MORRIS, John ‹ LBT 08703 ›

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Stationers' Company
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Floruit: 1580

  floruit 1580 (A)—1580 (D);  Male

Livery Companies

Company Source
Stationers' Company

Occupations (1)

Occupation Comment
Bookseller McKenzie, D.F. (1961)

Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)

Name Premium Paid By Comments
WATKYNS, Richard ( - 1599) ‹ LBT 08278 ›

Events (2)

Date Event type Description
Turned-over first - to Richard Watkins (LBT/08278)
2 May 1580 Freed -

Sources and References

Original Sources Comments
St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin

SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS

Transcriptions

S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.122

McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.196

MORRIS (JOHN), (?) bookseller in London, 1580-90, Took up his freedom in the Company of Stationers on May 2nd, 1580 [Arber, ii. 682]. Only two entries occur under his name, the first on April 26th, 1587, when he paid sixpence for the right of printing John de L'Espine's Treatise of Apostacy [Arber, ii. 469], and the second on October 15th, 1590, when in company with John Bowen he entered a sermon preached at Hitchin hy Edward Harris, M.A. [Arber, ii. 565]. His address has not been found.