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Rh RAMZEY (JOHN), Printer at the Hague, 1659. Printed Sir W. Lower's plays, The Amorous Fantasme, 1659, and The Noble Ingratitude, 1659. It seems probable that he was an exile from Scotland.

RAND (SAMUEL), bookseller (?) in London; Barnards Inn, Holborn, 1642. His name is found on the imprint to H. Peacham's Art of living in London, 1642. [E. 145 (20).] There was a bookseller of this name living at Holborn Bridge between 1611 and 1634. [Arber, v. 260.] This may be the same or a successor.

RAND, or RANDS (WILLIAM), bookseller (?) in London, 1659. Hazlitt (H. 169) records an edition of Will. Drummond's Poems, published by him in 1659.

RANDALL (JAMES), bookseller (?) in London, 1641. Mentioned in a list of stationers as one of the "better sort of freemen" who paid twenty shillings as his proportion of the poll tax. The return is dated August 5th, 1641. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, 483 (11).]

RANDS, see.

RANEW (NATHANIEL), bookseller in London; Angel in Jewin Street, 1663-7. In partnership with Jonathan Robinson. His name is found in the imprint to the Rev. J. Dyke's Worthy Communicant, 1667. [Ames Coll. 3306.] He also published an account of the burning of London, by Samuel Rolls.

RATCLIFFE (THOMAS), printer in London; St. Bennet Pauls Wharf near Doctors Commons, 1646-67. Took up his freedom January 14th, 1628. [Arber, iii. 686.] About May, 1646, he joined partnership with. They had an extensive business, and their initials T.R. and E.M. are met with on the books and pamphlets of this period at every turn. In 1659 Ratcliffe petitioned the Vestry of St. Bennet's to be relieved from serving as a vestryman on the ground that he was above the age of threescore years. [Vestry Books of St. Bennets, Paul's Wharf; Guildhall MSS. $877⁄1$, p. 182.] The date of his death is unknown. In the survey taken on July 29th, 1668, a Thomas Ratcliffe is returned as having two presses, two apprentices, and seven workmen &#91;Plomer, Short History, p. 226], but this and later references probably refer to a son. &#91;G. J. Gray, Index to Hazlitt, p. 639; Hist MSS., Comm. Report 9, App. p. 73$a$.]