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Floruit: 1625–1635
floruit 1625 (A)—1635 (B); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
- after 18 Oct 1635 <Will> - before 10 Nov 1635 <Probate> |
McKerrow, R. B. &c. (1910)
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Will
| Will (Ref., Piece, Image) |
Will Dates |
Intestate |
Probate Dates |
Administration Dates |
Comments
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PROB 11/169, Sadler: 93-132, 309/242
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1635-10-18
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1635-11-10
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PRO - Stationer of London. --- Left the Stationers' Company £10 for a dinner, and a further £10 for the poor of the Company. Also £20 to Andrew Crooke on condition that he remained in the service of Mary Allot his wife for a further term of three years. --- McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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Family Relationships
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
McKenzie, D.F. (1961), #0794
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Occupations (2)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Bookseller |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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| Stationer |
Will
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Was Apprentice to Master(s): (3)
Had Apprentice(s): (3)
Addresses (2)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
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| 1626-07-01 |
St Paul's Churchyard |
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910); STC. vol.3, (1991) |
- at the Greyhound (dw)
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| 1627 |
St Paul's Churchyard |
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910); STC. vol.3, (1991) |
- at the Black Beat (shop)
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Events (7)
Sources and References
| Original Sources |
Comments
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| Stationers' Company - Binding and Freedom Records - McKenzie, D.F. (1961), # 0794 |
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SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.4
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.7-8
ALLOT (ROBERT), bookseller in London, 1625-35; (1) The Greyhound, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1626; (2) The Black Bear, St. Paul's Churchyard. Born at Criggleston in the West Riding of Yorkshire. There is no record of his apprenticeship, but he took up his freedom in the Company of Stationers on November 7th, 1625 [Arber, iii. 686]. In January, 1625/6, he purchased from Margaret Hodgetts { HODGETTES, Margaret ‹ LBT 03217 › } for £45, the copyrights in four works, one of them being George Sandys' Travels, and in September of the same year the much more extensive rights of John Budge { BUDGE, John ( - 1625) ‹ LBT 10299 › }, numbering some forty-one copies, mostly theological. He was also the publisher of many plays, and had a share in the second folio of Shakespeare's works, published in 1632. In that year an action was brought against him in the Court of Chancery by Rowland Vaughan respecting the printing, binding, and selling of The Practice of Piety in the Welsh language. Five hundred copies of the work were printed and Vaughan agreed to pay Allot £50 for them, but he alleged that the books were not delivered in the time specified, and that the bulk of them were spoiled by wet on their arrival in Wales. Allot admitted that the books were not delivered in time, owing to the Welsh language being so hard and unusual a language to set for the press. He further said that five copies were expensively bound for presentation. [Chancery Proceedings, Chas. I, V. 3-53]. Robert Allot died in 1635. His will was dated October 18th, and proved on November l0th in that year. His only child was a daughter Mary. He mentioned an uncle, Robert Allot, a Doctor in Physic. Christopher Meredith { MEREDETH, Christopher ( - 1653) ‹ LBT 10643 › } and Richard Thrale { THRALE, Richard ‹ LBT 09697 › }, stationers, were his brothers-in-law, the former having married his sister Elizabeth { ALLOT, Elizabeth (mar. MEREDITH) ‹ LBT 03494 › } , and the latter his sister Dorothy { ALLOT, Dorothy (mar. THRALE) ‹ LBT 03409 › }. To his servant Andrew Crooke { probably CROOKE, Andrew (1607 - 1674) ‹ LBT 10657 › } he left a bequest of twenty pounds on condition that he remained in the service of Mary Allot { ALLOTT, Mary (mar. CHETWIN) ‹ LBT 03382 › } his wife for a further term of three years. He left the Company of Stationers a sum of £10 for a dinner and a further sum of £10 for the poor of the Company. Amongst the witnesses were Edward Pigeon { ? }, Philemon Stephens { STEPHENS, Philemon (bap. 1598 - 1670) ‹ LBT 10510 › } and Richard Thrale { THRALE, Richard ‹ LBT 09697 › }, all stationers. [P.C.C., 114, Sadler.] Two years after his death his widow transferred all her remaining copyrights to R. Legatt and Andrew Crooke [Arber, iv. 387). Unless he took up his freedom in the Company of Stationers very late in life, which was the exception rather than the rule, it does not appear possible that this Robert Allot had anything to do with England's Parnassus. The compiler of that work was probably his uncle.
