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Floruit: 1579–1607
floruit 1579 (A)—1607 (B); Male, married
Life Events
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Date |
Source
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| Death |
possibly- 1607 |
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Will
| Will (Ref., Piece, Image) |
Will Dates |
Intestate |
Probate Dates |
Administration Dates |
Comments
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) - 1610 , when sentence on his will was pronounced by the probate court. - P.C.C. 58 Wingfield.
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Family Relationships
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): (9)
Addresses (5)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
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| 1580, (1580-1583) |
St Paul's Churchyard |
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
- the Mermaid
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| 1584, (1584-1592) |
St Paul's Churchyard |
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
- West Door
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| 1593, (1593-1596) |
St Paul's Churchyard |
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
- North-west Door
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| 1597, (1597) |
St Paul's Churchyard |
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
- little West Door
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| 1600, (1600-1607) |
Fleet Street |
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
- St Dunstan's Churchyard
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Events (17)
Sources and References
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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, pp.107-8
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.176
LING (NICHOLAS), bookseller in London, 1580-1607 ; (1) The Mermaid in St. Paul's Churchyard 1580-3; (2) West Door of St. Paul's Church, 1584-92; (3) North-west Door of St. Paul's Church, 1593-6; (4) At the [Little] West Door of St. Paul's Church, 1597; (5) In St. Dunstan's Churchyard in Fleet Street, 1600-7. Son of John Lyng of Norwich, parchment maker, apprentice to Henry Bynneman { BYNNEMAN, Henry (1542 - 1583) ‹ LBT 07678 › } for eight years from Michaelmas, 1570, and took up his freedom in the Company on January 19th, 1578/9 [Arher, ii. 679]. His first book entry in the Registers was made in company with John Charlewood { RAWLINS, Thomas ‹ LBT 07312 › } on June 1st, 1582 [Arber, ii. 413], but between August 3rd, 1584, and October 6th, 1590, he entered nothing. But after that date he appears as joint publisher with John Busby { BUSBY, John ( - 1613) ‹ LBT 08762 › }, Thomas Millington { MILLINGTON, Thomas ‹ LBT 07079 › }, Cuthbert Burby { BURBY, Cuthbert ( - 1607) ‹ LBT 08823 › } and Robert Allot { }, in such works as Thomas Nashe's Lenten Stuffe, 1599, and R. Allot's England's Parnassus, 1600.
In 1597 Nicholas Ling edited a collection of prose quotations called Politeuphuia, Wits Commonwealth, for which he wrote a dedication and preface to the reader. On November 19th, 1607, Nicholas Ling's copies were transf,orred to John Smethwicke { SMETHWICK, John ( - 1641) ‹ LBT 08137 › }, and his death may be presumed to have taken place between this time and 1610, when sentence on his will was pronounced by the probate court. He left no son. [P.C.C., 58, Wingfield.] Nicholas Ling used as his device a ling and honeysuckle, with the letters N. L., usually found on the titlepages of his publications.
