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- Vautrollier,
career before
1593-
40
VENUS
AND
ADONIS
was soon to be closely studied by Shakespeare, and was greatly
Field and to influence his work. Field's relations with Vautrollier
became very intimate. Vautrollier was a man of wide sym-
pathies and independent views, which somewhat prejudiced
his career in London. Threats of prosecution for printing
a heretical book by the sceptic Giordano Bruno led him to
retire temporarily (i ;84-d) to Edinburgh, where he established
a press, and was patronized by the Scottish king, James VI.
In his absence from England his printing business in London
was carried on by his wife Jacquenetta with Field's aid, but
he resumed control of it before his death in July, 15-87.
Field's Field was admitted a freeman of the Stationers' Company
on February 6^ lySj, and subsequently filled all the great
offices of the society.' On the threshold of his career he
seems to have married Vautrollier's widow Jacquenetta.^
In the autumn of 15" 8 8, he was carrying on business with
her in the house in Blackfriars near Ludgate, which had
been occupied by Vautrollier. He adopted his old master's
device of an anchor in an oval with the motto, j4?ichora SpeL
The earliest work, on the title-page of which Field's
name figures, was a pamphlet describing the defeat of the
Spanish Armada called T^he Copie of a Letter sent out of England
to John 'Bernardino Mendo^a. It appeared in October, i5'8 8,
and was described as < printed by I[acquenetta] Vautrollier
for R. Field '. Next year Field both printed and published
single-handed several books of importance, including Putten-
ham's The Arte of English Poesie'^"^ and u4 summarie and true
' He was recognized as a master printer in i<r5)<), was admitted to the
Lively, July, i5'98, was warden in i()05' and was master in \6iq) and \6i\.
^ Cf. Plomer's Wills of Etiglish Trinters and Stationers (Biblogr. Soc),
p. 27 (Vautrollier's will) and p. 50 (Field's will).
^ The licence for Puttenham's book, originally granted to Thomas Orwin
in November, 1588, was transferred by him to Richard Field * dwelling in
the black-Friers, neere Ludgate', April 7, i5'89.
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