PARSONS, Marmaduke ‹ LBT 08493 ›

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Floruit: 1605–1641

  floruit 1605 (A)—1641 (A);  Male

Livery Companies

Company	Source
Stationers' Company

Occupations (1)

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

Was Apprentice to Master(s): (2)

Name	Premium	Paid By	Comments
STAFFORD, Simon ‹ LBT 08492 ›
BARKER, Robert ( - 1646) ‹ LBT 06872 ›

Had Apprentice(s): (2)

Name	Premium	Paid By	Date	Event	Comments
CROSSE, Thomas ‹ LBT 09157 › (fl. 1627-1627)				Bound
FIELD, John ‹ LBT 09158 › (fl. 1641-1641)				Bound

Addresses (1)

Date	Address	Trade at Addr	Source	Comment
0000, (1607-1640)	Cow Lane, nr Holborn Circus		McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)

Events (7)

Date	Event type	Description
1 Dec 1600	Bound	to Simon Stafford (LBT/08492)
2 Dec 1605	Turned-over	first - to Robert Barker (LBT/06872)
18 Jan 1608	Freed - Servitude	- by Robert Barker (LBT/06872)
16 May 1613	Petition 1613	- signed the petition of journeymen printers
4 Dec 1620	Appr - Binding	Thomas Crosse (LBT/09157)
11 Jul 1637	Star Chamber Decree	- listed as one of the twenty "to have the use of a Presse, or Presses and Printing-house"j
1 Feb 1641	Appr - Freedom	John Field (LBT/09158) - probably originally bound to Mrs Parsons [LBT/] at a scriveners.

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.132

McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.210-11

PARSONS (MARMADUKE), printer in London, 1607-40; (?) Cow Lane, near Holborn Circus. Took up his freedom January 18th, 1607/8 [Arber, iii. 683]. In Sir John Lambe's notes, made about 1636, he is stated to have" kept Mathews printing house," presumably Augustine Mathews { MATHEWES, Augustine ‹ LBT 09007 › }, who in the same notes is described as "pauper" [Arber, iii. 704]. He was accordingly appointed one of the twenty master printers, by the Star Chamber decree of 1637. He was the printer of Thomas Dekker's English Villanies seven severall times prest to Death, 1638, and probably most of the works bearing the initials M.P. between 1625 and 1639. The position of his printing house is unknown, as is also the date of his death.