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Floruit: 1577
floruit (A) 1577 - 1577 ; Male
Introduction
John Oswolde was a bookseller in London and member of the Stationers' Company. He was apprenticed to John Judson from 1565 and completed his binding in 1573, establishing himself as a bookseller in London thereafter. He took on his own apprentice, John Eston, in 1577, and was active in the book trade through at least 1595, when he borrowed money from the Stationers' Company.
Livery Companies
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Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (1)
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Comment
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| Bookseller |
McKerrow, R. B. &c. (1907)
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Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)
Had Apprentice(s): (1)
Events (2)
Sources and References
| Original Sources |
Comments
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| St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin |
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SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
- said to be dead at the time the child's bindi
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.208
OSWALD (JOHN), (?) bookseller in London, 1573-95. Son of John Oswold of Darfield in the county of York, carpenter. Apprentice to John Judson { JUDSON, John ( - 1589) ‹ LBT 07885 › }, from March 25th, 1565, for eight years, being out of his time in 1573. In February, 1577/8, he was fined two shillings for keeping two young men in work unpresented [Arber, ii. 845], and in the same year he entered a pamphlet having the title A marvelous discourse of a cruell and lamentable acte donne by a luxurious French Capten at Bescorte in Fraunce. In 1595 he horrowed £2 from the Company [Arber, i. 572).