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Floruit: 1554–1583
Floruit 1554 (B) — 1583 (A); Male
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Tylers' Bricklayers' Company |
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Occupations (1)
| Occupation |
Comment
|
| Bookbinder |
Duff, E.G. (1905)
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Addresses (3)
Events (1)
| Date |
Event type |
Description
|
| Mar 1562 |
Denization |
Pat. 4 Eliz., p.11, m.7
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SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Duff, E.G. (1905), p.145
SERES (GYLES), bookbinder in London, was a Frenchman who came to England about 1554. In March, 1562, he took out letters of denization. [Pat. 4 Eliz., p. II, m. 7.] In 1567 he occurs in a list of aliens in Aldersgate Ward and is said to have been in London thirteen years. [R. of A., I, 326.] In the two returns of 1571 he is described as "bookebinder and denizein, of the Frenche nacion, hath byn here xvi yeares." [R. of A., I, 435; II, 47.] In 1576 he was still in St. Anne's Parish, Aldersgate Ward and paid a poll-tax offourpence. [R. of A., II, 186.] In 1582 he is entered as a bookbinder. In 1583 and 1585 he is entered very fully amongst the strangers in the liberties of St. Martin Le Grand and is mentioned as paying tribute to the Company of Stationers. [R. of A., II, 349, 392.] He is last found in 1595 noted as one of those who ha.d not paid his tax of eight pence, being too poor. [R. of A., II, 477.]
MLT Note: Duff, E.G. (1905) - 1583-5 - mentioned as paying tribute to the Company of Stationers. ---