WEKES, Henry ‹ LBT 06917 ›

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Floruit: 1557–1568

  floruit 1557 (A)—1568 (A);  Male

Livery Companies

Company	Source
Stationers' Company

Occupations (1)

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

Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)

Name	Premium	Paid By	Comments
BERTHELET, Thomas ( - 1555) ‹ LBT 06915 ›

Had Apprentice(s): (2)

Name	Premium	Paid By	Date	Event	Comments
GARDENER, Thomas ( - 1579) ‹ LBT 08729 › (fl. 1577-1579)				Bound
GREFFEN, John ‹ LBT 08730 › (fl. 1573-1573)				Bound

Addresses (1)

Date	Address	Trade at Addr	Source	Comment
1557, (1557-69)	Fleet Street, The Oliphaunt, or Black Elephant		McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)

Events (4)

Date	Event type	Description
15 Oct 1556	Bound	to Thomas Berthelet (LBT/06915)
15 Aug 1565	Freed - Servitude
24 Jun 1566	Appr - Binding	John Greffen (LBT/08730)
24 Jun 1568	Appr - Binding	Thomas Gardener (LBT/08729)

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.192

McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.304

WYKES or WEKES (HENRY), printer in London, 1557-69; The Oliphaunt, or Black Elephant, in Fleet Street. He was an apprentice of Thomas Berthelet { BERTHELET, Thomas ( - 1555) ‹ LBT 06915 › }, being presented on October 15th, 1556 [Arber, i. 41], but did not become free until August 15th, 1565 [Arber, i. 317]. His name is however found in books as early as 1557, in which year he printed an edition of The Instruction of a Christian Woman, by L. Vives.

In 1564 he was fined for printing two books without licence [Arber, i. 274]. His first entry in the Registers was in 1565-6 [Arber, i. 308], referred to Adlington's translation of Apuleius, The Golden Ass, which he printed in 1566. His last entries in the Registers were in the year 1568-9 [Arber, i. 378, 381], and his last dated publications in 1569.