NORTON, Bonham ( - 1635) ‹ LBT 08173 ›
Badges
Floruit 1592 (A) — 1635 (A); Male, married
Life Events
| Event | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Death | - on 5 Apr 1635 Blayney |
Family Relationships
| LBTNumber | Name | Relationship | Occupation | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3218 | OWEN, Jane (mar. NORTON) ‹ LBT 03218 › | spouse | ||
| 6973 | BONHAM, William (1497 - 1557) ‹ LBT 06973 › | grandparent | Printer, Bookseller | Wife of William Norton [LBT/8157] |
| 3080 | BONHAM, Joan ‹ LBT 03080 › | grandparent | Wife of William Norton [LBT/8157] | |
| 8157 | NORTON, William (1527 - 1593) ‹ LBT 08157 › | parent | Stationer | |
| 3213 | BONHAM, Joan (mar. NORTON) ‹ LBT 03213 › | parent | ||
| 3309 | NORTON, Sarah (mar. BARKER) ‹ LBT 03309 › | child | ||
| 9128 | NORTON, Roger ( - 1662) ‹ LBT 09128 › | child | Printer, Stationer | |
| 35151 | NORTON, Thomas ‹ LBT 35151 › | child | mentioned in the will of his grandfather - William Norton [LBT/8157] | |
| 36837 | ELLISON, Joseph ‹ LBT 36837 › | child | O.D.N.B. | |
| 34967 | BONHAM, John ‹ LBT 34967 › | aunt or uncle |
Livery Companies
| Company | Source |
|---|---|
| Stationers' Company |
Stationers' Company Titles (6)
| Title | From | To | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renter Warden | 1595-03-25 | 1596-03-25 | Served 1595/1596 |
| Assistant | 1597-05-06 | 1629-11-02 | Chosen; First attendance; Last attendance |
| Master | 1612-11-23 | 1613-11-23 | Served 23 Nov 1612/1613 |
| Master | 1613-07-01 | 1614-07-01 | Served 1613/1614 |
| Master | 1626-07-01 | 1627-07-01 | Served 1626/1627 |
| Master | 1629-07-01 | 1630-07-01 | Served 1629/1630 |
Occupations (2)
| Occupation | Comment |
|---|---|
| Printer | McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1907) |
| Bookseller | McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1907) |
Had Apprentice(s): (13)
Addresses (2)
| Date | Address | Trade at Addr | Source | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1594, (1594-1635) | Aldersgate Street | McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1907) | - Northumberland House | |
| 1594 | Blackfriars | McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1907) | - Hundsdon House |
Events (30)
| Date | Event type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Feb 1592 | Appr - Binding | Thomas Clerk (LBT/08162) |
| 4 Feb 1594 | Freed - Patrimony | - father = William (LBT/08157) |
| 1 Jul 1594 | Cloathed | |
| 25 Dec 1594 | Appr - Binding | Jonas Wellinges (LBT/08148) - on 4 Sep 1598 reported as 'gone, never to be fd' - there is no mention of his reinstatement, but he appears to have been freed on 20 Mar 1602 |
| 25 Mar 1595 | Renter Warden | Served 1595/1596 |
| 6 May 1597 | Court | Chosen as an Assistant |
| 6 Jun 1597 | Court | Attended - first |
| 25 Dec 1597 | Appr - Binding | William Barrett (LBT/08145) |
| 29 Sep 1598 | Appr - Binding | Henry Fetherston (LBT/08146) |
| 29 Jun 1599 | Under Warden | fined twice |
| 4 Feb 1600 | Appr - Binding | Joseph Morrys (LBT/08147) |
| 21 Jan 1606 | Appr - Freedom | William Barrett (LBT/08145) |
| 5 Oct 1607 | Appr - Freedom | Henry Ffetherston (LBT/08146) |
| 23 Nov 1612 | Master | Served 23 Nov 1612/1613 - see FURTHER NOTES. No record found regarding Upper Wardenship. |
| 1613 | Master | Served 1613/1614 |
| 29 Sep 1614 | Appr - Binding | Robert Lloyd (LBT/09126) |
| 2 Dec 1616 | Appr - Binding | Thomas Hayle (LBT/09123) |
| 23 Dec 1618 | Appr - Binding | John Harrington (LBT/09122) |
| 27 Jun 1620 | Appr - Binding | Francis Bill (LBT/09121) |
| 1 Mar 1625 | Appr - Binding | Nathaniel Prine <Prince?> (LBT/09130) |
| 1626 | Master | Served 1626/1627 |
| 1 Aug 1626 | Appr - Binding | William Holland (LBT/09124) |
| 21 Feb 1627 | Appr - Binding | John Mason (LBT/09127) |
| 1 Dec 1628 | Appr - Binding | Peter Jones (LBT/09125) |
| 1629 | Master | Served 1629/1630 |
| 12 Sep 1629 | Appr - Binding | Thomas Phillips (LBT/09129) - McK entry says entered on13 Mar 1623? |
| 2 Nov 1629 | Court | Attended - last |
| 5 Apr 1635 | Court | Died |
| 5 Apr 1635 | Died | |
| 15 Jun 1635 | Son - patrimony | Roger Norton (LBT/09128) |
Attendance prior to 5 Apr 1695 remains to be listed.
Further Notes
Renter Warden - if the normal progression was observed then Norton will have served as senior Renter Warden in 1596/1597. --- Mastership - on the death of John Norton [ST/0:1578], Bonham Norton was chosen Master for the remainder of the year (Arber, III, 504). ----
Sources and References
| Original Sources | Comments |
|---|---|
| St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin |
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
ODNB - article by David L. Gants
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, pp.125-6
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.201-3
NORTON (BONHAM), printer and bookseller in London, 1594-1635; (1) Northumberland House, Aldersgate Street; (2) Hunsdon House, Blackfriars. Bonham Norton was the only son of William Norton { NORTON, William (1527 - 1593) ‹ LBT 08157 › }, the bookseller, by his wife Joane { BONHAM, Joan (mar. NORTON) ‹ LBT 03213 › }, the daughter of William Bonham { BONHAM, William (1497 - 1557) ‹ LBT 06973 › }, bookseller, the friend and contemporary of John Rastell { RASTELL, John ( - 1536) ‹ LBT 28539 › }. The Nortons were a Shropshire family. Bonham Norton was born in 1565 and was apprenticed to his father. He was admitted a freeman of the Company "per patrimonium" on February 4th, 1593/4 [Arber, ii. 713]. His father had died a few months before, leaving a large fortune in real and personal estate, which Bonham Norton inherited. Bonham Norton married Jane { OWEN, Jane (mar. NORTON) ‹ LBT 03218 › }, the daughter of Sir Thomas Owen of Condover. He was sheriff of Sbropshire and hecame an alderman of London. He was also Master of the Company of Stationers in tbe years 1613, 1626 and 1629. In 1612 Bonham Norton, already a rich man, received a further legacy from John Norton { NORTON, John ( - 1612) ‹ LBT 08174 › }, his cousin, also a Shropshire man, and a wealthy stationer, who is best remembered as the publisher of Sir Henry Savile's edition of Chrysostom. Bonham Norton's character was that of a hard, calculating and grasping man, who was continually in the law courts prosecuting his brother stationers. His name first appears in the Registers on May 7th, 1591, when he assigned over to Richard Field { FIELD, Richard (bap. 1561 - 1624) ‹ LBT 06931 › } the copyright of the History of Guicciardini, Fenton's translation [Arber, ii. 648]. Between 1602 and 1613 there are no entries under his name in the Registers, but he was during that time in partnership with John Norton and John Bill { BILL, John ( - 1630) ‹ LBT 08152 › } in the trades of bookselling and printing. In 1601 Robert Barker { BARKER, Robert ( - 1646) ‹ LBT 06872 › }, the King's printer, complained to the Privy Council that Bonham Norton and John Norton had induced Andro Hart [q.v.] to send printers over to Dort in Holland for the purpose of printing Bibles and other privileged books [Acts of the Privy Counil, New Ser. xxxii. 14-15]. In 16113 Bonham Norton became Master of the Company in the room of his cousin John Norton deceased. He at once began an action against certain stationers who had been partners with John Norton in a large stock of Bibles and service books, and claimed the money standing in John Norton's name on the ground that by the deed of partnership the share of any partner who died was to go to his administrators. The defendants denied this. And referred to the "hard measure" offered to them by Bonham Norton in "suits and other vexations." They refer to him as a man of great estate, who had no need to "again become a bookseller." [Exchequer Bills and Answers, Jas. I, Lond. and Midd., No. 1005.] About this time he also seems to have been on friendly terms with Robert Barker, the King's printer, to whom there is reason to believe he advanced the money for tbe printing of the so called "authorised version" of the Bible, in 1611. At any rate both he and John Bill, another native of Shropshire, held some sort of share in the King's printing house at tbis time. In 1615 Bonham Norton's eldest daughter Sarah { NORTON, Sarah (mar. BARKER) ‹ LBT 03309 › } married Robert Barker's son Christopher { BARKER, Christopher ‹ LBT 08874 › }. But in 1618 trouble began between Barker and Norton and led to a bitter and protracted series of law suits, to which is due the bewildering series of imprints of the King's printing office between 1617 and 1629. Decree was at length pronounced in favour of Robert Barker, whereupon Bonham Norton accused the Lord Keeper of receiving a bribe, and was thrown into prison and fined. He died in 1635, but whether he was still a prisoner is not known. His sons Roger { NORTON, Roger ( - 1662) ‹ LBT 09128 › } and John Norton { ? } were also stationers. [Library, October, 1901, pp. 353-75.]