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Floruit: 1571–1604
Floruit 1571 (A) — 1604 (B); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
before- 1604 |
McKerrow, R. B. &c. (1910)
|
Family Relationships
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
|
| Stationers' Company |
|
Occupations (2)
| Occupation |
Comment
|
| Printer |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
|
| Bookseller |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
|
Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)
Had Apprentice(s): (1)
Addresses (2)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
|
| 1575, (1575 - 1600) |
Fetter Lane |
|
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
|
| 1575, (1575 - 1600) |
Middle Temple Gate |
|
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
- within Temple Bar
|
Events (3)
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, pp.85-6
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.144
HOSKINS (WILLIAM), printer and bookseller in London, 1575-? 1600; (1) Fetter Lane; (2) At his shop joining to the Middle Temple Gate within Temple Bar. Apprentice to Richard Tottell { TOTTELL, Richard ‹ LBT 08571 › }, printer, for ten years from Michaelmas, 1560: admitted a freeman of the Company of Stationers on May 15th, 1571 [Arber, i. 146, 447). In 1575 he publishcd Ulpian Fulwell's Flower of Fame, but. whether he was then a printer is not clear. On September 3rd, 1582, Hoskins was committed to prison for three days and fined 10s. for keeping an apprentice for seven years without the knowledge of the Company [Arber, ii. 583]. In 1591 he is found in partnership with Henry Chettle { CHETTLE, Henry ‹ LBT 07398 › } and John Danter { DANTER, John ‹ LBT 07318 › } in a printing business in Fetter Lane and his name with Chettle's appears on the imprint to a sermon of the Rev. Henry Smith's called The Affinitie of tIhe Faithful; but the partnership was dissolved in the following year. During the latter part of his life he published several books on music, in company with Peter Short { SHORT, Peter ‹ LBT 08436 › } [Arber, iii. 72, 81). He was dead before 1604 [Arber, ii. 735].
