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Notes
Edward Arber, A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London; 1554-1640 A.D., 5 vols (1875-94), I, xxviii-xxix, xxxiii.
Henry R. Plomer, Abstracts from the Wills of English Printers and Stationers, from 1492 to 1630 (1903), pp. i-iv.
R. B. McKerrow, A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books 1557-1640 (1910; rpt. 1968), p. 113.
Alumni Cantabrigienses . . ., Part I, comp. John Venn and J. A. Venn., 4 vols. (1922-27), II, 274.
Plomer, p. 56, lists Middleton's will of 1587, as probated in the Commissary Court of London (presumably Guildhall Library MS. 9171/17, fol. 104), among those of "stationers whose wills are not inserted" in Plomer's book.
Mark Eccles, "Anthony Munday," in Studies in the English Renaissance Drama: In Memory of Karl Julius Holzknecht, ed. Josephine W. Bennett, Oscar Cargill, and Vernon Hall, Jr. (1959), p. 97, mentions in passing the will of "Thomas Pettitt," to whom Christopher Munday (Anthony Munday's father) was apprenticed until 7 August 1554.
On the various stationers mentioned in Petyt's will, see Duff, pp. 137-138 (Riddell), 86 (Kitson), 161-162 (Veale), 170 (John Wight), and 23 (Cawood), and McKerrow, p. 289 (Thomas Wight).
Thomas Dudley Fosbrooke, Abstracts of Records and Manuscripts Respecting the County of Gloucester . . . , 2 vols. (1807), II, 66-67, mentions "Lafford's Gate" or "Lawford's Gate" in Bristol.
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