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Possibly no entry in the Stationers' Register has given rise to more discussion than the puzzling “to be staied” entered in the margin beside the titles of four plays on one of the fly-leaves of “Register C.”
1 Macmillan, 1898, p. 207.
2 Biographical Chronicle of the Eng.'Drama, i, p. 358.
3 Murray, History of the English Dramatic Companies, i, p. 173.
4 Arber, iii, p. 169.
5 This is the first entry of Shakespeare's name on the registers.
6 Diary, ed. Greg, ii, p. 206.
7 Ibid., i, F68, line 19.
8 Shakespeare Folios and Quartos, p. 12.
9 Cockpitt playes appropried.“ ms. in L. Chamberlain's Office. Murray, Hist. of the Eng. Dramatic Companies, i, p. 368.
10 Life and Works of Shakespeare, 1886, pp. 40, 140.
11 Chronicle History of the English Drama, 1891, ii, p. 184.
12 Shakespeare Folios and Quartos, pp. 66 ff.
13 Marston, by the way, is the unhappily chosen example in Mr. Walder's discussion of the playwright's unwillingness to see his plays in print (Cambridge History of English Literature, v, ch. xi, p. 289).
14 Bond, in editing Lyly's works, seems to assume that the copy passed out of Cadman's hands into William Brome's because of the 1591 edition. William Brome was dead before 4 October, 1591 (Arber, ii, p. 596), and in 1591 Orwin had his presses seized for dishonest printing (Arber, v, p. li); so that the 1591 edition will bear investigation as to its legitimacy. However, the transfer to Joan Brome clearly recognizes Cadman as owner and makes no mention of a right on the part of Joan's former husband.
15 Arber, ii, p. 824.
16 A Life of William Shakespeare, 1898, p. 48.
17 Shakespeare Folios and Quartos, p. 12, note C.
18 Arber, v, p. 207.
19 Prolegomena, iii, pp. 160–1.
20 Malone Society, Collections, parts iv and v, p. 367.
21 Gentlemen's Magazine, 1850, pt. i, pp. 370 ff.
22 Life and Letters, Spedding, vii, p. 308.
23 Life and Letters, vii, pp. 352–3.
24 Life and Letters, vii, p. 514.
25 One good reason for not continuing to keep the essays out of print was, no doubt, that they were known from the manuscript version already, and subject to quotation without acknowledgment. The Essay On Studies was freely plagiarised by a member of the suite of the Earl of Lincoln on an embassy to the Landgrave of Hesse, in an account of that journey published within three months of Bacon's entry of the Essays (S. R., Oct. 26, 1596). Bacon may have thought it better to publish earlier than he had intended, to avoid having more of his thunder stolen.
26 Outside the field of copyright a clear instance of the use of “stayed” in the sense of “preserved” in the interests of the owner occurs in Remembrancia, vii, p. 6 (1629):
“ Anciently the custom was that if any man lost any pewter he should come to the Hall and give notice to the Company's officer, with the marks, whereupon the goods were stayed & restored to the owner, & the parties punished.”
27 The subsequent history of this piece I do not know.
page 451 note 27a No fee is entered here. We find the real entry in the body of the registers (Arber, iii, p. 238), just sixteen days after the note that the ballad is to be stayed for him. (“ Gallantes all come mourne with me”.)
28 Proceedings against William Prynne, Camden Society, 1877, p. 15.
29 Shakespeare Folios and Quartos, p. 68.
30 S.F.& Q., p. 67.
31 Academy, 1891, ii, p. 197.
32 The E. White who assigned him twelve copies Dec. 13, 1620, is a younger man. The warden E. White died in 1612.
33 Macklin v. Richardson (Ambler, Oases in Chancery, ii, p. 694).
34 Coleman v. Wathen (5 T. R. Durnford and East, p. 245).
35 Phila. Reports 4, vol. xvii, p. 349.
36 133 Mass., p. 32.