Note 451 — Chapter XI · WILLIAM CASLON, 1720.

James Bettenham, husband of the elder Bowyer’s step-daughter, was born 1683. He printed in St. John’s Lane, and attained to considerable eminence as a printer, although after sixty years’ labour he left behind him only £400. “He died,” says Rowe Mores, “in 1774, ferè centenarius sanæque mentis et memoriæ.”