that Execrable Rebellion in Ireland. London: Printed by B. Alsop and T. Dunster, And are to be delivered at Bernard Alsop's house in Grub Street, 1650. [March 19th, 164950.] His imprint is also found again the same year in The Fallacie of the great water drinker, discovered by Mr. Tho. Peedle and Mr. Thos. Corbie. 1650. [Harl., 5921. 180, 181.]
ECCLESTON (CHRISTOPHER), bookseller in London; Middle shop under St. Dunstan's church in Fleet Street, 1662-64. His name is found on the two following books: Sale's Epigrammatum. Being the choicest disticks of Martial's Fourteen Books of Epigrams, 1663, 8o. [B.M. 833. c. 4.]; Howel (John), Discourse concerning the precedency of kings, 1664.
EDMONDS (WALTER), bookseller in London; Crown near Ludgate, 1638-41. Took up his freedom March 26th, 1635. [Arber, iii. 687.] Mentioned in a list of stationers, dated August 5th, 1641, as paying ten shillings as his proportion of the poll tax. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 483. 11.]
EDWARDS (THOMAS), (?) bookseller in London, 1642. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled The Scots resolution Concerning this present Expedition … London: Printed for Tho. Edwards. His address has not been found.
EELES (ROBERT), printer in London, 1646. Only known from certain papers in the House of Lords, in which it is stated that he was employed by a committee of the Lords to suppress seditious books, and had seized a press and letters, belonging to William Larner, which had been used in printing London's Last Warning; A Remonstrance to the House of Commons; An Alarum to the House of Lords, and all or most of Lilburne's books. He further obtained the arrest of Richard Overton, a notorious writer among the Independents. The Stationers' Company referred to him as "a common printer and seller of unlicensed books," and did their best to ruin him. [Library, October, 1904, pp. 390-91.]
EGLESFIELD (FRANCIS), bookseller in London; Marigold, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1637-67. Took up his freedom July 4th, 1636. [Arber, iii. 687.] Became one of the largest and most important publishers of theological literature. At the end of David Dickson's Short Explanation of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews, 1649, there is a list of 72 books published by him, mostly Divinity, but including Herrick's Hesperides. [A. W. Pollard,
