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NORTON—OAKES.

NORTON (ROGER) the Younger, printer in London; Kings printing office in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, (1) Blackfriars [(?) Hunsdon House]; (2) Clerkenwell Green; (3) Little Britain. 1662-86. Son of Roger Norton, printer, of Blackfriars, q.v., and grandson of Bonham Norton. Succeeded to his father's business in 1662. His premises were burnt in the great fire, and he moved to Clerkenwell Green, and later, back to Little Britain, where he built a printing house. In the survey of the press taken in 1668, he is returned as having three presses, one apprentice, and seven workmen.

NOTT (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, (1) Ivy Lane; (2) White Horse in Paul's Churchyard; (3) Queens Arms in the Pell-Mell. 1660-84. Published a book of devotion called Private forms of Prayer, 1660, and Anne Wyndham's Claustrum Regale Reseratum, 1667. There was a W. Nott, bookseller in Oxford in 1665.

NOTT (W.), bookseller in Oxford, 1665. [Madan, Chart of Oxford Printing, p. 30.] He may be identical with the London bookseller, William Nott.

NOWELL (NATHANIEL), bookseller in London; Little Britan, 1664-7. Churchwarden of St. Botolph's without Aldersgate, 1664-5. Died March 9th, 166 6/7. [Smyth's Obituary, p. 74.] His will was proved on March 26th, by which he left everything to his wife Joane. Samuel Mearne and Marmaduke Thompson were witnesses. [P.C.C. 49, Carr.]

NOWELL (WILLIAM), bookseller in Norwich, 1660-1. Published T. Brabourne's God save the king, 1660.

NUTHALL (JAMES), bookseller in London, (1) Over against the George, near Holborn Bridge, 1650; (2) In Fleet Street at the sign of the Hercules Pillars, 1651; (3) Minories, next door to the Dolphin, 1660. 1650-60. Publisher of mathematical, surgical and theological books. Amongst these were John Chatfield's Trigonal Sector, 1650 [E. 1381 (1)]; T. Vicary's Surgions Directorie, 1651 [E. 1265]; and Zachary Crofton's sermon, The Pursuit of Peace, 1660. [E. 1025 (19).]

OAKES (EDWARD), printer in London, 1663-8. Set up in business after the Act of 1663. In the survey taken on July 29th, 1668, he is returned as having two presses, no apprentices, and two workmen. [Plomer, Short History, p. 227.]