A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Ellis (William)
ELLIS (WILLIAM), printer in London; Thames Street, 1649-51. On June 3rd, 1650, a person of the name of Ellis was committed to Newgate for printing Pragmaticus. [Domestic State Papers, Interr., vol. 64, pp. 415-416.] He is further mentioned in that year as one of those giving security for good behaviour. [Domestic State Papers, 1649-50, pp. 522, 523.] The only thing traced to his press is a pamphlet in verse entitled News from Newcastle, 1651, a copy of which is in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian.