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Jerome Glover
Glover was a London bookseller between 1559 and 1568.[4] In 1558-59, Robert Holder presented "Jeronimo glover" to be freed; in 1562-63, Glover was fined 12d. for selling books by Nostradamus, and in 1564-65 he and sixteen others paid a total of 8s. 10d. "for Stechen of bookes." Humffray Cottrell was apprenticed to him for nine years, beginning 25 December 1564, and Thomas Cudner for seven years, beginning 24 August 1565. In 1567-68, he was licensed to publish Valentine Leigh's Surveying of Lands (cf. STC 15416, and see Arber, I, 99, 217, 255, 277, 286, 355).
This stationer can probably be identified with the "Ierome Glover of the parishe of Sentfaithes in the citie of Londonn sicke in bodye" whose undated will was probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1569 (P.R.O., Prob. 11. 51/Sheffeld 14). He gives to his wife Margaret, and to the child with whom she was then pregnant, all of his goods and property, including some real estate in the parish of Wye, Kent. He names his brother, Richard Glover, residuary legatee and gives 40s. each to the children of his brothers and sisters. He asks that Mary Glover be paid the part of her portion still in his possession, and he leaves 2s. each to his three servants and to his aunt Holder (perhaps related to the stationer Robert Holder). John Bretton witnessed the will, which Glover's widow Margaret probated (as executrix) on 16 June 1569. (The register copy of the will shows that the document was signed "by me Richard Glover," apparently an error by the Court scribe; Jerome's brother Richard was probably another witness to the will.)
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