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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">We do know about Stedman's
apprenticeship, which I once "found" in the published register of apprentices of
the Stationers Company and thought I'd made a big discovery - until I learned
that Bill Cook had also picked it up not long before I found it!! I was doing
some research on the printing trade at the time, but it was a long time ago
(perhaps late 1970s) and no longer have ready recall of the sources. But the
apprenticeship register ought to be easily traceable. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Details are in John Eisel's account of
Stedman - the best up-to-date summary - in "Giants of the
Exercise". Stedman was apprenticed to Daniel Pakeman,. a London Master
printer, in 1956 and became free of the Stationers Company in 1663 at the end of
his apprenticeship. The register would show, I'm sure, any others who were
apprenticed to Pakeman (i.e. Wingate may be mentioned)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">The following articles may be helpful in
tracking down what we now know about Stedman, and in filtering out what is no
longer believed to be true - past fictions and speculations that are hard to
kill off, although now disproved!</FONT></DIV>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -.5in"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>"Fabian Stedman" by Frederick Sharpe in <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ringing World</I> 10 December 1971 p.1051
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>“Fabian Stedman or, Little by Little” by John
C. Eisel [New information on Stedman’s career in publishing and printing, and an
analysis of the early ringing textbooks with which he is associated] in <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ringing World</I> 14 May 2010 pp.489-91,
93</SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>"Fabian Stedman, 1640-1730" by William T. Cook
in <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ringing World</I> 29 October 1982
pp.900-901 </SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>"The Stedman Family of Yarkhill" by John C.
Eisel in <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ringing World</I> 21 May 1976
pp.429-30; "Fabian Stedman and his family at Yarkhill, Herefordshire" by
Constance Purser in <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ringing World</I> 20
August 1976 pp.707-8 </SPAN></P>
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<P
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -.5in"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>“Fabian Stedman: The First Group Theorist?” by
Arthur T. White in <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The American
Mathematical Monthly</I>, Vol.103, No.9 (November 1996), pp.771-778</SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>“The Stedman Family” by the Rev. Eric Wood in
</SPAN><I><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt" lang=EN-GB>Ringing
World</SPAN></I><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt" lang=EN-GB> </SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>12 July 2002 p.725 </SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>“Who wrote the Tintinnalogia?” by Cyril A.
Wratten in <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ringing World</I> 22 Nov, 1968
p.904<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Biographical account of Fabian Stedman in
Chapter one “The Beginnings of Change Ringing” in John C. Eisel <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Giants of the Exercise: Some Notable Ringers
of the Past</I> (CCCBR, 1997) [no pagination]</SPAN></P>
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