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came to England after the Norman Conquest. Operating out of a special Exchequer of Jews, they financed the needs of court, aristocracy, and clergy during a period of national expansion: in effect, they were tolerated only to the degree they were willing to be extorted. During the Crusades, however, persecution of Jews erupted on a large scale throughout Europe, and England was
Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles – a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style. The poem shadows recent English history, and the major military and political events of the Thirty Years War. But the Supplement is also an ambitiously intertextual poem, weaving together materials from mythic, literary, historical, scientific, theological, and many other kinds of written sources. Its encyclopaedic ambitions combine with Knevet's historical focus to produce an allegorical epic poem of considerable interest and power.
This new edition of Knevet's Supplement, the first scholarly text of the poem ever published, situates it in its literary, historical, biographical, and intellectual contexts. An extensive introduction and copious critical commentary, positioned at the back of the book, will enable students and scholars alike to access Knevet's complicated and enigmatic meanings, structures, and allusions.
deputy’s apartments, the castle also contained the administrative offices of the Crown government in Ireland. The Lord Deputy informed the Privy Council in 1566 that Henry Droycott, an official who worked in the Exchequer and as Master of the Rolls, ‘hath had the perusing, sorting and calendaring of her Majesty’s recordes’, which were ‘well laid up in a strong chamber of one of the towers of Dublin Castle’. 47 The four courts of the Exchequer, Pleas, Chancery and King’s Bench were held in the castle from at least the
sign of increasing desperation. After his spectacular arrival on 5 April, the King entered Parliament where members stood bareheaded. ‘The King, having ordered them to quiet down, after a long period of silence began his speech, saying that in it he would deal with three subjects: soul, person, and Exchequer.’ 6 The matter of ‘soul’ focused on religion and the fight against Catholics, as James urged
prefaced by a particularly revealing note by Scott, revealing of his editorial practice and his reading: The following Tracts respecting the Exchequer of Ireland, although belonging to different reigns, are classed together, that they may throw light upon each other, agreeably to the license which the Editor has reserved of departing from the general order of arrangement, when any advantage can be gained by doing so. Those desirous of farther information may consult HOWARD’S Treatise of the
of the merchants of the Woolstaple (an English corporation that dealt in wool and also, it is believed, skins, lead and tin) he was able to trade freely and amass his fortune. The Woolstaple was an influential corporation and it had controlled the export of wool from across England to the Continent, from as far back as 1314. Hugh Clopton’s name is recorded in the Exchequer Customs accounts for 1480
The Statutes of Sir Walter Mildmay, Kt Chancellor of the Exchequer and one of Her Majesty's Privy Councillors; authorized by him for the government of Emmanuel College founded by him , ed. and trans. Frank Stubbings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 89. 30 London, Inner Temple, Petyt MS 47, fol. 373. See also British
: Henrici Binnemani, 157[7]). In a very simple design each of the muses laments Smith's death. The collection was published again by Henry Bynneman, and it included a dedicatory epistle to the stalwart Puritan Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer and founder of Emmanuel College. Harvey included several poems to John Wood, Smith's nephew, who also surfaces in Harvey's Letter-Book . We need to take careful note that no poems written by
had weathered the storm without significant distress; but the poll tax, her hostility to recent economic policies in mainland Europe, her support of the first Gulf War and her continual defiance of both public opinion and voices from within her own party culminated in the resignation of Geoffrey Howe (her deputy) and Nigel Lawson (Chancellor of the Exchequer). Finally Tory golden boy Michael Heseltine
crown and sceptre Essex begins to applaud and remarks ‘We have much to do. She has cut me off from her exchequer. All she sends me are conditions. Conditions, my friends. Her conditions are as crooked as her carcase. Come, my friends, we have much to do’ (p. 524). For Essex, in this television series at least, Shakespeare’s play seems to provide the motivation for the uprising. The historical source for