A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Hearne, Herne, or Heron (Richard)
HEARNE, HERNE, or HERON (RICHARD), printer in London; neer Smith-Field, 1632-46. Probably one of Adam Islip's apprentices, for that printer at his death in 1639 left Richard Hearne his "printing presses, letters and implements used for printing," besides a sum of £100. [P.C.C. 151, Harvey.] Hearne had taken up his freedom February 6th, 1632, and his first book entry in the Registers of the Company was T. Heywood's Pleasant Dialogues, entered on August 29th, 1635. [Arber, iii. 687; iv. 347.]