A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Godbid (William)
GODBID (WILLIAM), printer in London; Over against the Anchor Inn in Little Britain, 1656-77. Apprenticed to Richard Cotes, who at his death left him a legacy of forty shillings. A notable feature of Godbid's work was the printing of music. In 1657 and 1659 he printed John Gamble's Ayres and Dialogues, in 1658 Henry Lawes' Ayres and Dialogues, and in 1669 the same author's Treasury of Music; in 1658, 1667, and 1669 John Hilton's collection of catches under the title of Catch that Catch can. Amongst his other work as a printer was Richard Lovelace's Lucasta, 1659, and Sir Aston Cokain's Plays and Poems. In the survey of the press made in July, 1668, he was returned as having three presses, five workmen, and two apprentices. [Plomer, Short History, p. 226.]