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Shared, reassigned and cancelled entries

10.4%Reassigned, 1620s

Key point

Entries marked reassigned are 1.7% in the 1580s and 10.4% in the 1620s; shared entries are 13.6% in the 1630s.

Definition: Share of entries per decade that SRO marks 'shared' (entered by more than one person), 'reassigned' (made over to another) or 'cancelled'.
Formula: marked entries ÷ entries
How to read it: Entries marked reassigned grow from under 2% in the 1580s to 10% in the 1620s.
Caveats: The status is the SRO editors' judgment, used as given; an entry may carry several marks.

By decade.

Table

Decade	Entries	Shared	Reassigned	Cancelled	Stock	Shared share	Reassigned share	Cancelled share
1550	74	200.0%	0	0	0	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%
1560	1,226	900.0%	6	0	0	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%
1570	504	2300.0%	19	2	0	4.6%	3.8%	0.4%
1580	1,127	7000.0%	19	4	0	6.2%	1.7%	0.4%
1590	1,326	11900.0%	56	13	0	9.0%	4.2%	1.0%
1600	1,438	19200.0%	89	17	1	13.4%	6.2%	1.2%
1610	1,504	12500.0%	142	12	9	8.3%	9.4%	0.8%
1620	1,428	24600.0%	148	18	9	17.2%	10.4%	1.3%
1630	1,637	22200.0%	162	9	4	13.6%	9.9%	0.5%
1640	189	1900.0%	13	0	0	10.1%	6.9%	0.0%

Exact count: counted straight from a structured source, or transcribed by hand and checked against the page images

Source: SRO TEI, 10,453 entries; decade totals equal the SRO website's search counts in every decade

Giles Bergel & Ian Gadd (eds.), Stationers' Register Online, CREATe, University of Glasgow. TEI of the register volumes corrected against the manuscripts, GitHub gbergel/SRO_data (reg_A–reg_D-updated.xml, commit 562db00, 2019-08-27). The project website states a 'CC-BY-SA licence'; the TEI header states 'Creative Commons Attribution' (CC BY 4.0). This site distributes its entry table under the stricter CC BY-SA 4.0. (CC BY-SA 4.0 (entry table); https://stationersregister.online)