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Floruit: 1547–1569
floruit 1547 (A)—1569 (B); Male, married
Family Relationships
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
|
| Stationers' Company |
|
Occupations (1)
| Occupation |
Comment
|
| Printer |
Duff, E.G. (1905)
|
Had Apprentice(s): (9)
Addresses (2)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
|
| soon after, 1547, (1547) |
Fleet Street |
|
Duff, E.G. (1905) |
- the sign of the George
|
| 1569-08-10 |
St Dunstan in the West |
|
Duff, E.G. (1905) |
- Parish of
|
Events (9)
Sources and References
| Original Sources |
Comments
|
| St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin |
|
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Bib.Soc., Hand-lists (1913), contrib. E.G.Duff.
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.137
Duff, E.G. (1905), p.125
POWELL (WILLIAM), printer in London, succeeded Middleton { MIDDLETON, William ( - 1547) ‹ LBT 28273 › } at the sign of the George in Fleet Street, having married his widow { MIDDLETON, Elizabeth (mar. POWELL) ‹ LBT 06398 › } soon after his death in 1547. Middleton's will was proved June 17th and the new marriage license granted July 26th. Having thus succeeded to a good business, Powell printed continuously between 1547 and 1567, issuing in that period over fifty books. In the list in the Stationers' Company's charter Powell was nineteenth, so that he probably became a freeman between 1535 and 1540. He is entered many times in the Registers as taking apprentices and entering copies up to the year 1566. He is last mentioned in 1568 when his son Abraham { POWELL, Abraham ‹ LBT 07064 › } was put apprentice to H. Bynneman { BYNNEMAN, Henry (1542 - 1583) ‹ LBT 07678 › }. On retiring from business he married a second time, "Aug. 10 1569 William Powell, of St Dunstan in the West, stationer and Jone alias Jane Starkie alias Evans { STARKIE, Jane (mar. POWELL) ‹ LBT 06399 › }, widow, of City of London." [London Marriage Licenses, p. 43.]
