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Beatniffe that he was the only apprentice
Hollingworth had for forty years who remained to serve his full-time. The temptations of the hand of his master's daughter, who was deformed in person and unpleasing in manners, together with a share in the business, were not able to retain Beatniffe in Lynn. Upon the termination of his apprenticeship, he went to Norwich, where he became a freeman of Norwich by purchase on 21 September 1764 as a bookbinder. His old master Hollingworth, if harsh, must have been also generous, since he had advanced Beatniffe £500, in 1763 to purchase the stock of the bankrupt Jonathan Gleed, a bookseller of London Lane, in Norwich.
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excellent type", Beatniffe opened a printing office in the parish of St Peter
Permountergate (Norwich Mercury 21 June 1766). where he was responsible for printing many substantial works. However, in 1795 he took John Payne as a partner in his printing business and retired from it in 1798.
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