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Floruit: 1576–1591
floruit 1576 (A)—1591 (A); Male
Family Relationships
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (2)
| Occupation |
Comment
|
| Stationer |
Duff, E.G. (1905)
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| Bookseller |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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Had Apprentice(s): (5)
Addresses (1)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
|
| 1580, (1580) |
St Paul's Churchyard |
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McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
|
Events (7)
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, pp.176-7
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.281
WALLEY (ROBERT), bookseller in London, 1576-91; St. Paul's Churchyard, 1580. Son of John Walley { WALLEY, John ( - 1586) ‹ LBT 08646 › }, stationer (1546-86). Became a freeman of the Company by patrimony. Admitted into the Livery in 1585 [Arber, i. 508]. Renter of the Company in 1591-2 [Arber, i. 553). Took his first apprentice on November 8th, 1576 [Arber, ii. 70]. The first book entry under his name occurs on July 21st, 1577, when he was granted the reversion of An abstract of all the penall statutes, etc., after the deaths of Richard Tottell { TOTTELL, Richard ( - 1593) ‹ LBT 08571 › } and Ralph Newbery { NEWBERRY, Ralph ( - 1603) ‹ LBT 08123 › } [Arber, ii. 31]), but previous to this he had published in 1576 George Whetstone's Rocke of Regard. In 1586 Robert Walley entered with John Charlewood { CHARLEWOOD, John ( - 1593) ‹ LBT 07132 › } W. Webbe's Discourse of English Poetry [Arber, ii. 456]. On February 26th, 1597, he entered all his father's copyrights, and on October 12th in the same year he transferred these and all his own copyrights to Thomas Adams { ADAMS, Thomas (1566 - 1620) ‹ LBT 08760 › }, with a proviso that John Charlewood should have the printing of them [Arber, ii. 576, 596].
