A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Hayes (John)

by Henry Robert Plomer

HAYES (JOHN), printer in London; Little Wood Street, 1658-66. Possibly a descendant of Lawrence Hayes, who was publishing up to 1637. [Arber, v. 241.] He was one of the eleven printers who in 1660 or 1661 drew up a petition for the incorporation of printers into a body distinct from the Company of Stationers. [Plomer, Short History, p. 200.] In 1662 Sir R. L'Estrange seized several books at the office of this printer, a list of which is extant. John Hayes was ruined by the Great Fire of 1666. [Ibid., 202 and 225.]