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Floruit: 1602–1616
floruit 1602 (A)—1616 (A); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
- after 29 Jun 1616 1617 STC = 1617? Marginal not in register. "This was remitted and neuer paid for that Mr Burton dyed a little after he was admitted into the livery T.M.", i.e. soon after 29 Jun 1616. |
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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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| Bookseller |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)
Had Apprentice(s): (4)
Addresses (3)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
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| 1606, ([1606-17]) |
St Paul's Churchyard |
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
- the sign of the White Lion
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| 1606, (1606-7) |
St Paul's Churchyard |
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STC. vol.3, (1991) |
- the sign of the Fleur-de-lis & Crown
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| 1610, (1610-17) |
St Paul's Churchyard |
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910); STC. vol.3, (1991) |
- at the Green Dragon
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Events (10)
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
ODNB - under Simon Burton, article by Ariel Hessayon
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.32
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.57
BURTON (FRANCIS), bookseller in London, 1603-17; (1) The White Lion, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1603; (2) The Green Dragon, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1614. Son of William Burton of Onebury, co. Salop, yeoman. Apprentice to Thomas Adams { ADAMS, Thomas (1566 - 1620) ‹ LBT 08760 › }, stationer of London, for eight years from Michaelmas,1594. Took up his freedom on November 8th, 1602 [Arber, ii. 199, 734]. His first book entry occurs in the Registers on June 23rd, 1603 [Arher, iii. 239], and his last on June 3rd, 1616 [Arber, iii. 589].
Dealer in miscellaneous literature and publisher of some curious pamphlets on passing events, such as A true relacon of the late commotion in Herefordshire occasioned by the buriall of one Alice Wellington a recusant in a Towne called Allen's Moor nere Hereford upon Whytsun Tuesday last paste [i e., May 21st, 1605] [Arber, iii. 296]. A reporte of a fearfull Thunder and lightninge, &c., which happened at Olveston in the countie of Gloucester was licensed to him on January 13th, 1605/6 [Arber, iii. 309].
