I'm transcribing the will of London Stationer Robert Milbourne (PCC 11/191/92), from 1643, and he leaves to another stationer "my longe Naples purse beinge made of silke and silver." I'd love to see an example of this, it sounds beautiful!

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Can anyone researching London in the 1640s please keep a lookout for a stationer named Edward Dobson. We have quite a few newsbook refs to him, but he disappears just before coming up for trial in 1644, for printing things Parliament really didn't like. We're trying to trace what happened to him. Dead by Restoration. Newsbooks currently silent.

Brother of painter William.

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