MAYLER, John ‹ LBT 02597 ›
Floruit 1539 (B) — 1539 (B); Male
Livery Companies
| Company | Source |
|---|---|
| Grocers' Company | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
Occupations (1)
| Occupation | Comment |
|---|---|
| Printer | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
Addresses (1)
| Date | Address | Trade at Addr | Source | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000 | Botolph Lane, Billingsgate Ward | Duff, E.G. (1905) | - the sign of the White Bear |
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Bib.Soc., Hand-lists (1913), contrib. A.W.Pollard.
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.117
Duff, E.G. (1905), p.102
MAYLER (JOHN), printer in London, was a member of the Grocers' Company. He began to print in 1539, producing some editions of Hilsey's Primer for J. Wayland, Andrew Hester { HESTER, Andrew ‹ LBT 07705 › } and Michael Lobley { LOBLE, Michael ‹ LBT 08000 › }. In 1540 he printed an edition of the New Testament in Latin and in the following year was in trouble on account of the Six Articles, being accused as a railer against the Mass. [Foxe, V, 445.] In 1541 he began to print for John Gowghe { GOWGHE, John ‹ LBT 28267 › } for whom all his books were printed until the latter's death in 1543. The books issued in that period were almost all works by Thomas Becon, and one to which he wrote a preface, Coverdale's translation of Bullinger's Christian state of matrimony, was certainly a prohibited book.
On April 8th, 1543, Mayler with seven other printers was brought before the Privy Council "for printing off suche bokes as wer thowght to be unlawfull, contrary to the proclamation made on that behalff" and was committed to prison. On April 23rd he was delivered from the Fleet prison, but fined and bound to send in a true declaration what number of books and ballads he had bought within three years, what he had sold, and what merchants he knew to have brought in prohibited books. [Acts of the Privy Council, N.S., vol. i, pp. 107-117.] After Gowghe's death in 1543 Mayler appears to have done little. In 1544 and 1545 he printed a Prognosticon of J. Mussemius and some works of Leland, but after 1545 nothing further is known of him. He lived in Billingsgate Ward, in Botolph Lane at the sign of the White Bear.