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Notes
"It is not known what became of his printing material, but his device No. 304 is found in 1633 in the possession of Augustine Mathewes" (p. 166). Device No. 304 is probably the only printing material Barley possessed (see below).
Barley was actually arrested for contempt (Arber, I.555), and said himself that this arrest and the later fine were for selling unlicensed books (see below). Pattison merely assumed that his crime was "irregular printing."
On this subject Greg remarked: "But it was quite common at the time to speak of 'printing' a book when what was meant was getting it printed, or publishing it. Some stationers regularly used the term in this sense in their imprints, as John Walley (1546-82), Robert Crowley (1549-57), and Anthony Kitson (1550-65) earlier, and later Richard Jones (1565-1600). Jones, it is true, possessed a press, but it is not known whether any of his numerous books were printed on it." (W. W. Greg, Some Aspects and Problems of London Publishing Between 1550 and 1650 (1956), p. 83.)
D. F. McKenzie, Stationers' Company Apprentices 1605-1640 (1961), p. 108. The Woburn Register does not record the baptism or burial of Barley. Entries in 1601 and 1604 record the baptisms of Elizabeth and Alice, daughters of a Wm. Barly (information supplied by Miss D. Summers, Bedfordshire Record Office), but that he was the publisher seems unlikely (see the entries from the St. Giles's register below).
Whether Sir Edward Stafford, Ambassador to France 1583-90, who died intestate in 1605 was a relative of Stafford the printer has not been determined, but his attempts to help Simon suggest that he was. He was a friend worth having; his mother, who died only a year before him, aged 78, was an intimate of the Queen. Her epitaph in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, records that "She served Queen Elizabeth 40 years, lying in the bedchamber." It may have been this Lady Stafford, rather than Sir Edward's wife, who helped Simon buy a house in 1600 (Arber, III.103).
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