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Spenser and the Bishop of Rochester
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
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The ensuing paper seeks to trace for the first time one of the most important formative influences on the poet Spenser's youth; to make clear that it was at work in his schooldays at the Merchant Taylors' School, during his years at Pembroke College, and thereafter; to show that it shaped no inconsiderable part of The Shepheardes Calendar and Mother Hubberds Tale; and that to this influence is due whatever disfavor he encountered before his so-called “exile” into Ireland. I allude to Spenser's relations with the Bishop of Rochester.
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References
1 Grosart, i, p. 62.
2 Athenaeum, 7 Dec. 1907, p. 732. It should be added that Harvey mentions this book in his letter to Spenser dated 23 Octob. 1579.
3 Besant's London, Tudors, p. 264.
4 Thomas White had founded thirty-seven fellowships at St. John's, Oxford.
5 Nowell's Catechism, Parker Soc., 1853, p. ii.
6 The figures below are supplied from a transcription by Edward Mims, now Librarian of Pembroke College.
7 This was in Latin. Harvey in his letter of 7 April, 1580 styles it “your Latine Stemmata Dudleiana” (p. 620).
8 1579, Oct. 26 [No. 74]: R. Lloyd to Arthur Atye, secretary to the Earl of Leicester. 1580, Sept. 9 [cxlii, No. 9.]: Sir Henry Lee to Mr. Atey, Secretary to the Earl of Leicester.
9 Harvey's ensuing letter near the beginning declares intention of passing over Spenser's lead, “for of the Earthquake I presuppose you have ere this receyued my goodly discourse.”
10 “The first for a good familiar and sensible Letter, sure liketh me verye well, and gyueth some hope of good mettall in the Author, in whome I knowe myselfe to be very good partes otherwise.”
11 Devereux: Lives of the Earls of Essex, i, p. 211.
12 The book was printed in London by Rycharde Watkins. The Cambridge University Library possesses a copy.
13 Parker Soc., Grindal, p. 380.
14 Strype's Grindal, ed, 1710, p. 221.
15 Strype's Aylmer, 1701 ed., p. 24.
16 Aylmer was repeatedly accused, in the Marprelate tracts, of swearing and of playing bowls on the Sabbath. Cf. Wm. Pierce, The Marprelate Tracts, London, 1911, p. 24.
17 Strype's Aylmer, ed. 1701, p. 27.
18 Strype's Aylmer, pp. 46-7.
19 Wm. Pierce, The Marprelate Tracts, London, 1911, p. 47.
20 Strype's Aylmer, ed. 1710, pp. 224-6.
21 The Remains of Archbishop Grindal, Parker Soc., p. 391.
22 Ibid., p. 363.
23 Mod. Lang. Assn. Publ., Sept. 1911, p. 432.
24 The Remains of Archbishop Grindal, Parker Soc., p. 8.