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Notes
The Divine Weeks of Josuah Sylvester (1908). Haight's guesses are plausible except for Io[hn] Bo[denham] Miles. Bodenham was not a knight. Six knights fit the initials, none known linked to Sylvester.
The case has been much discussed, as in Frances A. Yates, John Florio (1934), pp. 198-199. For a rival theory see Israel Gollancz in TLS, May 10, 1928, p. 355.
The mystification in this book was solved by Joseph Hunter in his 1828 edition, but for some reason he felt that the signature was Latin and proposed as its final element E[boracensis]. This seems an unnecessary complication.
Championed, for instance, by G. W. Wheeler, "Thomas James, B.P.N.," Bodleian Quarterly Record, IV (1923-25), 71-72.
Solved by the present writer in N&Q, CIC (1954), 12. For a list of such motto anagrams see my "Renaissance Names in Masquerade," PMLA, LXIX (1954), 314-323.
Identified by Rev. A, F. Scott Pearson, Thomas Cartwright and Elizabethan Puritanism (1925), pp. 11off.
See Archer Taylor and F. J. Mosher, The Bibliographical History of Anonyma and Pseudonyma (1951), p. 88.
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