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Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers, London (1554)

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Photographed by the National Editor at Stationers' Hall

Citation:
Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers (1554), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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uk_1554

Full title
Selected Extracts from the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London (1554-1640)

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Abstract
This document is associated with the following core document: uk_1557.
The selected entries from the Stationers' Register include the following:
Image 1: Registration of Richard Tottle's patent for printing Books of Common Law (10 July 1558 - 10 July 1559) (page: 32A)
Image 2: Examples of fines imposed by the Company for printing without licence (10 July 1558 - 10 July 1559) (page: 35A)
Image 3: Examples of money received (fines) connected with the licensing of copies by the Company (14 July 1559 - 5 July 1560) (page: 47A)
Image 4: Additional examples of money received (fines) connected with the licensing of copies by the Company (22 July 1563 - 22 July 1564) (page: 100A)
Image 5: The first instance in which the Register lists the purchase by one printer (Thomas Marshe) of a licence to print a work originally belonging to another printer (Lucas Haryson) (22 July 1564 - 22 July 1565) (page: 114A)
Image 6: The first entry of a work registered with the Company that has been "authorised" by the Bishop of London (22 July 1564 - 22 July 1565) (page: 116A)
Image 7: Another example of a work registered with the Company that has been "authorised" by the Bishop of London (22 July 1564 - 22 July 1565) (page: 119A)
Image 8: The first entry of a work registered with the Company that has been "authorised" Archbishop of Canterbury (22 July 1564 - 22 July 1565) (page: 120B)
Image 9: Additional examples of money received for the "entering of copies" by the Company (22 July 1565 - 22 July 1566) (page: 131A)
Image 10: The first entry on the Register to make reference to the cost of a work (5 shillings) purchased by one printer (John Kyngeston) from another (Wylliam Coplande) (22 July 1565 - 22 July 1566) (page: 137B)
Image 11: An entry referring to the manner in which the ownership of a registered work changed a number of times (Leonarde Maylarde gave it to Austin Lawghton; Lawghton subsequently sold it to Henry Myddleton) (22 July 1566 - 22 July 1567) (page: 152B)

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London

Year
1554

Language
English

Source
Photographed by the National Editor at Stationers' Hall

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Persons referred to
Adams, Richard (fl.1554)
Alde, John (fl.1554)
Calvin, John (1509-1564)
Cherlewood, John (fl.1554)
Copland, William
Cotta, Fabio (fl.1546)
Digges, Leonard (1520-1559)
Fleming, Hugh (fl.1554)
Griffith, William (fl.1554)
Harrison, John (fl.1554)
Hudson, Richard (fl.1554)
Jones, Richard (fl.1554)
Kingston, John (fl.1554)
Lant, Richard (fl.1554)
Laughton, Austin (fl.1554)
Marshe, Thomas (fl.1554)
Mary I (1516-1558)
Maylard, Leonard (fl.1554)
Middleton, Henry (d.1587)
Nostradamus (1503-1566)
Philpott, John (c.1515-1555)
Pickering, William (fl.1554)
Pole, Reginald (1500-1558)
Rogers, Owen (fl.1554)
Sampson, John (fl.1554)
Sanderson, Henry (fl.1554)
Scerle, Richard (fl.1554)
Seres, William (d.1578/80)
Stow, John (c.1525-1605)
Sutton, Henry (fl.1554)
Terence (c.190 B.C.-159 B.C.)
Tottell, Richard (d.1594)
Wentworth, Sir Thomas (1525-1584)
Whitehorne, Peter (fl.1554)

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Ipswich
London
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almanacs
catechisms
law books
licensing
penalties, paid to publishers' organisations
registration
religious works
Stationers' Company
transferability
translations, of contemporary works

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Ronan Deazley




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Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK