Abstracts from the Wills of English printers and stationers : from 1492 to 1630 / by Henry R. Plomer.

  • Plomer, Henry R. (Henry Robert), 1856-1928.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Abstracts from the Wills of English printers and stationers : from 1492 to 1630 / by Henry R. Plomer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cressey shall take the payne to gather my detts and prosecute my lawfull sutes and to keep my said servant as is aforesaid vnto the said concordaunce bee fayre written and the table to print, and also to print the said concordaunce and table to the pformaunce of this my last will.” Overseer : Sir Francis Bigot. Witnesses : John Goughe, Johane Smythe, James Spencer, and John Turner. Probate : Ralf Cressey renounced probate, which was thereupon granted to Elizabeth, the widow, on the 12th October, 1536. \_P. C. C. 3. Crumzve//.] (1) . The sister of Sir Thomas More. (2) . The “ Mermaid,” in Cheapside, “ next Pauls Gate,” was in the parish of St. Martin le Grand. Part of the premises were occupied by John Gough, bookseller. (3) . William Rastell was born about 1508. After practising as a printer for some years he was admitted a student of Lincoln’s Inn in 1532, and gradually rose in his profession until, in 1558, he was made a Justice of the Queen’s Bench. He died in Louvain on 27th August, 1565. (4) . Thomas Cromwell, made Chancellor of the Exchequer 1533; Master of the Rolls 1534; Vicar-General 1535; Earl of Essex 1540, and beheaded the same year. (5) . Sir Thomas Audley. (6) . It is not clear what work is referred to in this statement, and nothing with such a title can be traced. JOHN REYNES. The George, St. Paul’s Churchyard (1527 P-1544.) Succeeded by Lucy Reynes, widow (y.z\). Dated 8th April, 33 Henry VIII (1542). Proved 26th February, 1544. Testator to be buried in Pardon churchyard. Bequests: To Thomas Holwarde “a hundreth shillings in bokes.” Jamys “my dutchman, twenty shillings in money.” Edward Wright “ten poundes in bokes.” Edward Sutton “a hundreth shillings in bokes.” Robert Holder1 “ten poundes in bokes.” “And they two Thomas Holwarde and Edward Sutton2 whan they have laid out all their parts to the value of vH a pece after