ATKYNES, RICHARD, was born of a good family at Tufflegh in Gloucestershire, in the year 1615. He was educated at Oxford, from whence he removed to Lincoln's Inn. During the civil wars he distinguished himself by his loyalty to King Charles I., and after the Restoration was a constant supporter of the government. Being committed to the Marshalsea prison for debt, he died there on the 14th of September 1677. He wrote a treatise On the Original and Growth of Printing, and several other pieces.