David Lee Miller's e-mail suggests to me the possibility that Spenser
might have made a formal presentation of his book to the Queen. For the
medieval ancestry of such presentations, see Inglis, Erik. ‘A Book in
the Hand: Some Late Medieval Accounts of Manuscript Presentations.’
Journal of the Early Book Society 5 (2002): 57–97. A copy of the
Mulcaster/Grafton "Queen's Majesty's Passage" (see my forthcoming
edition) seems to have been formally presented by the aldermen to the
Queen in March of 1558, two months after the entry procession -- at
least the aldermen, as has long been known, paid for such a copy to be
made. cheers, Germaine.
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Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus)
VC 205, Victoria College (University of Toronto),
73 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7, CANADA
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