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EXTRACTS FBQH . THE REGISTERS OF THE STATIONERS COMPANY OP WORKS ENTERED FOR PUBLICATION BETWEEN THE YEAES 1557 AND 1570. WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ., F. S. A. AND F. E. S. L LONDON FEINTED FOE THE SHAKESPEAEE SOCIETY 1848. F, Shoberl, Jun, Printer to H. R. H. Prince Albert, 51, Ruprct Sheet, Haymarket. COUNCIL OP THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY. THE EARL OF ELLESMERE. THE EARL OF CLARENDON, G. C. B. THE EARL OF GLENGALL. THE EARL HOWE. THE RT. HON. LORD BRAYBROOKE. THE RT. HON. LORD LEIGH. THOMAS AMYOT, ESQ., F. R. S. WILLIAM AYRTON, ESQ., F. R. S., F. S. A. BAYLE BERNARD, ESQ. THE RIGHT HON. THE VICE-CHANCELLOR SIR JAMES KNIGHT BRUCE, F. R. S., F. S. A. J. PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ., TREAS. S. A., DIRECTOR. BOLTON CORNEY, ESQ. PETER CUNNINGHAM, ESQ., TREASURER. THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. JOHN FORSTER, ESQ. HENRY HALLAM, ESQ., F. R. S. J. O. HALLIWELL, ESQ., F. R. S., F. S. A. THE REV. WILLIAM HARNESS. CHARLES KNIGHT, ESQ. WILLIAM C. MACREADY, ESQ. THE REV. H. H. MILMAN, F. R. S. JOHN OXENFORD, ESQ. T. J. PETTIGREW, ESQ., F. R. S., F. S. A. J. R. PLANCHE, ESQ., F. S. A. SIR GEORGE ROSE, F. R. S. SERJEANT TALFOURD, M. P., D. C. L. F. GUEST TOMLINS, ESQ., SECRETARY. The Council of the Shakespeare Society desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Societys publications the Editors of the several works being alone responsible for the same. PREFACE, The Editor postpones, until a future occasion, a general Introduction to the series of volumes for such it must necessarily be the materials for which will mainly consist of extracts from the Registers of the Stationers Company. 1 At present, he intends to say nomore than is required, by way of explanation, of the portion of the work now presented to the Members of the Shakespeare Society. It is fit, in the first place, that he should return his thanks to the Master, Wardens, and Court of Assistants, for the facilities so liberally afforded to him to the Messrs. Greenhill, for most ready and patient assistance during many visits to Stationers 7 Hall and to Mr. Joshua W. Butterworth, F. S. A., 1 The present selection excludes only early dissertations upon medical and other sciences, old divinity, and such chronicles, and other works, as are well known in the various extant editions. All that relates to popular poetry and prose, plays, tracts, voyages, travels, and lighter literature, has been carefully preserved. In some instances, the entries appear to have been made by the stationer in anticipation of the printing of a work, and in others just anterior to its publication but this is a point the Editor reserves for future discussion. VI PREFACE. for the permission he was kind enough to obtain, that the Editor might make unrestricted use of such inva luable documents. They are invaluable, because they contain the most curious and authentic record of the state and progress of letters during several reigns, com mencing just anterior to the accession of Queen Elizabeth. There may be people who are disposed to underrate the importance of such information some of the productions have indeed come down to us, but they are comparatively few and, in regard to popular and ephemeral literature, nothing can well be more imperfect than our knowledge derived from such pieces as have been preserved. It will be ob vious, from our earlier pages, that hundreds ofballads and broadsides, to say nothing of tracts and chap books, have been lost, all of them interesting, with a view to the state of opinions, feelings, manners, and customs, among the great body of the nation...