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THE ^XTRA Gli^L AND 
 THE FULL QUART POT 
 
 A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE WATSON COLE 
 
 ALEXANDER MORING LIMITED 
 
 THE DE LA MORE PRESS 
 
 32 GEORGE ST., HANOVER SQ., LONDON, W. i 
 
 1919 
 
THE EXTRA GILL AND 
 THE FULL QUART POT 
 
 A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE WATSON COLE 
 
 ALEXANDER MORING LIMITED 
 
 THE DE LA MORE PRESS 
 
 32 GEORGE ST., HANOVER SQ., LONDON, W. i 
 
 1919 
 
LiBRARY 
 SCHOOL 
 
 GIFT 
 
THE EXTRA GII,L AND THE FULL 
 QUART POT. ^ 
 
 A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY. 
 
 HE year after the defeat of the Spanish 
 Armada found the English people ex- 
 ultant and war-like. The fleet of 
 Spain, consisting of 132 vessels and 
 30,493 men, had been scattered and 
 defeated with a loss of about one-half of its vessels 
 and three-quarters of its men. Undeterred by this 
 great calamity, Philip was resolved to build smaller 
 vessels and renew the contest by sailing direftly to 
 England. Learning of his purpose England re- 
 garded her situation as critical and one imperilling 
 her national existence. As the Government was 
 indisposed to undertake any wars except in self- 
 defence, the people were encouraged to fit out 
 expeditions at their own cost, and to such the 
 Queen lent her assistance. 
 
 Portugal had been taken by Philip. Don 
 Antonio, an illegitimate member of a branch of 
 the Royal House of that country, was ambitious 
 to be placed on its throne. It is to a narrative of 
 one of the expeditions, fitted out and sent to 
 Portugal to assist him in his purpose, that atten- 
 tion is now called. The expedition was com- 
 manded by General Norris, who had had much 
 
 
 278 
 
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 experience in the field, and Sir Francis Drake, the 
 circumnavigator of the globe. It left Plymouth 
 on the 1 8th of April and returned 2nd July, 1589. 
 The narrative is entitled 'A True Coppie of a 
 Difcourfe written by a Gentleman, employed in 
 the late Voyage of Spaine and Portingale : 58 pp. 
 sm. 4to, London, 1589. 
 
 The author is unknown, but Hakluyt, who re- 
 printed it in his ' Principall Navigations,' 2 (1599), 
 2nd pt., pp. 134-55 (wrongly numbered 143), 
 ascribes it to 'Colonel Anthonie Winkfield' (Wing- 
 field), one of the officers who accompanied the 
 expedition. The objeft of the writer seems to 
 have been to explain why the expedition had not 
 been more successful and to contradift certain false 
 statements that had been circulated after its return. 
 In the first few pages he gives his reasons for 
 joining the expedition ; praises the ability of its 
 commanders; comments upon the insufficiency of 
 its arms, men, and ships, as compared with those 
 that had been promised ; and then proceeds to give 
 specific answers to false statements that had been 
 made concerning the mortality among the men 
 and the lack of discipline, of surgeons, of facilities 
 for transportation, and of provisions ; all of which 
 had been alleged. Having disposed of these points, 
 he then goes on to give a detailed account of the 
 expedition from the time it landed at the Groyne 
 until its return to England on the 2nd of July 
 following. 
 
 The narrative is of especial interest as it intro- 
 duces an incident in the life of the ill-fated Earl of 
 Essex, the favorite of Queen Elizabeth, who joined 
 
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 the expedition against the wishes of the Queen, if 
 not in positive disobedience of his Queen's express 
 commands. Though innately polite, Essex was im- 
 petuous, headstrong, and indiscreet in his language, 
 and his life at Court was far from being a happy 
 one, not only for himself, but for those with whom 
 he was brought in conta6l. Learning that this 
 expedition was about to sail he resolved to join it. 
 Notwithstanding the opposition of the Queen, he 
 escaped from Court, rode post haste to Plymouth, 
 and on securing a vessel, immediately sailed out of 
 port, in order to prevent being intercepted in his 
 design, and awaited the sailing of the fleet which 
 he had planned to join. Failing in this he sailed 
 after it and did not finally fall in with it until 13th 
 May, some three weeks after it had arrived at 
 Portugal. 
 
 In the account of the expedition the name of 
 Essex appears several times, but in none of them 
 as playing any important part. In his introdu6lion 
 the writer says (page 12), in answer to the charge 
 that there was a lack of proper means of transpor- 
 tation, that Essex hired men to carry the sick and 
 wounded on pikes, on account of the lack of mules 
 and asses, and that he even threw away apparel 
 and necessaries from his own carriage in order to 
 give place to them. A page is devoted to an 
 account of his joining the expedition, but to this 
 we shall return later. 
 
 We are told (page 27) that, on one occasion, 
 Essex with Sir Roger Williams and his brother 
 landed some men to meet the enemy, but returned 
 without engaging them. At another time (page 
 
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 33) he went out with Sir Roger Williams about 
 eleven o'clock at night to lay an ambush, but re- 
 turned without an encounter. Again (page 33), 
 when the English were before Lisbon and the 
 enemy was retreating, the Earl chased them even 
 to the gates of the high town. Later, his name is 
 merely mentioned, once (page 38) when orders 
 were given for retiring from Lisbon, and again 
 (page 39) when the news of the approach of the 
 enemy ' was welcome to the Earl of Essex and the 
 Generals as they offered every one of them to give 
 the messenger 100 crowns.' 
 
 Perhaps the most glorious a6t placed to his 
 credit, occurred when, on the same occasion (page 
 40) General Norris dispatched a messenger with 
 a trumpet, ' by whom he writ a Cartel! to the 
 Generall of their Armie, where he gaue them the 
 lie, in that it was by them reported that we dif- 
 lodged from Lijbone in diforder and feare of them 
 (which indeede was moft falfe) for that it was fiue 
 of the clock in the morning before wee fell into 
 Armes, and then went in fuch fort, as they had no 
 courage to foUowe out vpon vs. Alfo challenged 
 him therein, to meete him the nexte morning with 
 his whole Armie, if he durft attend his coming, 
 and there to trie out the iuftnes of their quarrell 
 by battaile : by whom alfo the Earle of Essex (who 
 preferring the honor of the caufe, which was his 
 Countries, before his owne fafetie) fcnt a particular 
 Cartell, offering himfelfe againft any of theirs, if 
 they had any of his qualitie: or if they would not 
 admit of that, five, eight, or tenne, or as many as 
 they would appoynt, Ihould meet fo many of theirs 
 
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 in the head of our Battaile to trie their fortunes 
 with them, and that fhould haue alTurance of their 
 returne and honorable intreatie.' 
 
 And finally (page 42), we are told that on the 
 sixth of June ' the Earle of EJfex^ vpon receipt of 
 letters from her Maieftie, by them that brought in 
 the vi6tualls, prefentlie departed towards England.' 
 
 But let us now return to the passage (page 26) 
 we have passed and see the report there given of 
 his arrival. It reads as follows : 
 
 The 13, day [of May], the Earle of Eflex, and with 
 him Mafter Walter Deuereux his brother (a Gentleman 
 of wonderful great hope), Sir Roger Williams, Colonell 
 generall of the foot men, Sir Philip Butler, who hath 
 alwaies been moft inward wth him, and Sir Edward 
 Wingfield, came into the Fleete. The Earle hauing put 
 himfelfe into the Journey againft the opinion of the . 
 world, and as it feemcd to the hazard of his great fortune 
 [for the reasons already given], though to the great 
 aduancement of his reputation, (for as the honorable 
 cariage of himfelfe towards all men, doth make him 
 highlie efteemed at home : fo did his exceeding forwardnes 
 in all feruices, make tiim to be wondrred (sic) at amongft 
 vs) who, I fay, put off" in the fame winde from Famouth^ that 
 wee left Plymouth in, where he lay, becaufe he would 
 auoide the importunitie of meffengers that were daylie 
 fent for his returne, and fome other caufes more fecret to 
 himfelfe, not knowing (as it feemed) what place the 
 Generals purpofed to land in, had been as far as Cales 
 in AndaloftUy and lay up and downe about the South Cape, 
 where he tooke fome ships laden with Corne, and brought 
 them vnto the Fleete. Alfo in his returne from thence to 
 meete with our Fleete, he fell with the Hands of Bayon ; 
 and on that fide of the riuer which Cannas ftandeth 
 vpon, he, with Sir Roger Williams and thofe Gentlemen 
 
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 that were with him went on fhore, with fome out of the 
 fhip he was in, whom the Enemie, that held gard upon 
 that Coaft, would not abide, but fled into the countrie. 
 
 Here the account ends in one of the two copies 
 (the Halsey copy) in the library of Mr. Henry E. 
 Huntington. When John Payne Collier wrote his 
 account of this little work, from the Second Issue, 
 in his 'Rarest Books' (Lond., i: 257-9; N.Y., i: 
 317), he seems to have been quite unaware that of 
 this pamphlet there were 
 
 Two Issues. 
 
 It appears that the account given above, as taken 
 from the First Issue, left something yet to be 
 desired in praise of Essex, for the leaf on which 
 the last few lines of the above was printed was 
 cancelled and nine and one-third (9-1/3) lines of 
 new matter were added in greater praise of Essex. 
 These new lines appear on page 27 of the Huth 
 copy (' Cat.,' 2 : 443 ; ' Sale,' 2 : 2451), and are as 
 follows : 
 
 After his coming into the fleet (to the great reioycing 
 of vs all) he demaunded of the Generals, that after our 
 Armie fliould come on fhore, he might alwaies haue the 
 leading of the vangard, which they eafilie yeelded vnto : 
 as being defirous to fatiflie him in all things, but efpeci- 
 ally in matters fo much tending to his honor as this did; 
 fo as from the time of our firft landing in Portingall^ he 
 alwaies marched in the poynt of the vangard, accompanied 
 with Sir Roger Williams (except when the necefitie of 
 the place hee held) called him to other feruices. 
 
 Now this reprinted leaf is of the utmost im- 
 portance and interest to the bibliographer and 
 
27 
 
 WiUiams,«U) tbofe Gentlemen tbat lorre tottb bint tocnt 
 on Qpo^e, luitb fome men out of t^e Q)(y bt toas ut,lDboni 
 tlie Cncmic, t^it belo garD by on ct)«t Coaa^tooula not 
 abiDfjbutQeobp tntotbecountnr» 
 
 Cbe 1 <^*Oap tof lauOtO at 7cnicha in Portiftgafffinm 
 
 (be (boc of tbe CaQIe, anD aboue tbe tuaOcm toater^mo^e 
 tban a mile from tbe totone, tsbetem manp toete m penH 
 of o;otomng,bp tcafou tbe lumne uias sreat,ani) tbe ^ea 
 Isent Otgb>^btct ouertb^etue one boatc, tDb<ccm 6iie ano 
 eU)en:ic of Captaine Dolphins men prnlbcti.'^be Cne< 
 mie, being fiue Companies ofSpa/iMrdj\jr\Sicx tije com* 
 manotmentof tbe Condc de Fucnccs, failteoout of tbe 
 Cotone againCt b0,atio in out UnoingmaDe tben: app^oar^ 
 (lofe bp tbe mater Gie.l5ut tbe Carle of Eilcx, tottb ^tr 
 Roger WiUiainsano bis b^otbn:,bauingIanoeD faffinent 
 nn.nber to make tiso trouped,left one to bolD tbe tnap bp 
 tbe Isater fioe,anD leo tbe otbrr outr tbe ^antibilB: ^M 
 tbe €nemicreeing,o^cU)etbeirs likclsifc furrttr mto tbe 
 lano -y not,a0 lue r omcaurcti,to encounter t)fli,but inoreoe 
 to make tbeic fpeeoie paflfage atoap : nottsitbHanomg) 
 tbep 0(0 it in fucb fo^t, as being rbargeo bp ours lubtct) 
 loere Cent out bp tbe Colonell general! iinorr Captaine 
 lackfon, tbcp Qisu tbe fame euen to tbe poQ) of tbe pike: 
 tntobtcb cbarge ano at tbe puH), Captatne Robot Pkw 
 boas flaine. ^bc Cnemie being fleo furtber tban bicebao 
 teafon to foUoloe tbem. all out Companird loere o^atone 
 CO tbe totnnetlDbicb bemg biifo^tiflcD in anp place, tnee 
 founo buocfenDeo bp anp man againS bs* 9no tbcrefo^e 
 tbe general caufeo tbe cattle to be fommoneo tbat nigbt : 
 to)bitb being abanoon*eD bp bim tbat comanoco it^ a 7'or- 
 r<;f^4/,naraeD Antonio dc Aurid.being poffrnv D tbcrrof, 
 DeGreo but to be aflfureo tbat Don Anchonio b}as( laoeo, 
 tDbrrebpon be tooulo oeliuer tbe famc,b}bicb be boncQIie 
 pcrfo^meo.^bere biad taken eat of tbe Caflie feme i co» 
 (bot ano pikes, tobifb Don Emanuel furnifbeo bis '^^^r^ 
 r}/}£4i!J>b)itbal4tno tb)entit barrels ofp9)soer : fo aspof* 
 
 C 2 feCins 
 
^7 
 
 yaid) fome menoutof cbe Q}iy^e Umae in^ luIjoiU t^e enetiUe 
 tbacbelD^arDbpontbc $0411. tDouh) not abiii£,butfieD bp 
 intotbtcqmiccjj.aft^jp^bic'.cSmmgmeo tbcflat((o tbe ^xtat 
 wio?ci8ff of \) J anjbeoemaimocD of cbe Gpennals, tbataf* 
 m OUT ^criiicibouio come »v(b3^c, be UHa:bt ^luiair^ baiie 
 tb^Ieaoittjf of tb€tJantgarD,lpbi£^J tbcp cauliepaloco i^nto: 
 39 being oeHroue co fattr^ebim mail tbingiai, tiuufpcnallp 
 in matters fo mucb tenotng to bis bouo;t as tbiis bic; fo asi 
 fron] tbe.tim^of oat firtt lanDiRg in TortwgaU, bee aliuaicu 
 marcbcB iiit(>epopntoftbeban5.uo,acconipanicD Ujitb^ic 
 Rogef William»{c)cfept lub^n tbcnecfflitig of tbt place b« 
 belo) calico bin^ to otbccfcruicfji* 
 
 ttbe I <5.Dap toc lauoeo at Pr;7;c^rf in FoytingAll, bnucr tbe 
 (bot of (beCa(tlc,anD aboue tbcluaS in tearerjriioje tban a 
 mile from J tQl»nr,njbcrin manp ujtre in peril ofo^oiuning:, 
 tp realon tbe aino loasi jre at, ^ tbe «^ea ujcnt bigb, tobicb 
 Ottertb?etaJ one boat toberin 25. of Captatnc Dolphins men 
 pcrilbeo. t^be.Cncnie, bnn0;,fiuec5uan ice Q^.S^Anyajrds^^n* 
 per tbe comaunoftnenc of J (JpmlcdcFucntcsjfaiUco out of 
 tbetotoueiigainftbs, er in out lancinj mane tbcirapp^oacb 
 flofe bp tbe mater Gpe. 15ut tljc €avlc of i: Hex, \{i ^tr Ro- 
 ger WiiIiarnsjbii5b?otber,bauing;lanDeDruff(C(cntmmibec 
 tp malte 2 . ttoupCjIeft one to bolo tbe tuap bp tbe toater Goe , 
 anD lej^ i otber oner tbc.^anobilssitobif b tbe .^uemp feeing, 
 •jitt tbeir« liketDife ftirrbcr into tbe lanDinat,a<j.li3e coiiicct' 
 oren, to encounter tj^, but incaoe to make ibeir fpeeoie -^af^ 
 fafftatoaprnotlDitbdanBing tbcp Di:jitinf«cbfojt,ag being 
 cbargeo bp ours iDbicb torn feut out bp p Calonell gene rail 
 t>»;wc Captatne lacfon, tbep ftfflO tbe fame euen to tbe pul^ 
 aftbepike:in,ujbtfb rbarge ^ at tbe pufl), Captaine R^obcit 
 PmvU}a3flaitte,^'eenemiebeiugficofurtbeitbd\uebao 
 reafon to foUoU) tbcm, al our compaiiiea toere D?aU}n to tbe 
 totont b3bifb being D«fo;tiacD in anp plafe, toe founo xyxx^v 
 ftnoeo bp a^iie mauagmnft tjs. ano tbe refo?e tbe OSenctaa 
 MMfcfi tbe Milleto bee Comoueo f nigbt: iiJbtcb being abati. 
 : wne5 bp bimtbat comflonoeait^a Ttfr/i;?^^'^?^"^^^ ^^°- 
 
THE FULL QUART POT. 9 
 
 student of Elizabethan book- making as it illus- 
 trates, in the briefest possible space, more of the 
 peculiar methods employed by the printers of that 
 era than are to be found elsewhere in so limited a 
 compass. 
 
 As originally printed the leaf contained two 
 pages of thirty-seven lines each ; as reprinted, it 
 contains, including the nine and one-third lines of 
 absolutely new matter, two pages of thirty-eight 
 lines each, and yet not an essential word of the 
 original matter has been omitted. 
 
 How did the compositor- manage to get all this 
 new matter into these two pages without over- 
 running ? It is perfectly safe to say that no modern 
 printer could have done it. How then could the 
 Elizabethan printer succeed in doing what his 
 successor in the art preservative of arts cannot do ? 
 Simply because he was allowed more flexibility in 
 his work than is permitted in the present day. 
 
 The printer of the present day is restri(5led by 
 certain rules and standards that hamper him in his 
 work but which he is compelled to observe. Now 
 the Diftionary establishes a fixed rule for spelling ; 
 then the printer could spell as he liked. He could 
 expand or condense his spelling to meet his re- 
 quirements. What were those requirements? 
 
 If we look at a book printed, say before 1641, 
 we shall find that the spacing between the words 
 is very close. This was a requirement followed by 
 all printers in those days, and to accomplish it, and 
 not give the scrappy look that meets the eye when 
 we look at a modern book, he made use of a variety 
 of means in order to comply with his Procrustean 
 
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 rule for close spacing. In fa<5l, the whole secret, 
 if any there be, was in the justifying of the lines. 
 When the modern printer, with his fixed rules for 
 spelling and for the dividing of words, comes to 
 the end of a line and finds that he cannot get in 
 the whole of a word or a part of it, he goes back 
 and puts in more spaces between the words. The 
 result is that we find in a book printed at the 
 present day one line closely spaced and the next 
 one openly spaced. This it can readily be seen 
 destroys the harmonious uniformity of spacing so 
 generally found in the old books of which we are 
 speaking. The books of the early printers have 
 been much admired and justly so. May it not be, 
 that, in addition to the symmetry of the page, 
 the excellence of the paper, and the beauty of 
 the chara6lers, the evenness of the spacing, so 
 noticeable in the products of the early presses, 
 has unconsciously added to our admiration of 
 these works more than we have been accustomed 
 to realize .? 
 
 The Elizabethan printer went about his work 
 with more freedom than the compositor of the 
 present. He lengthened the spelling of a word 
 where necessary to fill out a line, or, if he wished 
 to condense it and get more into a line, shortened 
 or abbreviated words, which he considered as in- 
 dispensable requisites to good printing. 
 
 If we look at the cancel and the cancelled leaf 
 in the book under consideration we find that they 
 present a beautiful uniformity of appearance, so far 
 as spacing is concerned, and yet really the cancel 
 contains one-ninth more matter than the cancelled 
 
i8 
 
 one Dap ) m^etem fotne ^nettf ana ot^et po^e men rame 
 mito ^etc neloe Kin^, p^omtfing in tte name of tbetc 
 Countnenejcc aDtointns^^tbactuit^jin ttofi aatC0 tie (bonlD 
 liaue a goo fupplte of bo^fe ann foote fo; W a0iffance* 
 ^i)ac n&f b)e remainep t^ere,t|ie 6eneraUs(companie of 
 |io^re0toetet)n(l)tppe9* 
 
 ^^e (Z5eneran0 ^aamg tfjere refolneti ttat tfje Srmt'e 
 QiottlDmatct) ouec lann to Lijbonctmttn tte (0DU(t of 6e« 
 nerallNorris: ano cbat 6eneraII Drake QjoqId meet bint 
 intbe rtuet tbereof toitb tbe jf leete : tbac tbere (boulo be 
 one Companie of foote left in same of tbe CaQle, ano fijre 
 in tbe(b Jpp(0 : alfo tbat tbe Htke ano burt Q)ouId remaine 
 tberetnitb p^ouiOon^ fo^ tbetc nicec;. ^be 6eneralL to 
 ttit tbe euent of tbe matter bp cjcpeoition^tbe ne):toap 
 l^eganto marcb tn tbts ro;it: W olnne Hegtment, ant 
 tbe Hfffimentjl of <^ir Roger Williams, ^ir Hemic 
 Norris, Colonel Lanc,gt Colonel Mcdkerk,m tbe dan- 
 gam : (General Drake,CoIoneI Dcuercux,^ir Edward 
 Norris, ano Colonell Sidncis in tbe 15attaile : 3)ti 
 lames Hales, ftit Edward Wingfield, Colonell Vmp- 
 tons, Colonell Huntlies, ^Colonell Bretsin tbe 9rrere« 
 mam* T5p tbat time out Scmte tnas tbuis marlbaneDn 
 (Denerall Drakc^ tobo tbougb bt Doere to palTe bp Sea, 
 pet tomakeknotDnetbebono^ableoefire be bao of taking 
 equan part of all fo^ttmest tsitb ^a, (hooebpon tbe afcent 
 of an biU> bp t^t tnbicb our 3attalton0 mull of neceiHtie 
 marcb, ano Uitb a pleating kinone^ taikebitdeauefeue* 
 rallie oftbecommannerif ofeuerteHegiment, bilbing M^ 
 aU mod bappie fuceelTe in our ionmep ouer tbe lano,tott^ 
 a conHant p^omife tbat be tooulo^if tbe tniurte of tbelue< 
 tber nin not binoer bim, meete 06 in tbe riner of I'^jC 
 bone \xtit\) our iPleete^Cbe inant of camagea tbe firtt oap 
 loati fucb, ad tbep toere enfo^ceo to canie tbeir S^anition 
 tpan mend bacfeed^tebtcbtnad tUttmusp remeoieo* 
 
 3In tbid marcb Captaine Crifp tbe IP^ouoi! ^ixibAU 
 caufeo on^iDboCcontrarie totbep^oclaroacion publtlbeo 
 
 it 
 
28 
 
 niodcAuvicJ^liemcjyofrctr^iJC^ereofjtieihtiilJuttodeato 
 teot^at Don Antonio toaglanocD, tubWtipenbctuaalo ag= 
 
 out oftfjc cattle I coibot ^ intteSjto^icy DoHtmanuel fnc« 
 i]in)cu!ji3 Portm^als'mvMMylt 2o.batre!5 of potoioenfo ag{ 
 poCTeOing botlj v co)i3tte f t!)e faaie,liie wftcB tyctfdnetwjpj 
 ujljccin fomgjfncts ^ott)2rp»2emeHfatnebntoii^eirnet»e 
 Eing, yjamtfing in t\)c name of tljcir Cbumckiirict aDio?:* 
 tiino;, ttiat\i3itl)in ttoo Daie« Ijc (boulo Ijauf a goD fupplieof 
 ijo?re $f(oufo?bisa(rillancc. ^M i»^? toeiemaineotl;cre, 
 t^e 6fncral£S companp of ljo?fe3 toereDnfljippcu* 
 
 '5i:()e6£nfr(rlsbauinjj: tberc rcfoIiifD^t^e^rrmieHjouIo 
 marclj ouetlanD to L//T'o;?tf uiioer ^ coiiotutofgenetaHNoiv 
 ris: J tijat general Drake fljoiilo macUimin fbcriucrt^mof 
 tutljefldete : t^attlrere lIjoulD be one companp offoDtelcfcm 
 garo of tfje cattle, ^ 6. of t(je ttjipscairo ^ tbe ttcfte afiDbwrt 
 .fboulD rentaine tbcre \h pioutttbus fo;t cbetr c(ires(»C(ie ($e« 
 neraljto trie f euenc of tl;e mum bp e]cpeoit!on,tbe nr^coa? 
 began CO marcl> on tbis fo^ctbt^ o^ne regiment , ^t|iereg<a 
 menCfil of ^ir Roger Willianis^^irHcnrieNorris, C0l0» 
 nel Lanc/^ Colonel Medkcrk, in tijc ^tlangai^ : 0tt?CTall 
 Drake, Colwel D eucreux, ^.Edward Norris,^^ ColOUCl 
 Sidiieis ui-^ l^attaile: ^.IamesHal€S,^ir Edward Wing- 
 field, ColoncH Vinprons, eToloncH Huntleis, ^Colonrtl 
 Brccs m cbe arrereluarD* ^p cbac time our annicluwtbMJf 
 macllialleD, general Drake,tobo tijougl) be tuereio »aifeb^ 
 rea>pec to matte fenoton tbe bono^able oeHre be !raD oUfii^% 
 equal part of al fortune j( tfiUg^ttcoD bpo tbeafcentof aiiM, 
 lip J toljicb our battalions mutt ofnecettitie maitb,$)i«tM 
 pleattngKinonje^ta^ebtiS leaue feuerallp of tbe romaunDeris 
 of eucric regimentjUJiiljing H al bappp fuccctre in our iour* 
 nep ouer tbf lano^tott^ a couttant p^omrTe ^ (ji tooul^, iU\)t 
 iniuip of ]3 tuctber did not binoer iim,ihac D* in tbe ri«f r of 
 lijhone U)ic[) our Katt. ^\)t toant of caniageg tbe §f tt oa^ 
 Itiact fucO) 80 tbep uoereenfo^ceo to cartie tbeit ^^umtion 
 iipon tmni backeis, W^ tuais cbe nejcc oap remeoie^* 
 
 3lnc^(fl( marct) Captaine Crifpe^t^elp^cHioC^arfl^air, 
 
 ^ulco one iD^Q (conUAnc to i^t p^odamacton yiMt^m 
 
 - : at 
 
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 leaf. The printer has, in fa(5t, admirably succeded 
 in pouring another gill into an already full quart 
 pot. 
 
 If we critically examine his methods we shall 
 find that, nearly, if not all of the devices then 
 practised by his craft in order to secure the stridl 
 uniformity of close spacing then demanded, have 
 been employed. Of course, in the present instance, 
 this applies more especially to condensation than 
 to the expansion of matter. 
 
 In the first place we find that he has made great 
 use of contractions, as the following table will 
 demonstrate. For example, instead of spelling the 
 word ' and,' as in the cancelled leaf, the printer has 
 made use of the ampersand, ' &,' fifteen times. 
 This method was one of the common ones in 
 practice with the printers of that time. The table 
 gives other examples, as follows : 
 
 (i) Contractions. 
 & for and 15 times. 
 
 y (final) for ie 
 y for the 
 
 8 „ 
 II » 
 
 „ om 
 
 4 » 
 
 6 „ on 
 
 once. 
 
 a „ an 
 
 6e (logotype) for ee 
 
 6 times. 
 
 00 „ „ 00 
 
 once. 
 
 y for that 
 
 4 times. 
 
 \v „ with 
 S ,, Sir 
 
 4 , V 
 twice. 
 
 fhips for fhippes 
 figures for words 
 
 once. 
 4 times. 
 
 lower-case letters for caps., 1 8 times. 
 
12 THE EXTRA GILL AND 
 
 We next find that he has frequently omitted the 
 final letters of words, as in the following examples: 
 
 (2) 
 
 Omissions 
 
 '. 
 
 final e 
 
 
 15 times. 
 
 medial e 
 
 
 12 „ 
 4 » 
 
 „ k 
 
 
 once. 
 
 2 unessential words in the ist Issue are omitted in 
 the 2nd : 
 
 fome, p. 27, 3rd line from end; 
 moft, p. 28, line 30. 
 
 Changes in punctuation cannot really be said to 
 efFedt much in the way of condensation, but we 
 have noted two or three examples as follows : 
 
 (3) Punctuation. 
 
 Omitted in 2nd Issue 3 times. 
 Added „ „ once. 
 
 Changed once. 
 
 Again, in resetting his type the printer has met 
 with a few instances in which he found it necessary 
 to extend the line in order to adhere to his in- 
 flexible rule of close and uniform spacing : 
 
 (4) Extensions in Second Issue. 
 
 an for a once, 
 on „ 6 „ 
 
 ie (final) for y „ 
 
 u added twice. 
 1 (final) added „ 
 
THE FULL QUART POT. 13 
 
 We have noted a few other changes of a mis- 
 cellaneous character which are probably due to the 
 personal equation of the compositor who did this 
 particular piece of work. They are as follows : 
 
 (5) Other Changes in the Second Issue. 
 
 Italic cap. for swash cap. twice. 
 Swash „ J, Italic „ once. 
 y for i twice. 
 
 11 „ m (an error) once. 
 
 the for that, p. 27, line 4. 
 of „ in, p. 28, „ 13. 
 on „ in, p. 28, „ 16. 
 
 To summarize, we have, within the space of 67 
 lines, 139 changes, embodying some 37 varieties. 
 If an equal number are to be found elsewhere in 
 as limited a space we have yet to learn of it. 
 
 This pamphlet is of interest to the historian 
 because of the famous men who appear in it as 
 a(5lors and especially for the part played by the 
 unfortunate Earl, who later fell a vidlim of his 
 own unhappy traits. To the bibliographer this 
 interest is subordinated to the fa(5t that here we 
 have displayed, in a very restricted space, almost 
 every device that the printers of old were accus- 
 tomed to employ in condensing lines in order to 
 adhere to their inflexible rule for close spacing. 
 
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