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Based on the precise wording of this entry (“A booke called the booke…”), it has been concluded that the edition published by Heyes was an official prompt book. The book was printed by ‘I.R.’, the same James
Roberts who had consented to its publication. Roberts was the printer of the playbills for
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Lawrence Heyes from other sources. In 1603 Thomas petitioned King James 1, ‘for regulations to be made to carry into effect the statute ‘23 Eliz.’, for enrolment of fines and recoveries, and that he may have the office of enrolling the same’. This statute was
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James
Roberts. Entred for his copie vnder the handes of bothe the wardens, a booke of the Marchaunt of Venyce or otherwise called the Jewe of Venyce Prouided that yt bee not prynted by the said James Robertes or anye other whatsoeuer without lycense first had from the Right honorable the lord
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the 'Act against
Reconciliation to Rome' and the fines were enormous: previously non-attendance at church earned a one shilling fine, but this Act raised the penalty to 20 pounds a month, with stiffer penalties for celebrating or attending Mass.
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in 1578). Francis' business adjoined that of Thomas Heyes; Francis' address is given as “Lombard Street, over against the
Cardinals Hat; Green Dragon, St. Paul's Churchyard”.
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Thomas Haies. Entred for his copie under the handes of the
Wardens and by Consent of Master Robertes. A booke called the booke of the Merchant of Venyce.
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Thomas Heyes also witnessed the will of the stationer
Francis Coldock (1561–1603) in 1602. (Francis is recorded as the printer of a sermon for
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Shakespeare’s theatre company, the Lord
Chamberlain’s Men Roberts had earlier secured the conditional rights to the play, registered by the
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was adjudged to ‘Lavrence Heyes’ in full court on 8 July 1619. Proving this copyright was probably prompted by the publication of the
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Thomas Heyes left the copyright for this work to his son, Lawrence, in his will when the latter was only a boy. The copyright for
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in 1637, to be sold at his shop in
Fleetbridge. The copyright was later transferred from Bridget Hayes and Jane Graisby to
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41:, in London, in 1600. He traded from 'St Paul’s Churchyard at the sign of the Green Dragon’.
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Green, M.A.E. (ed.) 1857. Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I, 1603-1610. p. 61.
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A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers from 1640–1708
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Tudor Constitutional Documents AD 1485–1603 with an historical commentary.
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Abstracts from the wills of English printers and stationers from 1492 to 1630
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was the publisher-bookseller who published the first quarto edition of
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on 17 October 1657. Leake published the fourth quarto edition of
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Eyre, G. E. B. and G. R. Rivington (eds.) 1913–1914.
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Title page of first quarto edition, Merchant of Venice
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189:. 5 vols., London and Birmingham. Vol III p. 175.
161:The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
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264:Cambridge University Press, 636 pp. p 154.
172:Clark W.G. and Wright W.A. (eds). 1863.
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185:Arber, E. (ed.). 1875–1894.
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159:Braunmuller, A.R. (ed.) 2000.
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