Liber C, folio 85 verso
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 85v
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The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers has graciously contributed the above image from their collections to Shakespeare Documented under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. For any further use, visitors should contact the Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers at clerk@stationers.org.
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 85v
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for Thomas Lord Cromwell," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/407.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 85 verso. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/407.
Thomas, Lord Cromwell was entered into Liber C of the Stationers' Company on August 11, 1602. It was entered under the title '"he lyfe and Deathe of the Lord CROMWELL' / as yt was lately Acted by the Lord Chamberleyn his servantes." William Cotton, the publisher who entered the play, never seems to have published a known edition. The first quarto edition was printed by Richard Read for William Jones later in 1602, with a title page attributing authorship to "W.S." The second quarto edition was printed by Thomas Snodham in 1613, with a revised title page naming the King's Men as the acting company. Thomas, Lord Cromwell is part of the Shakespeare Apocrypha ande and it was printed in the Third and Fourth Folios.
Liber C and the other registers with Shakespeare’s works are still kept by the Stationers’ Company in their archives.
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[Current transcription based on Arber; check back soon for a transcription that conforms to Shakespeare Documented conventions]
1602 44to
6 Augustij
James Shawe Entred for his Copie vnder th[e h]andes of
mr Hartwell & waterson warden
A booke called Calendarium
Historicum or the first parte of
Relacons of all the most notable
occurrenses happened in Europe
since the moneth of August 1601
till this presente August 1602
translated out of the Jerman
tongue by J.R. / . . . . . . . . . . vjd
7 Augusti
Tho: Pavier Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of
mr Doctor MONTFORD & mr waterson
Warden A booke called the christians
mourninge garment . . . . . . . . . . vjd
11o Augusti
Wm Cotton Entred for his Copie vnder the handes
of mr Jackson & mr waterson
warden A booke called the lyfe
& Deathe of the Lord Cromwell
as yt was lately Acted by the Lord
Chamberleyn his servantes . . . . . . . . . . vjd
12. Augusti
Tho: Crede Entred for his copie vnder the handes
of my Lo: grace of Canterbury,
and the wardens. A booke called
The Stratagems of Jerusalem, with
their military Lawes and martiall
Discipline, bothe of the Jewes and of
the gentiles . . . . . . . vjd
20o Augusti
Tho Pavyer Entred for his Copie vnder the hande of
mr Pasfeild and the wardens A booke
called A true Journall of the late
voyage made by the Right worshipfull Sir
Thomas Sherley the yonger knight
on the Coaste of Spaine &c . . . . . . . . vjd
20 / Augusti
Tho Pavyer Entred for his Copie vnder the handes
of Mr Pasfeild & Mr man & Mr
waterson wardens A booke called
The Doctrine of the Byble . . . . . . . vjd
Sources
Edward Arber, ed., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London: 1554–1640 A.D. 5 vols. (London: privately printed, 1875–94), 3:214.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "Thomas, Lord Cromwell," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "1290. Thomas, Lord Cromwell," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 4, 1598-1602 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 302-7.
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