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Notes

[1]

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.

[2]

Harvard Studies and Notes, XVI (1934), 13-14.

[3]

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.

[4]

See Celeste Turner [Wright], Anthony Mundy (1928), p. 94.

[5]

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.

[6]

Championed, for instance, by G. W. Wheeler, "Thomas James, B.P.N.," Bodleian Quarterly Record, IV (1923-25), 71-72.

[7]

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.

[8]

Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies (1948), pp. 653-54.

[9]

Identified by Rev. A, F. Scott Pearson, Thomas Cartwright and Elizabethan Puritanism (1925), pp. 11off.

[10]

Demonstrated by the present writer in "Tracking Down 'STC' Authors," TLS, Jan. 7, 1955, p. 9.

[11]

"A Sonnet by Drayton?" TLS ,Dec. 11, 1937, p. 947. Drayton's editors accepted the attribution.

[12]

Ben Jonson (1925-52), VIII, 452.

[13]

See Archer Taylor and F. J. Mosher, The Bibliographical History of Anonyma and Pseudonyma (1951), p. 88.

[14]

English Emblem Books (1948), pp. 243-48.

[15]

"The Pseudonyms of Francis Godwin," PQ, XVI (1937), 78-80.

[16]

See G. H. Russell, "Philip Woodward: Elizabethan Pamphleteer and Translator," The Library, 5th ser., IV (1949-50), 14-24.

[17]

See Dom Adam Hamilton ed., The Chronicle of . . . St. Monica's in Louvain, 2 vols. (1904-06).

[18]

See Champlin Burrage, The Early English Dissenters, 2 vols. (1912).

[19]

The research underlying this article was completed during the year 1955-56 on a fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.