1573, Sept. 8. Joseph Barnes, adm. bookseller (ibid.). He was licensed to sell wine from Oct. 1575 to at least Oct. 1596. He was sole printer to the University from 1585 to 1617, resigned on 12 Feb. 1616/7, and died in 1618, being buried in St. Mary’s on Dec. 17 in that year. He lived (and printed) in a house at the west end of St Mary’s, now St. Mary’s Entry (see Letters from the Bodleian, ii. 428).
1573, Sept. 8. Robert Cave, adm. bookseller (Clark, i. 321): still a bookseller in 1693 (fragm. in C. C. C, Oxf., Library from M. XX. II).
1573, Dec. 5. Richard Garbrand, or Harks, adm. bookseller: still bookseller in 1599 (MS. Wood D. 3, p. 281, cf. 286, where it is stated that he was churchwarden of St. Mary’s in 1569); he died before 31 Jan 1603
4 (Clark, i. 323. compared with Griffiths’ Index of Oxford Wills).
1574, Mar. 25. Dominique Pinart, adm. bookseller (Clark, ibid.): in 1583 he occurs as a bookbinder (Oxf. Univ. Archives, Reg. Y. 99); still bookseller in 1616
7 (Clark, i. 321). Died before 18 Feb. 1627/8 (Oxf. Univ. Archives—Wills).
1574. John Gore occurs as an Oxford bookseller in a lease summarized in MS. Wood D. 3, p. 281, and lived in or near Cat St.
1577, Apr. 24. Humphrey Archer, adm. bookseller (Clark, i. 321). Administration was granted after his death on 13 Feb. 1587
8 (Oxf. Univ. Archives).
1577. Rowland Jenckes or Jenkes, a bookbinder, was condemned at the Assizes at Oxford for sedition (Wood’s History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, ed. Gutch, ii. (1796), p. 188: and Webster’s Treatise of Witchcraft, p. 245, quoted by Bagford in Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 62).
1583. Carre occurs as a bookbinder (Oxf. Univ. Archives, Reg. Y. 99).
1584, Aug. 15. £100 is lent by the University to Joseph Barnes with which to set up a press, to be repaid in six years (ibid. Reg. L. 10, fol. 287, cf. 246). In Oct. 1592 the money had not been repaid.
1585. For printers and publishers from 1585–1640, see also p. [311].