Amsler Memory Text Space in Medieval London

Spaces in the archive, spaces of the archive: material, metaphorical and abstract articulations of space in early modern chancery record management Prepared for the 18 th Annual Conference of the Wolfenbütteler Arbeitskreis für Barockforschung, Opening Spaces: Constructions, visions and depictions of spaces and boundaries in the Baroque Wolfenbüttel

A A L Li it tt tl le e B Be ee ef f a an nd d S So om me e T Th hi ic ck k A Al le e Tenants and the Book of Evidences In 1667, by order of the Governing Body, two men sat down in the college archive, wherever that was, and began the tedious task of sorting through the foundation documents, every property deed, every lease register, and all the manorial court rolls. Bit by bit, John Willis, who was the Chapter Clerk, and Anthony Wood, the famous Oxford antiquarian, produced the Book of Evidences. It was a huge book, the best part of a thousand pages, handwritten of course. They listed every property that the college owned at the time, with the details of the rent due and all the tenants between the foundation of Christ Church and 1667, sometimes with the history Dating the manuscript From lines 2-4 of the second stanza on folio 85, the poems can be dated between 25 September 1593 (the death of Henry the 4 th Earl) and 16 April 1594 (the death of Ferdinando the 5 th Earl of Derby): of egles brood hatcht in a loftie nest The earle of derby & the kinge of manne her father was her brother now possest These same three lines also provide a clue to the 'double majesty' of Shakespeare's Sonnet 78, where it may allude to the 'king of birds' (the eagle of the Derby crest) and the 'king of man' epithet (the Isle of Man of which the Earl of Derby held the lordship). Also that Ferdinando might have been the inspiration for this sonnet, as Alice, his widow, possibly was for Sonnet 97 and Sonnet 98. From the last two lines of the first poem, the period in which they were written can be narrowed to mid-January/mid-March 1594: And thus in myddest of all his mirth & glee I'le take my leaue of courteus Salusbury. At Christmas 1593 there was much revelry at Lleweni where, as part of their tour of the great houses, poets and musicians entertained John Salusbury's guests. 1 The entertainment probably took place during the twelve days of Christmas, although traditionally it was allowed to continue until Candlemas (2 February). In March 1594 John Salusbury was admitted as a student of the Middle Temple and in the same month he was appointed one of the Esquires of the Body to the Queen. Thereafter he spent more time in London than in Wales. Attribution As both poems are subscribed 'finis quoth Danielle', a certain Daniel must have been the author. However, the lines sound so Shakespearean that Tom Lloyd-Roberts attributed them to Shakespeare in his article 'Bard of Lleweni' (The New Welsh Review No. 23). Professor David Crystal has kindly undertaken a lexical analysis of the poems. 2 He concluded that the vocabulary of the poems is 97% within what we know Shakespeare to have used at the time, but that it was unlikely that Shakespeare would have used 'in myddest of'. He consistently used 'in the midst'. Even when he wanted to lose a metrical syllable, he abbreviated it to 'I' th' midst' (Coriolanus I, 1.97). Tom Lloyd-Roberts' attribution caused much interest from the media at the time, and, under pressure from the press, I said that I thought that the poems might have been by Samuel Daniel. Clearly I was wrong, as they are unlike any of his works and they are not in his hand. 3 See The National Archives SP12/176/63 refoliated 204. 4 Ten years earlier, on 14 March 1594, Attorney General Egerton wrote to Lord Keeper Puckering that 'the Lord Chief Justice [Burghley] knows Mr Daniel to be both learned and wise, and now a serjeant elect'. This was written with regard to selecting suitable candidates to judge the Queen's physician who was allegedly involved in a Jesuit plot to poison her. See The National Archives SP12/248/26.1 subsequently refoliated.

Imafronte, 2022

llevada a cabo por un matrimonio perteneciente a la hidalguía local. En él se analizan las obras de arquitectura, pintura, escultura, rejería y platería realizadas por diversos artistas flamencos, alemanes, gallegos y cántabros, aportándose nuevos datos sobre figuras como Martín de Balenzate, Juan de Biorín, Juan de Castro o Crispín de Evelino entre otros.

Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2020