A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Dobson (Edward)
DOBSON (EDWARD), bookseller in London; Without Newgate, 1643-4. Only known from the following reference to him in a contemporary news-sheet: "By letters from Northampton we are advertised that Edward Dobson, alias Codpeece-Ned, some time a bookseller without Newgate, an abusive malignant, who had printed many scandalous pamphlets against the Parliament, was taken with a crucifix about his neck, by that garrison March 12. There is a warrant sent to bring him to London." [True Informer, No. 26, March 16-23, 1643, p. 190.] He published a pamphlet entitled The Declaration Vindication & Protestation of Edward Dobson, Citizen & Stationer of London … Bristoll [London] Printed in the Yeere M.DC.XLIIII. 4o. [E. 257 (36)], November 6th. From this we learn that he was imprisoned (1) for selling a book about the Earl of Essex, first printed in 1600; (2) For beating Nicholas Tew, stationer, after which he escaped to Oxford; (3) On a false charge of carrying a saw to the Irish Lords.