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Entries of copies are dated 10 Jul 1620-1 Dec 1645 and fill the volume; information given includes name of property owner, name of person/s under whose hand/s the copy is entered, title of work, often name of author and amount paid (usually 6d per title); there are frequent cross references in the margins to entries elsewhere in the volume and in other volumes; a symbol resembling a pointing hand appears occasionally in the margins (most frequently between pages 312 and 363).

Front cover reads 'A Register Booke of Coppies Begining July 1620 Ending November 1645'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Mr Humphrey Lownes, Master, Mr Mathew Lownes, Mr George Cole, Wardens' (new Masters and Wardens are named periodically through the volume).

Fly leaf reads, handwritten, 'Liber D'.

Pasted in the front of the volume are a printed sheet entitled 'The Oath of a Stock-keeper', beginning 'You shall swear to be true to our Sovereign Lady, Queen Anne, and to be obedient unto the Master and Wardens of this Comapny' [temp Queen Anne, 1702-1714], and a letter from Eleanor Pitcher on headed notepaper of The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, 6 Apr 1954.

Inserted at pages 178-179 is a contemporary manuscript page listing selected works and dates between 31 Oct 1622 and 29 Apr 1629, some marked with a cross; some dates refer to entries of the work cited in the register.

Significant entries of copies include:

page 21: [William Shakespeare's] Othello, entered for Thomas Walkley, 6 Oct 1621.

page 69: William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, Henry VI part 3, Henry VIII, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline, entered for Mr Blount and Isaac Jaggard, 8 Nov 1623.

pages 111-112: William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, transferred from Roger Jackson's widow to Francis Williams, 16 Jan 1626.

page 122: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, transferred from Mr Parker to John Haviland and John Wright, 7 May 1626.

pages 126-128: William Shakespeare's Henry V, Sir John Oldcastle (accredited to Shakespeare) and Titus Andronicus, 'Mr Paviers right in Shakesperes plaies or any of them' transferred from his widow to Edward Brewster and Robert Bird, 4 Aug 1626.

page 140: Francis Bacon's Henry VII, Walter Raleigh's History of the World, Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene, Francis Bacon's Apology, and Ben Jonson's Poetaster, transferred to Thomas Lownes from his late father, Matthew Lownes, 10 Apr 1627.

page 144: Francis Bacon's Henry VII, Walter Raleigh's History of the World, Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene and Ben Jonson's Poetaster, transferred from Thomas Lownes to Master Humphrey Lownes and Robert Young, 30 May 1627.

page 171: Francis Bacon's Henry VII, Walter Raleigh's History of the World, Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene and Ben Jonson's Poetaster, transferred from Master Humphrey Lownes to George Cole and George Latham, 6 Nov 1628.

page 146: Isaac Jaggard's part in Shakespeare's plays, transferred from his widow Dorothy Jaggard to Thomas Cotes and Richard Cotes, 19 Jun 1627.

page 160: [William Shakespeare's] Othello, transferred from Thomas Walkley to Richard Hawkins, 1 Mar 1628.

page 193: [William Shakespeare's] The Merry Wives of Windsor, transferred from Mr Johnson to Mr Meighen, 29 Jan 1630.

page 203: [William Shakespeare's] The Rape of Lucrece transferred from Francis Williams to Mr Harrison, 29 Jun 1630.

page 208: [William Shakespeare's] Henry V, Sir John Oldcastle (accredited to Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus, 'Yorke and Lancaster' (Henry VI parts 2 and 3) and Pericles, Prince of Tyre, transferred from Mr Bird to Richard Cotes, 8 Nov 1630.

page 209: [William Shakespeare's] The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, Henry VI part 3, Henry VIII, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline, transferred from Mr Blount to Mr Allot, 16 Nov 1630.

page 211: [Francis Bacon's] Henry VII, Walter Raleigh's History of the World, [Philip Sidney's] Arcadia, [Edmund Spencer's] The Faerie Queene and [Ben Jonson's] Poetaster, transferred from Mr Cole and Mr Latham to Mr Younge, 6 Dec 1630.

page 226: Ben Jonson's The Staple of News, transferred to Mr Allot, 7 Sep 1631.

page 290: 'A Tragicomedy called the two noble kinsmen by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare', entered for John Waterson, 8 Apr 1634.

page 320: Philip Sidney's Arcadia transferred from Simon Waterson to John Waterson, 19 Aug 1635.

pages 361-362: Robert Allot's part in William Shakespeare's works and in [Ben Jonson's] The Staple of News and Bartholomew Fayre, transferred from Allot's to Mr Legatt and Andrew Crooke, 1 Jul 1637.

page 394: [William Shakespeare's] Othello, transferred from Urusla Hawkins, widow of Richard Hawkins, to Mr Mead and Mr Meredith, 29 May 1638.

page 405: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, entered for John Haviland and John Wright, 4 Sep 1638.

page 415: The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France 'by James Shirley' [judged by some to be by George Chapman and revised by Shirley], entered for Mr Crooke and William Crooke, 24 Oct 1638.

page 425: John Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas, entered for Mr Waterson, 22 Jan 1639.

page 426-427: [William Shakespeare's] Othello, transferred from Mr Mead and Mr Meredith to William Leake, 25 Jan 1639.

page 432-434: Ben Jonson's works, transferred from Elizabeth Stansby, widow of William Stansby, to Mr Bishop, 4 Mar 1639.

page 438: [John Fletcher's] Wit Without Money, entered for Mr Crooke and William Cooke, 25 Apr 1639.

page 461: 'An addicion of some excellent poems to Shakespeares poems by other gentlemen viz. His mistris drawne and her mind by Ben: Johnson', entered for John Benson, 4 Nov 1639.

page 474: Ben Jonson's The Masque of the Gypsies, entered for John Benson, 20 Feb 1640.

page 477: Ben Jonson's The Masque of Augurs, Time Vindicated, Neptune's Triumphs, Pan's Anniversary or The Shepherd's Holiday and other elegies and poems, entered for Mr Crooke and Richard Seirger, 20 Mar 1640.

page 774: John Milton's Poems in English and Latin, entered for Master Mozeley, 6 Oct 1645.

Entries of copies are dated 4 Jul 1595-11 Jul 1620 (folios 1r-315v); information given includes name of property owner, name of person/s under whose hand/s the copy is entered, title of work and amount paid (usually 6d per title); occasionally name of author is included.

At front of volume are memoranda:

Five unnumbered pages are bound at the front, some blank, some with memoranda. Frequently the date or year is omitted but the memoranda are believed to date 1600-1615. The main series of memoranda is principally a record of titles to be 'staied', or not to be entered to any but the property owner named, to be entered once the latter has obtained authority, 1603-1606. Includes one title 'printed at Edinburgh 1592'.

An entry dated 4 Aug, believed to be 1600, records four books 'to be staied': As You Like It, Henry V, Every Man in his Humour and Much Ado About Nothing.

The penultimate entry in this section of unnumbered pages records that a specified title is to be transferred to a named individual if the current holder of copy fails to repay a debt to him, 21 Feb 1614.

The final entry records the instruction to notify a named individual 'if any of Mr Deane of Windsor copies come to be entred', 9 May 1615.

At rear of volume are memoranda and accounts:

Memoranda:

folio 316r&v: 'Commandments [...] delivered at Croydon by my Lord's Grace of Canterbury and the Bishop of London' relating to queries regarding the licensing of specific titles and named printers, and referring to the burning of books in the Hall, 1-4 Jun 1599.

folio 317r: memorandum of the promise of Gervase Markham to desist from writing further books relating to diseases and cures of livestock, 14 Jul 1617.

folio 318r: memorandum of entry for the Latin stock of a named book, 27 Sep 1616.

(folios 319-322 are absent)

folios 325r&v, continuing at folio 323r: names of representatives of the Company at the Lord Mayor's feast, 29 Oct 1601-29 Oct 1629.

Accounts:

folio 324v, continues at folios 323v-324r: balances of Renter's annual accounts, mostly giving name of Renter and balance of his account (one single sum), 6 May 1600-6 May 1631.

Significant entries of copies include:

fly leaf: [William Shakespeare's] As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and [Ben Jonson's] Every Man in his Humor, 'to be staied',

4 Aug [?1600].

folio11: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, transferred from Mr Harrison the elder to William Leeke, 25 Jun 1596.

folio 21: Gerard's Herbal, entered for John Norton, 6 Jun 1597.

folio 23: [William Shakespeare's] Richard II, entered for Andrew Wise, 29 Aug 1597.

folio 25: [William Shakespeare's] Richard III, entered for Andrew Wise, 20 Oct 1597.

folio 31: [William Shakespeare's] Henry IV, entered for Andrew Wise, 25 Feb 1598.

folio 39v: [William Shakespeare's] Merchant of Venice, entered for James Roberts, 22 Jul 1598.

folio 40v: [George Chapman's] The Blind Beggar of Alexandria, entered for William Jones 'uppon condicion thatt yt belonge to noe other man', 15 Aug 1598.

[for entries 4 Aug 1600, see 'fly leaf' above]

folio 58: [Ben Jonson's] Every Man out of his Humour, entered for William Holme, 8 Apr 1600.

folio 63: Sir John Oldcastle [accredited to Shakespeare], entered for Thomas Pavier, 11 Aug 1600.

folio 63: [Ben Jonson's] Every Man in his Humour, entered for Mr Burby and Walter Burre, 14 Aug 1600.

folio 63: [William Shakespeare's] Henry V, transferred to Thomas Pavier, 14 Aug 1600.

folio 63v: William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Henry IV part 2, entered for Andrew Wise and William Aspley, 23 Aug 1600.

folio 65v: [William Shakespeare's] A Midsummer Night's Dream, entered for Thomas Fisher, 8 Oct 1600.

folio 66: [William Shakespeare's] Merchant of Venice, entered for Thomas Hayes, 28 Oct 1600.

folio 66: [Thomas Nashe's] Summer's Last Will and Testament, entered for Thomas Hayes, 28 Oct 1600.

folio 67v: [Christopher Marlowe's] Dr Faustus, entered for Thomas Bushell, 7 Jan 1601.

folio 71: [Ben Jonson's] Narcissus the Fountain of Self Love [Cynthia's Revels], entered for Walter Burre, 23 May 1601.

folio 77v: [Ben Jonson's] Poetaster, entered for Matthew Lownes, 21 Dec 1601.

folio 78: [William Shakespeare's] The Merry Wives of Windsor, entered for John Busby then transferred to Arthur Johnson, 18 Jan 1602.

folio 80v: [William Shakespeare's] Henry VI parts 1 and 2 and Titus Andronicus, entered by warrant for Thomas Pavier by assignment from Thomas Millington, 19 Apr 1602.

folio 84v: [William Shakespeare's] Hamlet, entered for James Roberts, 26 Jul 1602.

folio 85v: The Life and Death of the Lord Cromwell (accredited to Shakespeare), entered for William Cotton, 11 Aug 1602.

folio 91v: [William Shakespeare's] Troilus and Cressida, entered for Mr Roberts 'when he hath gotten sufficient aucthority for yt', 7 Feb 1603.

folio 98: [William Shakespeare's] Richard II, Richard III and Henry IV part 1, entered for Matthew Law, transferred from Andrew Wise, 25 Jun 1603.

folio 104v: [Ben Jonson's] The Case is Altered, entered for John Smethwick, 16 Feb 1604. Following the title are the words, 'How? Ask Dallio and Millo Provided that this copie be not taken from my other to the hurt of another mans book'.

folio 105v: Ben Jonson's A Part of the King's Majesty's Right Royal and Magnificent Entertainment [alternatively titled The Coronation Triumph], entered for Edward Blount, 19 Mar 1604.

folio 115: Ben Jonson's Sajanus his Fall, entered for Edward Blount, 2 Nov 1604; a marginal note records a transfer to Thomas Thorpe, 6 Aug 1605.

folio 116: [Thomas Middleton's] The Honest Whore, entered for Thomas Man the younger, 9 Nov 1604.

folio 128v: [George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston's ] Eastward Ho, entered for William Aspley and Thomas Thorpe, 4 Sep 1605.

folio 131: [George Chapman's] Vincentio and Margaret [alternatively titled The Gentleman Usher], entered for Valentine Simmes, 26 Nov 1605.

folio 147: [William Shakespeare's] Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labours Lost and The Taming of a Shrew, entered for Mr Ling, 22 Jan 1607.

folio 152v: [Thomas Middleton's] The Phoenix, entered for Arthur Johnson, 9 May 1607.

folio 153: [Thomas Middleton's] Michaelmas Term, entered for Arthur Johnson, 15 May 1607.

folio 153: [John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's] The Woman Hater, entered for Eleazer Edgar and Robert Jackson, 20 May 1607.

folio 153v: George Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, entered for William Aspley, 3 Jun 1607.

folio 157v: The Puritan Widow [published as The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street by 'W.S.' (William Shakespeare)], entered for George Elde, 6 Aug 1607. [some attribute the play to Thomas Middleton].

folio 158v: [Thomas Middleton's] A Trick to Catch the Old One, entered for George Elde, 7 Oct 1607.

folio 161: [William Shakespeare's] Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet and Loves Labours Lost, entered for John Smethwick, previously belonging to Nicholas Ling, 19 Nov 1607.

folio 161v: William Shakespeare's King Lear, entered for Nathaniel Butter and John Busby, 26 Nov 1607.

folio 164v: [Thomas Middleton's] Five Witty Gallants [alternatively titled Your Five Gallants], entered for Richard Bonian, 22 Mar 1608.

folio 167: 'A Yorkshire Tragedy written by Wylliam Shakespere', entered for Mr Pavier, 2 May 1608. [some attribute the play to Thomas Middleton]

folio 167v: [William Shakespeare's] Pericles, Prince of Tyre, entered for Edward Blount, 20 May 1608.

folio 167v: [William Shakespeare's] Anthony and Cleopatra, entered for Edward Blount, 20 May 1608.

folio 168v: George Chapman's The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron, entered for Thomas Thorpe, 5 Jun 1608.

folio 174: [Thomas Middleton's] A Mad World, My Masters, entered for Walter Burre and Eleazer Edgar, 4 Oct 1608.

folio 178v: [Ben Jonson's] The Case is Altered, entered of Henry Walley and Richard Bonian, 26 Jan 1609.

folio 178v: [William Shakespeare's] Troilus and Cressida, entered for Richard Bonian and Henry Walley, 28 Jan 1609.

folio 183v: William Shakespeare's Sonnets, entered for Thomas Thorpe, 20 May 1609.

folio 186v: [Ben Jonson's] The Case is Altered, previously entered for Henry Walley and Richard Bonian on 26 Jan 1609, entered again for Henry Walley, Richard Bonian and Bartholomew Sutton, 20 Jul 1609.

folio 199v: [Christopher Marlowe's] Dr Faustus, 'written by C.M.', entered for John Wright by assignment from Thomas Bushell, 13 Sep 1610.

folio 214v: 'The Lyfe and Death of the Lord Cromwell, by W.S', entered for John Browne by assignment from William Jones, 16 Dec 1611.

folio 218: George Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois and The Widow's Tears, entered for Mr Browne, 17 Apr 1612.

folio 235v [Francis Beaumont's] The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, entered for George Norton, 27 Feb 1613.

folio 248v: [William Shakespeare's] The Rape of Lucrece, entered for Roger Jackson by consent of Mr John Harrison the elder, 1 Mar 1614.

folio 260v: [John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's] Cupid's Revenge, entered for Josias Harrison, 24 Apr 1615.

folio 270: John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's The Scornful Lady, entered for Miles Patriche, 19 Mar 1616.

folio 279: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, entered for Mr Barrett by assignment from Mr Leake, 16 Feb 1617.

folio 293: [John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's] A King and No King, entered for Mr Blount, 17 Aug 1618.

folio 301: [John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's] The Maid's Tragedy, entered for Mr Higgenbotham and Mr Constable, 28 Apr 1619.

folio 303: [William Shakespeare's] Merchant of Venice, entered for Laurence Hayes, previously the copy of his father, Thomas Hayes, 8 Jul 1619.

folio 315v: [Thomas Middleton's] A Courtly Masque or the World tossed at Tennis, entered for George Purslowe and John Trundle, 4 Jul 1620.