The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Daily entries from the 17th century London diary

Joshua Kirton

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David Quidnunc   Link to this

Bookseller, St. Paul's Churchyard

Pepys would call him "my bookseller" -- his principal bookseller for years. His shop and home were on the north side of the Churchyard.

-- L&M Companion

David Quidnunc   Link to this

Another Bookseller, John Playford

http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/332/

Playford sold books at the Inner Temple.

-- L&M Companion, Index volumes

David Quidnunc   Link to this

Booksellers Pepys mentions by name

Name/location/when Pepys's 1st mentions:

JAMES ALLESTRY
-- St. Paul's Churchyard, later Duck Lane; mentioned ONCE, 1667 (@ Duck Lane)

HENRY HERRINGMAN
-- New Exchange; 1667

JOSHUA KIRTON
-- St. Paul's Churchyard; 1660

JOHN MARTIN
-- Temple Bar; 1668

MILES & ANN MITCHELL
-- Westminster Hall; 1660

WILLIAM MORDEN
-- Cambridge; mentioned ONCE in 1660

JOHN PLAYFORD
-- Inner Temple; 1660

WILLIAM SHREWSBURY
-- At The Bible on Duck Lane; 1668

JOHN STARKEY
-- St. Paul's Churchyard, later on Fleet Street when Pepys mentions him; 1667

-- L&M Index volume

David Quidnunc   Link to this

St. Paul's Churchyard

http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/182/

Pauline   Link to this

Mr. [Joshua] Kirton's kinsman = William Kirton
(entry March 20, 1662/3)
From L&M Companion:
The "kinsman" is William Kirton, a freeman of the Stationers' Company by patrimony, 1665.

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