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Compositor B
Hinman convincingly attributed pages G2v, 3, and 3v to Compositor B on the basis of the high frequency of do, go, heere, and Isa. spellings in these pages (I, 407-408). Confirming Hinman's attributions, Howard-Hill pointed to evidence in these pages of Compositor B's use of unitalicized forms of Duke, Prouost, and Friar, the speech prefix Duke. and spaced medial commas. This broader range of evidence also permitted both Howard-Hill and O'Connor to assign page G1v and column G1a to Compositor B, but not column G1b. Although column G1b contains one do spelling, eight unitalicized forms of Duke, and a preponderance of Duke. speech headings, it also has two goe spellings in short lines, a doe spelling in a long line that perhaps required spelling adjustment for justification, and four Frier spellings, three of them italicized. This conflicting evidence led Howard-Hill to assign the column to Compositor D, while O'Connor preferred Compositor C. Further analysis of the spelling patterns in the column resolves the disagreement. All the spelling evidence on G1b that conflicts with Compositor B's habits occurs in the first twenty-two lines of the column: doe (l. 17j), goe twice (l. 5), Frier italicized (ll. 2-3, 6, 18) and Frier unitalicized (l. 22). The last forty-four lines contain such abundant evidence of Compositor B's hand that they must be assigned to him: the speech prefix Duke. eight times, the unitalicized form of Duke six times, and the spelling do in a short line.
Attribution of lower column G1b to Compositor B is confirmed by type-recurrence evidence provided by Hinman. This evidence shows that all the pages and columns attributed to Compositor B on the grounds of spelling were set from the same case—all, that is, except G3v for which no reliable type-recurrence evidence is available. For example,
i) Lower column F6a furnishes a distinctive type to each of Compositor B's pages G2v and G3 (see Table II, ll. 6 and 12), but to no other page or column, although upper column F6a furnishes a distinctive type to each of columns G4va and G2a (see Table II, ll. 9.1 and 15.1).
ii) Column F6b supplies types to Compositor B's page G2v and to his column G1a, as well as to lower column G1b, just assigned to Compositor B (see Table II, ll. 11 and 18), but to no pages or columns not set by B.
iii) Column G3va also provides types to Compositor B's G1a and lower column G1b and to his page G1v (see Table II, ll. 1 and 2), but provides none to pages and columns set by other compositors. Compositor B must also have distributed column F5va (see Table II, ll. 6 and 7.1), lower F5vb (l. 8), F6va (ll. 11 and 12), middle G3vb (l. 1), middle G3a and all G3b (ll. 6 and 7.1), G2va and lower G2vb (l. 11), for types from these columns also appear only on pages G3, 2v, 1v, column G1a and lower column G1b, with the single anomalous exception noted below.
At this point in our analysis of type recurrences, there is but the slightest evidence that Compositor B stood at the same case for quire G that he used for quire H—that is, case t. Column G3b, which supplied distinctive types to Compositor B's page G1v and column G1a, also supplied a distinctive type
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