A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Breach ( )
BREACH (), Mrs., bookseller in London; Westminster Hall, "at the foot of the stone stairs going up to the Court of Requests," 1649–75. Was associated in 1649 with Thomas Banks, q.v., who also kept a stall in the Hall, at the sign of the Seal, in publishing the Rev. John Cotton's Controversie concerning libertie of conscience, 1649. In 1675 she was in trouble for selling a pamphlet entitled A Letter from a Person of Quality to his Friend in the Country, One of the witnesses described Mrs. Breach as a fat woman. She must have been a familiar figure in the Hall throughout the Civil War, Commonwealth and the Restoration. [Hist. MSS. Comm., 9th Report App. p. 66a; Lords' Journals, vol. xiii. 17; Library, N.S., No. 24, pp. 380–390.]