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Notes
Transcript (1875), I, 31. In what follows, all bracketed page numbers refer to this volume of the Transcripts.
I am grateful to the present Master, Wardens and Assistants of the Stationers' Company for permission to use unpublished material; and I should like to make it clear both how much I admire the work of Professor Arber and also that I intend no criticism of him in drawing attention to the entries in the Registers still unprinted.
This is not the same as Liber A, "Orders of Parliamt. & Ld Mayor", which has not been printed, except in part, and which Arber was not permitted to use.
For an account of these officers, see Sir Walter Greg's Introduction to The Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company, 1576-1602 (1930). This book is cited hereafter as Greg.
Though the Company had expectations from Arthur Pepwell, whose will was copied into Liber A (ff.12v-13v), the survival of a grandchild to the age of twenty-one must have prevented their realization. See H. R. Plomer, Abstracts from the Wills of English Printers and Stationers (1903) p. 16.
It is interesting that there is no reference to this in the Court Book, although on 27 January the "poore men" submitted a petition in which they complained of the excessive number of apprentices.
But according to Liber A, f. 38r (29 October 1578), he was to have 40s. a year, in addition to his ordinary salary of 40s., while he was living away from the hall; and on 17 January 1599 (Greg, pp. 67/8) the Court ruled that he was still to be paid £4 a year even though he had moved back to the quarters in the hall.
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