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it in February, 1639/40. He died about October, 1644, and was succeeded as University Printer by Henry Hall, q.v., who had been one of his apprentices, and who had purchased Turner's presses, letters and utensils. [Madan, Early Oxford Press, p. 276; Chart, p. 29.

TUTCHEIN (ROBERT), bookseller (?) in London; Phœnix, in the New Rents in S. Paul's Church Yard, 1651. Only known from an imprint preserved amongst the Bagford fragments. [Harl., 5963 (10).]

TUTHILL (JOHN), bookseller in Yarmouth, 1661. His name is found on the imprint to the following pamphlet: Brinsley (John) ΑΓΩΝΟΤΡΟΧΙΑ, Running of the Christian Race, 1661. [Ames Collection, 3026.]

TWYFORD (HENRY), bookseller in London, (1) Vine Court in the Middle Temple; (2) Three Daggers in Fleet Street, 1641-75. Took up his freedom January 20th, 1640. [Arber, iii. 688.] Mentioned as one of the "better sort of freemen" in a list of stationers dated August 5th, 1641, as paying ten shillings as his proportion of the Poll Tax. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 483 (11).] Dealt chiefly in law books, and in 1664 was arrested for illegally selling works of this class, which the Company of Stationers considered as their copyright. [Chan. Proc. Reynardson, Bundle 31, Stationers' Co. v. Flesher.]

TWYFORD (TIMOTHY), bookseller in London; At his shop, within the Inner-Temple-Gate, 1660. Possibly a son of the preceding. His name is found on the imprint to the following book: Herne (John), Law of Charitable uses, 1660. [Ames Collection, 2933.]

TWYN (JOHN), printer in London; Cloth Fair, 1640-64. Took up his freedom September 4th, 1640. [Arber, iii. 688.] This unfortunate printer, being in a small way of business, apparently did not look too closely at the manuscript supplied to him. At the beginning of the year 1664 he was arrested at the instigation of Sir Roger L'Estrange, for printing, or rather attempting to print, a pamphlet entitled A Treatise of the Execution of Justice. He was put on his trial at the Old Bailey on February 20th as a traitor against the King, and the indictment against him was that the book was intended to foment a rebellion. The chief witnesses against him were Joseph Walker, his apprentice, Sir Roger L'Estrange and