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Floruit: 1584–1607
floruit 1584 (A)—1607 (B); Male
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
before- 1607 |
O.D.N.B.
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Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (3)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Author - dramatic |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910); O.D.N.B.
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| Printer |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910); O.D.N.B.
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| Stationer |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)
Events (2)
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
- said to be dead at the time of the child's bindi
ODNB - article by Emma Smith
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.41
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.68
CHETTLE (HENRY), printer, stationer and dramatic author, 1584-91. Son of Robert Chettle of London, dyer. Apprenticed to Thomas East { EAST, Thomas (1540 - 1608) ‹ LBT 07395 › }, printer, for eight years from September 29th, 1577 [Arber, ii. 81). Took up his freedom on October 6th, 1584 [Arber, ii. 693]. In the year ending July 10th, 1588, Chettle was paid six shillings for going to Cambridge on the Company's business [Arber, i. 528], and on September 17th, 1591, he entered in the Register a work called The bayting of Diogenes [Arber, ii. 595]. At this time he was in partnership with William Hoskins { HOSKYNS, William ( - 1604) ‹ LBT 08583 › } and together they printed for Nicholas Ling { LYNGE, Nicholas ( - 1607) ‹ LBT 07061 › } and John Busby { BUSBY, John ( - 1613) ‹ LBT 08762 › } a sermon of the Rev. Henry Smith's, The Affinitie of the Faithful, 1591 [B.M. 4474. b. 68). As nothing further is heard of Chettle in the Registers, it may be assumed that soon after this date he gave up printing and publishing and devoted himself to authorship. In 1592 he wrote the prose tract Kind-heart's Dream, and Piers Plainnes,1595, is also supposed to be his, but he devoted himself chiefly to play-writing. In a letter to Thomas Nashe written in or after 1593 and printed in Nashe's Have with you to Saffron-Walden, sig. V2v, he uses expressions which suggest that, at that time, he had still some connection with his old trade.