NEWMAN, Thomas ‹ LBT 08132 ›

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Floruit: 1586–1589

  floruit 1586 (A)—1589 (A);  Male, married

Family Relationships

Relationship	Name	Occupation	Comments	Conf
spouse:	NEWMAN, E(lizabeth) ‹ LBT 03207 ›			95
parent:	NEWMAN, John ‹ LBT 33146 ›	Clothworker		60

Livery Companies

Company	Source
Stationers' Company

Occupations (1)

Occupation	Comment
Bookseller	McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)

Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)

Name	Premium	Paid By	Comments
NEWBERRY, Ralph ( - 1603) ‹ LBT 08123 ›

Had Apprentice(s): (3)

Name	Premium	Paid By	Date	Event	Comments
SELMAN, Mathew ‹ LBT 08136 › (fl. 1589-1633)				Bound
SMETHWICK, John ( - 1641) ‹ LBT 08137 › (fl. 1597-1641)				Bound
CHAUNCE, Thomas ‹ LBT 08815 › (fl. 1586-1586)				Turned-over

Addresses (1)

Date	Address	Trade at Addr	Source	Comment
1587, (1587-1598)	St Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet Street		McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)

Events (5)

Date	Event type	Description
29 Sep 1578	Bound	to Ralph Newbery (LBT/08123)
25 Aug 1586	Freed - Servitude
12 Oct 1586	Appr - Turn-over/In	Thomas Chaunce (LBT/08815), {from Thomas Woodcock}
1 Sep 1587	Appr - Binding	Mathue Selman (LBT/08136)
25 Dec 1589	Appr - Binding	John Smythick (LBT/08137)

Sources and References

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

SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS

Transcriptions

ODNB - article by H.R.Tedder, rev. Anita McConnell

S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, pp.124-5

McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.200

NEWMAN (THOMAS), bookseller in London, 1587-98; St. Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet Street. Son of John Newman, c1othworker of Newbury, Berks. Apprentice for eight years from Michaelmas, 1578, to Ralph Newbery { NEWBERRY, Ralph ( - 1603) ‹ LBT 08123 › }, stationer of London [Arber, ii. 87]. Admitted to the freedom of the Company on August 25th, 1586 [Arber, ii. 698]. On October 12th in the same year Thomas Chauncy { CHAUNCE, Thomas ‹ LBT 08815 › }, an apprentice of Thomas Woodcock's { WOODCOCK, Thomas ( - 1594) ‹ LBT 07167 › }, transferred himself to Thomas Newman for the remainder of his term [Arber, ii. 88]. He bought the shop previously occupied by Henry Middleton { MIDDLETON, Henry ( - 1587) ‹ LBT 08100 › } in St. Dunstan's Churchyard, and the books in it, for £150 [Court of Requests, Hunts Series, Bundle 37, No. 110]. He entered his first book, a translation from the Italian, in partnership with Thomas Gubbyn { GUBBIN, Thomas ( - 1626) ‹ LBT 08652 › } on September 18th, 1587 [Arber, ii. 475]; his last on June 30th, 1593, in company with John Winnington { WYNNINGTON, John ( - 1595) ‹ LBT 08714 › } [Arber, ii. 633]. In 1591 he was in trouble for publishing Sir P. Sidney's Astrophel and Stella [Arber, i. 555].