Abstracts from the Wills of English printers and stationers : from 1492 to 1630 / by Henry R. Plomer.
- Henry Plomer
- Date:
- 1903
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![the price as Arnold and John Bryckman3 doe sell them to London to the booksellers also by equall porcyon. So that they also take parte of all sortes out of my store chambers immedyatly as they shall come oute of theyr tyme and have servyd theyr mistres truely oute their tyme and she to make them free men of the City of London upon theyr coste. Item. Edward Wryght and Rober [sic] Holder I wyll that they two shall helpe their Mistress two yeres long after my departing, and they to helpe her to pay my creditors and to gather in my debts that other men doo owe me, because they knowe best myn handelyng and for to helpe her for to sell her bokes that I shall leve her after that myn legacye shalbe payd of the sayd bokes. Also I wyll that Edward Wryght and Rober [sic] Holder shall have the sayd two yeres that they two shall serve . . . eche of theym the same wages as I did gyve and have promised Edward syns he came oute of his tyme, besides their legacy. And yf Edward Wryght and Robert Holder be disposed for to bye my stock by days, with all my instrumentes, and all that belongeth to my science4 . . . that then they shall have the preminence afore any other man. And the money that shall com of my bokes, I wyll that thone parte shalbe distributed to the poor householders of Saint Faythes. And that other parte to my executnce lucy my wif. . . To my brethern the Stacyoners that they shall com to my buryall and to the masse, for to make them a brekfast, twenty shillings.” Executrix : Luce Raynes. Overseers : Thomas Dockrey5 and John Lewes, both notaryes. [P.C.C. 23. Pynning.] (1) . Robert Holder became one of the Assistants of the Company of Stationers upon its incorporation. (2) . Edward Sutton afterwards carried on business at the Cradle, in Lombard Street. (3) . Arnold and John Bryckman, the celebrated booksellers of Antwerp, Paris, and London. In a subsidy made in the 3rd Edward VI, Arnold Bryckman was assessed in St. Faith’s parish at ^100, and a John Bryckman is entered as a “ straunger” dwelling with Andrew Hester, and was assessed at ^30. (4) . This may refer to his trade as a bookbinder. (5) . The first Master of the Stationers’ Company. B](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31359590_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
