HARDIE, John ‹ LBT 07224 ›

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Floruit: 1594–1612

Floruit 1594 (A) — 1612 (B);  Male

Life Events

Event	Date	Source
Death	1612

Livery Companies

Company	Source
Stationers' Company

Occupations (1)

Occupation	Comment
Bookseller	McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)

Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)

Name	Premium	Paid By	Comments
COOKE, Toby ‹ LBT 07620 ›

Had Apprentice(s): (5)

Name	Premium	Paid By	Comments
BAYLIE, William ( - 1660) ‹ LBT 07608 › (fl. 1601-1660)
BENTLEY, Walter ‹ LBT 07609 › (fl. 1608-1608)
JOHNSON, Henrie ‹ LBT 07610 › (fl. 1612-1612)
RICKMAN, Thomas ‹ LBT 07611 › (fl. 1603-1603)
WYLKINSON, Nathanaell ‹ LBT 07612 › (fl. 1602-1602)

Addresses (2)

Date	Address	Trade at Addr	Source	Comment
1594, (1594-6)	St Paul's Churchyard		STC. vol.3, (1991)	- at Tiger's Head (dw)
1606, (1606)	St Peter's Hill		STC. vol.3, (1991)

Events (7)

Date	Event type	Description
25 Mar 1587	Bound	to Toby Cooke (LBT/07620)
5 Aug 1594	Freed - Servitude
1 Nov 1594	Appr - Binding	William Baylie (LBT/07608)
29 Sep 1595	Appr - Binding	Nathanaell Wylkinson (LBT/07612)
25 Dec 1596	Appr - Binding	Thomas Rickman (LBT/07611)
20 Feb 1602	Loan	- £5 from the Stuckye bequest
31 Jul 1605	Loan	- £5 from the William Norton bequest

Sources and References

Original Sources	Comments
St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin

SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS

Transcriptions

S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.76

McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.124

HARDY (JOHN), bookseller in London, 1594-1609; The Tiger's Head, St. Paul's Churchyard. Son of Christopher Hardy of Barnet, Middlesex, yeoman. Apprentice to Toby Cooke { COOKE, Toby ‹ LBT 07620 › } for eight years from Lady-Day, 1587, and made free on August 5th, 1594. In 1596 he was fined "for printinge a booke of Mr. Burtons without aucthoritie and entrance x sh." and was forbidden to sell the book until it was duly licensed. Imprisonment was a1so threatened, but was "stayed till another tyme." He succeeded Toby Cooke as Beadle of the Company of Stationers in January, 1599/1600. His last book entry occurs in the Registers on February 13th, 1608/9 [Arber, iii. 401].