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Floruit: 1583–1602
floruit 1583 (A)—1602 (B); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
- before 3 May 1602 STC = 1602. |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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Family Relationships
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (1)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Printer |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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Had Apprentice(s): (3)
Addresses (1)
Events (4)
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
IFANT / BOLLIPHANT / BOLLYPHANT /CARPENTER / CARPINTER
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.25
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.41
BOLLIFANT, alias CARPENTER (EDMUND), printer in London, 1584-1602; Eliot's Court, Little Old Bailey. Apprentice [- there is no record of binding] to Henry Denham { DENHAM, Henry ‹ LBT 08578 › }, printer, and made free by him on April 10th, 1583, being entered in the Registers as "Bollifant alias Carpinter" [Arber, ii. 688]. He then appears to have joined the syndicate who were running the printing house in Eliot's Court, viz., John Jackson { JACKSON, John ‹ LBT 02594 › }, draper, Ninian Newton { NEWTON, Nynion ( - 1591) ‹ LBT 08408 › } and Arnold Hatfield { HATFIELD, Arnold ( - 1613) ‹ LBT 07348 › }. In consequence of an act of piracy by Joseph Barnes of Oxford, Jackson and Bollifant retaliated by printing, in 1586, Bishop Bilson's True Difference between Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion, which was Barnes' copyright. For this their printing house was entered, their tools taken away and Edmund Bollifant was committed to prison [Dom.S.P. Eliz., vol. 185. 73; Arber, ii. 794). Again in 1595 an entry in the accounts of the Company records the seizure of a forme and certain sheets of a "Cato," which was [? R.] Robinson's {? ROBINSON, Robert ( - 1597) ‹ LBT 08395 › } copyright. For this offence Bollifant was fined 20s. and committed to prison [Arber, i. 578, 581; ii. 824]. Jackson and Newton appear to have died or dropped out of the concern before 1596, after which date the names of Bollifant and Hatfield are found alone. Bollifant died before May 3rd, 1602, when his apprentice {- John Lennard LENNARD, John ‹ LBT 06965 › ] was transferred { by his widow Mary BOLLIPHANT, Mary ( - 1631) ‹ LBT 03117 › } to Richard Bradocke { BRADDOCK, Richard ( - 1616) ‹ LBT 07469 › }. His place in the firm was taken by Melchisidec Bradwood { BRADWOOD, Melchisdecke ( - 1618) ‹ LBT 07329 › }.
