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Floruit: 1564–1584
floruit 1564 (A)—1584 (A); Male, married
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)
Addresses (2)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
|
| 1582, (1582-?1584) |
London |
|
STC. Vol.3, (1991); McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
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| 1584, (1584) |
Suffolk - Ipswich |
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STC. Vol.3, (1991); McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
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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
- said to be dead at the time of the child's bindi
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.134
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.213
PEN or PENN (GEORGE), bookseller in London, 1582- (?)1584; and at Ipswich, Suffolk, 1584-9. Son of Thomas Penne of Hackesbury, Gloucestershire, weaver. Apprentice to John Day { DAY, John (1522 - 1584) ‹ LBT 07316 › }, printer of London, for seven years from the feast of All Saints, 1564. In 1582 John Kyngston { KINGSTON, John ‹ LBT 02596 › } printed for him a medical work by Leonardo Fioravanti entitled A compendium of the Rationall Secretes of ... L.Phioravante. In 1584 he had moved to Ipswich and there published a pamphlet entitled News out of Germanie, which bore the imprint "Imprinted for George Pen, dwelling at Ipswich" [Hazlitt, H. 226].