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Floruit: 1564–1570
floruit 1564 (A)—1570 (B); Male
Life Events
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Date |
Source
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| Death |
1570 |
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Livery Companies
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Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (1)
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Comment
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| Bookseller |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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Had Apprentice(s): (1)
Events (2)
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.99-100
EMSLEY or EMILIE (DENNIS), bookseller in London, 1564-71. Apprentice to "Master Wally" { WALLEY, John ( - 1586) ‹ LBT 08646 › } and presented on October 9th, 1555 [Arber, i. 38). Made a freeman on March 27th, 1564 [Arber, i. 240], and began taking apprentices at Christmas, 1566. In the year ending July 22nd, 1569, he entered a book entitled An Introduction of Christians [Arber, i. 378). The last heard of him is in the year 1570-1, when he was fined for going to the Hall in his cloak [Arher, i. 445]. Hazlitt [III. 291] records a work entitled An Answere in action to a Portingale Pearle, called a Pearle for a Prince .... Imprinted at London in Fleet-streete, by William How for Dionis Emilie, 8vo, (copy at C.C.C.Cambridge).