A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Grismond (John) II
GRISMOND (JOHN) II, printer in London; Ivy Lane, 1639 (?)–1666 (?). This was not the type founder mentioned in the Star Chamber Decree of 1637, for he died in 1638, his will being proved on the last day of December in that year. [p.c.c. 169, Lee.] He left no son. This John Grismond may have been the son of his brother, William Grismond, mentioned in the will. John Grismond II is first met with in the list of printers who were bound over in 1649 not to print seditious books. [Calendar of State Papers, 1649–50, pp. 522, 523.] In 1664, he was arrested at the instance of the Company of Stationers for illegally printing law books (see Fletcher, M.). The John Grismond who, in 1654, was entered as a scholar at Merchant Taylors' School, may have been a son of John Grismond II. [Reed, Old English Letter Foundries, 1887, p. 166, n.].