The Palace of Pleasure Volume I Part 5

In the punctuation some slight alterations have been made, where the sense or uniformity materially required it.

From Earl Spencer, with that marked attention which always distinguishes the interest his Lords.h.i.+p takes in every literary undertaking, I received the unsolicited offer of the use of the copy belonging to the library at Althorpe. As there was the first edition of the second volume, it proved a needful and valuable acquisition, and from that source several obscure pa.s.sages have been corrected, and whole sentences restored, which, in the last edition, appear to have been negligently omitted in the hurry of the press.

For the purpose of collation, Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. obligingly a.s.sisted me with his copy, purchased at the Roxburghe sale; and has since also favoured me with the first edition, to perfect the Bibliographical Notices.

Of an hundred and one novels, the whole number, the larger portion have been traced, as supposed, to their respective originals. In attempting this task, I have derived material a.s.sistance from the extensive researches made in that cla.s.s of literature by Mr. Weber, who, though personally unknown, most promptly supplied the wanted information. The ingenious conjecture as to the origin of the story of Gismonde and Guiscardo, is by Mr. Singer.

It is probable that many of the stories were appropriated as soon as published by the dramatic writers to the purposes of the English Stage.[64] To the instances discovered by the indefatigable Langbaine I have made some addition.

[Footnote 64: Malone, in a note on the _Historical Account of the English Stage_, has the following extract from Gosson's _Plays confuted in five Actions_, printed about the year 1580. "I may boldly say it (says Gosson) because I have seene it, that The _Palace of Pleasure_, _The Golden a.s.se_, _The aethiopian Historie_, _Amadis of Fraunce_, _The Round Table_, bawdie comedies in Latin, French, Italian and Spanish, have beene _thoroughly ransackt_ to furnish the playe-houses in London."--_Reed's Shakespeare,_ Vol.

III. p. 40.]

From the application of Mr. Freeling to Mr. Crewe, I obtained an inspection of the earliest records preserved in the Ordnance Office; and the research was further facilitated by the a.s.sistance of Mr. Banovin.

Sir Egerton Brydges, with his accustomed ardency to promote literary investigation, aided my endeavours to discover some trace of the translator as master of the school at Sevenoaks.

To Mr. George Chalmers and Mr. Utterson, I am indebted for some bibliographical communications, and also to the Rev. T. F. Dibdin for long extracts made from the work by Herbert, preparatory to a new edition of the _Typographical Antiquities_.

When the present edition was announced, it was intended to consist of only one hundred and fifty copies. In order, however, to meet the common hazard of the press, seven quires of each sheet were printed, making about one hundred and sixty-five saleable copies; seven were also taken off on vellum.

JOSEPH HASLEWOOD.

_Conduit Street, November 5th 1813._

[It is only necessary to add that Haslewood's edition was in two volumes, of which the first ran to 34 (Introductory Matter) + xviii.

(Dedication and Table of Contents) + 492 pages. The Second Tome, which is mostly found bound in two parts, ran to xv. (Dedication and Table of Contents) + 700 pages.

The present edition, it will be observed by the above, is really the fourth and a half edition--_i.e._, it is the fifth of the first Tome, and the fourth of the second. I have however ventured to neglect the reprint of the First Tome in 1569, and taken account only of complete editions. It follows Haslewood's reprint page for page and line for line, except in two points. The Tables of Contents of the two Tomes have been brought together, and their literary history connected directly with the Summary of Contents. In a few cases, where Haslewood inserted pa.s.sages from the first edition, I have enclosed the interpolations in square brackets. The other point of difference between Haslewood's edition and the present is that we have divided the two Tomes into three volumes of as nearly equal size as possible. While Haslewood has been used as "copy" for the printer, it must be understood that every line has been collated with the British Museum copy of the original, and many thousands of corrections, mostly though not all of a minor kind, made in Haslewood's text.

JOSEPH JACOBS.

4 Haselmere Road, Kilburn, _1st Aug. 1890._]

[Transcriber's Note on Appendix:

Letters originally printed as superscripts are shown in braces { }.

Expanded abbreviations are shown in parentheses ( ). All other parentheses are in the original.

All slashes / are in the original.

For complete notes and errata, see the end of the text.]

APPENDIX.

_DOc.u.mENTS RELATING TO PAINTER._

I.

a.s.sIGNMENTS TO PAINTER (Abstract).

(_Record Office Dom. State Papers, Eliz._, xl. No. 36.)

July 24, 1566. a.s.signment by Edward Randolph, Esq., to William Painter, Clerk of the Ordinance, Richard Webb, Master-Gunner of England, and Edward Partridge, Keeper of the Queen's Harqueb.u.t.ts, Dagges, and Curriers, of certain annuities or pensions for a term of years.

II.

PEt.i.tION OF HARTNELL, SAINT BARBE, AND PAINTER (Abst.).

(_Brit. Mus. Lands. MS._ 51, No. 25.)

Pet.i.tion of Raulph Harknell, William Saintbarbe and William Painter to the Lord High Treasurer, c. 1586.

Having lately been called before Sir W. Mildmay, Chanc{or} of the Exchequer, Mr. Fanshawe & Mr. Dodington for the sum of 7,075 and after conference the division was imposed upon Turville Bowland and Painter, and a brief was drawn, it pleased his Honour to will that if they could show cause why the said sums should not be burdened upon them they were to have allowance by pet.i.tion which they have done and beseech his Honour to have regard to the present state of themselves their wives and children & by him to at once decide what sum they have to pay.

With regard to their estates:--

Bowland's goods came to but 431 : 6 : 8. His land is given to three children, the eldest not twelve years old. As the land cannot be sold during their nonage he humbly begs that the land may be extended and prays that some allowance may be made for the education of the children.

Turville's substance was chiefly in debts, his household stuff was of the value of 120 : 3 : 4. Of this 1,441 : 19 : 7 is to go to William Saintbarbe, the most part of which sum remains in the hands of the Earl of Warwick and Sir Philip Sydney. Notwithstanding he is willing to pay as much as His Honour shall think good.

William Painter craves remembrance of a note of his estate delivered in 1586, expressing the particulars of all he has in the world to live upon in these his aged days, amounting to about 64 a year. He has a wife and five children all marriageable and unprovided for. He begs his Honour's favourable consideration of his case and promises to be the occasion of saving unto Her Majesty of far greater sums than what he owes to her.

III.

CHARGE AGAINST TURVILLE, BOWLAND, AND PAINTER (Abst.).

(_Brit. Mus. Lansd. MS._ 55, No. 3.)

Charge informed in the Exchequer by John Powell against Geoffrey Turville, Richard Bowland and William Painter.

s d 7,077 : 8 : 1

Of which Upon G. Turville 2,715 : 2 : 8 " R. Bowland 2,413 : 2 : 8 " W. Painter 1,949 : 2 : 8

Of this sum of 1949 : 2 : 8 William Painter confesses in his answer to owe 1079 : 17 : 3 which leaves unconfessed the sum of 869 : 5 : 5 of which he himself prays to be disburdened for divers good and reasonable considerations:--

For Iron sold to the amount of 16 : 8 : 4 For Powder sold for 4 : 8 : 10 For things conveyed from the Storehouse at Woolwich 4 : 0 : 0 For unserviceable shot sent into Barbary 173 : 13 : 4 For Powder Munition &c. 205 : 0 : 0 For sale of Sulphur 10 : 10 : 0 Divers allowances 373 : 6 : 8 Work done at Portsmouth 8 : 6 : 8

He promises to pay what is due from him in reasonable time.

The value of the Lands in Gillingham, Kent, belonging to William Painter is 413 : 10 : 0, which brings him in 94 : 10 of which he has to pay 33 : 3 : 2 leaving him 61 : 6 : 10.