apprenticed to a London bookseller, Mr. Peter Bodrell or Bodvell, who was burnt out in the great fire of 1666, and then removed to Chester, where he died before John Minshull's term of apprenticeship was complete. [Library, 2nd Series, No. 16, pp. 373-83.] Peter Bodrell was associated with Edward Fowkes or Foulkes, q.v., in publishing the Book of Common Prayer in the Welsh tongue in 1664. [Rowlands, Cambrian Bibliography, p. 191.] There is a memorial to a Peter Bodvell in St. Michael's Church, Chester (see Fenwick's History of Chester, 1896, p. 316).
BOLER (JAMES), bookseller in London; Marygold in Fleet Street, 1641-49. Son of James Boler, who died in 1634. [Arber, iv. 435.] Published a book on needlework called The Needles Excellency, 1640, and his imprint is found in a pamphlet entitled Humble Advice … of certaine ministers … of Banbury … Oxon and of Brackly … Northampton. 1649. 4o.
BOND (WILLIAM), bookseller (?) in London, 1641-2. Several political pamphlets issued in the years 1641 and 1642 have the imprint: "London, Printed for W. Bond," but his address is not given. He may possibly have been a relative of Charles or John Bond, stationers, of London. [Arber, iii. 685, 687; E. 131 (9); E. 181 (32).]
BOSTOCK (ROBERT), bookseller in London, (i) King's Head, St. Paul's Churchyard; (2) St. Faith's, Southwark, 1650. 1629-58. Took up his freedom December 5th, 1625 [Arber, iii. 686], and appears to have dealt chiefly in theological literature. During the Civil War he took an active part on behalf of the Parliament, and was appointed by the Committee of Sequestrations one of its Treasurers. At this time he was busily engaged in the publication of political pamphlets, one of the most noted of which is undoubtedly The Kings Cabinet Opened, consisting of the Royalist papers that were captured at the battle of Naseby. In 1645, and again in 1646, he was in trouble for publishing pamphlets relating to the disputes between England and Scotland.[Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 510, 125; vol 513, 30, 39; Hist. MS. Comm., 6th Report, App., pp. 111], and on June 5th, 1650, he was bound over in £500 not to print seditious pamphlets. [Domestic State Papers, 1650.] He died suddenly in the street at Banbury on December 11th, 1656 [Smyth, Obituary, p. 43], and his copyrights, fifty-four in number, were transferred to George Thomason. [Stationers' Company Registers, Liber F, p. 23.]
