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1563. Michael Lobley was one of the original members of the stationers' company; he was a printer, stationer, bookseller, and book- binder, and resided at the sign of St. Michael, in St. Paul's church-yard. Ames states that he had been a servant to Henry Pepwell. Michael Lobley appears to have been somewhat inimical to popery, since in 1531 he was questioned for spedung against images, purgatory, and for buying inhibited books at Antwerp, such as The Obedience of a Christian Man, The Wicked Mammon, and Frith against Purgatory. His subscription at the institution of his company was xs; and he appears to hare been thrice fined, once for his late attendance on a court day; another time for his non-attendance on the lord mayor, apon Christmas day, when he was thereunto cited; and thirdly, for his keeping open shop upon St. Luke's day. In 1558, when Elizabeth confirmed the charter of the stationers' company, Michael Lobley was upper warden, which office he again served in 1562; and at the expiration of each wardenship, he gave the customary gift of "a spoyne all gylte, with his name at the ende of yt." In August, 1560, soon after the termination of his first wardenship, he was committed to the counter with Mr. Judson, the new under warden, and although on what account does not appear. The company paid their charges at that time. In the latter part of his life, Lobley appears to have been so much reduced as not to have been able to discharge his note for £7, which he stood indebted to the company; for having paid £3 of it," the rest was forgyven him by the hole table." His name appears as a bookseller to Wayland's Primer, 1539, and his Manuall of Prayer, of the same year, and A good and Godly Prayer, 1563, 8vo. Dear his imprint.

1563., gave by his will one fourth of the residue of his property to the company of stationers, for the use of the poor of the said company.

1563. Eglogs, epytaphes, and sonnetes, newly written by Bamabe Googe, 15 Marche, printed by Thomcu ColiteU,for Rave Newbery, dwelling in Plete-tlrete, a little above the Conduit, in the late shop of Thonuu Barthelet. Bamabe Googe was a celebrated author and translator.

1563, Sept. 18. Died, Richard Waterson, an early member of the stationers' company, and an eminent bookseller at the comer of St. Paul's church-yard, was thus noticed on a tablet placed by his son in St. Faith's church : — ^"Neer to this pillar lyeth the body of Richard Waterson, citi- zen and stationer ol London, who died the xxiii of September, 1563. Simon Waterson, his son, placed this heer the 1st of January, 1599."

1663. John Tisdall, or Tisdale, was an original member of the stationers' company, dwelt in Knight Riders'-street, and had a shop in All-Hollows church-yard, Lombard-street, at the sign of the Eagle's foot. Herbert's manu- script mentions that heprinted with John Charle- wood, at Holbom conduit. In his Abridgement of Polydore Virgil, printed without date, there

occurs a cut of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, which seems to have been his device. Nineteen works bear his imprint.

1663. Nicholas Episcopius, or rather Bischop, a celebrated printer at Basil. His acquaintance with Greek and Latin gave him very superior advantages when he began the business of printing. John Froben bestowed his daughter on him in marriage; and on his death, in 1527, Bischop went into partnership with his son Jerome. All writers on the subject of printing, bestow high praise on the talents of Bischop, who was also much respected by the learned of his time, particularly Erasmus, who had so much regard for him as to leave him and his partners executors of his will. Bischop died Sept. 27, 1663, leaving a son of the same name and pro- fession, who died two years after, in the flower of vouth. They were a protestant family, and had fled from France during the persecutions.

1563. Queen Elizabeth granted a patent to Thomas Cooper,* of Oxford, for twelve years, for the sole printing of Thesaurus Linguæ Romanæ et Britannicæ, in folio. This work was an improvement of the Bibliotheca Eliota, and was the second Latin Dictionary in the English tongue. It was printed by Richard Grafton in 1642, 1552, 1659. See Rymer's Feodra, vol. xv.

1563. Goa, a city of Hindostan, received the art of printing, probably through the activity of the Jesuits from Portugal, who by degrees obtain- ed considerable establishments m this city. The earliest Goa book which had fallen under the notice of Dr. Cotton, was entitled Coloquios dos simples, e drogas he conas medicinais da India Src. Impresto em Goa, por Joannes de endem as x. dias de Abril de 1563. annos. The work consists of 217 leaves in quarto. Messrs. Payne and Foss, booksellers, ijondon, possessed a copy in the year 1826.

1564., the first of a family of eminent printers and booksellers, called in French Detournes, was born at Lyons, in 1604, and learned printing in the house of Sebastian Gryphius. He appeara to have established a printing office about 1540, and printed many books in the name and on account of Gryphius; but from 1544, we find his own name to a number of very correct editions. Most of his editions have Latin prefaces or dedications from his pen. His talents procured him the honour of being appointed King's printer. He died of the plague in 1664. His device was two vipers, forming a circle, the female devouring the head of the male, while she herself is devoured by her young, with the inscription, "Quod tibi fieri

afterwards translated to Winchester. The publication of his Dictionary was the cause of his ecclesiastical preferments. He was not only eminent as a divine, but as a scholar ; and was considered one of the most learned men of his time. He died April 29. 1594. Dr. White Kennett, in his Life of William Somner, addressed to Mr. Brome, Oxford, 1693, 8vo., ranks Cooper's Dictionary as a complete plngi. ary from the Dictionarium Latino-Gatlicum, by Charles Stephens, at Paris, 1553, with this only difference, that those phrases are rendered in French by Stephens, and in English by Cooper.
 * Thomas Cooper was first bishop of London, and