A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Bartlet (John), senior
BARTLET (JOHN), senior, bookseller in London, (i) Gilt Cup, Goldsmiths' Row, Cheapside, 1619-37; (2) Gilt Cup near St. Austines Gate, 1641; (3) In St. Faith's Parish, 1643–44; (4) In the new buildings on the South side of Pauls, neer St. Austine's-Gate, at the sign of the Gilt-Cup, 1655; (5) At the Golden Cup in Pauls Church Yard over against the Drapers, 1657; (6) Gilt-Cup in Westminster Hall, 1658. Took up his freedom in the Company of Stationers on July 26th, 1619, and set up in business at the Gilt Cup in Goldsmiths' Row, Cheapside, his chief publications being sermons and other theological works. He was one of the victims of Laud's persecution, being apprehended in December, 1637, and brought before Sir John Lambe on a charge of having given William Prynne's servant some of the writings of Dr. Bastwick and Mr. Burton to be copied. He was ordered by the Privy Council to shut up his shop, and as he did not obey the order quickly enough, he was imprisoned in the Compter in Wood Street for three months, until he had entered into bond of £100 not to use his trade in Cheapside, to quit his house within six months, and not to let it to anyone but a goldsmith under a penalty of £600. He was afterwards brought before the Privy Council on the Archbishop's warrant, and sent to the Fleet prison, where he remained six months. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 374, 13, etc; vol. 378, 86; vol. 501, 18; Domestic State Papers, 1643 (4).] He afterwards moved into St. Paul's Churchyard, where his imprint appears in four varieties, though probably all relating to the same house. He had a son, John, who held a stall in Westminster Hall under the same sign, but probably it belonged to the father also. John Bartlet the elder appears to have died between 1657 and 1660. [Library, N.S., October, 1905, pp. 384–5.]