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Notes
"This somewhat remarkable man," says the cautious R. B. McKerrow, Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers (1910), p. 20.
The Delightful History of Celestina the Faire (1596), dedicated to "his verie good friend, M. Barley of Petworth in Sussex"; and A New Booke of Tabliture (1596), dedicated to "the Right honourable & vertuous Ladie Bridgett Countesse of Sussex."
Edward Arber, A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640 A.D. (1875-1894), 5 vols.; III, 29, 683.
Thomas Morley, The First Booke of Ayres. Or Little Short Songs, to Sing and Play to the Lute, with the Base Viole (1600); London Visitation Articles, Articles To be enquired of . . . in the Visitation . . . of Richard [Bancroft] Bishop . . . in his Second generall Visitation (1601); and Deloney's ballads, with music, Strange Histories, of Kings, Princes, Dukes, Earles, Lords, Ladies, Knights, and Gentlemen. With the great troubles and miseries of the Dutches of Suffolke. Verie pleasant either to bee read or sunge, and a most excellent warning for all estates (1602).
See Louis B. Wright, "Henry Roberts: Patriotic Propagandist and Novelist," SP, XXIX (1932), 176-199.
Title probably influenced by another of Barley's popularizing works published in the same year, his The Pathway to Knowledge . . . Written in Dutch, and translated into English, by W.P.
Cf. Encyclopœdia Britannica, 11th ed., XVIII, 842. The evidence supplied by the title-page of Richard Carleton's Madrigals to fiue Voyces (1601), the imprint of which reads, "Printed by Thomas Morley dwelling in Little Saint Helens," is vitiated by the fact (Pattison, op. cit., p. 413) that the type in this work is the same as that in later Barley imprints issued from the same address.
Twenty, according to my (probably incomplete) count; cf. STC, Nos. 356, 4243, 4255, 4257, 4258, 5679, 5769, 6040, 7098, 7461, 11166, 11826, 14734, 14736, 15588, 18123, 18132, 19923, 25204, 26105.
Cf. Frank Kidson, British Music Publishers, Printers and Engravers (1900), pp. 6-7; and H. C. Colles, ed., Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 3rd. ed., 5 vols. (1932), I, 225.
The Honourable Actions specifies (sig. A2) that Glemham (or Glenham) was "of Benhall in Suffolke," and he is again so identified in a ballad entry to John Kydd, 12 May, 1591, in the Stationers' Register: "declaringe the noble late done actes and deedes of Master EDWARD GLEMHAM a Suffolk gent. vpon the Seas and at Saincte Georges Ilons &c."; cf. Arber, Transcript, II, 274b.
Barley had used the same method of authentication before: e.g., in the anonymous Two Most Strange and notable examples, shewed at Lyshborne (i.e., Lisbon) the 26. day of Ianuarie now last past (1591), where one of the "witnesses" paraded on the title-page is a certain Henry Roberts—possible the author of the piece, and probably to be identified with the Henry Roberts and the "H.R." whose works Barley published from time to time.
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