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See also:

• JOHNSON, ANDREW
• JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
• JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
• JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
• JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
• RICHARD JOHNSON (1573–1659 ?)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
• JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
• JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
• JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
• JOHNSON, THOMAS

JOHNSON (1573–1659 ?)  , English romance writer, was baptized in London on the 24th of May 1573 . His most famous romance is The Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom (1596 ?) . The success of this book was so great that the author added a second and a third part in 16o8 and 1616 . His other stories include: The Nine Worthies of London (1592); The Pleasant Walks of Moorefields (1607); The Pleasant Conceites of Old Hobson (1607), the hero being a well-known haberdasher in the Poultry; The Most Pleasant History of Tom a Lincolne (1607); A Remembrance of . . . Robert Earle of Salisbury (1612); Looke on Me, London (1613); The History of Tom Thumbe (1621) . The Crown Garland of Golden Roses . . . set forth in Many Pleasant new Songs and Sonnets (1612) was reprinted for the Percy Society (1842 and 1845) .