Edward Whitchurch

Edward Whitchurch (Pseudonym: Robert Stoughton;^[1][2] died 1561) was a London printer and publisher of Protestant works.

The title-page of the Great Bible; "Prynted by Rychard Grafton & Edward Whitchurch"

Whitchurch and Richard Grafton jointly published the first complete version of the Bible in English in 1539. Other published works included the 1547 A Treatise of Morall Phylosophie, contayning the Sayinges of the Wyse, by William Baldwin, and the Paraphrases of Erasmus in 1548.^[3]

After Thomas Cromwell's fall and execution, Whitchurch and Grafton were sent to prison on 8 April 1543 but they were released on 3 May. On 28 January 1543-4, together Grafton and Whitchurch received an exclusive patent for printing church service books and on 28 May 1546 they were also granted an exclusive right to print primers in Latin and English.^[4]

In 1549 he employed five assistants.^[5]

Merton Abbey was closed by Henry VIII as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries^[6] and the estate sold. Edward Whitchurch and Lionel Dutchet purchased it, but left for Europe when Queen Mary came to the throne. The site then came into the ownership of the Garth family.^[7]

After the accession of Mary, he left England, possibly to Germany, and later married Margaret, widow of Archbishop Cranmer in 1556.^[8]

See also

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References

1. Vermigli, Pietro Martire (1550). A discourse or traictise of Petur Martyr Vermilla Flore[n]tine, the publyque reader of diuinitee in the Vniuersitee of Oxford wherein he openly declared his whole and determinate iudgemente concernynge the sacrament of the Lordes supper in the sayde Vniuersitee. ProQuest 2248507609.
2. "Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562 | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
3. Alford, Stephen (2002). Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI. Cambridge University Press. p. 122. ISBN 9781139431569 – via Google Books.
4. Lee, Sidney (1900). "Edward Whitchurch". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900.
5. Duff, E. Gordon (2011). A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All Printers. Cambridge University Press. p. 169. ISBN 9781108026765 – via Google books.
6. "A Conversation and Management Plan for Merton Priory and Merton Abbey Mills, p. 7.
7. "A Condensed History of Morden and St Lawrence", Church of St Lawrence official website, accessed 17 April 2017.
8. Ryrie, Alec (3 January 2008). "Edward Whitchurch". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29233. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Whitchurch, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.