Richard Grafton
16th-century English printer and chronicler
Richard Grafton (c. 1511 – 1572) was King's Printer under Henry VIII and Edward VI. He was a member of the Grocers' Company and MP for Coventry elected 1562-63
Quotes
edit- Thirty dayes hath Nouember,
Aprill, June and September,
February hath xxviii alone,
And all the rest haue xxxi.- Chronicles of England (1562).
- They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.
- Chronicles (I, 283).
- Printer to the Queen.
- Signature on the Proclamation of the accession of Lady Jane Grey (1553). This declaration turned out to be a poor decision, as Grafton was cast into prison when Mary I took the throne unopposed after Lady Jane's nine day rule.
