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<p>Hello</p><p>Stedman was not a printer</p><p>As a Stationer/Bookseller, he presented these works for publication</p><p>I had intended to produce a small book about Stedman & his times, but what with being the world's worst procrastinator & moving back to the USA it is still a long way from being ready. In addition I have to go to the hospital for major surgery in about 5 mins time - wish me luck</p><p>If all goes well, I'll still be out of circulation for a while but will get back to you with evidence (of which there is a reasonable amount to convince yours truly</p><p>Eddie Martin </p> <div class="ygroups-quoted"><br><br>---In bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com, <richard@...> wrote:<br><br><div id="ygrps-yiv-1829745049">I've spent a short time this morning looking through some of <br>
the records of the Worshipful Company of Stationers (of <br>
which Stedman was a member) which have been transcribed <br>
quite thoroughly in the three-volumn /Transcripts of the <br>
Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers: From <br>
1640-1708 AD/, London (1913-4).<br>
<br>
Under the Licensing of Press Act (1662), all books had to be <br>
licensed by an appointed Licenser, who for the duration of <br>
the act was Sir Roger L'Estrange. The act lapsed in 1679. <br>
So far as I can make out, records of these licensings appear <br>
in the records of the Stationers' Company. Certainly the <br>
records of the company seem little more than a list of books <br>
printed by its members, together with the payment of a <br>
nominal 6d fee.<br>
<br>
I can only find mention of five works printed by Stedman. <br>
They are as follows:<br>
<br>
<br>
16o Junii 1665<br>
<br>
Master Fab. Stedman . . . Entred . . . under the hands of <br>
Master L'Estrange and Master Warden Pulleyn a paper <br>
Intituled, /To His royall highnesse Duke of Yorke a <br>
Congratulatory Poem on that signall victory obteined by his <br>
Maties Navy under his heroick conduct agt ye States fleet of <br>
the United Netherland on ye 3d of June 1665/ . . . vj.d<br>
<br>
<br>
16o Junii 1665<br>
<br>
Master Fab. Stedman . . . Entred . . . under the hands of <br>
Master L'Estrange and Master Warden Pulleyn, a paper <br>
intituled, /An Essay uppon the late victory obteined by his <br>
royall Highnesse the Duke of Yorke agt the Dutch, uppon<br>
June ye 3d 1665/, by the author of Iter Boreale/ . . . vj.d<br>
<br>
<br>
February 8 1667 [i.e. 1667/8]<br>
<br>
Master Fabyan Stedman . . . Entred . . . under the hands of <br>
Master L'Estrange and Master Warden Royston a booke or copie <br>
intituled /Tintinnalogia or the Art of Ringing/ By a Lover <br>
of that Art . . . vj.d<br>
<br>
<br>
5th September 1676<br>
<br>
Master Fabian Stedman . . . Entred . . . under the hands of <br>
Master Roger L'Estrange and Master Warden Clark a book or <br>
copy intituled /The Art of Ringing improved wth plaine & <br>
easy rules to guide the practiconer in the ringing of all <br>
sorts of changes, to wch is added 98 new crosse peales./<br>
<br>
<br>
11th Decembr. 1676<br>
<br>
Master Fabian Stedman . . . Entred . . . under the hands of <br>
Roger L'Estrange Esqr and Master Warden Clark a book or copy <br>
intituled /Eighteene very practicall peales upon six & eight <br>
hells composed wth mixt grounds, togeather wth a second <br>
Imperiall Bob/, Composed by F. S.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Of the five works, three were described as "a book or copy" <br>
and were on ringing; the other two were merely "a paper" <br>
congratulating the Duke of York (later James II). The <br>
Stationers' records may well be incomplete, but there seems <br>
no reason why they should favour ringing works rather than <br>
others, so I can only assume that a high proportion of his <br>
works were on ringing.<br>
<br>
Stedman had been apprenticed to Daniel Pakeham, a master <br>
printer, on 7 July 1656. Apprenticeships had been fixed at <br>
seven years by the Statute of Artificer (1562), and very <br>
nearly seven years later on 4 July 1663, Stedman became a <br>
Freeman of the Stationers' Company. He was not yet a master <br>
printer, and it's unlikely he ever became one. Stedman may <br>
have been the licensed publisher of these works, but he did <br>
not have a press on which to print it. If he had continued <br>
as a printer, he would have been a journeyman in the employ <br>
of some other master printer, but John Eisel speculates that <br>
he had become a bookseller (c.f. RW 2010 p.489-90).<br>
<br>
Of the five works mentioned above, I have only heard of <br>
three of them. There is a copy of the essay to the Duke of <br>
York in the British Library, but the congratulatory poem, so <br>
far as I can tell, has not to have survived. Tintinnalogia <br>
is well known. The fourth work, 'The Art of Ringing <br>
improved' is clearly Campanalogia, although the title of <br>
first edition of Campanalogia (1677) concludes "Ringing of <br>
all kinds of Changes, to Which is added, great variety of <br>
new peals." Other than changing "all sorts" to "all kinds", <br>
the title no longer concluded "added 98 new crosse peales": <br>
"crosse" had been removed, and "98" changed to "great <br>
variety of".<br>
<br>
This leaves the fifth work, also on ringing. /Eighteene very <br>
practicall peales upon six & eight hells composed wth mixt <br>
grounds, togeather wth a second Imperiall Bob/, Composed by <br>
F.S. Was this another early ringing book that has since <br>
become lost? Or had the contents of it become merged with <br>
that of his other planned book of 1676 to form the 1677 <br>
Campanalogia? This could explain why the "98 new crosse <br>
peales" was changed on the cover. It might also explain <br>
Trollope's observation that Tintinnalogia bore L'Estrange's <br>
imprimatur, where Campanalogia did not (c.f. Trollope MS vol <br>
ii, p.428). Maybe Campanalogia was not ever licensed for <br>
publication in its final form, but produce by combining the <br>
two works that had both been licensed?<br>
<br>
Has there ever been a facsimile reprint made of the 1677 <br>
Campanalogia? I have copies of the third (1733) and sixth <br>
(1766) editions, but I do not have access to the first <br>
edition to check this. If there were a "second Imperiall <br>
Bob" composed by Stedman in the first edition Campanalogia, <br>
this would be a strong clue.<br>
<br>
RAS</div></div>
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