Court in August, 1663. His wife, "Elinor," was the principal beneficiary. He directed all his stock in his shop, printing house, and warehouse, both in Dublin and in London, together with his interest in his then dwelling-house and printing house, to be sold unto some person having served 7 years to a printer, stationer or bookseller. He mentions his "son, Dr. Thos. Bladen." Probably this was the editor of Clarke's Praxis. He also left a son of the same name, who is believed to have come to London and set up as a bookseller. [Information supplied by Mr. E. R. McC. Dix.; Library, July, 1907.]
BLAGRAVE (ROBERT), bookseller at Oxford, 1656-62. Son of John and Lydia Blagrave. His will was proved 1662. His imprint is found in Caius' Suetonius Tranquilus. [Information supplied by Mr. Madan.]
BLAGUE (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) Pope's Head Alley, 1652; (2) Golden Ball in Cornhill, near the Poultry, 1652. 1642-52. John Blague, son of Benjamin Blague, barber-surgeon of London, apprenticed on October 30th, 1642, to John Burroughes for eight years. [Stationers' Registers, Apprenticeships.] Partner with Samuel Howes, q.v. They published jointly H. Whitfield's Strength out of Weakness … 1652, and Phillip Barrough's Method of Physick, 1652.
BLAIKLOCK, or BLACKLOCK (JOSEPH), bookseller in London. Turk's Head, Ivy Lane, 1639-60. Took up his freedom April 29th, 1639. [Arber, iii. 688.] Chiefly a publisher of theological literature. He issued in 1651 an edition of the Imitatio Christi under the title of The Christian's Pattern [Harl. 5927, 501.] His name is found in the imprint to C. Ducket's Sparks from the Golden Altar, 1660.
BLAIKLOCK, BLAKELOCK, or BLACKLOCK (LAWRENCE), bookseller in London, (1) Sugar Loaf next [near] Temple Bar; (2) Middle-Temple-Gate. 1638-53. Took up his freedom March 5th, 1638. [Arber, iii. 688.] Amongst his publications were Fr. Beaumont's Poems, 1652; W. Bosworth's Chaste and lost lovers, 1651, and H. Mill's Poems, 1639. During the Civil War, in company with Fr. Coles, and Lawrence Chapman, he printed a news-sheet called the Perfect Diurnall of some passages in Parliament, 1643-49. The last heard of him is in 1653, when he issued a law book, Young, W., A Vade Mecum, etc.
