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Floruit: 1594–1612
floruit 1594 (A)—1612 (B); Male
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
1612 |
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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): (5)
Addresses (2)
Events (7)
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
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.76
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.124
HARDY (JOHN), bookseller in London, 1594-1609; The Tiger's Head, St. Paul's Churchyard. Son of Christopher Hardy of Barnet, Middlesex, yeoman. Apprentice to Toby Cooke { COOKE, Toby ( - 1599) ‹ LBT 07620 › } for eight years from Lady-Day, 1587, and made free on August 5th, 1594. In 1596 he was fined "for printinge a booke of Mr. Burtons without aucthoritie and entrance x sh." and was forbidden to sell the book until it was duly licensed. Imprisonment was a1so threatened, but was "stayed till another tyme." He succeeded Toby Cooke as Beadle of the Company of Stationers in January, 1599/1600. His last book entry occurs in the Registers on February 13th, 1608/9 [Arber, iii. 401].