TROT (ROBERT), printer (?) and bookseller in London; Under the church of Edmond the King in Lombard Street, over against St. Clement's Lane, 1645-9. His name has been met with on the imprints to the following: E. Pagitt, Heresiography, 1645; Eikanah Wales, Mount Ebal levell'd 1659. [Ames Collection, 2825.]
TUCKEY (HUMPHREY), bookseller in London; Black Spread Eagle in Fleet Street (between Temple Bar and Chancery Lane, on the north side), 1642-53. Publisher of political tracts and miscellaneous literature.
TURKEY (HENRY), bookseller (?) in London, 1643. Only known from the imprint to the following pamphlet: Humble petition of the Maior … of the Citie of London to His Majestie … London, Printed for Henry Turkey, 1643. [Hazlitt, ii. 359.]
TURNER (I.), bookseller in London, 1643. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled. Elegies on the death of … John Hampden, Esq. … by J. S. … London, Printed by Luke Norton for I. Turner, 1643. [E. 71 (4).]
TURNER (WILLIAM), printer to the University in Oxford. 1624-43. Took up his freedom on May 24th, 1622 [Arber, iii. 685], and his first book entry is recorded July 18th, 1623. [Arber, iv. 102.] In 1624 he was appointed printer to the University in succession to James Short. In 1631, in company with Michael Sparks, senr., and other London booksellers, he was tried before the Court of Ecclesiastical Commissioners on the charges of printing unlicensed literature and books that were other men's copies. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 188 (13); 190 (40).] Much dissatisfaction was expressed by Dr. Richard Baylie, the Vice-Chancellor, in a letter to Archbishop Laud, dated January 16th, 1636-7, at the wretched character of the literature that came from Turner's press. Dr. Baylie writes, "He has been urged to print Joannes Antiochenes, and adopt some course for advancing the learned press of Oxford, but without any satisfaction … he prints nothing but almanacks and school-books." [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 344 (20).] This letter may perhaps furnish a clue to the statement made in Wharton's Remains of Laud [ii. 174], that Turner had in 1634 abstracted the Savile Greek type. He returned
