And
these our lettres shal be your sufficient Warrant and discharge
in this behalf at all tymes herafter. Yeven under our Signet at
our Manour of Esthampstede the xvjth. day of July the xiiijth
year of our Reigne. {86}
"To the Lord Steward of our Household, the Treasurer,
Comptroller, Cofferer, Clerke of our Grene Clothe, Clerke of our
kechyn, and to all other our hed Officers of our seid Houshold
and to every of theym."
As to Sir Christopher Hatton, I would refer ANTIQUARIUS, and all other
whom it may concern, to Sir Harris Nicolas's ably written _Memoirs of
the "Dancing Chancellor"_, published in 1846. Hatton had amble means for
the building of Holdenby, as he was appointed one of the Gentlemen
Pensioners in 1564, and between that time and his appointment as
Vice-Chamberlain in 1577 (five years prior to the period referred to by
ANTIQUARIUS), he received numerous other gifts and offices.
JOSEPH BURTT.
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ADVERSARIA
Printers' Couplets.
It may not perhaps be generally known that the early printers were
accustomed to place devices or verses along with their names at the end
of the books which they gave to the public. Vigneul-Marville, in his
_Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature_, relates that he found the two
following lines at the end of the "Decrees of Basle and Bourges,"
published under the title of "Pragmatic Sanction," with a Commentary by
Come Guymier,--Andre Brocard's Paris edition, 1507:--
"Stet liber hic, donec fluctus formica marinos
Ebibat et totum testudo perambulet orbem.
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