Viewing EMLoT Transcription Record: 9772

Location of Transcription (in Secondary Source)

Primary author(s)
Title: Signet Bill, 'Licence to Fletcher, Shakespeare, and others . . . 17 May, 1603'
Publication Year: 17 May 1603 (Source of claim: transcription)

Authors
Title / MS reference: 'the Privy Seal, preserved in the Chapter-House, Westminster'

Transcription notes: fully transcribed; original spelling and punctuation retained
Transcription Record notes: See MSC 1, pt 3, p 264, on the Privy Seal: 'This [the Privy Seal] was first printed from the Patent Roll by Rymer, 'Foedera' (1715), xvi. 505. Collier, H. E. D. P. i 334, first printed the Signet Bill of May 17, which he took for the Privy Seal. Both documents, together with the entry of the Signet Bill in the Signet Office Doquet Book, the Privy Seal of May 19, and an entry in an old index, are given in Halliwell-Phillips, 'Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare, 83.'