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Floruit: 1571
floruit 1571 (A)—1571 (C); Male
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (2)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Printer |
Apprentice; McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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| Compositor |
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Was Apprentice to Master(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
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.10
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.17
BAMFORD (HENRY), printer in London, 1571-86. Son of Edmond Bamford of Rochdale, Lancashire. Apprentice to John Cawood { CAWOOD, John (1514 - 1572) ‹ LBT 07101 › }, stationer of London, for eight years from Christmas, 1562 [Arber, i. 196]. Took up his freedom on January 11th, 1571 [Arber, i. 447]. On January 30th, 1577, he received license to publish A briefe Treatise of the Anatomy of mans bodye, and on March 4th of the same year he took over several copyrights from William Hoskins { HOSKYNS, William ( - 1604) ‹ LBT 08583 › }, but a twelvemonth later assigned them to Richard Jones { JONES, Richard ‹ LBT 07865 › }. Later he joined John Wolfe { WOLFE, John ‹ LBT 07327 › } and his fellow agitators in their protest against the monopolists, and in 1583 was reported as one of the disorderly persons who printed privileged copies, being then described as a "compositor." He also gave a bond for £20 not to print privileged copies, and this bond appears annually in the statement of the Wardens down to the year 1586 [Arber, i. 501; ii. 19, 308, 309, 325]. The position of his printing house is unknown.