A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Falconer, Faulkner, or Falkner (Frances)
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FALCONER, FAULKNER, or FALKNER (FRANCIS), bookseller in London, (1) Under St. Margaret's Church, New Fish Street, 1614; (2) Near St. Margarets Hill, Southwark, 1627 (1605-48). Son of Thomas Falconer or Falkener, late of Stanton Harcourt, co. Oxon, yeoman, apprentice to Andrew Wise for eight years from Midsummer, 1598. [Arber, ii. 229.] Took up his freedom July 2nd, 1605. [Ibid, iii. 683.] Entered The Jests of George Peele on December 14th, 1605. Amongst his other publications may be noted T. Brewer's Merry Devil of Edmonton, 1626, 1631; N. Breton's Pasquil's Mad Cappe, 1626; J. Mason's Tragedy of Muleasses, 1632; Robert Greene's Dorastus & Fawnia, 1648. [Sayle, vol. ii, p. 670.]