A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of foreign printers of English books 1557-1640 / by H.G. Aldis [and others] ; general editor: R.B. McKerrow.

Date:
1910
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Credit: A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of foreign printers of English books 1557-1640 / by H.G. Aldis [and others] ; general editor: R.B. McKerrow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    would appear from the Registers that he had another son named Elmore, who was apprenticed to Gregory Seton on November yth, 1603. As nothing more is heard of him and there is no reference to him in the will, the probability is that he pre-deceased his father. [D.N.B. ; Arber, ii. 274; P.C.C., 9, Clark.] AINSWORTH alias ENSOR (MARTIN), stationer in London, 1587-96. Son of Richard Ensor of Exeter. Apprenticed on April nth, 1580, for eight years to Thomas Ainsworth, alias Ensor, stationer, possibly a brother, by whom he was made free on July 3rd, 1587 [Arber, ii. 96]. In 1596 he is found taking an apprentice [Arber, ii. 213]. AINSWORTH alias ENSOR (THOMAS), stationer in London, 1577-1604. Admitted freeman by redemption on July 6th, 1570 [Arber, i. 420], and the same year contributed twelve pence towards the enlargement of the hall [Arber, i. 428]. He is found taking apprentices from July, 1577, to 1604 [Arber, ii. 79, 128, 700, 736], and in August of the latter year he was fined for using “undecent language” [Arber, ii. 839]. He does not appear to have published books and his address has not been found. ALBYN or ALBINE (SAMUEL), bookseller in London, 1621-8; Near the Six Clerks’ Office, Chancery Lane. Son of Hugh Albyn or Albine of Wanstrowe, Somerset. Apprentice to Richard Serger for nine years from Christmas, 1601 [Arber, ii. 261]. Took up his freedom December loth, 1610 [Arber, iii. 683]. In 1621 Albyn published the third edition of a poem entitled. The Passion of a discontented mind^ erroneously attributed to Nicholas Breton [B.M. 1076. i. 20]. Pie is mentioned in a list of second hand booksellers who, in 1628, were ordered to submit catalogues of their books to the Archbishop of Canterbury \Dom, S. Papers^ Chas. /, Vol. 117. (9)]. He appears to have succeeded to the business formerly kept by John Bailey ALCHORNE (THOMAS), bookseller in London, 1627-39; The Green Dragon, St. Paul’s Churchyard. First book entry March loth, 1627 [Arber, iv. 174]. In 1631 he issued Ben Jonson’s play of the Neiv Inn. In 1636 Thomas Knight assigned over to him his copyrights in fifteen works [Arber, iv. 357], but these were reassigned by Alchorne to Knight on March 23rd, 1639 [Arber, iv. 461].