might have been forgotten by the widow.]

[Footnote 51: Her Will was not proved until July 1620. It is
unusually long, and the bequests are trifling. She particularizes
all her grand-children, whom, in the language then used, she calls
nephews and nieces. There had probably been some difference in the
family to occasion the following passage, whereby she bequeaths
the only memorial mentioned of our author. "Item, whereas my very
welbeloued niephue William Paynter, and I, and all my children,
nowe are and I trust in God so shall continue loving hartie and
inward frends, whereof I receyue great ioye and contentment, vnto
the which my saied neiphue, for a gentle remembraunce, I give and
bequeethe my tablet of gould with a pearle to yt which sometymes
was his graundfather's, beyng nowe all readie in his owne keeping
and possession." The will is subscribed with a cross, which the
feebleness of age might render necessary.]

[For some additional points throwing light on the way in which
Painter gained his fortune, see Appendix. Collier (_Extr. Stat. Reg._
ii. 107), attributes to Painter _A moorning Ditti vpon the Deceas of
Henry Earle of Arundel_, which appeared in 1579, and was signed
'Guil. P. G.' [= Gulielmus Painter, Gent.].--J. J.]

[Transcriber's Note on Bibliographical Notices:

Bracketed text [ ] is in the original. Brackets are also used to
demarcate footnotes.
Text originally printed in blackletter ("Gothic") type is shown
between *asterisks*. Single asterisks are in the original text.

For complete notes and errata, see the end of the text.]

_BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES._

Of the first volume of THE PALACE OF PLEASURE there were three editions,
but of the second only two are known. Each of these, all uncommonly fair
and perfect, through the liberal indulgence of their respective owners,
are now before me; a combination which has scarcely been seen by any
collector, however distinguished for ardour of pursuit and extensiveness
of research, since the age of Q. Elizabeth. Their rarity in a perfect
state may render an accurate description, though lengthened by
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be given in their chronological order.

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