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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Keimer, Samuel
KEIMER, SAMUEL (fl. 1707–1738), printer, was born of ‘parents of repute … in the parish of St.
Thomas's, Southwark,’ and was apprenticed to Robert Tookey, printer, Christopher's Court, Threadneedle Street, London. Keimer, like his only sister, Mary, was at first an adherent of Jean Cavalier and of the French protestants in 1713, but after his marriage he joined the quakers.
Samuel keimer biography
About the same date he hired a shop, but, failing to pay his way, was imprisoned in the Fleet (Brand Pluck'd from the Burning, passim). While in prison he wrote in doggerel verse ‘A Search after Religion among the many Modern Pretenders to it,’ London [1718], sm.
8vo, and ‘A Brand Pluck'd from the Burning exemplify'd in the unparallel'd case of Samuel Keimer,’ London, 1718, sm. 8vo. The latter contains a curious account of the quarrels of the French protestants and of prison life, and includes a letter from Daniel Defoe, which is unnoticed