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334 RUTTERWORTH AND C8VRCH1LL* Surrey.'" Tothill, however, did still publish other books than those relating to the very remunerative branch of law; for, in 1562, he produced " S tow's Abridgment of the Chronicles of England ;" and, in 1590, "Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Hus- bandry." His name would, probably, have been unknown, at all events forgotten, had he not occupied the Hands and Star in Temple Bar, the very same shop which, two-and-a-half centuries afterwards, Henry Butterworth again rendered famous as the great emporium of legal books. Tothill was succeeded by John More (he had been previously represented, but only for awhile, by Barker and others), and we have already seen that Samuel Richardson, and Lintott's granddaughter, had obtained the patent of King's Printers for legal books ; this brings us up in date to, at all events, the uncle of the subject of our present memoir. Henry Butterworth, the most famous of all our law- publishers, was born on 28th February, 1786, in the city of Coventry. His father was a wealthy timber- merchant, and his ancestors fairly claimed alliance with the great county families, though Butterworth Hall, in the township of Butterworth, near Rochdale, in their possession since Stephen's reign, had already fallen into alien hands. The Rev. John Butterworth, his grandfather, had removed from Rochdale to Coventry ; he was well known as the author of a " Concordance to the Holy Scriptures," which passed through several editions, and was the received work upon the subject until the appearance of Cruden's more famous " Concordance." Young Henry Butterworth was educated at the Public Grammar School, in Coventry, and afterwards placed under the tutorial care of Dr. Johnson, of