William Powell

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 46184

Names

  • William Powell
  • Wilhelmum Powell
A Century of the English book Trade ... from the Issue of the First Dated Book in 1457 to the Incorporation of the Company of Stationers in 1557, by E. Gordon Duff (1905)

POWELL (WILLIAM), printer in London, succeeded Middleton at the sign of the George in Fleet Street, having married his widow soon after his death in 1547. Middleton's will was proved June 17th and the new marriage license granted July 26th. Having thus succeeded to a good business, Powell printed continuously between 1547 and 1567, issuing in that period over fifty books. In the list in the Stationers' Company's charter Powell was nineteenth, so that he probably became a freeman between 1535 and 1540. He is entered many times in the Registers as taking apprentices and entering copies up to the year 1566. He is last mentioned in 1568 when his son Abraham was put apprentice to H. Bynneman. On retiring from business he married a second time, "Aug. 10 1569 William Powell, of St Dunstan in the West, stationer and Jone alias Jane Starkie alias Evans, widow, of City of London." [London Marriage Licenses, p. 43.]