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See also:GRAFTON, See also:RICHARD (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• 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 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.
End of Article: GRAFTON, RICHARD (d. 1572)
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