William Weekly
William Weekly was a bookseller who settled in Ipswich in the seventeenth century after completing an apprenticeship in London.
He was originally from Great Addington, Northamptonshire. He served his apprenticeship from September 1638 to November 1646. In 1651 he gained the freedom of Ipswich. He served as Chamberlain for Ipswich Corporation with Richard Clopton, 1656-7.
His son, John Weekly entered his apprenticeship of ten years in London with William Harris. He returned to Ipswich, residing in St Lawrence ward.
Publications
Weekly published a number of books and other publications:- ' by Nicholas Stanton, late preacher at St Margaret's Church, Ipswich
- 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
- ' by Matthew Lawrence printed by Anne Maxey,
- Mishʻam A stay in trouble or The saints rest in the evil day by Alexander Pringle of Harwich, printed by Anne Maxey
- by Benjamin Brunning, Ipswich Town Preacher, printed by D. Maxwell