William Weekly Explained

William Weekly (c. 1629–1697) was a bookseller who settled in Ipswich in the seventeenth century after completing an apprenticeship in London.^[1]

He was originally from Great Addington, Northamptonshire. He served his apprenticeship from September 1638 to November 1646.^[1] In 1651 he gained the freedom of Ipswich.

His son, John Weekly (1663-1716) entered his apprenticeship of ten years in London with William Harris. He returned to Ipswich, residing in St Lawrence ward.^[2]

Publications

Weekly published a number of books and other publications:^[3]

• (1650) The good masters plea, against the evill servants cavill by Nicholas Stanton, late preacher at St Margaret's Church, Ipswich
• (1657) The universal character, by which all the nations in the world may understand one anothers conceptions by Cave Beck, Ipswich Town Preacher, printed by Thomas Maxey
• (1660) The Best Wisdome by Benjamin Brunning, Ipswich Town Preacher, printed by D. Maxwell^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: William Weekly . BNF Catalogue général . . 6 June 2023.
2. Book: Copsey . Tony . The Ipswich Book Trades : booksellers, bookbinders, engravers, librarians, music sellers, newsagents, papermakers, printers, publishers, stationers at Ipswich until 1900 : a biographical dictionary . 2011 . Distributed by Claude Cox . Ipswich [England] . 0952297051.
3. [:S:A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Weekly (William)|Weekly (William) PDBP 1641-1667]
4. Web site: ΒΛΑΣΤΗΜΑ ΕΞ ΥΨΟΥΣ . Oxford Text Archive . Bodelian Library . 12 September 2023.