without address has the well-known "Heb Ddien, heb ddina ddim" device, the other the winged horse used by George Snowden and afterwards by Nicholas Okes, who took over the business of the Snowdens some time in the year 1608. In 1622, in conjunction with William Shefford, Butter published a sheet entitled News from most parts of Christendom and from that time made journalism his chief business. In 1630 he began a series of half-yearly volumes of collected foreign news under titles such as the Swedish Intelligencer. Charles I granted to Butter and N. Bourne the right of publishing all matter of history or news, they paying the sum of ten pounds yearly to the repair of St. Paul's. On May 21st, 1639, Butter made over the copyrights of all plays in his possession to Miles Fletcher, or Flesher, devoting himself entirely to the issue of news-sheets. He is last heard of in the Registers on December 3rd, 1663, when he made over to Thomas Rookes, q.v., his copyright in Dr. Halliday's Sermons. [Registers, Liber F, p. 274.] He died in the following February, and his death is thus recorded by Smyth in his Obituary: "22 Febry 16634. Nath: Butter an old stationer, died very poore." [D.N.B.; Library, N.S., No. 26, pp. 163–6; Domestic State Papers, 1638–9, p. 182.]
BYFIELD (ADONIRAM), bookseller in London, (1) Bible in Pope's Head Alley near Lombard Street, 1657; (2) Three Bibles in Cornhill next door to Pope's Head Alley, 1660 (1657–60). Son of the Puritan divine of this name. Apprenticed to Ralph Smith for seven years from May 7th, 1649. [Stationers' Register of Apprenticeships, 1605–66.] Amongst his publications was Samuel Morland's History of the Evangelical Churches, 1658. f°. [B.M.]
CADE (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) Globe in Cornhill; (2) At the Royal Exchange. (1664–78). Nothing is known of the early publications of this bookseller, but in 1678 he is found selling Saxton's maps. [Arber, Term Catalogues, i. 304.]
CADWELL (J), printer in London, 1659–62. Son of Edward Cadwell of London, draper; apprenticed to Roger Norton, q.v., for seven years from June 23rd, 1646. He was evidently in a small way of business, the only two books found with his imprint being an allegory called the Voyage of
