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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    WOODCOCK (THOMAS), bookseller in London, 1570-94; The Black Bear, St. Paul’s Churchyard. Apprentice to Francis Coldock, stationer of London, for nine years from Midsummer, 1561, and became a freeman of the Company on July 6th, 1570 [Arber, i. 446]. Thomas Woodcock made his first entry in the Registers on April 19th, 1577. In the following year he was imprisoned in Newgate for selling Cartwright’s Admonition to the Parliament^ and the Master and Wardens of the Company with William Seres and John Day petitioned Lord Burleigh for his release [Arber, i. 485]. He was admitted to the Livery on May 6th, 1582, served as renter in the years 1589 and 1590, and was chosen Under Warden in July, 1593, but did not complete his year of service, as he died on April 22nd, 1594. Thomas Woodcock married Isabel, one of the daughters of John Cawood, the Queen’s printer, and had a son Simon who was apprenticed to John Flasket, stationer, for eight years on June 24th, i6oo, and took up his freedom December 7th, 1607 [Arber, ii. 245 ; iii. 683]. On February 9th, I59b, Thomas Woodcock’s books and copyrights were turned over to Paul Linley [Arber, iii. 58]. WOODHOUSE (KOBf2RT), bookseller and bookbinder in Edinburgh, ? 1569-? 1632. On September 28th, 1580, a complaint was laid before the Town Council of Edinburgh “that Robert Wodhous, Inglisman, being ane forane straynger and unfrieman, has this lang tym bygane usurpitt upoun him the privelege of ane frie burges be selling and bynding of all kynd of bulks within the fredome of this burgh;” and he was discharged from binding any books within the burgh. At some period after this, Woodhouse must have become a freeman of the city, for in 1592 he appears among the seven booksellers and burgesses who complained against John Norton for a similar offence. He may have been the “Roberte Wodhowse ” of Humble in Staffordshire, who w'as apprenticed to William Wodhowse, stationer of London, on August 24th, 1569. The wdll of Robert Woodhous, bookbinder, burgess of Edinburgh, was registered February 21st, 1632; and, as wills were sometimes registered a consider- able time after the date of death, this may quite well be the same man. [Aldis, Scottish Books^ 124; Dickson and Edmond, 206; Lee, Add. Mem., App. Ixxi; Arber, i. 395]. WOODNET, see Woodnote.