BUTLER, John ‹ LBT 28367 ›
Badges
Floruit 1529 (B) — 1535 (B); Male
Occupations (2)
| Occupation | Comment |
|---|---|
| Printer | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
| Judge of Common Pleas | Duff, E.G. (1905) - Ames/Maurice Johnson |
Addresses (1)
| Date | Address | Trade at Addr | Source | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000 | Fleet Street | Duff, E.G. (1905); STC. vol.3, (1991) | - sign of John the Evangelist |
Events (1)
| Date | Event type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan 1535 | Beneficiary | Will of Wynkyn de Worde (LBT/02699) - late my servant |
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Bib.Soc., Hand-lists (1913), contrib. E.G.Duff.
Duff, E.G. (1905), pp.19-20
BUTLER (JOHN), printer in London, was said by Ames, on the authority of Maurice Johnson, to have been a judge of the common pleas. He was, however, probably an apprentice, certainly at one time an assistant to Wynkyn de Worde { WORDE, Wynkyn de ( - 1534) ‹ LBT 02699 › }. By 1529 he had started in business on his own account, issuing in that year an edition of the Parvulorum institutio ex Stanbrigiana collectione. Wynkyn de Worde, at his death in 1535, left a bequest of six pounds in printed books to "John Butler late my servant." Besides the one dated book of 1529, eight undated books by this printer are known, the Jeaste of Sir Gawayne [Lambeth], the Doctrynale of good servantes, and the Convercyon of Swererers [Huth], and five grammatical works. An edition of the Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum, dated 1527, is generally ascribed to Butler, but was apparently the work of Rastell { RASTELL, John ( - 1536) ‹ LBT 28539 › }. Butler printed in Fleet Street, at the sign of St. John Evangelist, and sometimes made use of a small woodcut of St. John, apparently taken from a Horae series, as a printer's device. He appears to have had some business connection with John Skot { SKOT, John ‹ LBT 30095 › }, some of whose printing material he made use of.