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Joshua Kirton

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  • N David Quidnunc on Mon 3 Nov 2003, 10:29pm. Flag this

    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.

  • N David Quidnunc on Tue 4 Nov 2003, 03:48am. Flag this

    That apprentice’s name: Richard Randall

    — L&M Companion (in entry for Joshua Kirton).

  • N David Quidnunc on Tue 4 Nov 2003, 03:57am. Flag 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

  • N David Quidnunc on Tue 4 Nov 2003, 04:00am. Flag this

    Another Bookseller, John Playford

    http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/332.php

    Playford sold books at the Inner Temple.

    — L&M Companion, Index volumes

  • N David Quidnunc on Tue 4 Nov 2003, 04:22am. Flag 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

  • N David Quidnunc on Tue 4 Nov 2003, 04:30am. Flag this

    St. Paul’s Churchyard

    http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/182.php

  • N Pauline on Tue 21 Mar 2006, 03:27am. Flag 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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