Description: Letter signed ("Montgomery") from Whitehall, dated 14 February 1607, to Sir Vincent Skinner, Auditor of Receipt, notifying him that King James I has granted the twelve Keepers of the Forests of Blackmore and Pewsham [Wiltshire] the sums specified as their yearly allowance.
"because they ar very poore men & have had no allowance of wages theis two years, I desier for the time that is past you will make them present paiment."
Philip Herbert, like his brother William, was a patron of the arts, and the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) was dedicated to this “noble and incomparable pair of brethren.”
The actors Heminges and Condell wittily assert that since the brothers took such pleasure in Shakespeare’s plays when they were performed, the book itself wished to be dedicated to them: “For so much were your lordships’ likings of the several parts when they were acted as, before they were published, the volume asked to be yours.” (The Pembroke brothers came to their love of the arts naturally: their mother, Mary Herbert, was Sir Philip Sidney’s sister and one of the first English women to gain a reputation for her literary works, poetry, poetic translations, and literary patronage, and was said to inspire creativity in all of those around her.)
Description: Letter signed ("Montgomery") from Whitehall, dated 14 February 1607, to Sir Vincent Skinner, Auditor of Receipt, notifying him that King James I has granted the twelve Keepers of the Forests of Blackmore and Pewsham [Wiltshire] the sums specified as their yearly allowance.
"because they ar very poore men & have had no allowance of wages theis two years, I desier for the time that is past you will make them present paiment."
Philip Herbert, like his brother William, was a patron of the arts, and the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) was dedicated to this “noble and incomparable pair of brethren.”
The actors Heminges and Condell wittily assert that since the brothers took such pleasure in Shakespeare’s plays when they were performed, the book itself wished to be dedicated to them: “For so much were your lordships’ likings of the several parts when they were acted as, before they were published, the volume asked to be yours.” (The Pembroke brothers came to their love of the arts naturally: their mother, Mary Herbert, was Sir Philip Sidney’s sister and one of the first English women to gain a reputation for her literary works, poetry, poetic translations, and literary patronage, and was said to inspire creativity in all of those around her.)
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