Note 516 — BOOK V PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS

Procl. 114, 122, 155, 176. The texts of 1529 and 1530 are in Wilkins, Concilia, iii. 737, 740; that of 1538 in Burnet, Hist. of Reformation, vi. 220; cf. Pollard, Sh. F. 6, and in 3 Library, x. 57. I find ‘Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum’ in the colophon of Acolastus (1540) and in both t.p. and colophon of Troas (1559); also ‘Seen and allowed &c.’ in the t.p. of Q2 of Gorboduc (c. 1570), ‘Perused and Alowed’ at the end of Gammer Gurton’s Needle (1575), and ‘Seen and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queenes maiesties Injunctions’ in the t.p. of The Glass of Government (1575). Otherwise these precautions became dead letters, so far as plays were concerned.