A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Legate (John)

by Henry Robert Plomer

LEGATE (JOHN), printer in Cambridge and London; Little Wood Street, 1620-58. Son of John Legate, printer at Cambridge (1588-1620). Admitted Freeman of the Stationers' Company, September 6th, 1619. [Arber, iv. 45.] Appointed printer to the University of Cambridge by Grace, July 5th, 1650, in succession to Roger Daniel, q.v. His patent was cancelled for neglect October 10th, 1655, after which he appears to have come to London and settled in Little Wood Street. Smyth in his Obituary, p. 49, has this entry, "Nov^r. 4^th 1658, Mr. Legat in Little Wood Street, printer, once printer at Cambridge, since distempered in his senses, died." [R. Bowes, Biographical Notes on the University Printers, p. 306.]