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commendatioii Morel succeeded in the office of Typographus Regos ; and from about the year 1555, he used the device common to the royal printeis. Henry Stephens seems to accuse him of hanng abandonwl the reformed religion ; pofaaps to enable him to accept the ofSce of tug's printer. This charge is clearly implied in Us

GUUILMI MOBILLII EFITArilUM.

Doctna et Uc qnoiuUm, macni ptUeiuqac Uborii : Auxilia bKc utto ma«o« trpognpUcK-

Scd qood noD hq3u< respondent tiltim* pnmU, Axs bene fldn piiiu» nee bene flda manet.

Ne minre, fidem quod et us sor freKU't iUi ; Namqne dttem Ouisto fre^rst Ule adem.

Maittaire mentions as the early mark of this printer, the Greek letter e, cum Wnw terpen^ Hbui eircumtextU 4- Cupidine media linett inci- ienU. Beneath this hieroglyphic he placed the line from Martial : Victwut genium debet habere Kier .• and sometimes the maxim, from Euri- pides : Juimpm fpoyriite m^wnpai. From the testimony of M. Falconet, it appears that the Greek impressions of William Morel were valu- able both for their beauty and correction.

After all his meritorious labours.it appears that William Morel left his famUy in very embar- rassed circumstances at his decease ; and that in consequence of the civil wars and public troubles of that period, his pension was not duly paid. His widow for some time continued the establish- ment ; which was afterwards vested in Stephen Pnevosteau, who espoused Jeanne, the daughter of William Morel, and adopted his mark. La Caille says that Stephen PresBvosteau distin- guished himself by the impression of numerous and highly finished books. He seems to have exercised the profession till the commencement of the foUwing century.

La Croix du Maine says, that William Morel had a brother John, who was burned at Pari?, on account of his religion. Peignot relates that this John was indeed accused of heresy, and died in prison ; but that his remains were disinterred and burned in 1559. Menage will have it, that this story applies to Frederic Morel, another brother. ,.

1584. Jan.lO. William CABTERwas a danng printer, at London, but seldom put his name to the books he printed ; the only one found with his name is the following ; which is noticed in Strype's Life of Bithop Aylmer. One Carter, a printer, had divers times been put in prison for printing of lewd pamphlets, popish and others, against the government. The bishop by his diligence had found his press in the year 1579, and some appointed by him to search his house, among other papistical books, found one written in the French, intituled. The innocency of the Scotch queen ; who then wai a prisoner for lay- ing claim to the crown of England,and endeavour- ing to raite a rebellion. A very dangerous book this was, the author called her the heir apparent of this crown, inveighed against the late execu- tion of the duke of Norfolk, though he was executed for high trea.son ; defended the rebellion

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in the north,anno 1569,* and made base and false reflections upon two of the queen's chiefest ministers of state, viz. the lord treasurer, and the late lord keeper Bacon. -f

But William Carter's book, for which he suffered, was enutuled. Reasons that eatholickt ought in any vise to abstain from heretical con- venticles, said to be printed at Douay, but really at London, 1580, in octavo, under the name of John Howlet, and dedicated to queen Elizabeth. The running title a treatise of schism. When this book was seized at his house, on Tower bill, near London, he confessed there had been printed 1250 copies. At that time the searchers found the original sent from Rheims, and allowed under Dr. William Allen's own hand to be truly catho- lic and fit to be published. See Wood's Athena.

On the 10th of January, 1584, at a setnons holden in justice hall, in the Old Bailey of Tendon, for gaole delivery of Newgate, William Carter was there indicted, arraigned, and con- demned of high treason, for printing a seditious and traiteTOU8bookinEnglish,entituled, A treatise of schisms; and was for the same (according to sentence pronounced against him) on the next morrow arawn from Newgate to Tybome, and there hanged, bowelled, and quartered. — See HoUingshead, p. 1357. And forthwith against slanderous reports spread abroad in seditious books, letters, and libels, thereby to inflame our countrymen, and her majesty's subjects, a book was published intituled, A declaration of the favourable dealing of her majesties commissioners, He. which book also I have caused to be set downe in the continuation of the chronicle, first

collected by Reigne Wolfe, and finished by Raphaell Hollenshed. — Blow's Annals.

Cardinal Allen, in his answer to the libel of English Justice, p. 10 and U, says, "Carter, a

rr innocent artisan, who was made away onelie printing a catholique booke, De Schisme. — The said young man Carter, of whose martyr- dom we kst treated, was examined upon the rack, upon what gentlemen or catholique ladies he had bestowed, or intended to bestow certain bookes of prayers and spiritual exercises, and meditations, which he had in his custodie."

wu, wtthont eicepUon, the first subject in EnRlandi and tbeaoalltlesof his mind correspondetl with his high station. He closed his career, at length, the victim of love ud am- bition. In his attempt to marry the ScolUsh queen. He died with great courage and magnanimity amidst a vast crowd of sorrowful and weeping spectators.
 * Thomas duke of Norfolk, who sullfered June «, IS7S

t Sir Nicholas Bacon an eminent English lawyer, was bom at Chlslehurst, In Kent, in ISIO. He studied at Beue;t coUege, Cambridge, from jihence he removed to Gray s Inn Henry VIU. appointed him attorney of the court of wards. On the accession of Eliiabeth he was knighted, and in U58 was made keeper of the great seal, and a mem- ber of the privy council. He was a man of great Industry, nrudent and cautious In his conduct, making it his study never to entangle himself with any patty. -When the queen came to rtslt blm at his new house, at Redgrave, she observed, allndlng to his corpulency, that he had built hla house too little for him. " Not so, madam," answered he, "but Tont majesty has made me too big for my house. He died February SO, 1679. and was buried in St. Pa^s. Sir Nicholas Bacon left behind him. In manuscript, sevml discourses on Uw and politics, and a commentary on fte fJJ^eTSnor prophet^none of which have been printed.

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