See also:RICHARD See also:GRAFTON (d. 1572)
, See also:English printer and chronicler, was probably See also:born about 1513
.
He received the freedom of the Grocers' See also:Company in 1534
.
See also:Miles See also:Coverdale's version of the See also:Bible had first been printed in 1535• See also:Grafton was See also:early brought into See also:touch with the leaders of religious reform, and in 1537 he undertook, in See also:conjunction with See also:Edward See also:Whitchurch, to produce a modified version of Coverdale's See also:text, generally known as See also:Matthew's Bible (See also:Antwerp, 1537)
.
He went to See also:Paris to reprint Coverdale's revised edition (1538)
.
There Whitchurch and he began to See also:print the See also:folio known as the See also:Great Bible by See also:special See also:licence obtained by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII. from the See also:French See also:government
.
Suddenly, however, the See also:work was officially stopped and the presses seized
.
Grafton fled, but See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Cromwell eventually bought the presses and type, and the See also:printing was completed in See also:England
.
The Great Bible was reprinted several times under his direction, the last occasion being 1553
.
In 1544 Grafton and Whitchurch secured the exclusive right of printing See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church service books, and on the See also:accession of Edward VI. he was appointed See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's printer, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which he retained throughout the reign
.
In this capacity he produced The Booke of the See also:Common Praier and !idministracion of the Sacramentes, and other See also:Rites and Ceremonies of the Churche: after the Use of the Churche of Englande (1549 fol.), and Actes of See also:Parliament (1552 and 1553)
.
In 1553 he d See also:Lady Jane See also:Grey's See also:proclamation and signed himself the
.
, q's printer
.
For this he was imprisoned for a
See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, seems thereafter to have retired from active
business
.
I orical See also:works include a continuation (1543)
of See also:Hardyng'i 'de from the beginning of the reign of Edward IV. down tc~on's own times
.
He is said to have taken considerable Mies with the See also:original, and may practically be regarded as eo nsible for the whole work
.
He printed in 1548 Edward See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall s See also:Union of the
.
.
.
Families of Lancastre and See also:Yorke, adding the See also:history of the years from 1532 to 1547
.
After he retired from the printing business he.published An Abridgement of the See also:Chronicles of England (1562), Manuell of the Chronicles of England (1565), See also:Chronicle at large and See also:metre Historye of the Affayres of England (1568)
.
In these books he chiefly adapted the work of his predecessors, but in some cases he gives detailed accounts of contemporary events
.
His name frequently appears
in the records of St See also:Bartholomew's and See also:Christ's hospitals, and in 1553 he was treasurer-See also:general of the hospitals of King Edward's See also:foundation
.
In 1553–1554 and 1556–1J57 he represented the See also:City in Parliament, and in 1562–1563 he sat for See also:Coventry
.
An elaborate See also:account of Grafton was written in 1901 by Mr J
.
A
.
Kingdon under the auspices of the Grocers' Company, with the See also:title See also:Richard Grafton, See also:Citizen and See also:Grocer of See also:London, &c., in continuation of Incidents in the Lives of T
.
Poyntz and R
.
Grafton (1895)
.
His Chronicle at large was reprinted by See also:Sir Henry See also:Ellis in 1809
.
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