Elizabeth Whitlock (fl. 1693–1699)
Elizabeth Whitlock, bookseller near Stationers' Hall, 1695–1699. Wife of John Whitlock and daughter of Randal Taylor, both booksellers.
In his will, Randal Taylor left a few small bequests, and divided the rest of his property equally between his son, James, and daughter, ELizabeth. He bequeathed Elizabeth's half to his friend, bookseller Benjamin Tooke and Elizabeth's brother James
in Trust to & for the Sole & seperate use & maintenance of my Daughter Eliz: Whitlock the wife of Iohn Whitlock to be placed & put out in the names of my said good ffreind Master Benjamin Tooke & my said Sonn lames Tayler for the Sole & seperate use & maintenance of my said Daughter & her Children barring & excluding her said husband from having any thing to doe therein or to intermeddle therewith & willing that my Daughter's Receipts & discharges without her husband shall be at all times good & sufficient discharges to my Executors from time to time for what she shall receive for her maintenance as aforesaid. (Wayne H. Phelps, "The Will of Randall Taylor, a Restoration Bookseller," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 1978, p. 336–7)
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
WHITLOCK (ELIZABETH), bookseller in London, near Stationers' Hall, 1695–9. Doubtless widow of John Whitlock. Her name first appears in the Term Catalogues in Hil. 1696. [T.C. n. 567.] She published several theological pamphlets and A Compleat List of the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the New Parliament, 1698. [B.M. 1850. c. 6 (16).