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 the Wandring Knight, 1661, printed in black letter, and A Brief account of ancient Church-Government, 1662, 4°., ascribed to Obadiah Walker. His type and ornaments were of the poorest. His address has not been found. 

CALVERT (ELIZABETH), bookseller in London, (1) Black Spread Eagle, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1664-66; (2) Little Britain, 1666-67; (3) Black Spread Eagle, Barbican, 1667-73. The widow of Giles Calvert, q. v. During her husband's lifetime she was imprisoned for selling what was considered a treasonable book, and was in prison at the time of his death. After his death she continued to publish books that offended the authorities. In 1667 the Mayor of Bristol laid an information against her for sending books to certain Bristol booksellers about the Fire of London, and she was again arrested and imprisoned in the Gatehouse for some weeks. In the same year Samuel Mearne seized a private press of hers in Southwark, at which was printed a book entitled Nehushtan. After Sir Roger L'Estrange's retirement from the post of censor, she appears to have been left unmolested. The last year in which her name appears in the Term Catalogues is 1673. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 43, 21; vol. 76, 29, 30; vol. 77, 49; vol. 209, 75; vol. 248, 88; Arber, Term Catalogues, vol. i.]

CALVERT (GEORGE), bookseller in London, (1) Half-Moon in Watling Street neare Paule's stump, 1650; (2) Half-Moon in the new buildings in Paul's Churchyard, 1655-66; 1675-82; (3) Bible in Jewen Street, 1667; (4) Golden Ball in Little Britain, 1669-74. 1648-82. Son of George Calvert, of Meere, in the county of Somerset, "clerk," and brother of, q.v. Apprenticed to Joseph Hunscott, for eight years from Michaelmas, 1636. [Stationers' Register of Apprenticeships.] In conjunction with Thomas Pierrepoint, he issued in 1655 a folio edition of Sidney's Arcadia, and miscellaneous works. This edition was printed for him by W. Dugard. He published two other editions in 1662 and 1674, the first printed by Henry Lloyd, for W. Dugard, the second without printer's name. After the great fire he moved to the Bible in Jewin Street.

CALVERT (GILES), bookseller in London; Black-Spread-Eagle, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1639-64. Son of George Calvert, of Meere, in the county of Somerset, "clerk," and brother of, q.v. He was first apprenticed to William Lugger, bookseller, for nine years from June 30th, 1628, but for some reason not stated his indentures were cancelled, and he 