MIDDLETON, Henry ( - 1587) ‹ LBT 08100 ›

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Floruit: 1567–1587

Floruit 1567 (A) — 1587 (B);  Male, married

Life Events

Event Date Source
Death - before 13 Sep 1587 <Probate>

Will

Will (Ref., Piece, Image) Will Dates Intestate Probate Dates Administration Dates Comments

PROB 11/71, Spencer: 41-82, 138/123

1587-09-13 PRO - Stationer of London. ---

Family Relationships

LBTNumber Name Relationship Occupation Comments
3202 SUTTON, Jane (mar. MIDDLETON) ‹ LBT 03202 › spouse
28273 MIDDLETON, William ( - 1547) ‹ LBT 28273 › parent Printer
6398 MIDDLETON, Elizabeth (mar. POWELL) ‹ LBT 06398 › parent
7064 POWELL, Abraham ‹ LBT 07064 › sibling

Livery Companies

Company Source
Stationers' Company

Occupations (2)

Occupation Comment
Printer McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
Stationer Will

Had Apprentice(s): (6)

Name Premium Paid By Comments
COLLINS, John ‹ LBT 08101 ›
DEIGHT, Walter ( - 1618) ‹ LBT 08102 ›
HOOPER, Thomas ‹ LBT 08104 ›
ISACKESON, Richard ‹ LBT 08105 ›
WADYLOWE, William ‹ LBT 08108 ›
SHAWE, George ‹ LBT 08681 ›

Addresses (5)

Date Address Trade at Addr Source Comment
1567, (1567-1587) Ivy Lane McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) - the Black Horse
1567 London Wall McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) - the Ship
1567 Fleet Street McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) - the Falcon
1567 St Dunstan's Churchyard McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
1587-09-13 London Will - late of

Events (9)

Date Event type Description
17 Feb 1567 Freed - Patrimony - father = William Middleton (LBT/28273)
1 Jul 1577 Cloathed
24 Jun 1579 Appr - Binding Thomas Hooper (LBT/08104)
1 Nov 1580 Appr - Binding Richard Isackeson (LBT/08105)
25 Jun 1581 Appr - Binding John Collins (LBT/08101)
25 Dec 1581 Appr - Binding Walter Deight (LBT/08102)
3 Feb 1584 Appr - Turn-over/In Georgius Shawe (LBT/08681)
29 Sep 1584 Appr - Binding William Wadylowe (LBT/08108)
18 Dec 1584 Marriage Licence - to Jane Sutton (LBT/03202)

Sources and References

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

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William MIDDLETON {

Jane prev. SUTTON

ODNB - article by R.E.Graves, rev. Anita McConnell

'S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, p.119====McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.192====

MIDDLETON (HENRY), printer in London, 1567-87; (1) The Black Horse, Ivy Lane; (2) The Ship, in London Wall; (3) The Falcon in Fleet Street; (4) In St. Dunstan's Churchyard. Son of William Middleton { MIDDLETON, William ( - 1547) ‹ LBT 28273 › }, printer, 1541-7. Admitted to the freedom of the Stationers' Company in the year ending July 22nd, 1567 [Arber, i. 344]. Henry Middleton at once joined Thomas East or Este { EAST, Thomas (1540 - 1608) ‹ LBT 07395 › }, the printer, and together they printed, before the end of the year 1567, an edition of Thomas Phaer's Regiment of Life. In 1571 East and Middleton moved to premises in London Wall, but in the following year the partnership was dissolved, Henry Middleton having bought William Griffith's { GRIFFITH, William ‹ LBT 07559 › } printing and bookselling business at the Falcon in Fleet Street, with a shop in St. Dunstan's Churchyard. Many interesting books came from his press, among them being Gascoigne's Glasse of Governement,which he printed for Christopher Barker { BARKER, Christopher (1529 - 1599) ‹ LBT 06871 › } in 1575; Sir Humfrey Gilbert's Discourse of a discoverie for a new passage to Cataia, 1576; an edition of the De Imitatione Christi, translated and illustrated by the Rev. Thomas Rogers, 1587, William mbarde's Perambulation of Kent, 1576, one of the earliest of English topographical books, and an edition of the works of Virgil in 1580. In 1583 Henry Middleton was working three presses. He was chosen Junior Warden of the Company in July, 1587, but died before completing his year of office, leaving a widow Jane { SUTTON, Jane (mar. MIDDLETON) ‹ LBT 03202 ›} who afterwards married Richard Ayres { ? } [Commissary of London, p. 104]. From some depositions taken in a suit brought in 1591 by a certain Richard Brown, against Henry Middleton's executors, to recover a sum of £30 for printing indentures for licenses to sell wines, we learn that Robert Robinson { ROBINSON, Robert ‹ LBT 08395 › } bought the printing material and certain books and letters patent from Middleton's widow for the sum of £200, and that Thomas Newman { NEWMAN, Thomas ‹ LBT 08132 › } bought the shop in St. Dunstan's Churchyard and the books in it for £150 [Library, January, 1909, p. 103].