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also his mark, the design of which is well con- ceived; the sun is represented rising, and a boy awakens his sleeping companions, saying, "Abise, fob it is Day;" which is evidently a pun upon his name, a custom to which the an- cient printers were much attached; but besides the mere play upon the word, it cerUinly alluded to the day of Protestant reformation, w^ich had been rapidly brought forward by the aid of printing.

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The sign of Day's first shop, in Sepulchre's parish, — the Resurrection, — ^has been supposed to have had a similar allusion.

Two hundred and forty-five works bear the imprint of this truly eminent typographer; and the long descriptive list of his productions occu- pies pp. 616-680 of Herbert's Ames, and pp. 48- 177 of the fourA volume of Dibdin's edition.

The principal particulars known of Day's family history nave been derived from the above epitaph. He married two wives, and had by each thirteen children, The name of his first wife is not recorded. The second was a gentle- woman of the name of Lehunte, entitled to bear six quarterings in her shield. He bore for his armorial ensign, ermine, on a fesse indented (azure) two eaglets displayed, (argent;) and for a crest a demi-eagle displayed rising out of a ducal coronet.

Of John Daye's twenty-six children the name of only four are known. The burial of one, and his ow'n interment, are thus recorded in Bradley Parva register :

1381. Bartholomew the Sonne of John Day, gent, buryed the 6 oft May.

UB*. Johi's Day, gent, in Waldinensl in Eraex

xxUi Jiily> sepultt tamen in de Bradley, a Aug.

Richard Day was elected from Eton college in the year 1671, to king's college, Cambridge, where hea;ssumed the degree of M.A.and became Fellow. He was for some time engaged in the printing business, and was perhaps made free of the stationers' company by his father's copv,since he was called on the livery on the 30th of June, 1578; but he does not appear to have served any office, and an apprentice which he took in June. 1580, was rebound to Garrat Dewce for nine years, in July, 1581. His residence was at his father's house in Aldersgate, but he had also " the long shop" at the west end of St. Paul's church yard, bearing the sign of the three lilies growing from one stalk in the midst of thorns, with the motto Sicvl Lilium inter Spinae, i. e. as the Lily among thorns, taken from Can-

ticles, chap. ii. v. 2. according to the vulgsite translation. This sign and motto be used as a device. There does not appear to have been any- work printed by Richard Day after the year 1581; and Herbert imagines, that as he then turned over his apprentice, he left the business, and assigned his patent copies to others, and succeeded John Fox as minister at Riegate, in Surry. His literary works consist of the follow- ing : — A copy of Latin verses Contra Papittas incendiariot, attached to Fox's Martyrology, Edit. 1576: a translation of Fox's book De Chritto triumphanU Comadia, with a preface and two dedications of the volume, printed in different editions, one of which he signs "Rich : A'ije" a preface to, and perhaps the transla- tions of the TestamenU of xii Patriarch*; a Latin preface to Peter Baron's treatise De Fide, and he was probably the author of other similar works. As a printer his name appears to only three works; and twelve books were printed by various persons for the assigns of Richard Day. These works are all of a religious character.

John Day, another son, born " near or over Aldersgate," about 1566, was also a learned scholar and author, and Fellow of Oriel college, Oxford. He was presented by sir William Soajne, to whom he was related, to the vicarage of Great Thurlow, where he died in 1627. See Wood's - AtheruB Oxoniensis, (edit. Bliss) vol. ii.coll. 412. A fourth brother was Lionel Day, fellow of Baliol college, and rector of Whichford, in Warwickshire, where he died 1640, aged 70. He published a Concio ad CUrrum. Wood's Fattt, vol. i. coll. 376.)

1584. The Araygnment of Paris. Presented before the Queenes Majesties, by the children of her chappell. Imprinted at London, by Henry March, anno 1584. This piece has been attri- buted to Shakspeare; but its real author was George Peele. — Betoe.

1684. A right excellent and Famous Comady, called the Three Ladies of London. Wherein is notably declared and setfoorth how, by the mean* of lucre. Love and Conscience is so corrupted, that the one is married to Dissimulation, the other fraught with all abomination. A perfect patteme for all estates to look into, and a work right worthy to be marked. Written by W. R. As it hath been publiquely played. At London, printed by Roger Warde, dwelling neer Holbume Conduit, at the sign of the Talbot. 1684.

1584. The following is a curious fact, regard- ing the state of the roads in England at this period; and that although officers were appoint- ed, they could not effectually annihilate these " detestable malefacts," as they were called; for, amongst the records of the drapers' company, at Shrewsbury, there is the following minute : "25 Elizabeth, anno 1583. Ordered, That no draper set out for Oswestry market, on Mondays, before six o'clock in the morning, on forfeiture of 6s. 6d.; and that they wear their weapons all the way, and go in company. Not to go over the Welsh bridge before the bell toll six." It is further stated, that " William Jones, esq. left to