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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    WYON (WIDOW OF MARC), printer at Douai, 1630-59. She printed at least nine works in English between 1630 and 1640, of which the most important was Richard Broughton’s Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain^ 1633. The other works include two editions, 1632 and 1640, of Stratford’s Disputation of the Churchy which had been published by her husband in 1629 [B.M., pp. 512, 605], and The Rule of Pe7iafice of St. Francis^ 1644 [Hazlitt, VII. 252]. She used the same device as her husband [Duthilloeul, pp. 221-8, 411]. YARDLEY (jane), see Yardley (Richard). YARDLEY (RICHARD), printer in London, 1589-97 ; The Star, on Bread Street Hill. Son of Thomas Yardelay of Morton, co. Warwick, gent. Apprentice to Richard Jugge, stationer of London, for seven years from March 25th, 1569 [Arber, i. 377]. In 1589 he joined Peter Short at the Star on Bread Street Hill, but he died before July 4th, 1597, when his widow presented an apprentice [Arber, ii. 218]. She presented several other apprentices for their freedom down to the year 1604, but it is not clear whether she was in business as a printer or bookseller. YETSWEIRT (CHARLES), patentee for law books, 1594-5. On March 20th, 1594, Charles Yetsweirt, Clerk of the Signet, was granted a patent for thirty years to print law books in succession to Richard Tottell. He died on April 25th, 1595. His widow Jane Yetsweirt held ^ the patent until 1597. YETSWEIRT (jane), see Yetsweirt (C.). YOUNG (GEORGE), Archdeacon of St. Andrews, 1585. In 1585 a licence to print certain books was granted to him, but he is not known to have exercised this privilege, which, two years later, he assigned to Gilbert Masterton, an Edinburgh bookseller [Dickson and Edmond, 481; Lee, 48, and App. xv.]. YOUNG (MICHAEL), see Plomer, Dictionary. YOUNG (ROBERT), printer in London and Oxford, see Plomer, Dictioitary. Y