John Allde, also Aldaye, Alde or Aldye (fl.
He was the first person on the registers to take up the freedom of the Stationers' Company, when in January 1555 he paid the modest sum of 6s.
He then began to print more books, chiefly of a popular nature, but continued his incessant production of ballads, many of which are to be seen in Henry Huth's 'Ancient Ballads and Broadsides' (1867).
Herbert seems to have possessed or examined but few books of this press; the list of examples is much enlarged by Thomas Dibdin.
Allde lived 'at the long shop adjoining to St. Mildred's Church in the Pultrie,’ and, judging from the considerable number of apprentices bound over to him from time to time, must have carried on a flourishing bookselling trade.