WINDET, John ( - 1610) ‹ LBT 06795 ›

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Floruit: 1579–1610

Floruit 1579 (A) — 1610 (A);  Male

Life Events

Event	Date	Source
Death	- before 18 Dec 1610 <Burial>
Burial	St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street

Will

Will (Ref., Piece, Image)	Will Dates	Intestate	Probate Dates	Administration Dates	Comments
PROB 11/117, Wood: 1-58, 82/70	1610-11-21		1611-01-08		PRO - Stationer of London. --- Copy - mlt from Mark Bland. ---

Livery Companies

Company	Source
Stationers' Company

Stationers' Company Titles (2)

Title	From	To	Notes
Renter Warden	1594-03-26	1595-03-26	Served 1594/1595
Assistant	1599-07-03	1599-07-03	First attendance

Occupations (2)

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

Addresses (3)

Date	Address	Trade at Addr	Source	Comment
1584, (1584-)	Addling Street, The White Bear - nigh Baynard's Castle		McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
1592, (1592-1603)	St Paul's Wharf, Thames Street, The Cross Keys		McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
1611-01-08	London		Will	- late of

Events (29)

Date	Event type	Description
13 Apr 1579	Freed -	QUERY - by John Allde (LBT/07935) - no record of binding.
4 Jul 1582	Cloathed
18 Feb 1584	Appr - Binding	Walter Hawes (LBT/08782)
26 Mar 1584	Appr - Turn-over/In	William Norden (LBT/07063) from Henry Bynneman (LBT/07678)
29 Sep 1585	Appr - Binding	Michaell Harte (LBT/08781) - serve Andrew Mansell [], Draper; subsequently turned-over [no record] to Robert Dexter (LBT/07158)
7 Nov 1586	Appr - Binding	John Gybson (LBT/08780)
24 Jun 1587	Appr - Binding	William Jones (LBT/08783)
25 Dec 1590	Appr - Binding	William Stansby (LBT/08785)
5 Oct 1592	Appr - Freedom	Michael Harte (LBT/08781)
26 Mar 1594	Renter Warden	Served 1594/1595
7 Sep 1594	Appr - Binding	William Bealy (LBT/08779)
29 Sep 1596	Appr - Binding	William Wright (LBT/08787)
6 Jun 1597	Appr - Turn-over/In	Thomas Streete (LBT/08384) fromThomas Scarlet (LBT/07407)
26 Jun 1598	Appr - Turn-over/In	Richard Raynoldes (LBT/06937) from George Bishop (LBT/08608)
3 Jul 1599	Court	Attended - first - no record of Assistantship - see Further Notes
3 Nov 1600	Appr - Binding	Walter Allen (LBT/08778)
23 Apr 1604	Under Warden	fined - by fine returned on 1 Jul 1605
24 Jun 1604	Appr - Binding	Symon Marboro (LBT/08784)
24 Aug 1604	Appr - Binding	George Vokes (LBT/08786)
7 Oct 1605	Appr - Freedom	John <possibly William> Wright (LBT/08787)
1 Nov 1605	Appr - Binding	Phillip Hind (LBT/09224)
13 Apr 1607	Court	Dismissed - On this day Windet was "dismissed from the assistendship and from the Lv'ye, And to take his ease", no reason being given.
13 Apr 1607	Dismissed	see Further Notes
29 Sep 1607	Appr - Binding	Frauncis Bott (LBT/09223)
25 Dec 1608	Appr - Binding	Adryan Whicker (LBT/09225)
16 Jan 1609	Appr - Freedom	Walter Allen (LBT/08778)
18 Dec 1610	Buried	St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street
18 Dec 1610	Court	Died before this date
1 Apr 1611	Appr - Freedom	Richard Reynoldes <Raynoldes> (LBT/06937) - by Windet's executors

Attendance prior to 5 Apr 1695 remains to be listed.

Further Notes

Assistantship - Greg (p.xxiii) thought it "reasonable to suppose that past officers remained members of the Court" and that most of those men who became Assistants between 1576 and 1602 without evidence of direct election did so by virtue of their election as Under Warden. --- Dismissal - Windet was "dismissed from the assistentship and from the lyu'ye. And take his ease", no reason being given. ---

Sources and References

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

SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS

Transcriptions

ary Magdalen Old Fish Street

S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, pp.184-5

McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), p.294-5

WINDET (JOHN), printer in London, 1584-1611; (1) The White Bear in Addling St. nigh Baynard's Castle; (2) The Cross Keys on St. Paul's Wharf, Thames St. On April 13th, 1579, John Allde { ALLDE, John (1531 - bur. 1584) ‹ LBT 07935 › }, the printer, presented for his freedom an apprentice who is entered in the Registers as John Wyndyert, and who may be identical with John Windet [Arber, ii. 68o]. If so, he served some years as a journeyman, as it was not until 1584 that he began to print on his own account. In that year he printed Thomas Rogers' English Creed. In the same year he took over one of Henry Bynneman's { BYNNEMAN, Henry (1542 - 1583) ‹ LBT 07678 › } apprentices, and appears to have set up in business at the White Bear in Addling Street. As several books are found in 1584 with the joint names of Windet and John Judson { }, and they are not found in partnership after that date, it is possible that he succeeded to the business.

John Windet was on several occasions fined for taking apprentices without presenting them and for other trivial offences. But his business increased rapidly and in 1586 he had three presses [Arber, v.lii]. On July 4th in that year he was admitted to the Livery of the Company [Arber, ii. 866]. In the years 1593-4-5 he was renter of the Company [Arber, i. 565, 571], and in 1599 he served the office of Under Warden, but upon being elected to serve a second time in 1604 he agreed to pay £10 for exemption, and he never appears to have held any other office in the Company [Arber, ii. 838]. Between 1592 and 1603 John Windet's name is frequently found in the records of St. Bennet's, St. Paul's Wharf, either as constable of the parish or as serving on the wardmote inquest.

In 1603 he succeeded John Wolf { } as official printer to the city of London. The last book entry under his name is found on May 14th, 1604; hut he continued in business until 161 I when he assigned over his copyrights to William Stansby { LBR/08785 }, who ultimately succeeded to the business [Arber, iii. 465-7].