Notice for the payment for the writing and gilding of
Jonson
's burgess ticket,
20 Jan. 1619 , in the
Dean of Guild Court Accounts
. Mason argues that
'thryes writtin' suggests that 'They had not been satisfied with the first specimen
of the scribe's caligraphy, and had made him write the ticket twice over again'
(1893, 799). The notice appears in the accounts for 1618-1619 in a bound series of
accounts for 1552-1626.
Eugene Giddens
[discharge 10]
Item ye twentie day
of Januar Jm vjc and nynteene yeirs gewin at directioune
of ye counsell to Alexander
patersone for wrytting and gilting of
Benjamine Johnestounes burges ticket being thryes writtin
xiij lib vjs viijd
Bibliography
Our weekly gossip, Athenaeum, 26 Feb. 1859, p. 287
David Laing (1858-9),
206-8
Masson (1893), 797-9
H&S, 1.234