Note 389 — Chapter IX · THE LATER FOUNDERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

This is possibly the printer respecting whom Nichols (Illust. Lit., viii, 464) notes that on Nov. 20, 1732, John Mears, bookseller, was taken into custody for publishing a Philosophical Dissertation on Death . . . Meares succeeded to the business of Richard Nutt, and printed the Historical Register. Among the Bagford Collections (Harl. MS. No. 5915) is a Specimen by H. Meere, printer, at the Black Fryar, in Blackfriars, London. No date.