Thomas Vautrollier

It appears that Vautrollier returned to London, and shortly afterwards had to leave for Edinburgh again, as it is supposed he had incurred the displeasure of the Star Chamber by the publication of Giordano Bruno's Last Tromp, dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney.

Having succeeded in establishing his press in Edinburgh in 1584, Vautrollier was patronised by James VI, and printed the first of the king's published works, The Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie (1584), and, at the desire of the king, an English translation of Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas's History of Judith (1584) — both issued cum privilegio regali.

James Stewart, Earl of Arran sent copies of the king's poetry book, The Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie, bound in orange vellum, to Cecil and Lord Hunsdon on 28 December 1584.

He was especially associated with the printing of works of Protestant theology including John Calvin's Institutes and a Latin version of the Book of Common Prayer.

[7] Among his publications were textbooks such as Richard Mulcaster's Positions, a manual on child-rearing, and his Elementarie, a grammar book on "right writing of our English tung".

After Vautrollier died, Field worked with his widow Jacqueline to run the business, which continued to concentrate on Protestant polemics.