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(with whom he sold globes),

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, and John Seller. With

he produced in 1683 ''A New Terrestrial Globe made by Rt. Morden, Wm. Berry, Ph. Lea''. With

he published in 1687 the ''Travellers Guide being the best Mapp of the Kingdom of England and Principality of Wales''. Also in 1687 with ''John Overton'' he published ''A new mapp of America''. With ''Christopher Saxton'' he revised and re-issued in 1693 ''The Shires of England and Wales''. Between about 1683 and 1686, he worked at the Atlas & Hercules in the Poultry district of London (over against Old Jewry). From 1687 to his death he worked at the Atlas & Hercules in Cheapside near Friday Street,

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though between 1689 and 1695 his location was sometimes described as "and at

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near the Court of Common Pleas." Lea was apprenticed through the guild The Worshipful Company of Weavers in 1675 with

. Lea died in 1700. His widow Ann Lea took over the business and ran it for another 25 years.

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