At 04:01 PM 7/29/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>There is evidence about the payment of Spenser's pension. Richard S.
>Peterson refers to it in his article on the calling in of Mother Hubberd in
>1591. I'm looking now at the TLS piece (May 16, 1997), which doesn't
>specify the scholarly source. But Peterson published a longer version on
>Spenser Studies that no doubt does. In the TLS piece, he writes, "A study
>of thirty years ago traced regular payments by the Exchequer of Spenser's
>L50 a year according to the original patent . . . ."
Payments on Spenser's pension are detailed in Herbert Berry and E. K.
Timings, "Spenser's Pension," RES n.s. 11 (1960): 254-59.
The full-length version of Richard Peterson's article appeared as "Laurel
Crown and Ape's Tail: New Light on Spenser's Career from Sir Thomas
Tresham" in Spenser Studies 12 (1998): 1-36. Among other things, Peterson's
discovery illustrates just how reckless Spenser could be. Bill Oram made a
point about this at the Cambridge conference, and it's clear that he's
right: whether or not you think Spenser was a republican (I don't), the man
was not a time-server.
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