A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Cottrell (James)
COTTRELL (JAMES), printer in London; Black & White Court, Old Bailey, 1649–70. Set up as a printer about 1649. During the Commonwealth he printed a good many pamphlets that offended the authorities. In 1664 he was arrested with others for illegally printing law books, see Fletcher (M.). At the time of the survey of the press made in July, 1668, he employed two presses, two compositors and no apprentices, so that we may infer that his business was not a large one. [Thurloe, State Papers, vol. 3, pp. 738-9; Domestic State Papers, Chas. II, vol. 243, p. 181.]