14501940
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Floruit: 1540–1560
floruit 1540 (B)—1560 (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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| Stationer |
Duff, E.G. (1905)
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Had Apprentice(s): (1)
Addresses (2)
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
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.171
Duff, E.G. (1905), p.159
TURKE (JOHN), stationer in London, published several ballads about the year 1540 relating to Cromwell, printed by Richard Bankes { BANKES, Richard ‹ LBT 28349 › }. Before this date he is mentioned by Foxe as one of those compelled to abjure. [Vol. iv, p. 585-6.] In April, 1543, he was brought before the Privy Council "for delivering off a certeyne erroneows booke named a Postilla upon the Gospelles to be printed" and committed to the Fleet. On May 11th he was bound over in £40 with two sureties to come up. [Acts of the P.C., vol i, p. 120, etc.] About 1547 he issued A lamentation of the death of Henry VIII. [U.L.C.] Herbert mentions besides these an Almanack in 1550, a Commentary on the 82nd Psalm, and an undated book by Thomas Lancaster. On the granting of the Stationers' Company's charter in 1557 Turke is tenth on the list, and he must have been a freeman before 1537 as his son Isaac { TURKE, Isaac ‹ LBT 08613 › } became free in 1561 by patrimony. He was Warden in 1558. He entered the copy of only one book, the Kinge's and Queene's Psalms. His first place of business was in Pater-noster Row at the sign of the Rose, but he afterwards moved to the Cock in St. Paul's Churchyard.
