1642 for publishing false reports on the Army. [Library, N.S., April, 1905, pp. 184 et seq.; Commons Journals, June 8th, 1642.]
BATT (M.), bookseller in London, 1642. His name occurs on several political pamphlets such as the following: True and exact relation of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Army in Cheshire, Shropshire, and Worcestershire. [October 5th], 1642. [Hazlitt, iv. 19; E, 126 (43).]
BEAL (G.), (?) bookseller in London, (?) Old Bayley and neer Temple Bar, 1648. The following political pamphlets of the year 1648 have the imprint, London, Printed for G. Beal, and are to be sold in the Old Bayley, and neer Temple Bar (1) A great and bloudy fight at Colchester … 1648. [E. 453 (18)]; (2) Two petitions of the Lord Mayor … 1648. [E. 453 (45).]
BEALE (JOHN), printer in London; (?) Fetter Lane [the printing house of Robert Robinson], 1612–41. This printing house belonged from 1587-97 to Robert Robinson. After his death his widow married Richard Braddock, who continued the business till 1609, when it was bought by Thomas Haviland and William Hall. Two or three years later it was sold by Hall to John Beale, who took into partnership for a short time Thomas Brudenell. Sir John Lambe, from whose notes on the London printing houses this notice is compiled , says; "Master John Beale succeeded his partner Master William Hall about 15 yeares since (i.e., 1620), never admitted (of great estate but a very contentious person) he tooke 50li to furnish ye pore with bread and doth not do it. He bought Hall [out] and took Thomas Brudenell to be his partner for £140, which Brudenell had much a doe to recover." [Arber, iii. 699–700.] Beale was a relation by marriage to Humphrey Robinson, q.v., [Excheq. K. R. Bills and Answers, Lond. and Midd., 34.] Towards the close of his life he was afflicted with blindness, but appears to have still carried on business with S. Buckly, i.e., Stephen Bulkley, q.v., afterwards the Royalist printer, at York and elsewhere, for their names appear together in the imprint to Lewis de Gand's Sol Britannicus, 1641, 8°. [b.m. 1137, a. 13]. John Beale
