With Edward Whitchurch, a member of the Haberdashers' Company, Grafton was interested in the printing of the Bible in English, and eventually they became printers and publishers, more by chance than by design.
Also 1541 Grafton was committed to Fleet Prison for printing a "sedicious epistle of Melanctons" and was also accused by the Privy Council of printing ballads defending the late Thomas Cromwell.