Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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An apprentice of his …
… is a short man with a hunchback. Pepys occasionally drinks with him.
— L&M Diary, Vol. 1 (1660), 12 Feb, 1 Dec.
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That apprentice’s name: Richard Randall
— L&M Companion (in entry for Joshua Kirton).
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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
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Another Bookseller, John Playford
http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/332.php
Playford sold books at the Inner Temple.
— L&M Companion, Index volumes
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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; 1667JOSHUA KIRTON
— St. Paul’s Churchyard; 1660JOHN MARTIN
— Temple Bar; 1668MILES & ANN MITCHELL
— Westminster Hall; 1660WILLIAM MORDEN
— Cambridge; mentioned ONCE in 1660JOHN PLAYFORD
— Inner Temple; 1660WILLIAM SHREWSBURY
— At The Bible on Duck Lane; 1668JOHN STARKEY
— St. Paul’s Churchyard, later on Fleet Street when Pepys mentions him; 1667— L&M Index volume
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St. Paul’s Churchyard
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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.