A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Swaine (Robert)
SWAINE (ROBERT), bookseller in London; Britains Burse, 1629-41. Took up his freedom December 20th, 1628. [Arber, iii. 686.] Mentioned in a list of stationers, dated August 5th, 1641, as one of the better sort of freemen, who paid five shillings to the poll tax. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 483, 11.]