14501940
15001600170018001900
Floruit: 1565–1608
floruit 1565 (A)—1608 (A); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Birth |
1540 - in Swavesey, Cambridge |
O.D.N.B.
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| Death |
- after 5 Feb1608 <Will> - before 8 Apr 1608 <Probate> O.D.N.B. (2004) |
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Will
| Will (Ref., Piece, Image) |
Will Dates |
Intestate |
Probate Dates |
Administration Dates |
Comments
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1608-02-05
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1608-04-08
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GH: MS.9050/4/336 (Arch Ct)
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Family Relationships
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Stationers' Company Titles (2)
| Title |
From |
To |
Notes
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| Renter Warden |
1602-03-26 |
1603-03-26 |
Served 1602/1603
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| Assistant |
1603-06-07 |
1607-06-01 |
Chosen; First attendance; Last attendance
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Occupations (2)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Printer |
McKerrow, R. B. &c. (1910); O.D.N.B. (2004)
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| Bookseller |
O.D.N.B. (2004)
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Had Apprentice(s): (14)
| Name |
Premium |
Paid By |
Date |
Event |
Comments
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| BALLES, John ‹ LBT 07396 › (fl. 1600-1600) |
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Bound |
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| CHETTLE, Henry ( - 1607) ‹ LBT 07398 › (fl. 1584-1607) |
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Bound |
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| CLOWES, William ‹ LBT 07399 › (fl. 1608-1608) |
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Bound |
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| FLESHER, Miles ( - 1664) ‹ LBT 07401 › (fl. 1611-1664) |
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Bound |
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| GIBSON, Gregory ‹ LBT 07402 › (fl. 1591-1591) |
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|
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Bound |
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| GLEADALE, Robert ‹ LBT 07403 › (fl. 1590-1590) |
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Bound |
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| HALL, Nicholas ‹ LBT 07404 › (fl. 1588-1588) |
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Bound |
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| MOPTYT, David ( - 1587) ‹ LBT 07405 › (fl. 1573-1587) |
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Bound |
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| RACKET, George ‹ LBT 07406 › (fl. 1601-1601) |
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Bound |
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| SCARLETT, Thomas ‹ LBT 07407 › (fl. 1586-1591) |
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Bound |
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| SMYTHE, Thomas ‹ LBT 07408 › (fl. 1593-1593) |
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Bound |
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| SNODHAM, Thomas ( - 1625) ‹ LBT 07409 › (fl. 1602-1625) |
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Bound |
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| WROSSE, Thomas ‹ LBT 07411 › (fl. 1610-1610) |
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|
Bound |
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| WYBOROWE, John ‹ LBT 07412 › (fl. 1605-1605) |
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Bound |
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Addresses (12)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
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| 1567, (1567) |
Fleet Street |
|
O.D.N.B. (2004) |
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| 1568, (1568) |
Bread Street |
|
O.D.N.B. (2004) |
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| 15681000b, (Oct 1568) |
Bread Street |
|
STC. vol.3, (1991) |
- nether end
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| 1571, (1571-5) |
London Wall |
|
O.D.N.B. (2004) |
- lived at
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| 1571, (1571) |
|
|
STC. vol.3, (1991) |
- by the sign of the Ship
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| 1575, (1575) |
|
|
STC. vol.3, (1991) |
- at the Black Horse
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| 1577, (1577) |
Between Paul's Wharf and Baynard's Castle (dw) |
|
STC. vol.3, (1991) |
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| 1579, (1579-88) |
Paul's Wharf |
|
STC. Vol.3, (1991);O.D.N.B. (2004) |
- by (dw)
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| 1586, (1586) |
Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row |
|
STC. vol.3, (1991) |
- at the Black Horse
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| 1589, (1589-94) |
Black Horse, Aldersgate St (dw) |
|
STC. vol.3, (1991) |
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| 1597, (1597) |
Aldersgate Street |
|
STC. vol.3, (1991) |
(dw)
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| 1599, (1599) |
Aldersgate Street |
|
STC. vol.3, (1991) |
over against the George (dw
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Events (28)
Attendance prior to 5 Aug 1695 remains to be listed.
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
1540 - at Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
ODNB - article by Jeremy L.Smith
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, pp.56-7
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.96-7
EAST (THOMAS), printer in London, 1567-1609; (1) Fleet Street, near to Saint Dunstan's Church, 1567-70; (2) Bread Street at the nether end, 1568; (3) At London Wall by the sign of the Ship, 1571-7; (4) Thames Street, between St. Paul's Wharf and Baynard's Castle, 1577-88; (5) The Black Horse, Aldersgate Street, 1588-1609. This printer, who was a Buckinghamshire man, took up his freedom in the Company of Stationers on December 6th, 1565: there is no record as to his apprenticeship. He would appear to have set up in business with Henry Middleton { MIDDLETON, Henry ( - 1587) ‹ LBT 08100 › } in Fleet Street, over against or near to St. Dunstan's Church. In the following year however, East had a press of his own in Bread Street, and in 1571 he and Middleton removed to the Ship in London Wall. This partnership continued until 1572, during which time they printed several medical and theological books. In 1577 East took as an apprentice Henry Chettle { CHETTLE, Henry ( - 1607) ‹ LBT 07398 › }, who afterwards became a dramatist, and about this time he moved into premises in Thames Street, where he printed the Euphues of John Lyly and an edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. It is however As a printer of music that Thomas East is best remembered. William Byrd { }, organist of the Chapel Royal, had been granted in 1575 a license to print and sell music and to rule, print, and sell music paper, and this license he assigned to Thomas East, who on November 6th, 1587, entered Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets and songs of sadnes and pitie. East also printed the musical publications of John Dowland, Thomas Morley and Thomas Weelkes. On June 17th, 1609, Mistress East {- Lucretia EAST, Lucretia (mar. EAST) ( - 1629) ‹ LBT 03124 › } transferred the copyrights of Thomas East's books to Thomas Snodham, alias East { SNODHAM, Thomas ( - 1625) ‹ LBT 07409 › – East’s former apprentice}, so that we may presume that the printer had died shortly before. The adoption of the alias by Snodham was probably a trade advertisement to show that he was the successor to the business. Most of East's musical copyrights were assigned to John Brown { }, Matthew Lownes { LOWNES, Matthew ( - 1625) ‹ LBT 07992 › } and Thomas Snodham. Lucretia East, the widow, was living at Cudworth, co. Warwick, in 1627, when she made her will in which she mentioned her "stock" of £160 in the Company of Stationers, and left bequests to Simon Waterson { WATERSON, Simon ( - 1635) ‹ LBT 08687 › } and Richard Badger { BADGER, Richard ( - 1641) ‹ LBT 08437 › }; she nominated Edmund Weaver { WEAVER, Edmund ( - 1638) ‹ LBT 08721 › } her executor. [Library, July, 1901; P.C.C., 61, Ridley.]
