[554] See the case of Jeffes and White in 1593 given in ch. xxiii, s.v. Kyd, Spanish Tragedy.
[555] i. 93, 100; ii. 853 (21 Jan. 1583), ‘This daye, Ric. Jones is awarded to paie xs for a fine for printinge a thinge of the fall of the gallories at Paris Garden without licence and against commandement of the Wardens. And the said Jones and Bartlet to be committed to prison viz Bartlet for printing it and Jones for sufferinge it to be printed in his house’.
[556] ii. 824, 826, 832, 837, 849, 851.
[557] ii. 850.
[558] The testimony only relates strictly to the period 1576–86, which is nearly coincident with the slack ecclesiastical rule of Archbishop Grindal (1576–83). Parker (1559–75) may have been stricter, as Whitgift (1583–1604) certainly was.
[559] i. 95, ‘Master Waye had lycense to take the lawe of James Gonnell for a sarten dett due vnto hym’; 101, ‘Owyn Rogers for ... kepynge of a forren with out lycense ys fyned’.
[560] ii. 62.
[561] i. 322.
[562] v. lxxvi, ‘we do will and commande yowe that from hence forthe yowe suffer neither booke ballett nor any other matter to be published ... until the same be first seene and allowed either by us of her Mtes pryvie Counsell or by thee [sic] Commissioners for cawses ecclesyastical there at London’.
[563] The fee seems at first to have been 4d. for ‘entraunce’ (i. 94), with a further sum for books above a certain size at the rate of ‘euery iij leves a pannye’ (i. 97); plays ran from 4d. to 12d. But from about 1582 plays and most other books are charged a uniform fee of 6d., and only ballads and other trifles escape with 4d. Payments were sometimes in arrear; often there is no note of fee to a title; and in some of these cases the words ‘neuer printed’ have been added. On the other hand, the receipt of fees is sometimes recorded, and the title remains unentered; at the end of the entries for 1585–6 (ii. 448) is a memorandum that one of the wardens ‘brought in about iiijs moore which he had receved for copies yat were not brought to be entred into the book this yere’. A similar item is in the wardens’ accounts for 1592–3 (i. 559). Fees were charged for entries of transferred as well as of new copies.