BLACKMAN, William ‹ LBT 07130 ›

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Floruit: 1596–1598

  floruit 1596 (A)—1598 (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
CHARD, Thomas ( - 1624) ‹ LBT 08600 ›

Addresses (1)

Date Address Trade at Addr Source Comment
1597, (1597) St Paul's Churchyard McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910); STC. vol.3, (1991) - nr the Great north Door (dw)

Events (2)

Date Event type Description
14 Jul 1589 Bound to Thomas Chard (LBT/08600)
24 Jul 1596 Freed - Servitude

Sources and References

Original Sources Comments
St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin

SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS

Transcriptions

- said to be dead at the time of the child's bindi S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.22

McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.36

BLACKMAN (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, 1596-8; Near the Great North Door of St. Paul's Church. Son of William Blackman, late of Ensam or Eynsham, co. Oxford, yeoman. Apprenticed to Thomas Chard { CHARD, Thomas ( - 1624) ‹ LBT 08600 › }, stationer of London, for seven years from July 14th, 1589. Made free of the Company July 24th, 1596 [Arber, ii. 160, 717]. On January 29th, 1597, he entered in the Registers A tragical discourse of Africa and Mensola, a copy of which is described hy Hazlitt [H. 234], and the last heard of him is on March 6th, 1598, when he entered a book intituled The Counsellour [Arber, iii. 105].