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Notes
This was not the first benefit Wood-house received from the King. On 4 May 1604, he and his heirs were granted the new park of Leicester, alias the Frith and Bird's Nest, part of Lord Cobham's land (C.S.P.Dom., 1603-1610, Vol. VIII, No. 10).
See C.S.P.Dom., 1603-1610, pp. 349, 350, 351, 352, 428, 438, 473. See also Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials, II, 559-695 (1809).
Professor W. A. Jackson tells me that none has come to his attention in the preparation of the revised STC.
In Camera Scaccarii. Maii 1608. Directions for Commissioners (STC 7705) has nothing to do with the case in question. For this information, I am deeply indebted to Miss Mary Isabel Fry, who has examined the two editions of the book in the Henry E. Huntington Library.
William A. Jackson, ed., Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company 1602-1640 (1957), p. ix. For Speed, see pp. 78, 161, 215, 239, 241, 254-5, 262, 295, 303, 316-8, 328-9. Jackson cites (p. 57) also Samuel Daniel's Historie of England (1613) and the list of books in the English stock transcribed by Arber, Registers, III, 668-71.
It will be recalled that Egerton, then Lord Keeper, had discharged his secretary, John Donne, upon the insistence of Donne's irate and unwilling father-in-law, Sir George More; and that, relenting, More had asked Egerton to reinstate him. The Lord Keeper replied stiffly that he had "parted with a friend and such a secretary as was fitter to serve a king than a subject, yet that, though he was unfeignedly sorry for what he had done, it was inconsistent with his place and credit to discharge and readmit servants at the request of passionate petitioners" (Augustus Jessop, John Donne, pp. 25-6).
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