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Floruit: 1541–1586
floruit 1541 (B)—1586 (B); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
- before 11 Apr 1586 |
Duff, E.G. (1905)
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Family Relationships
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
|
| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (1)
| Occupation |
Comment
|
| Stationer |
Duff, E.G. (1905)
|
Addresses (1)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
|
| 1551, (1551) |
St Paul's Churchyard |
|
Duff, E.G. (1905) |
- the sign of the Spread Eagle
|
Events (2)
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
DUFF, E.G. (1905), p.62
GYBKYN (JOHN), stationer in London, is first mentioned in the year 1541 in the Returns of Aliens, at which time he was an assistant to John Cockes { COCKES, John ‹ LBT 28354 › } another alien stationer. By the year 1547 he was apparently in business on his own account, and in 1549 had an assistant named Conrad Molyer { MOLYAR, Conrad ‹ LBT 28277 › }. Strype in the Ecclesiastical Memorials [vol. ii, p. 317] under the year 1551 speaks of him as a Dutchman lately made free. In this same year he had a shop in St. Paul's Churchyard with the sign of the Spread Eagle and had two books, the Summa Christianae religionis by F. Perussellus and the New Herbal, printed for him by Stephen Mierdman { MIERDMAN, Stephen ‹ LBT 28337 › }, a refugee printer from Antwerp. Gybkyn, though a foreigner and though his name is not found in the Registers, was an original member of the Stationers' Company as we learn from the following curious entry April 11th, 1586 [Arber, II, 696], "John Gypkin { GYPKIN, John ‹ LBT 07573 › } sonne of John Gypkyn Cytizen and Stationer of London Deceased, Admytted a freman [per patronagium] the Day and yere abouesaid but not swome 'quia surdus et mutus est.'"
MLT Note: Duff, E.G. (1905) - assistant to John Cockes (LBT/28354) later alone