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Section IX: Two Drafts of Letter to Richard Young

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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The Notebook of John Penry, 1593
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1944

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page 49 note 4 Marginal decoration in ink draws attention to the first five lines.

page 49 note 5 Beginning of ‘would’ crossed out.

page 49 note 6 For ‘you’ cancelled.

page 49 note 7 Just possibly ‘persevere’.

page 49 note 8 For ‘eyther’ crossed out.

page 50 note 1 For ‘wish’.

page 50 note 2 This paragraph written in between the lines.

page 50 note 3 Sentence breaks down.

page 50 note 4 A vertical line before ‘his’ suggests Penry started another word, perhaps to write ‘their midst’.

page 50 note 5 ‘so’ is before ‘bee’ as well as after.

page 50 note 6 ‘Grin’, a snare or noose (now obsolete. See N.E.D.).

page 50 note 7 Word undeciphered.

page 50 note 8 Evidently Penry twice began to write ‘the throne’, and then changed his mind.

page 50 note 9 Sentence breaks off with an unfinished word.

page 50 note 10 Here the draft ends in the middle of a sentence, and two-thirds down the page.

page 50 note 11 A similar marginal decoration in ink as in first draft.

page 50 note 12 ‘I warne you therof’ written in above a caret.

page 51 note 1 For ‘And’ cancelled.

page 51 note 2 For ‘therof’ cancelled.

page 51 note 3 Job. ix. 4.

page 51 note 4 Beginning of ‘deedes’ crossed out.

page 51 note 5 For ‘in that case that’.

page 51 note 6 For ‘whoe bee of’.

page 51 note 7 For ‘it may bee sayd’. Margin ‘Jud[e] 14. 15 ‘.

page 51 note 8 The next 9 lines are cancelled. They read, with marginal reference ‘2 Chr. 32. 18’ (the italicised words are scored through, the cancellation of the whole having apparently been done subsequently) : ‘Consider what befell unto Senacherib, unto and his unto Rashaketh [sic], and unto other proud and cruell unbrooked persecutors, whoe thought they might as boldly speak and deal agaynst the relligion and people of the living god, as agaynst the religion and people of some heathen god Idoll; I wish that you may nether continue in their steppes, nor especially bee lyk them in punishment I wish you to tak heed of their steppes, yf you purpose not to bee participat of their woe.’

page 51 note 9 For ‘Lord’.

page 51 note 10 Several erasures before phrase selected.

page 51 note 11 For ‘appoynt the’.

page 51 note 13 ‘ready’ cancelled, ‘pref[pared]’ begun and cancelled, and ‘ready’ written again.

page 51 note 13 For ‘cleave unto’.

page 51 note 14 ‘it have brogh[t]’ cancelled.

page 51 note 15 For ‘never-[ending] ‘.

page 51 note 16 ‘you’ first written, altered to ‘your’ and ‘person body and soule’ added.

page 51 note 17 For ‘as all the world’.

page 52 note 1 For ‘which’.

page 52 note 2 ‘agay[n] ‘cancelled.

page 52 note 3 i.e. ‘hold on’.

page 52 note 4 For ‘I trust that you will’.

page 52 note 5 For ‘by the’.

page 52 note 6 For ‘July’, cancelled. The date is marked by parallel pencil lines in the margin.

page 52 note 7 Sentence breaks down.

page 52 note 8 ‘if’ or ‘of’, then undeciphered word.