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Buck originated the pattern adopted by all later defences of
Richard III, weighing the evidence impartially and pointing out that suspicion has no weight from a legal point of view. He first summarises Richard's life and reign, then discusses the accusations against him in turn, criticising sources
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that was slightly over half the length of the original. A second issue (usually referred to erroneously as a second edition) appeared the next year, leading to the assumption that Buck invented many of his sources. This damaged Buck's scholarly reputation for centuries. The authentic text of Buck's
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favourably "because / All accusations of him are not proued, / And he built churches, and made good law's / And all men held him wise, and valiant", and it concludes that he deserved his royal rank. Buck's treatise "The Third
Vniversite of England" (1615) describes the educational facilities in
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of information about them on the basis of their reasons for bias, referring to original authoritative documents and oral reports. He also discusses the legality of
Richard's title and surveys his achievements. Buck discovered and introduced important new historical sources, such as the
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and knighted. In 1606, he began to license plays for publication. In 1610, he became Master of the Revels, responsible for licensing and supervising plays in
Britain, including Shakespeare's later plays, and censoring them with respect to the depiction of religion and politics.
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that he had discussed its authorship with
Shakespeare. Censorship was exercised in matters of profanity and in sensitive issues of religion and politics, particularly the portrayal of royalty. Judging from his notes in the two manuscript play scripts that show his hand,
213:, however, believed that since about 1585 Queen Elizabeth had led him to expect appointment to the post. He was vocal in his distress, writing letters of protest and supplication. The reversion was formally conferred on Buck in 1603, on the accession to the throne of
256:... requireth knowledge in Grammar, Rhetorike, Logicke, Philosophie, Historie, Musick, Mathematikes, & in other Arts ... & hath a setled place within this Cittie. ... I haue discribed it, and discoursed thereof at large in a particular commentarie".
614:, to license plays for publication. Dutton, p. 149. "The inference must be that became impatient to profit from the reversion he held, and hit on this scheme, which a superior was able to get permission for." Dutton, p. 149. See also Eccles, p. 459.
232:'s later plays, and for supervising performances of them and of any earlier Shakespeare plays revived for court performance, which he had to re-censor, due to the regulations added against blasphemy in 1606. Buck noted on the title page of the play
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delayed, from 1613, in paying wages to Buck and his Revels Office associates. Buck became unable to discharge his duties as Master of the Revels by March 1622, was declared insane the following month, and was succeeded in office by
378:. He died in October of that year, leaving a considerable estate. His "nephew Stephen Buck presented a will, either forged or made after Sir George became insane, designating himself and his son George the heirs".
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London, from cosmetology to law and medicine, including heraldry, poetry, music, athletics and drama, and enumerates the diversity of arts, crafts, culture, wealth and populace of the city. This earned him, in
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289:, an extensive treatment of the history of English titles and offices, which is not extant, although some of the material he collected for it survives. His only surviving genealogical work,
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information with him, and altering or deleting documentation of sources, with the details of which, also, his copyist was careless. Finally in 1646 he published a version of the
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in celebration of James I's royal ancestors. His treatise "The Third
Vniversite of England" (1615) describes the educational facilities in London. His major prose work was
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Dutton, pp. 146–151, argues that, contrary to the belief of earlier scholars, there is no evidence that Buck acted as Tilney's assistant prior to Tilney's death in 1610.
324:, cutting it, making it look like something written in his own time, rather than earlier, by deleting names of Buck's learned contemporaries who had shared sources and
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Buck wrote a treatise on the "Art of Revels", but the work is lost. He refers to it in another treatise, praising the state of drama in London and writing: "the Art of
86:, Surrey in the 1590s, also acting at times as an envoy for Queen Elizabeth. In 1603, on the accession to the throne of King James I, Buck was made a Gentleman of the
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caused by damage to Buck's original manuscript, filled in from an early manuscript copy, and the two words are not in serious dispute) and expresses her hope that
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was not published until 1979; the editor, Arthur
Kincaid, was able to find all but seven of the hundreds of sources that Buck had meticulously documented.
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Shakespeare remembered only that the play was written by "a minister". See, Nelson, Alan H. "George Buc, William
Shakespeare, and the Folger
502:(1979). As to his attendance at Cambridge, see "The Third Vniversite of England", sig. Nnnn 2–4, confirmed by manuscript of Sir George Buck,
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In 1597, the queen seems to have promised Buck the reversion (the right to succeed to an office when it next fell vacant) of the office of
189:, Surrey in the parliaments of 1593 and 1597. He continued to act as an envoy for the queen afterwards, serving on diplomatic missions to
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will soon die. See
Kincaid, Introduction (1979), pp. xc–xciv; Kincaid, "Buck and the Elizabeth of York Letter: a reply to Dr. Hanham",
110:, examining critically the accusations against him. He also discovered and introduced important new historical sources, especially the
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Lincolnshire. In 1606, he began to license plays for publication.
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in 1585. He carried dispatches for the government from France in 1587 and served under his patron the Lord Admiral,
142:, and Robert Buck (d. 1580), a church official. His great-grandfather, Sir John Buck, was executed after supporting
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Daphnis Polystephanos: An eclog treating of crownes, and of garlandes, and to whom of right they appertaine
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as an early historian of London. Among his other works was
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169:, against the Spanish Armada in 1588 and on the successful
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Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower
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