# Edward Whitchurch

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thumb|The title-page of the Great Bible; "{{lang|en-emodeng|Prynted by Rychard Grafton & Edward Whitchurch}}"
'''Edward Whitchurch''' (Pseudonym: Robert Stoughton;<ref>{{cite book |id={{ProQuest|2248507609}} |last1=Vermigli |first1=Pietro Martire |date=1550 |title=A discourse or traictise of Petur Martyr Vermilla Flore[n]tine, the publyque reader of diuinitee in the Vniuersitee of Oxford wherein he openly declared his whole and determinate iudgemente concernynge the sacrament of the Lordes supper in the sayde Vniuersitee }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562 {{!}} The Online Books Page |url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Vermigli,%20Pietro%20Martire,%201499-1562 |access-date=2024-02-18 |website=onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu}}</ref> died 1561) was a London printer and publisher of [Protestant](/source/Protestant_Reformation) works.

Whitchurch and [Richard Grafton](/source/Richard_Grafton) jointly published the first complete version of the [Bible in English](/source/Great_Bible) in 1539. Other published works included the 1547 ''{{lang|en-emodeng|A Treatise of Morall Phylosophie, contayning the Sayinges of the Wyse}}'', by [William Baldwin](/source/William_Baldwin_(author)), and the ''[Paraphrases of Erasmus](/source/Paraphrases_of_Erasmus)'' in 1548.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jK2Xhf45dPkC&dq=edward+whitchurch&pg=PA116|title=Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI|last=Alford|first=Stephen|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2002|isbn=9781139431569|pages=122|via=Google Books}}</ref>

After [Thomas Cromwell's](/source/Thomas_Cromwell) fall and execution, Whitchurch and Grafton were sent to prison on 8 April 1543, but they were released on 3 May. On 28 January 1543-4, together Grafton and Whitchurch received an exclusive patent for printing church service books and on 28 May 1546 they were also granted an exclusive right to print [primers](/source/Primer_(textbook)) in Latin and English.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Whitchurch,_Edward_(DNB00|title=Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900|last=Lee|first=Sidney|year=1900|chapter=Edward Whitchurch}}</ref>

In 1549, he employed five assistants.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6I4kIbdVnx4C&dq=edward+whitchurch&pg=PA59|title=A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All Printers|last=Duff|first=E. Gordon|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2011|isbn=9781108026765|pages=169|via=Google books}}</ref>

[Merton Abbey](/source/Merton_Priory) was closed by [Henry VIII](/source/Henry_VIII_of_England) as part of the [Dissolution of the Monasteries](/source/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries)<ref>[http://www.mertonpriory.org/history/consplan/complete.pdf "A Conversation and Management Plan for Merton Priory and Merton Abbey Mills], p. 7.</ref> and the estate sold. Edward Whitchurch and Lionel Dutchet purchased it, but left for Europe when [Queen Mary](/source/Mary_I_of_England) came to the throne. The site then came into the ownership of the Garth family.<ref name="CofsL">[https://stlawrencechurch.co.uk/about-us/history/ "A Condensed History of Morden and St Lawrence"], Church of St Lawrence official website, accessed 17 April 2017.</ref>

After the accession of [Mary](/source/Mary_I_of_England), he left England, possibly to Germany, and later married [Margaret](/source/Margarete_Cranmer), widow of [Archbishop Cranmer](/source/Thomas_Cranmer) in 1556.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Edward Whitchurch|last=Ryrie|first=Alec|date=3 January 2008|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/29233}}</ref>

==See also==
*''[Yny lhyvyr hwnn](/source/Yny_lhyvyr_hwnn)''

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