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stationeTs' company, in the charters of which (1556) his name is to be found. His property may be estimated by his voluntanr contribution of xii pence to the hospital of Bridewell, and ii». vid. as a benevoleuce to his own corporation. The books of the stationers' company shew that he was thrice fined for printing without a licence, a thing not uncommon in his time. The residence of William Copland, as it has already been stated, was in Fleet-street, at the sign of the Rose Garland ; but after the year 1533, his dwelling is not mentioned in his dated colophons, although in his books, the time of his printing of which is unknown, mention is made of Lothbury, and the Three Grained wharf, but they afford' no information. William Copland is supposed to have died between July, 1568, and me same month in the following year ; for one of the entiies in the account of the warden of .the stationers' company for the year 1568-9, is " Payd for the buryall of Coplande vjj. Ro- bert Jones who had been bound to him as an apprentice for ten years, had served six of them only at his decease. He printed sixty-one books on nis own account, some of which were printed for Richard Kele,at the eagle in Stockis market ; and others for Abraham Vele, at the Lamb, in St. Paul's church yard, Thomas Petyt, at the Maiden's head, in Paul's church yard, Thomas Peter, Richard Jugge, at the Bible, in St. Paul's church yard, Robert Stoughton, at the Bishop's Mitre, in Ludgate, and John Wryght, at the Rose, at the North 'door of St. Paul s.

William Copland printed an edition of 7%e Knyght of the Sivanne, 4to. without date. Here hegynnelh the history of the noble Heylas, knyght of the swanTie, newly translated out of the Frensshe in to Englisshe at thynstygacyon of the puyssatmt and illustryous prynce, torde Edwerde duke of Buekyngham." Beneath this title is a cut of the knight in a ship drawn by a swan. The preface states that the above-mentioned duke of Buckingham "cohorted Copland's mayster Wyn- ken de Worde to put this sayd rertuous hystorye in prynte...and lor this purpose hadi soughte and foundeatrue approued copye eupryntedand corrected in the French language, &c.'

Panzer does not indicate a single French im- pression of this romance. The book concludes, " Thus endeth the life &c of the moste noble and illustryous Heylas, knyght of the swanne, with the byrtb of the excellent knight Godfrey of Boulyon one of the nine worthyes and the last of the three crysten. Jmprinted, iScc." A copy of this work on vellum, with figures, 1512, is noticed by Ames.

Andrew Borde, physician, mentioned in the notice of Robert Copland, was born at Peven- sey, in Sussex, and brought up at Oxford ; but before he took a degree Uiere, he entered him- self a brother of the Carthusian order; of which growing tired, and having a rambling head and an unconstant mind, he travelled through and round about Christeudom, and out of Christen- dom. On his return he settled at Winchester, where he practised with success. In 1541 or 42,

he was at Montpelier, and probably took his doctor's degree there, for he was soon after in- corporated in the same degree at Oxford. At length, after many rambles to and fro in this world, he was made a close prisoner in the wards of the Fleet, in London. Though the reason of his confinement is not discovered here, he died in April, 1549, his will being dated the 11th, and proved the 25th of that month.

Anthony Wood, says that our author, Borde, was esteemed a noted poet, a witty and ingenious person, and an excellent physician of his time.

1548, Nicholas Naile, a bookseller of Paris, with several other persons, were martyred by tire, for professing the reformed religion. One of them was a tailor, for working on a taint day. The king, Henry II. was present

Tbeir bodies Bcorchlng flamefl endure, The soul's salvation to secure ; Maitjm, like gold, are tried ill lire. And purify as they expiie.

1548. John Hertfobde, Herfobde, or He- REFORD, for he spelled his name variously, has already been noticed as reviving the art of print- ing at St. Albacs, and who is supposed by Ames and Herbert to have been the earliest typogra- pher of that place, after a space of forty-eigfat years, or from 1486, until 1534. About the time of the reformation, Herforde came to London and resided in Aldersgate-street, where he printed for many persons brides himself. He printed in the whole, during his residence in London, nineteen works, amongst which is found an edition of the Neio Testament, 1548, 24mo. and the Pistels and Gospels, without date, 4to.

The widow of John Herforde continued the business, and printed three works : the Incarna- tion of Christ, 1549, 16mo ; Certayne Padmea, 1560, 8vo ; and the censure and judgment of the famous clark Erasmus of Roterdam, whyther dyvnurment hetwene man and ivyfe sUmdeth with the law of God, with divers causes wherefore it it permitted, with the mynd of the old doetourt, jrc. printed for Robert Stoughton.

There was a William Harford, or Her- forde, who exercised the typographic art in London at this time, and who is supposed to have been a relative, if not the son of John Herforde. He printed two works, the first in 1555, and the last in 1559.

1548. About this year, Roger Carr printed Herman archbishop of Colen, Of the right insti- tution of baptism ; also a treatise of Matrimony and Burial of tlie Dead. By Wolph. Musculus.* Translated by Richai'd Rice, in octavo; and per- haps he printed Five Sermons of Bemardine Ochine of Sena : Godlye fruitful, Src. Translated

celebrated divines and reformers ol the l6th century, and a man of great application and deep learning. Whilst m lad, he was employed by Bucer as his scribe ; and after- wards becoming a preacher, be engaged In the cansc cf the Reformation with oooiage, and in many places wltli great snccess, he was enmsted with many very impoitant ecclesiastical depotations.
 * Mnsculns, it is -well knovn, was one of the most

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