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upon untrue suggestions, caused them to be seized and sold to 

 Vlack for j6100. Vlack is now preparing to go beyond seas to 

 avoid answering his late bringing over nine bales of books con- 

 trary to the decree of the Star Chamber, and procures some 

 persons to pretend that he is indebted to them (as formerly 

 Hooganhuysen did), thereby to get the books into their posses- 

 sion. Petitioner prays order to bring the bales to Stationers' 

 Hall, there to remain till Vlack shall re-deliver to him the said 

 four vats of books, or at least at the same price he bought them. 

 Reference to Sir John Lambe to take three Commissioners' 

 hands, and by warrant bring the books above-mentioned to 

 Stationers' Hall, till the cause may be heard. 13th November, 

 1637" (Vol. ccclxxi. p. 94). 



This series of the Calendar of State Papers is not as yet pub- 

 lished beyond the beginning of 1639, so that it is not certain 

 whether Vlacq' s name will occur again; but we know, from his 

 own account (Phil. Mag. Oct. 1872), that a compromise was 

 effected. The case of Hooganhuysen (David van Hooganhosen 

 as he generally appears) was repeatedly before the court for more 

 than a year. He originally had James Bleau as his co-defendant ; 

 but the latter was discharged on June 26, 1634, and judgment 

 against the former given on June 15, 1635, in the following 

 words : — " Considering the ill-consequence and scandal that 

 would arise by strangers importing and venting in this kingdom 

 books printed beyond seas, it was ordered that Hooganhosen 

 should not bring over or sell Mercator's Atlas or Atlas Major in 

 English, and if such be brought over by any one they are to be 

 seized." He was also subsequently (July 7, 1635) ordered to 

 carry out his contract with regard to the delivery of Amesius 

 upon the Psalms and other works to certain booksellers. It 

 will be seen how well the quotation about Vlacq agrees with 

 his own account. He was about ten years in London, and 

 finally left on the breaking out of the civil war ; so that he spent 

 the years from 1632-1642 in England*, the first few very 

 peaceably, but afterwards he was treated as he describes. The 

 petition of Richard Whitacres was very likely, the commence- 

 ment of hostilities. 



Of the books which Vlacq names as having been printed by 

 himself between 1642 and 1648 at Paris, I have not been suc- 

 cessful in seeing a copy that satisfies these conditions ; but I 



* I take this opportunity of correcting a mistake of a name in my first 

 communication (Oct. 1872). Dr. Johnston should be the well-known 

 Dr. Juxon, who became Bishop of London in 1633, and as Archbishop of 

 Canterbury in 1660 crowned Charles II. The Latin is Joxstonius, which, 

 considering the x a misprint for n (a not uncommon interchange), I ren- 

 dered Johnston. Vlacq, writing after an interval of fifteen years, must have 

 only partially remembered the name. 



