TOY, Robert ( - 1556) ‹ LBT 08604 ›

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Floruit: 1556

Floruit 1556 (D) — 1556 (B);  Male, married

Life Events

Event Date Source
Death - after 5 Feb1556 <Will> - before 4 Mar 1556 <Probate>
Burial Will - to be buried in St.Faith's.

Will

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

PROB 11/37, More, 549/425

1556-02-05 1556-03-04 PRO - Roberte Toye, Stationer of London. --- Plomer, H.R. (1903), pp.12-12. ---

Executors

Executor Relation Comment
SCAMPION, Elizabeth (mar. TOY) ( - 1565) ‹ LBT 03269 › Wife

Family Relationships

LBTNumber Name Relationship Occupation Comments
3269 SCAMPION, Elizabeth (mar. TOY) ( - 1565) ‹ LBT 03269 › spouse Stationer
3268 TOY, (Unknown) ‹ LBT 03268 › spouse
6417 TOY, Rose (mar. PEPWELL) ‹ LBT 06417 › child Duff, E.G. (1905)
8606 TOY, Humphrey ( - 1577) ‹ LBT 08606 › child Bookseller McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) - H. matriculated in 1551 so he is unlikely to have been the child of Robert's second marriage in 1546.
36837 ELLISON, Joseph ‹ LBT 36837 › child Duff, E.G. (1905)

Livery Companies

Company Source
Stationers' Company

Occupations (1)

Occupation Comment
Printer Duff, E.G. (1905)

Had Apprentice(s): (1)

Name Premium Paid By Comments
JONES, William ( - 1574) ‹ LBT 08605 › McKerrow, R.B. (1910)

Addresses (1)

Date Address Trade at Addr Source Comment
1542-05-01 Bell, St Paul's Churchyard (next to Thomas Petyt) Duff

Events (1)

Date Event type Description
22 Jan 1546 Marriage Licence - to Elizabeth Scampion (LBT/03269)

Further Notes

H.G.Pollard queried [annotation in his copy of Duff] Duff's assumption that Toy must have been freed before 1534 because his son was freed by patrimony. He queried whether he was a member of the Tylers Company quoting "Midsx & Hert. NQ. Vol.iv, p.69 (April 1898). Though it must be noticed that in his will he left "fortie shillings" to the Stationers' Company. --- Toy may have come from Shropshire - see Plomer "Wills" ---"to the poor of Mortilmas Cliberie [?Mortimer Cleobury Salop] fourtie shillings which I will shall be distributed amongst them by the discretion of my broth Sir Edward viccar there". ---

Sources and References

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

SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS

Transcriptions

[Name unknown] { TOY, (Unknown) ‹ LBT 03268 › }; secondly, of Elizabeth SCAMPION

S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, pp.170-1

Duff, E.G. (1905), p.158

TOY (ROBERT), printer in London, must have been free of the Stationers' Company before 1534, since his son was made free by patrimony in 1558. He was in business from 1542 up to 1555 issuing about twenty-six books, most of which were printed for him by others. He lived in St. Paul's Churchyard next to Thomas Petyt { PETYT, Thomas ‹ LBT 00136 › } at a house with the sign of the Bell. His first wife { TOY, (Unknown) ‹ LBT 03268 › } by whom he had two children, Robert and Rose { TOY, Rose (mar. PEPWELL) ‹ LBT 06417 › }, died before 1546, for on January 22nd of that year he married a second wife Elizabeth Scampion { SCAMPION, Elizabeth (mar. TOY) ( - 1565) ‹ LBT 03269 › } of St. Margaret's Westminster. [Marriage Licenses, Faculty Office, p. 6.] Toye died at the beginning of 1556 and his will dated February 5th was proved March 4th. [Plomer, Wills, pp. 12, 13.] He had considerable property in St. Paul's Churchyard which he left to his wife and children. His daughter Rose afterwards married Arthur Pepwell { PEPWELL, Arthur ( - 1569) ‹ LBT 08225 › }. [D.N.B.]