Life

Edmund Weaver was an apprentice to Thomas Wight

Thomas Wight

Thomas Wight was a bookseller, publisher and draper in London. Wight published many important books, including many of the earliest law books in English.-Career:...

 and was 'clothed' in 1607 and became master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers

Worshipful Company of Drapers

The Worshipful Company of Drapers is one of the 108 Livery Companies of the City of London; it has the formal name of The Master and Wardens and Brethren and Sisters of the Guild or Fraternity of the Blessed Mary the Virgin of the Mystery of Drapers of the City of London but is more usually known...

 in 1637. He was married to Jane Weaver, who died on August 29, 1636. He was appointed a Commissioner of Hereford

Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, southwest of Worcester, and northwest of Gloucester...

 by an act of parliament in 1648.

Weaver had many important books printed so he could sell them in his shop near St. Paul's Church

St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral, London, is a Church of England cathedral and seat of the Bishop of London. Its dedication to Paul the Apostle dates back to the original church on this site, founded in AD 604. St Paul's sits at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London, and is the mother...

 in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. He published Robert Cawdrey

Robert Cawdrey

Robert Cawdrey produced one of the first dictionaries of the English language, the Table Alphabeticall, in 1604.-Career:...

's book, A Table Alphabeticall in 1604. A Table Alphabeticall was the first monolingual dictionary

Dictionary

A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...

 in the English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. Weaver went on to publish 3 subsequent editions of A Table Alphabeticall as well.

Other books published

• A Discourse About the State of True Happinesse. Delivered in Certaine Sermons in Oxford, and at Pauls Crosse. Robert Bolton
  Robert Bolton
  Robert Bolton was an English clergyman and academic, noted as a preacher.-Life:He was born on Whit Sunday in Blackburn, Lancashire, the sixth son of Adam Bolton of Backhouse. He attended what is now Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where his father was a founding governor, and was...
  
  , Batchelour in Divinitie, and Minister of Gods Word at Broughton in Northampton Shire. The sixth Edition, corrected and amended, with a Table thereunto annexed. At London, Imprinted by Iohn Legatt, for Edmund Weaver, and are to be sold at his Shop at the great North doore of Pauls Church. 1636.
• A direct answer vnto the scandalous exceptions, which Theophilus Higgons hath lately obiected against D. Morton : In the which there is principally discussed, two of the most notorious obiections vsed by the Romanists, viz. 1. M. Luthers conference with the diuell, and 2. The sense of the article of Christ his descension into hell, Thomas Morton
  Thomas Morton (bishop)
  Thomas Morton was an English churchman, bishop of several dioceses.-Early life:Morton was born in York on 20 March 1564. He was brought up and grammar school educated in the city and nearby Halifax. In 1582 he became a pensioner at St John's College, Cambridge from which he graduated with a BA in...
  
  , Printed [by R. Field] for Edmund Weaver, London, 1609
• Looke beyond Luther: Or An Answere to that question, so often and so insultingy proposed by our Adversaries, asking us; Where this our Religion was before Luthers time? Whereto are added sound props to beare up honest-hearted Protestants, that they fall not from their saving-faith. Fourth Edition, Richard Bernard
  Richard Bernard
  Richard Bernard was an English Puritan clergyman and writer.-Life:Bernard was born in Epworth and received his education at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1592, obtained his BA in 1595, and an MA in 1598. He was married in 1601 and had six children...
  
  , 55pp. London: by Felix Kyngston, and are to be sold by Edmund Weaver, 1624.
• A true discouery of the empericke with the fugitiue, physition and quacksaluer who display their banners vpon posts: whereby his Maiesties subiects are not onely deceiued, but greatly endangered in the health of their bodies: being very profitable as well for the ignorant, as for the learned: by I.C. Doctor in Physicke, John Cotta
  John Cotta
  John Cotta was a physician in England and author of books and other texts on medicine and witchcraft.He wrote considerably about quack doctors, and exposed several in his book Ignorant Practisers of Physicke but still clearly believed in evil spirits, sorcerers and magic...
  
  , Imprinted at London : By William Iones, and are to be sold by Edmund [Weaver] at the great North doore of S. Pauls Church, 1617.

• Northerne Poems congratulating the King's Maiesties most happy and peaceable entrance to the crowne of England:

'Sorrowe was ouer night

But joy came in the morning.'

'Sero, quamvis serio,

Sat cito, si sat bene.'

'These come too late, though they import they love,

Nay, soone enough, if good enough they prove.'

Printed at London by John Windet for Edmund Weaver, and are to be solde at the Great North doore of Paules, 1604. Small 4to.

External links

• A description of Robert Cawdrey from the University of Toronto library