Daniell Speed (abt. 1589 - aft. 1620)

Born about 1589 in London, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Daniell Speed was a stationer and bookseller at St Paul's Churchyard in London, England.

He was the son of John Speed, merchant taylor,^[1] and was born in about 1589.^[2]

In 1603, Daniell Speede was apprenticed as a stationer to Matthew Lawe for a period of nine years.^[3] He was admitted to the freedom of the Stationers’ Company of London in 1614.^[4]

He operated a business as a stationer and bookseller in St Paul's Churchyard from 1616 to 1620. His books carried the imprint, "Printed by ... for Daniell Speed, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church yard at the signe of the Blazing Starre."

His first publication was A clowd of witnesses, written by his brother John Speed, in 1616.^[5]

In February 1617-8, he married Maudlyn Garrett, the daughter of Cornelius Garrett, tailor, of All Hallows Staining, London.^[6] They possibly had a daughter Susan, baptised on 25 April 1619, at St Christopher le Stocks, London.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1640 AD, vol 2, p272, which says that in 1603 he was the "son of John Spede Late Citizen and merchanttaylour of London Deceased." John Speed the historian, who was also a merchant taylor, was still alive at this time.
2. ↑ Marriage Bonds and Allegations. London, England, London Metropolitan Archives. Daniell Speede applied for a marriage licence on 14 Feb 1617-18 which records that at that time he was "xxix yeres or there abouts".
3. ↑ Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1640 AD, vol 2, p272, which says: “Danyell Spede son of John Spede Late Citizen and merchanttaylour of London Deceased hathe putt him self an apprentise vnto mathewe Lawe citizen and Stacioner of London for the terme of nyne yeres from the feast the natyuitie of Sainet John Baptist last past [24 June 1603].”
4. ↑ Records of London’s Livery Companies Online. His date of admission was 5 December 1614.
5. ↑ Arber, A provisional list of London printers and publishers, 1876 p. 271. An entry dated 6 May 1816, records “Daniel Speed. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of master SANFORDE and both the wardens a book called. A Cloude of witnesses by JOHN SPEED.“
6. ↑ Marriage Bonds and Allegations. London, England, London Metropolitan Archives. The narriage licence allegation is dated 14 Feb 1617/8 and was for "Daniel Speede St Faiths London Stationer and Bachelor" to marry "Maudlyn Garrett Spinster of Allhallows Staining London aged xxii yeres or there abouts … Daughter of Cornelius Garrett ... Taylor
7. ↑ Parish register, St Christopher le Stocks, London, England (available on Ancestry). "Susan the Daughter of Daniel Speed and Margerie [sic] his wife was Baptized the twenty five of Aprili 1619."