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Floruit: 1567–1587
floruit 1567 (A)—1587 (B); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
- before 13 Sep 1587 <Probate> |
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Will
| Will (Ref., Piece, Image) |
Will Dates |
Intestate |
Probate Dates |
Administration Dates |
Comments
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PROB 11/71, Spencer: 41-82, 138/123
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1587-09-13
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PRO - Stationer of London. ---
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Family Relationships
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (2)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Printer |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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| Stationer |
Will
|
Had Apprentice(s): (6)
Addresses (5)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
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| 1567, (1567-1587) |
Ivy Lane |
|
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
- the Black Horse
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| 1567 |
London Wall |
|
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
- the Ship
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| 1567 |
Fleet Street |
|
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
- the Falcon
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| 1567 |
St Dunstan's Churchyard |
|
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
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| 1587-09-13 |
London |
|
Will |
- late of
|
Events (9)
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
William MIDDLETON {
Jane prev. SUTTON
ODNB - article by R.E.Graves, rev. Anita McConnell
'S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.119====McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.192====
MIDDLETON (HENRY), printer in London, 1567-87; (1) The Black Horse, Ivy Lane; (2) The Ship, in London Wall; (3) The Falcon in Fleet Street; (4) In St. Dunstan's Churchyard. Son of William Middleton { MIDDLETON, William ( - 1547) ‹ LBT 28273 › }, printer, 1541-7. Admitted to the freedom of the Stationers' Company in the year ending July 22nd, 1567 [Arber, i. 344]. Henry Middleton at once joined Thomas East or Este { EAST, Thomas (1540 - 1608) ‹ LBT 07395 › }, the printer, and together they printed, before the end of the year 1567, an edition of Thomas Phaer's Regiment of Life. In 1571 East and Middleton moved to premises in London Wall, but in the following year the partnership was dissolved, Henry Middleton having bought William Griffith's { GRIFFITH, William ‹ LBT 07559 › } printing and bookselling business at the Falcon in Fleet Street, with a shop in St. Dunstan's Churchyard. Many interesting books came from his press, among them being Gascoigne's Glasse of Governement,which he printed for Christopher Barker { BARKER, Christopher (1529 - 1599) ‹ LBT 06871 › } in 1575; Sir Humfrey Gilbert's Discourse of a discoverie for a new passage to Cataia, 1576; an edition of the De Imitatione Christi, translated and illustrated by the Rev. Thomas Rogers, 1587, William mbarde's Perambulation of Kent, 1576, one of the earliest of English topographical books, and an edition of the works of Virgil in 1580. In 1583 Henry Middleton was working three presses. He was chosen Junior Warden of the Company in July, 1587, but died before completing his year of office, leaving a widow Jane { SUTTON, Jane (mar. MIDDLETON) ‹ LBT 03202 ›} who afterwards married Richard Ayres { ? } [Commissary of London, p. 104]. From some depositions taken in a suit brought in 1591 by a certain Richard Brown, against Henry Middleton's executors, to recover a sum of £30 for printing indentures for licenses to sell wines, we learn that Robert Robinson { ROBINSON, Robert ( - 1597) ‹ LBT 08395 › } bought the printing material and certain books and letters patent from Middleton's widow for the sum of £200, and that Thomas Newman { NEWMAN, Thomas ‹ LBT 08132 › } bought the shop in St. Dunstan's Churchyard and the books in it for £150 [Library, January, 1909, p. 103].
