William Ellis (fl. 1642? – 1651)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 42207

Occupations

  • Printer

William Ellis, printer, probably the same person as in Plomer below (Thames Street, 1649–51).

A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of foreign printers of English books 1557–1640, by R.B. McKerrow (1910)

ELLIS (WILLIAM), printer in London; Thames Street, 1649–51. On June 3rd, 1650, a person of the name of Ellis was committed to Newgate for printing Pragmaticus. [Domestic State Papers, Interr., vol. 64, pp. 415–416.] He is further mentioned in that year as one of those giving security for good behaviour. [Domestic State Papers, 1649-50, pp. 522, 523.] The only thing traced to his press is a pamphlet in verse entitled News from Newcastle, 1651, a copy of which is in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian.