BOWTELL (STEPHEN), bookseller in London; Bible in Pope's Head Alley, 1643–64. Amongst his publications, which were chiefly of a political character, was a curious piece of Americana from the pen of Nathaniel Ward, under the pseudonym of Theodore de la Guard, entitled The simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America .... 1647. 4°.
BOYDELL (ROBERT), bookseller in London. In the Bulwarke neere the Tower, 1650-55. His name is found on the following work: Foster, N. Briefe Relation of the late Horrid Rebellion, 1650, and his death is recorded in Smyth's Obituary, p. 40, "March 16, 16545, Mr. Boyden, bookseller, by ye Tower died."
BRADFORD (NEHEMIAH), (?) bookseller in London, 1659. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Dialogue between Riches, etc. London. Printed for Nehemiah Bradford, MDCLIX. [E. 999 (2).]
BRADLEY (DANIEL), (?) bookseller in London, 1642. His name is found on the imprints to several political tracts and broadsides of the year 1642. He may have been related to the George and John Bradley, stationers, who took up their freedom on December 1st, 1628, and September 15th, 1631. [Arber, iii 686.]
BREACH (), Mrs., bookseller in London; Westminster Hall, "at the foot of the stone stairs going up to the Court of Requests," 1649–75. Was associated in 1649 with Thomas Banks, q.v., who also kept a stall in the Hall, at the sign of the Seal, in publishing the Rev. John Cotton's Controversie concerning libertie of conscience, 1649. In 1675 she was in trouble for selling a pamphlet entitled A Letter from a Person of Quality to his Friend in the Country, One of the witnesses described Mrs. Breach as a fat woman. She must have been a familiar figure in the Hall throughout the Civil War, Commonwealth and the Restoration. [Hist. MSS. Comm., 9th Report App. p. 66a; Lords' Journals, vol. xiii. 17; Library, N.S., No. 24, pp. 380–390.]
BREWSTER (A), bookseller in London; Three Bibles at the West end of St. Paul's, 1666-81. Appears to have succeeded Thomas Brewster, at this address.
