¹³⁷ Pollard, A. W. and Redgrave, G. R., A Short- Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640 (2nd ed., 2 vols., 1986, 1976, eds. W. A.Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, K. F. Pantzer).Google Scholar

¹³⁸ Wing, D., Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British America … 1641–1700 (3 vols., New York, 1972).Google Scholar

¹³⁹ The English Experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile, No. 742 (Amsterdam, Walter J. Johnson Inc., 1975)Google Scholar. Its modern title-page bears the (erroneous) imprint ‘1559.’

¹⁴⁰ Hazlitt, W. C., Collections and Notes, 1867–1876 (1876), 205.Google Scholar

¹⁴¹ ‘An examination of some existing copies of Hayward's “Life and Raigne of King Henrie IV”,’ The Library, New (2nd) Series, iii (1902), 13–23Google Scholar. Plomer's investigation was limited to copies held by libraries in the U.K.: six in the British Museum, three in the Bodleian, two each in the Lambeth and Dyce and Forster Libraries, and single copies in the Sion College, Trinity College (Camb.) and Lincoln's Inn Libraries. Although it suggested that the first edition required the use of more than one press, his survey did not include copies such as the one held by the Huntington Library (see below). Examining copies of D, E and E2, would have forced him to expand his article's categories of classification.

¹⁴² Arber, , iii, 232, 621Google Scholar and iv, 153, 459.

¹⁴³ Jackson, W. A., ‘Counterfeit Printing in Jacobean Times,’ The Library, 4th ser., xv (1934), 376.Google Scholar

¹⁴⁴ McKerrow, Ronald B., Printers' and Publishers' Devices in England and Scotland, 1485–1640 (1913).Google Scholar

¹⁴⁵ It was doubtless here, between gatherings A and B, that Wolfe intended to insert Hayward's ‘Epistle Apologeticall,’ prepared for the second (suppressed) edition. For its text, see below.

¹⁴⁶ To leave the page blank would have given obvious evidence that the edition thus marked was not original; to cancel the leaf would also have meant loss of the dedication page, the reverse of which bears the list of ‘faultes.’ Most probably the list was retained by subsequent printers to suggest authenticity, but Plomer (‘Examination,’ 23Google Scholar) advances an opposite theory to account for his understanding that no extant copies lacked the dedication page, despite the early order from the censor: to cancel the dedication would have meant cancelling the list of errors.

¹⁴⁷ ‘Edward Allde as a Typical Trade Printer,’ The Library, 4th ser., x (Sept. 1929), 150–1.Google Scholar

¹⁴⁸ ‘Counterfeit Printing,’ 373.Google Scholar

¹⁴⁹ McKerrow, , ‘Edward Alide,’ 161.Google Scholar

¹⁵⁰ I am grateful to Mr. J. Scott, Librarian of University College, for comments about this unique copy and its characteristics. Although not known to Prof. Jackson when his article appeared in 1934, it has been incorporated in the STC revision, with the number 12995.5.

¹⁵¹ I found this observation in Prof. Jackson's notes at the Houghton Library; I am grateful to Miss Mutchow of the library's staff for calling this material to my attention.

¹⁵² Buck, a contemporary of Hayward, was a prominent lawyer and antiquarian, and Master of the Revels.

¹⁵³ Jackson points out (‘Counterfeit Printing,’ 374) that ‘there are large paper copies of this edition in the British Museum (Grenville), Lambeth (Archbishop Abbot), and Harmsworth (Augustine-Sheldon-Scott-Heber-Britwell) Libraries, of which the Grenville, which measures 9 1/4 by 7 inches, is the tallest. As it is the only edition of which LP copies are known it was presumably issued with the connivance of the author who, in the dedication of his Lives of the III Norman Kings, reports that Prince Henry ‘questioned, whether I had wrote any part of our English Historic, other then that which had been published, which at that time he had in his hands; … ‘It is possible that, after the accession of James, the author still mindful of his examination at the hands of Justice Coke … but desirous of having copies for presentation to those who might assist him in his ambition to become tutor to the Prince of Wales and a member of James's projected Chelsea College, induced Windet to counterfeit the original edition so that he might present copies as ‘one of a few remaining.’ Such an explanation is, of course, highly conjectural, but it is difficult otherwise to account for such a phenomenon as a LP. counterfeit.’ See also Levy, , 263.Google Scholar

¹⁵⁴ Jackson cites several instances of Windet's use of the device, 373.

¹⁵⁵ Windet used the factotum in his edition of Daniel's Tethys Festival (1610); Stansby the initial ‘A’ in his edition of Johnson's Seven Champions, Part II (1626) and the ‘T’ in Cortes' The Art of Navigation, which he printed in 1615. Jackson, , p. 373.Google Scholar

¹⁵⁶ Jackson, , 373–4.Google Scholar

¹⁵⁷ Arber, , iii, 621.Google Scholar

¹⁵⁸ Jackson (375) notes these characteristics, and observes that this block was used frequently by both Bernard Alsop and Thomas Creede from 1593 onward. Its deterioration here suggests that it was used for D some time after its use in Alsop's edition of Phaer's Aeneid (1620).

¹⁵⁹ p. 375.

¹⁶⁰ p. 375.

¹⁶¹ Arber, , iv, 459.Google Scholar

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¹⁶³ Jackson, , 375.Google Scholar

¹⁶⁴ The Cotton title-page reads: ‘A SHORT / VIEW OF THE / Long Life and Raigne of / HEARY the Third, King / of ENGLAND. / Presented to King IAMES. in / the yeare 1614 by / Sir Robert Cotton. / Printed. (I) I) cxxvII.’ It comprises 49 pages of poorly set, large Roman type, 24 lines to each page, in fours, with the last two leaves blank. It obviously had at one time been bound separately before its private inclusion with the two Hayward pieces that follow it.

¹⁶⁵ This volume was offered for sale in Sotheby's Catalogue for 15 April 1924, one of almost 200 ‘Interesting Books Selected from an Old Country House’ (Shardeloes), as lot 319. Other titles offered in the collection illustrate a previous owner's interest in Stuart historiography: a quarto containing Daniel, 's The First Part of the Historie of EnglandGoogle Scholar and Hayward, 's The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England (1612)Google Scholar; a book containing The Lamentation of Doctors' Commons for their Downfall (1641)Google Scholar; Bacon, 's History of Henry VII (1629)Google Scholar; Mathieu, 's The Heroyck Life and Deplorable Death of Henry the FourthGoogle Scholar, trans. E. Grimeston (1612), and a copy of Greneway's translation of Tacitus's Annales (1622).

¹⁶⁶ Tothill had married Catherine, daughter of Chief Baron Sir John Denham and sister of the poet. For notes on such family connections and the early history of Shardeloes, see Eland, G., Shardeloes Papers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1947).Google Scholar

¹⁶⁷ The Brotherton Collection MS No. (35) Catalogue of Mr. M. G. Drake's Books, etc., … 4th. Augt. 1730, which lists ‘Cottons Life of Hen: ye 3d. - and Hawards Life of Hen. ye 4th. Lon: 1627.’ I am greatly indebted to H. A. Hanley and Sarah Charlton of the Buckinghamshire Records Office for their assistance in tracing this MS, and to C.D.W. Sheppard, of the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds, for locating it and making it available to me.

¹⁶⁸ Mr. Giles Dawson, Curator of MSS at the Folger Library, concurred in this judgment.

¹⁶⁹ ‘The thirde yeare of K. Henry the fourth’ begins on fo 26, and ‘The Fourth yeare of King Henrie the fourthe’ on fo 47v. These titles are not later interpolations: they were centered by the copyist at the head of each announced annual segment.

¹⁷⁰ ‘He [Hayward] had an intention — as he saith [inserted] — to have continued his hystorie….’ (PRO SP 12/278, 17.)

¹⁷¹ PRO SP 12/275, 29.

¹⁷² PRO SP 278/17.

¹⁷³ Although E.B. Benjamin's survey of Hayward's reliance upon Savile's Tacitus (1598, cited above) would imply that he wrote The First Part no earlier than 1598, Savile's first edition, lacking the Grenewey additions, appeared in 1591.

¹⁷⁴ Dowling, , 223.Google Scholar

¹⁷⁵ The Second Part similarly offers indications of an intent to extend the narrative beyond the point where it breaks off. One example, of Northumberland after Shrewsbury: ‘the variety of fortune which afterwarde he ranne, shallbee declared in the proper place. (251).

¹⁷⁶ Text, below, 167.

¹⁷⁷ Text, 168–9 and 180–4, below.

¹⁷⁸ This collation yielded an apparatus of several thousand entries, restricted almost entirely to orthography and pointing variants, but of little other editorial value. The editions were, after all, carefully crafted to pass as specimens of the 1599 edition. I have therefore not included such a bulky apparatus in this edition.