A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Lee, or Ley (William)
LEE, or LEY (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, (1) Paul's Chain, 1640–46; (2) Fleet Street, neere Sergeant's Inne, at the signe of the Golden Buck, 1621–52; (3) Turk's Head in Fleet Street next to the Miter and Phoenix [over against Fetter Lane], 1627-65; (4) Lombard Street, 1659 (1623-65). Three stationers of the name of Lee or Ley took up their freedom between 1601 and 1640, i.e., William Lee, son of Frauncis Lee of Southwark, apprentice to Edward Venge for eight years from March, 1603 [Arber, ii. 270]; William Lee, made free October 2nd, 1620 [ibid., iii. 685]; and William Lee, made free October 2nd, 1637 [ibid., iii. 688]. A William Lee, of Lombard Street, was Master of the Company of Stationers in 1659. [Arber, v. lxv.] One of these men was associated with Richard Rogers in publishing a catalogue of plays in 1656 in an edition of Goffe's Careless Shepherdess. [W. W. Greg, List of Plays. Appendix II.]