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Floruit: 1557–1564
floruit (A) 1557 - 1564 ; Male, married
Introduction
Roger Ireland was a stationer and member of the Stationers' Company in London. He was an original member of the Company at its charter in 1557, ranking twenty-eighth on the founding list, and served as one of the assistants by 1562 and as Warden in 1563-64 and 1568-69. Ireland held licenses for printing an Almanack and a book entitled Beware the Cat, and took on apprentices in bookbinding. By the mid-1570s, he appears to have experienced financial difficulties with the Company.
Family Relationships
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (1)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Stationer |
Duff, E.G. (1905)
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Had Apprentice(s): (1)
Addresses (1)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
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| 0000 |
London |
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Duff, E.G. (1905) |
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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
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.88
DUFF, E.G. (1905), p.79
IRELAND (ROGER), stationer in London, was an original member of the Stationers' Company in 1557 being twenty-eighth on the list. In 1550 a Roger Ireland married Johanna Maptide { IRELAND, (Unknown) (mar. IRELAND) ‹ LBT 06395 › }. {London Marriage Licenses, p. 12.] By 1562 he was one of the assistants, in 1563-64, 1568-69 a Warden. He had licenses for printing an Almanack and a book called Beware the Cat. He seems to have got into debt to the Company and the final entry relating to him, under the year 1575-76 runs "Paide to Roger Irelande of benevolence by Comon consent at one tyme v.s. and at an other tyme iij s. iiij.d."
