BARNES, Roger ‹ LBT 08466 ›

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Floruit: 1609–1627

  floruit 1609 (A)—1627 (B);  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
SMETHWICK, John ( - 1641) ‹ LBT 08137 ›

Had Apprentice(s): (1)

Name	Premium	Paid By	Date	Event	Comments
SKELTON, Henry ‹ LBT 09337 › (fl. 1617-1634)			Easter 1613	Bound

Addresses (2)

Date	Address	Trade at Addr	Source	Comment
1611	Chancery Lane		McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910); STC. vol.3, (1991)	- over against the Rolls (shop)
1615	St Dunstan's Churchyard		McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910); STC. vol.3, (1991)	- under the Dial

Events (3)

Date	Event type	Description
1 Nov 1601	Bound	to John Smethwick (LBT/08137)
4 Dec 1609	Freed - Servitude
4 Apr 1613	Appr - Binding	Henry Skelton (LBT/09337)

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.14

McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.23

BARNES (ROGER), bookseller in London, 1610-17; (1) In Chancery Lane over against the Rolls; (2) St. Dunstan's Churchyard under the Dial. Son of Ralph Barnes, cordwainer of London. Apprenticed on November 1st, 1601, to John Smethwick { SMETHWICK, John ( - 1641) ‹ LBT 08137 › } for eight years, and took up his freedom December 4th, 1609 [Arber, ii. 258; iii. 683]. Amongst his publications were Silas Jourdan's Discovery of the Barmudas, 1610, 4to, Christopher Marlowe's Troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the Second, 1612, 4to, and John Stephen's Satyricall Essayes, 1615. On April 17th, 1617, he assigned his rights in Marlowe's Edward II to Henry Bell { BELL, Henry ( - 1641) ‹ LBT 07850 › } [Arber, iii. 607].