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Floruit: 1592–1597
floruit 1592 (A)—1597 (A); Male
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
circa- 15 Nov 1597 |
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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): (1)
Addresses (1)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
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| 1594, (1594-1597) |
Fleet Street |
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
- the Hand and Plough
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Events (3)
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
97 (last entry in the St.Co. Register) < > 7 Nov 1597 (same work re-entered by his brother)
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.116
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.189
MATTES (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, 1594-7; The Hand and Plough, Fleet Street. Son of Robert Mattes of Kingsey, co. Oxford, gent. He was apprenticed to Simon Waterson { WATERSON, Simon ( - 1635) ‹ LBT 08687 › } for nine years from November 1st, 1583 [Arber, ii. 121], and admitted to the freedom of the Stationers' Company on November 7th, 1592 [Arber, ii. 711]. His first entry in the Registers was The Lamentation of Troy for the Death of Hector , by I. O. on February 22nd, 1593/4 [Arber, ii. 645; Hazlitt, H. 426]. His publications were few but interesting: they include I.T's Old Fashioned Love, 1594, J.C's Alcilia and V. Saviolo's Practise, 1595, and Lodge's Devil Conjured, 1596. His last entry was on September 24th, 1597, and he died before November 7th of the same year, when the book was re-entered by his brother Edmund { MATTES, Edmond ‹ LBT 08027 › } who succeeded to the business [Arber, iii. 90, 96].