Liber C, folio 63 recto
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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. 63r
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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. 63r
Folger Shakespeare Library staff, "Stationers' Register entry for Sir John Oldcastle and Stationers' Register entry for transfer of Henry V in 1600," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/402.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 63 recto. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/402.
Sir John Oldcastle was entered into Liber C of the Stationers' Company on August 11, 1600. The play was entered in two parts, the first as "The first parte of the history of the life of Sir John Oldcastell lord Cobham," and the second part was entered as "The second and last parte of the history of Sir John Oldcastell lord Cobham with his martyrdom." The London printer and publisher, Thomas Pavier, entered the two titles, and Valentine Simmes printed the first quarto edition of the first part later in 1600. No manuscript or print copies of the second part are known, though the diarist Philip Henslowe, owner of the Rose, recorded at least one performance of the second part by the Admiral's Men in 1600. He may also have paid Thomas Dekker as a member of Worcester's Men to combine the two parts in 1602. In 1619, William Jaggard printed the second quarto edition of Part 1, again for Thomas Pavier, falsely dating it as having been published in 1600. The title page credits William Shakespeare as the author and it was included in the Second and Third Folios as a part of the Shakespeare Apocrypha.
Henry V is entered on the same leaf of Liber C as "The historye of Henry vth with the battell of Agencourt" on August 14, 1600. The entry shows the printing rights for Henry V and seven other titles transferring to Thomas Pavier under the authority of the Stationers' Company as books "formerlye printed." The first quarto edition was printed earlier in 1600 by Thomas Creede for Thomas Millington and John Busby. Unfortunately for them, a note on the flyleaf of the Register, dated August 4, commanded that Henry V and three other plays from the Lord Chamberlain's Men were to be "stayed," or prevented from being printed and distributed. Thomas Pavier, as seen here, was subsequently granted those printing and publishing rights. The second quarto edition was printed in 1602, again by Thomas Creede, for Thomas Pavier. The play was ultimately issued in three quarto editions before 1642, as well as included in the First and Second 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]
1600 42 Regine 63
Tho. pavier Entred for his copies vnder the handes of mr
Vicars & the wardens. These iij copies
viz. The first parte of the history of the
life of Sir John Oldcastell lord Cobham.
Item the second & last parte of the history of
Sir John Oldcastell lord Cobham with his
martyrdom Item ye history of the life &
Deathe of Captaine Tho. Stucley, with his
Mariage to Alexander Curtis his daughter & his
valiant endinge of his life at the battell of
Alcazar . . . . xviijd
14. Augusti
Mr Burby Entred for yeir copie vnder the handes of mr Pasvill
Walter and ye Wardens. a booke called Euery man
Burre in his humour . . . . . . vjd
mr Burbie Entred for his copie vnder ye handes of Mr
Harsnet, and ye wardens. The famous
Tragicall history, of ye Tartarian Crippell
Emperour of Constantinople . . . . . . vjd
Thomas Entred for his Copyes by Direction
Pavyer of mr white warden vnder his
hand wrytinge. These Copyes
followinge beinge thinges formerlye
printed & sett over to the sayd Thomas
Pavyer. viz
The Pathway to knowledge . . . . . vjd
The historye of Henry the Vth with
the battell of Agencourt . . . . . . vjd
The Spanishe Tragedie . . . . . . vjd
An Interlude Called Edward longe
Shankes. . . . . . . vjd
The fyrste parte of the gentill Crafte . . . vjd
An Interlude of Jack Strawe. . . . . vjd
Mother Redcaps will and testament . . . vjd
Webbs Travelles . . . . 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), 3:169.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "1 Sir John Oldcastle," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. <deep.sas.upenn.edu>.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "Henry the Fifth," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. <deep.sas.upenn.edu>.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "1183. Henry V," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 4, 1598-1602 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 98-106.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "1211. Sir John Oldcastle," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 4, 1598-1602 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 151-7.
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