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 issue. In the following January he began another, entitled Occurrences of certain speciall and remarkable passers in Parliament and the affaires of the Kingdome, which was still in existence in 1646.

BADDELEY (RICHARD), bookseller in London; Within the Middle Temple Gate, 1650–53. Was probably a native of Durham, as on October 29th, 1650, he took as an apprentice Richard Baddeley, son of Richard Baddeley of that city. [Stationers' Company Register of Apprenticeships, 1603–66.] He published a Letter to a Gentleman in the Country, 1653, attributed to John Milton. &#91;Masson's Life of Milton, vol. 4, p. 520.]

BADGER (GEORGE), bookseller in London; In St. Dunstan's Churchyard at his shop turning up to Cliffords Inne, 1641; (2) St. Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet Street, 1641–51. Was probably a relation of Richard Badger and Thomas Badger. His widow married Theodore Crowley. [Stationers' Registers, Liber F, p. 160.] Both the addresses given above relate to the same house, which had previously been in the possession of H. Taunton, stationer.

BADGER (RICHARD), printer in London; (?) White Swan, at the foot of Addling Hill, near Baynard's Castle, 1602–42. According to the entry in the Registers of the Company of Stationers, Richard Badger was the son of John Badger, of Stratford-upon-Avon. [Arber, ii. 261.] The parish registers of the town do not confirm this, the only entries of a Richard Badger being Richard, son to George Badger, born September 14th, 1580, and another son of the same name, born August 17th, 1585. There is no mention in the Registers of any son born to a John Badger. [Stratford-on-Avon Parish Registers, Parish Register Society, 1897.] R. Badger came to London and was apprenticed to Peter Short, a printer, on March 25th, 1602, for eight years, and took up his freedom in April, 1610. He then joined, q.v., another Stratford man, who had succeeded to the printing business of Richard Field, also a native of Stratford, and the printer of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Lucrece. How long he remained with Miller is unknown, but Sir John Lambe states that about 1630 Richard Badger succeeded to the printing office formerly kept by Valentine Simmes. [Arber, iii. pp. 699–704.] Badger was admitted a master printer on June 12th, 1629, and in 1639 spoke of himself as