formal deed of partnership was drawn up with Thomas Buck, q.v., who, however, seems to have retired for a time from the business in 1640, as Roger Daniel's name alone figures in the imprints to Cambridge books from 1640 to 1650. In 1642 and 1643 he was in trouble with the House of Commons for printing certain things to which it took offence, and his patent as University printer was cancelled for neglect on June 1st, 1650, but he continued his business in London, and at the Restoration he petitioned to be reinstated as University printer, but without success. The last heard of him is in the year 1666. [R. Bowes, Bibl. Notes on the University Printers … in Cambridge, Camb. Antiq. Soc. Com., vol. 5, pp. 283-362; Commons' Journals, ii. 733, 751, 900, 951; Domestic State Papers, Charles II.]
DARBY (CLEMENT), bookseller in London, 1659. Only known from the imprint to Richard Lovelace's Lucaste, printed for him by W. Godbid. His address has not been found.
DARBY (JOHN), printer in London; Bartholomew Close, 1662-67. A printer in a small way of business whom Sir R. L. Estrange threatened to prosecute for having set up contrary to the Act of 1662. John Darby was constantly in trouble with the authorities for printing satires, lampoons, and other unauthorised literature, of which it is enough to mention Andrew Marvell's Rehearsal Transposed. [Calendars of Domestic State Papers, 1663-67.]
DAVENPORT (RALPH), printer in London; St. Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street, 1660-65. The following books came from his press: Burton (John), History of Eriander, 1661; Leigh (Edward), Select & Choice observations concerning all the Roman & Greek Emperors, 1663; Stevenson (M.), Poems, 1665. He died about September 17th, 1665, probably of the plague, having made a nuncupative will. [p.c.c. 27, Mico.]
DAVIES (JOHN), bookseller (?) in London, 1662. Only known from the imprint to the following pamphlet: Strange and wonderfull visions and Predictions of William Juniper … London: Printed for J. Davies and are to be sold by Simon Miller at the Star in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1662.
