GODFREY HEAD, 1685,[392]

was one of the authorised founders in 1685, when the following record against him was entered on the Court minutes of the Stationers’ Company:—

“The next dividend of the Stock of Mr. Godfrey Head to be detained in the treasurer’s hand until further order, for his not giving a due account of the letter he is to cast, as the Act of Parliament prescribes.—1685.

“Godfrey Head’s dividend paid on his submission, and giving 20s. to the poor’s box.” {206}

His foundry, Mores informs us, was in St. Bartholomew’s Close. Whether Head succeeded to it or established it, we are unable to ascertain. Of his productions, two founts only can be traced with any certainty, the Pica Greek and the English Black, both of which subsequently passed into Mr. Caslon’s foundry. He was succeeded by

ROBERT MITCHELL,

who had formerly been servant to Mr. Grover. Mitchell removed the foundry first to Jewin Street, and afterwards, says Mores, “lived over Cripplegate, and afterwards in Paul’s Alley, between Aldersgate Street and Red Cross Street. His foundry, containing nothing very curious, unless it were the Blacks, was on the 26th July 1739 purchased by William Caslon and John James jointly, and divided between them.”

The following is Mores’ summary of the contents of this foundry, at its partition:—

THE “ANONYMOUS” FOUNDRY.