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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

Read, White Fryers, Fleet-street, and printer'of a Ualf-venny Pott and a Weekly Journal.

Raylton, Geon^e-yard, Lombard-street.

Samuel Aris, Creed-lane.

Staples, St. John's-lane.

Watts and Tonson, Coveut Garden.

Tookey,* behind the Royal Exchanse.

Wilkins, Little Britain, and printerof the White- hall Evening Pott, the Whitehall and London Journal.

Wood, eodem.

Woodfall.t without Temple Bar.

Wilmot, Fenchurch-street.

NONJURORS.

Bettenham, St. John's-lane. Bowyer, WTjite Fryers, Fleet-street. Dalton, St. John's lane.

SAID TO BE HIGH FLVERS.

Applebee, Fleet-ditch, printer of the Daily Jour- nal, and of a Weekly Joumed bearing his own name.

Barber, Lambeth-hill (an alderman of London.)

Badbam, Fleet-street.

Bruges, Jewin-street.

Clark, Thames-street.

Collins, Old Baily.

Cluer, Bow Church-yard.

Edlin, near the Saroy.

Gilbert and Phillips, Smithfield.

Gent^ Pye-comer.

Grantham,§ Paternoster-row.

• He is a pretty modest obligini; printer.— His wliole beliBTioar lias heen very innocent and undesi^ing — he is a man of great piety and moderation, and deserves the title of an honest printer. In this character of Mr. Tookey yoa have ^e trae picture of Mr. Larkin, Jimior, Mr. Job How, commonly called honest Job, Mr. Bridges, and Mr. Barber, first an apprentice to Mr. Larkin, senior — for these fonr printers so exactly resemble Mr. Tookey in piety, good humour, and other obliging qualities, that it is im- possible to say which is the better christian.— i>uiito».

t This was the Orst. I believe, of a name which has now fbr more than a centory been conspicuous in the annals of typography. That the more immediate subject of this note was a man of wit and humour, is evident from the fiamoos (dd ballad of Darbji and Joan, which he wrote when be was ^iprentice to the printer of that name (Mz. John Darby, of Bartholomew Close, who died in 1730.) At the age of forty he commenced master, at the suggestion of Pope, who had disUngoished his abilities as a scholar whilst a Journeyman in the employment of the printer to that admired author. Of his personal history I knew little farther, except that he carried on a considerable business with reputation ; and had two sons i Henry, a printer, in Fatemoster-row ; and George, a bookseller, at Chaiing- cross, both of whom I well remember."— ftTieAota. Of the members of this distinguished family of scholars and typographers, see poll.

t This was Thomas Gent, the well known printer, who removed his offlce from London to York, in I7i4.

I He swells not, like L, his neighbour, with look- ing big, but is courteous and aflttble to all ; holding cour- tesy so main an ornament to a thriving printer, as that he lo^es any thing that is proud or starched. He is one that thinks what he does, and does what he says ; and f6resees what he can do beTore he promises, so that I have found his " If I can," is mote tlian another's assurance. He is Just and punctual in all his dealings, and wipes from printing all the blemishes and imputations cast upon it by Ignorance or malice. And to speak the truth, he is the best friend to a bookseller of all the printers I ever knew ; be is a man of large ^th, and so very generous to those that live in his debt, that none but a villain would wrong him. For my own share, 1 have received so many favours from Mi. Orantham, that I should think It a sin to put

Heathcote, Baldwin's Gardens, printer of a

Halffenny Pott, bearing his own name. Hind, Old Baily. Humpheries, printer to the parish clerics, Sflrcr-

street, in the city. James, Little Britain, author and printer of Hbx

Pott-hoy. Hive,* Aldersgate-streeL Lee,f St. John's-lane. Lightbov, Old Bailey. Meere, Old Baily, and printer of the Dmly Poa

and Britith Journal. Midwinter, Pye-comer. Mist, Great Carter-street, and printer of a. i

dalous Weekly Journal, beanng his own r

away any thing that he can print, and for tliis icBaen he is my printer in chief. I never dispose of m oopr Imc I make it the main article that Mr. Grantham shall pntt it, and all this Is but what I owe him, for the favours I ba:«« received from him and Mr. Darker, his predecessor. inBde htm his debtor for ever. In truth Mr. Grsntham is sd kind to me, the name of Mend is too narrow for him, aai I want a word that Is more significant to e xpa e a* ha. and which crowns his character, he Is blest with a wiir that deserves him, fbr Mrs. Grantham's prudence (ives so many proofb of her capacity for domestic govcmmesc that the heart of her husband doth safely tnut in bcr, tmt like an helpmate she is willing to be ruled by him in si tilings, even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling Um kM . or if any quarrel is. It Is which of the two shall U<« bo« content ; so that as marriage has made them the saar flesh, so love and sympathy has so united than that It s very likely they will expire together.

Mr. Orantham married the widow of Mr. Dsrk^, s printer In partnership with Mr. Newman, and of wkoB Donton makes honourable mention. Mr. Darker ad Mr. Newman were partners when I firat em{dayed tiicx. and took some hundred pounds of me yeaiiy wtiile the; continued together in Little Britain. But Mr. Kewmu removing, I procured Mr. Darker the same boaincas aer had both engaged in before. He took me so much for Is friend, that when he heard of my misfortnues he toU Mr. Larkin that he would not have any concerns betwixi kia. self and me give me the least uneasiness. I have fooadtke same favor from his widow since his decease, and bow is her second marriage, Mr. Orantham. her husband. h» shewn himself the same friend, and thooeh I have bets long in Egypt, his fidth and his good opinion axe not is the least disordered. To return to Mr. Darker, he wasnr true friend, a kind neighbour, a geoerooa dealer, mai m enemy to no man but himself. His deaith did seasAlT afflict me.

An epitaph upon his stone

I cannot<write, but I can weep him one.

As for Mr. Dorman Newman, he was very handaaoae, m^ had abundance of good nature In him } he was sosieChiBr out of order In his softer hours; but I bqie he died i righteous man.— Dimfon.

Mr. Hugh Newman served his time with Mr- Dosbsii Newman, and is nearly related to him. He is of a cheer ful, facetious temper, and much admired by the Scold gentry. He has not. Indeed, the politeness of a ccwatig. but an honest bluntness that bener becomes him. Be really merits that respect which his friends pay hiia. aad whenever he marries, (I so much desire his weltec; 1 wish he may meet with a wife that will " look well to dv ways of her household." Piov. xzzL 17.— !>■«<•■.

lUve, who were all printers, and of whom noticea wfl kc given hereafter.
 * This was the tether of Jacob, Abraham, and Isaac

t Mr. Lee, in Lombard street. Such a pirate, sach s cormorant was never before. Books, men, shofia. all was one : he held no property, right or wrong, good or ba< till at last he be^an to be known : and the liookaellcn not enduring so 111 a man among them to disgrace thCB, spewed him out, and off he marched for Ireland, wten he acted asfelonloos-leeashedidln London. And ^ Lee lived a thief, so he died a hypocrite : for. being asked on

his death-bed. If he would forgive Mr. O. that h^

formerly wronged him I " Yes," said he. " if I die, I te. give him. but If I happen to live, I am resolved to be re- venged on Mm."— IHmfoa.