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Floruit: 1519–1557
floruit 1519 (B)—1557 (B); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
1557 |
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Family Relationships
Occupations (1)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Printer |
Duff, E.G. (1905)
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Addresses (3)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
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|
St John's Street |
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Wormald |
- (dw)
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| 1519 |
|
|
Wormald |
- arrived in England
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| 1554-07-01 |
Emden |
|
STC. vol.3, (1991) |
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Events (1)
| Date |
Event type |
Description
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| 1 Jul 1544 |
Denization |
Westm. Deniz. Roll, 36 Hen. VIII
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SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Bib.Soc., Hand-lists (1913), contrib. E.G.Duff.
Duff, E.G. (1905), pp.72-3
HILL, MONTANUS or VAN DE BERGHE (NICHOLAS), printer in London, was a native of the Low Countries who came to England in 1519. In 1544 he took out letters of denization "Nicholas Hilles, printer, born in the dominion of the Emperor. In England 25 years 1. July 1544." [Westm. Deniz. Roll, 36 Hen. VIII.] In the same year he is entered in the Subsidy Roll as paying four pence tax on twenty shillings' worth of goods and living in St. John's Street. In 1546 the earliest book with his name in it as a printer was issued, and between this date and 1553 he printed twenty-three books, mostly for other people. He appears to have done no retail trade as a bookseller, which may account for his house having no sign or at least none ever mentioned. In 1549 in the Subsidy Roll his goods were valued at forty shillings and his tax was two shillings, and an assistant of his is mentioned called Urban Lynyng { LYNYNG, Urban ‹ LBT 30052 › }, perhaps the Urban van Cuelen described as a printer shortly afterwards. [R. of A., I, 157.] In 1550 and 1551 he is again on the Subsidy Rolls, but the value of his goods had sunk to twenty shillings and his tax to one. [R. of A., I, pp. 200, 215.] In the list of members of the Dutch Church made in 1551 he is entered as Nicolais vand Berghe, met Elizabeth { HILL, Elizabeth ‹ LBT 06391 › }, and in a fuller list compiled between 1550 and 1560 he is "Nicolais van de Berghe, met Elizabeth, impressor" but the entry has been struck out, no doubt at the time of his death, about 1553. [R. of A., I, 208-9.J His books are dated up to that year, but he is not entered in the assessment of aliens in St. John Street in 1553. In a list of widows belonging to the Dutch Church written in 1560 is entered "Vidua Nicolai Bergensis, calcographi, cum suis orphanis."