LIGHTFOOT, Benjamin ‹ LBT 07249 ›

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Floruit: 1612–1613

Floruit 1612 (A) — 1613 (A);  Male

Livery Companies

Company	Source
Stationers' Company

Occupations (1)

Occupation	Comment
Bookseller	McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)

Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)

Name	Premium	Paid By	Comments
COTTON, William ( - 1609) ‹ LBT 07973 ›

Had Apprentice(s): (1)

Name	Premium	Paid By	Comments
NORMAN, Michaell ‹ LBT 10360 ›

Addresses (1)

Date	Address	Trade at Addr	Source	Comment
1612, (1612-1613)	Gray's Inn Lane, Holborn		McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)	- upper end

Events (3)

Date	Event type	Description
25 Dec 1604	Bound	to William Cotton (LBT/07973)
20 Jan 1612	Freed - Servitude
25 Jul 1613	Appr - Binding	Michael Norman (LBT/10360)

Sources and References

Original Sources	Comments
St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin

SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS

Transcriptions

S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.107

McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.175

LIGHTFOOT (BENJAMIN), bookseller in London, 1612-13; At the upper end of Gray's Inn Lane, in Holborn. Son of Richard Lightfoote of St. Albans, co. Herts. clerk. Apprentice for nine years to William Cotton { COTTON, William ( - 1609) ‹ LBT 07973 › }, stationer of London, from Christmas, 1604. Took up his freedom in the Company on January 20th, 1612 [Arber, ii. 287; iii. 683]. Benjamin Lightfoot entered two books during the year 1613 [Arber, iii. 523, 534], and he was also the publisher of Thomas Heywood's Silver Age, 1613.