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Floruit: 1600
Floruit 1600 (A) — 1600 (C); Male
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (1)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Bookseller |
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Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)
Addresses (2)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
|
| 1601 |
Chancery Lane |
|
STC. vol.3, (1991) |
- Shop at door Office of Six Clerks
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| 1602 |
Chancery Lane |
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STC. vol.3, (1991) |
- Shop near the Office of Six Clerks
|
Events (2)
Sources and References
| Original Sources |
Comments
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| St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin |
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SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Cf. McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.14-15
BAILEY, BALEY, BAYLY, or BAILY (JOHN), bookseller in London, 1600-10; (1) The Little North door of St. Paul's Church, 1600-3; (2) At the door of the Office of the Six Clerks in Chancery Lane, 1603-10. There would appear to have been two if not three men of this name trading as booksellers between 1600 and 1610. The only entry of an apprenticeship is that recorded on August 24th, 1592, when John Baylye { BAYLYE, John ‹ LBT 07814 › }, son of John Baylye of Whetstone, Middlesex, was apprenticed to Joseph Hunt { HUNT, Joseph ( - 1614) ‹ LBT 07540 › }, stationer of London, for eight years from that date [Arber, ii. 182). This term would have expired in 1600, and we find two men of this name made free during that year. The earliest was on June 25th, when one John Baylie { BAILEY, John ‹ LBT 08756 › } was admitted by translation from the Company of Drapers [Arber, ii. 726], while the other was presented by John Newberry { NEWBERY, John ( - 1604) ‹ LBT 08131 › } on September 1st [Arber, ii. 727]. There was also a John Bayly {possibly BAYLAY, John ‹ LBT 06851 › } to whom John Wight { WIGHT, John ‹ LBT 00149 › }, draper and bookseller, who died in the latter half of 1589, left a bequest of unbound books to the value of forty shillings [Plomer, Wills, p. 29]. Whether any of these men was identical with Joseph Hunt's apprentice it is not possible to say. On September 8th, 1600, a John Baylie entered in the Registers Acolastus his after-witte, a poem by Samuel Nicholson [Arber, iii. 172], the imprint to which ran "At London. Imprinted for John Baylie, and are to be sold at his Shop, neere the little North-doore of Paules Church. 1600." Between 1602 and perhaps 1610 he had a second shop "at the doore of the office of the Six Clerks in Chancery Lane," from which in 1602 he issued an edition of (?) Southwell's Passion of a Discontented Mind, while in 1603 Thomas Creed { CREEDE, Thomas ‹ LBT 07400 › } printed for him a laudatory poem on the reign of Queen Elizabeth and the accession of James I, entitled Eliza'es Memoriall, King Iames his arrivall, and Romes Downefall, which was issued from St. Paul's Churchyard. John Bailey was also the publisher of Francis Davison's Poetical Rhapsody, 1602, but in 1603 he transferred his rights in this to Roger Jackson { JACKSON, Roger ( - 1626) ‹ LBT 08130 › } [Arber, iii. 242]. About this time there is also an entry in the Registers by "John Bayley ye younger" [Arber, iii. 206]. In 1610 a John Baily is found associated with William Barley { BARLEY, William ( - 1614) ‹ LBT 09332 › } in the publication of pamphlets relating to public affairs in France, The Apologie of George Brisset [B.M. 3901. e. 7], and The Terrible ... death of Francis Ravilliack [B.M. C. 33. g. 25], but in neither instance is the publisher's address given.
MLT Note: Cf. McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.14-15