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 GASCOIGNE (ROBERT) bookseller at Oxford, 1665. His name is found on Sir Balthazar Gerbier's Subsidium Pereginantibus, 1665. [B.M. 1049, a. 25 (1).]  GAYE (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, (1) Hosier Lane, at the sign of the Axe; (2) Goldsmiths' Alley (21 June 1642). Publisher of political tracts. [Hazlitt, iii. 36, 310.]  GELLIBRAND (SAMUEL), bookseller in London, (1) The Brazen Serpent in Paul's Church Yard, 1643; (2) The Ball in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1650-66, 1669-75; (3) St. James Clerkenwell, 1666-68 (1637-75). Son of Henry Gellibrand, of London, Dr. of Physic, deceased, apprenticed to, q.v., from Midsummer, 1630. Took up his freedom June 26th, 1637. [Arber, iii. 688.] First book entry, July 18th, 1637. Became a well known bookseller, dealing chiefly in theological books, and was one of those who subscribed to Luke Fawne's Beacon set on Fire. There is an interesting reference to Samuel Gellibrand in the will of Walter Floyd, apparently a soldier, who died in 1645, and directed his executor to pay a sum of Five Pounds "to Mr. Samuel Gellibrand at the Brasen Serpent in St. Paul's Churchyard for Capt. Golledge." [P.C.C. 102, Rivers.] He is also mentioned in the marriage license of Henry Gellibrand in 1666, where his address was given as. St. James' Clerkenwell. Samuel Gellibrand died between August 5th and November 10th, 1675. By his will it appears that he had three sons, John, Edward, and Henry, the latter pre-deceasing him. To his wife he left his stock of books bound and unbound, and also all his part in the English stock. One of the witnesses was, who afterwards became a noted bookseller. [P.C.C. 110, Dycer.]  GIBBES, see. GIBBS, see. GIBS, GIBBES, or GIBBS (GEORGE) bookseller in London; Flower de Luce in Popes-Head-Alley, 1646. Only known from the imprint to L. Owen's Unmasking of all Popish Monks, 1646. [B.M. E. 339 (15).] Possibly a son of George Gibbs the elder, who was publishing at this address from 1613 to 1633. [Arber, v. 237; Sayle, 839.]