JAGGARD, William ( - 1623) ‹ LBT 07351 ›
Badges
Floruit 1591 (A) — 1623 (B); Male, married
Life Events
| Event | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Death | - before 17 Nov 1623 <Probate> |
Family Relationships
| LBTNumber | Name | Relationship | Occupation | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3120 | JAGGARD, Jane ( - 1625) ‹ LBT 03120 › | spouse | ||
| 33079 | JAGGARD, John ‹ LBT 33079 › | parent | Cit. & Barber-Surg. | |
| 9049 | JAGGARD, Isaac ( - 1627) ‹ LBT 09049 › | child | Printer | |
| 36837 | ELLISON, Joseph ‹ LBT 36837 › | child | O.D.N.B. |
Livery Companies
| Company | Source |
|---|---|
| Stationers' Company |
Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)
| Name | Premium | Paid By | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| DENHAM, Henry ‹ LBT 08578 › |
Had Apprentice(s): (10)
Addresses (2)
| Date | Address | Trade at Addr | Source | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1594, (1594-1608) | St Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet Street | McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) | ||
| 1608, (1608-1623) | Barbican | McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) | - the Half Eagle and Key |
Events (16)
| Date | Event type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Sep 1584 | Bound | to Henry Denham (LBT/08578) |
| 6 Dec 1591 | Freed - Servitude | |
| 25 Mar 1595 | Appr - Binding | Launcelot Griffin (LBT/07841) |
| 25 Dec 1597 | Appr - Binding | Thomas Cotes (LBT/07839) |
| 11 May 1600 | Appr - Binding | Francis Langley (LBT/07842) |
| 29 Sep 1602 | Appr - Binding | Thomas Greene (LBT/07840) |
| 25 Dec 1604 | Appr - Binding | William Neale <Neile> (LBT/07843) |
| 21 Jan 1606 | Appr - Freedom | Thomas Cotes (LBT/07839) |
| 26 Mar 1607 | Appr - Binding | John Cave (LBT/09048) |
| 3 Aug 1607 | Appr - Freedom | Francis Langley (LBT/07842) |
| 20 Mar 1610 | Appr - Binding | John Shakespeare (LBT/09051) |
| 30 Sep 1611 | Appr - Binding | Myles Shirborne (LBT/09052) |
| 23 Jun 1613 | Son - patrimony | Isacke Jaggard (LBT/09049) |
| 17 Jan 1614 | Appr - Freedom | William Neile <Neale> [ST/01202] |
| 29 Sep 1614 | Appr - Binding | Laurence Yardsley [ST/1:2096] |
| 4 Nov 1622 | Appr - Binding | John Leason (LBT/09050) |
Sources and References
| Original Sources | Comments |
|---|---|
| St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin |
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
- said to be dead at the time of the child's bindi
ODNB - article by Stanley Wells
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, pp.90-1
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.153-4
JAGGARD (WILLIAM), printer and bookseller in London, 1594-1623; (1) St. Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet Street, 1594-1608; (2) The Half Eagle and Key, Barbican, 1608-23. Son of John Jaggard, citizen and barber surgeon of London, brother of John Jaggard (1593-1623) { JAGGARD, John ( - 1623) ‹ LBT 08586 › }, and father of Isaac Jaggard (1613-27) { JAGGARD, Isaac ( - 1627) ‹ LBT 09049 › }. William Jaggard was apprenticed to Henry Denham { DENHAM, Henry ‹ LBT 08578 › } for eight years from Michaelmas, 1584, and was admitted to the freedom of the Company on December 6th, 1591 [Arber, ii. 126,710]. He began business as a publisher in a small way, in premises in St. Dunstan's Churchyard, his first venture, according to the Register, being a medical work called the Booke of secretes of Albertus Magnus, entered on March 4th, 1594/5 [Arber, ii. 672]; but he quickly turned to more profitable work, and emulated and surpassed the methods of his contemporaries in the art of book production. In 1599 he collected a number of poems by various authors, and published them under the collective title of The Passionate Pilgrime, by W. Shakespeare, but there was little of Shakespeare's work in the volume, which however contained several of Thomas Heywood's poems, abstracted from Troia Britanica, a work of Heywood's that Jaggard had published. About the year 1608 William Jaggard bought the old established printing business of James Roberts { ROBERTS, James ‹ LBT 08339 › } in the Barbican, and became printer to the City of London. William Jaggard was a friend of Augustine Vincent, the herald. Vincent had written a very slashing examination of his brother herald Ralph Brooke's Catalogue of Kings, which he entitled A Discovery of Errors. While the Discovery was in the press Brooke published a second edition of his work in the preface of which he threw the blame for most of the errors of the first edition upon William Jaggard, who had printed it. Jaggard, therefore, added to the Discovery a prefatory letter replying to Brooke's strictures. From this letter it would appear that he had then (1622) become blind. But the work with which William Jaggard's name will always be connected is the First Folio of Shakespeare's Works. In 1899 Mr. Sidney Lee discovered a copy of the First Folio bearing the inscription on the titlepage "Ex dono Willi. Jaggard Typographi, a° 1623." and presented by him to his friend Augustine Vincent. This throws an interesting light on the date of printing of the book. The copy was entered in the Registers by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount { BLOUNT, Edward (1564 - ) ‹ LBT 08253 › } on November 8th, 1623, and William Jaggard was dead and his will proved by November 17th. From the fact that his name does not appear in the Registration of the book, we may infer that he was either already dead or on his death bed on November 8th, and this presentation copy suggests that the work was in print, if not actually published, some time before the date of registration. (Sidney Lee, Life of Shakespeare, Fifth ed., 1905.] By his will we learn that William Jaggard left two sons Isaac and Thomas, the latter a student at the University. He left a piece of plate to the Company of Stationers and appointed his wife Jane { JAGGARD, Jane ( - 1625) ‹ LBT 03120 › } his executrix, Thomas Pavier { PAVIER, Thomas ( - 1625) ‹ LBT 08217 › }, stationer, being one of the overseers [Archdeaconry of London]. His widow died two years later, her will being proved on November 22nd, 1625 [Archdeaconry of London, Register 6, fol. 217].