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 GREEN (BENJAMIN), bookseller in London; Three Leg Court in Fleet Street, over against the White Friars, 1632-46. Took up his freedom June 9th, 1628. [Arber, iii. 686.] In partnership with, q.v. On October 27th, 1632, they entered in the Registers a broadside called A Yearly Continuation of the Lord Maiours and Sherriffs of London. [Arber, iv. 287.] Benj. Green's name is found on another broadside beginning To the Right Honourable Thomas Adams … [B.M. 669. f. 10, 74.]  GREEN (CHARLES), bookseller in London, (1) White Lion, St. Paul's Churchyard; (2) Gun in Ivy Lane. 1631-48. Took up his freedom June 30th, 1631. [Arber, iii. 686.] Publisher of plays and romances. On November 13th, 1633, he entered in the Stationers' Registers Thomas Morton's New Englands Canaan. This is a remarkable instance of the registration of copyright long before publication, as no copies of the book have been found with an earlier date than 1637, when it was printed at Amsterdam by Frederick Stam. Some copies are found with Greene's name, but without date, while internal evidence goes to prove that the book could not have been printed in 1633. [Publications of the Prince Society, Boston, Mass., 1883, edited by Ch. F. Adams, junr.] Charles Green was afterwards associated with Peter Whaley. He is probably the Charles Greene to whom, q.v., left a bequest of a ring in 1648.  GREEN (GEORGE), senior, bookseller in London, 1621-42. Took up his freedom April 9th, 1621. [Arber, iii. 685.] There was also a, q.v. One of them was associated with John Jackson and F. Smith, in 1642, in publishing a broadside entitled A Catalogue of sundry knights … [Hazlitt, ii. 359.] Their addresses have not been found.  GREEN (GEORGE), junior, bookseller in London, 1637-42. Took up his freedom February 6th, 1637. [Arber, iii. 688.] There was also a George Green, senior.  GREENE (THOMAS), bookseller in London, 1643. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled A Chaleng sent from Prince Rupert and the Lord Grandison, to Sir William Belford &hellip; London, Printed for Thomas Greene, 1643. [B.M. 21 b. 10 (34).] A Thomas Greene, son of Robert Greene, of Brotherton, co. York, was apprenticed to William Jaggard on October 25th, 1602, for eight years. [Arber, ii. 267], but there is no record of his having taken up his freedom.