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A Biography Op Ulpian Fulwell and a Critical Edition of the Art of Flattery (1576) A BIOGRAPHY OP ULPIAN FULWELL AND A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE ART OF FLATTERY (1576) A Dissertation Presented to the Shakespeare Institute, the Faculty of Arts Birmingham University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy y Roberta Buchanan i U9***Y 1980 U University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. ABSTRACT The thesis consists of a biography of Ulpian Fulwell (1546-1586) and a critical edition of The Art of Flattery (1576). The biography contains new material derived from documents at the Public Record Office and the Gloucester Diocesan Registry, giving new information on Fulwell ! s family background and his career as a clergyman. It is argued that the conflict between the townspeople of Wells and the Cathedral clergy provides the background and impetus for Fulwell f s satire in The Art of Flattery. The critical edition of The Art of Flattery outlines the printing history of the book and discusses the variants between the first and second editions, and between the two copies of the first edition. The identification of the Archdeacon of Wells attacked in the Fifth Dialogue is attempted. The Literary Introduction sets Fulwell f s satirical dialogues in the context of Lucian, the colloquies of Erasmus, and the English Renaissance dialogues of More, Elyot and Ascham. A critical analysis of the work traces its form to the bipartite structure of classical verse satire, with its confrontation between Author and Adversarius. VOLUME I BIOGRAPHY LITERARY INTRODUCTION TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION Themistocles said there was no musicke soe sweete unto him as to heare his owne prayses. Diary of John Manningham. edited by R.P. Sorlien (Hanover, New Hampshire: 1976), p.61 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Acknowledgments ................ i BIOGRAPHY Former biographical notices ........ 1 Fulwell f s Family Background ........ 9 John Goodman ............... 11 THE LAWSUITS OVER THE SUBCHANTER'S LANDS Lawsuit 1: Thomas Fulwell vs. John Goodman 19 Lawsuit 2: Thomas Fulwell vs. John Goodman 23 Lawsuit 3: Bucher vs. Stephins et al. 33 The Turner Letters ............ 35 Lawsuit 4: Thomas Fulwell vs. John Goodman et al ................. 38 Lawsuit 5: Christabel Fulwell vs. Bartholomew Haggatt .......... 44 Lawsuit 6: Dr William Turner vs. Christabel Fulwell ........... 47 Lawsuit 7: James and Christabel Foster vs. Bartholomew Haggatt ........ 51 Lawsuit 8: John and Christabel Rushall vs. George Upton and Others ...... 54 Lawsuit 9s William and Mary Hancock vs. George Upton and George Fulwell .... 59 Ulpian Fulwell*s Life and Career ...... 71 Page Edmund Harman .............. 81 Appendix I: List of Lawsuits ....... 110 Appendix II: Pulwell Family Tree ..... 112 LITERARY INTRODUCTION Fulwell*s Earlier Works i. Like Will to Like .......... ii ii. The Flower of Fame ......... vii The Art of Flattery: Satura ....... xiv The Satiric Dialogue: Lucian ....... xxi The Renaissance Dialogue: Erasmus .... xxvii Lucian, Erasmus, and Fulwell ...... xxxi The English Dialogue before Fulwell .... xxxv The Art of Flattery: a Critical Analysis . liv Structure ............... Ivii The Persona of the Satirist ...... Ixix The Adversarius ........... .Ixxviii Philosophy: 'Some Particular Vision of the World 1 .............. xcii Style ................. c Critical Comments on The Art of Flattery . ex TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION- 1. Editorial Principles .......... cxiii 2. Treatment of the Text ......... cxix 3. Stationers 1 Register Entries ...... cxxiv 4. Bibliographical Descriptions Q1, 1576 ................ cxxv Page Press Variants, Q1 ........... cxxxi Q2, 1579 ................ cxxxii Press Variants, Q2 ........... cxliii 5. Relationship between the Variant States of Q1 ................. cxliv Punctuation Variants, Q1, Gathering A clxix Running-Titles, Compositorial Analysis, and Evidence of Type-Page Measurements, Q1 ................. clxxii Table of Running-Titles ....... clxxvi Obmpositorial Analysis ....... clxxxiv Evidence from the Printer's Measure. clxxxvii Q2: 1579 ................. clxxxix Relationship between Q1 and Q2 ...... cxcii Conclusion ................ cxcix TEXT: THE ART OF FLATTERY Plate 1: Title-page, Q1 Plate 2: Title-page, Q2, 1579 Plate 3: Title-page, Q2, n.d. A dialogue betwene the Author and his Muse 1 Dedication to Lady Mildred Burghleigh 5 To the friendly Reader 8 Printer to reader (verse) ......... 11 A description of the seuen liberall Sciences ................ 12 Page The' first Dialogue betweene the Author and the printer ............ 16 The second Dialogue betwene the Author and Lady Fortune ............ 29 The third Dialogue betweene the Author and a Frier .............. 39 The fourth Dialogue betwene the Author, and Fortunatus ............. 60 The fifth dialogue betweene Syr Symon and the Author ............. 68 The sixt dialogue betweene Pierce Pickthank, dronken Dickon, dame Annat the alewife, and the Author ...... 88 The seauenth dialogue betweene DiogBnes, and Vlpianus ............. 99 The eyghth dialogue betweene Tom Tapster, Miles makeshift, Wat Wyly, and the Author ................. 118 A short Dialogue, betweene the Authour and his booke ............. 143 Emendation of accidentals .......... 147 COMMENTARY .................. 153 [i] ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am indebted to the kind encouragement of the late Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Professor T.J.B. Spencer, and my supervisor Dr Stanley Wells. Many people have helped me in the course of the thesis: Rev. Leonard P. Mills, Rector of Naunton and vicar of Guiting Power, allowed me to inspect the parish register of Naunton, still kept in the church; Mr Douglas M. Cursley, town clerk of Wells, made available the Wells Court Book; Dr R.D. Reid showed me the subchanter's house, once occupied by Robert Goodman, and also probably by Fulwell's father, in East Wells; Dr Robert Peters, author of Oculus Episcopi, patiently answered queries on Elizabethan church history. Barry Webb and Susan Shatto kindly provided transportation to Lapworth and Naunton. Dr Gildas Roberts helped with the translations of Fulwell's Latin. Memorial University of Newfoundland encouraged my work in a tangible way by several Vice-President's Research Grants. I am also indebted to two friends: Sharon Dean, who typed a difficult manuscript without losing patience; and Michael Calcott who helped with the proof-reading. Roberta Buchanan November, 1980. BIOGRAPHY OF ULPIAN FULWELL, 15^6-1586 There are several biographical notices of Ulpian Fulwell, starting in the late seventeenth century with Anthony a Wood's Athenae Oxoniensist but most of them have errors, and all have omissions. Irving Ribner made the most important contribution to the understanding of Fulwell's family background and the object of his satire in The Art of Flattery in his two articles in Notes and Queries in 1950 and 1951t based on the discovery of a series of lav/suits in the Public Record Office by Ribner and C.J. Sisson. However, none of the former biographers of Fulwell consulted the Gloucester Diocesan Registry for information on Pulwell's career as a clergymanj and there are lawsuits concerning the Fulwell family in the Public Record Office which Ribner did not find. This biographical sketch will contain new material, and will correct minor errors of earlier biographers, FORMER BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Anjthony a Wood's pioneer effort in 1691, although boasting to be 'An exact history of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their education in the most ancient and famous University of Oxford... Representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those Authors and Prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and 1 character of their writings', was based on very slender 1. Athenae Oxonienses, Vol. I (1691; WingW3382), title page. information - the matriculation register of Oxford; two out of Fulwell's three works; Speed's reference to him in his Chroniclet and, most interestingly, oral history! that 'he was esteemed a person of ingenuity by his contemporaries' at Oxford (Athenae Oxonienses, edited by Philip Bliss, *f vols (London, 1813-1820), I, 5*K>). Wood mistakenly states Fulwell's age on matriculation to be thirty-two instead of thirty-three, as stated in the register (below p. 9 ) - the first of a series of minor errors that dog his biography. Wood knew of only later editions of two of Fulwell's works, and his chronology is consequently confused* he states that while Fulwell was resident at St Mary's Hall, his Oxford college, 'he partly wrote* The Art of Flattery, printed in 15?9. Fulwell nay inleed while at Oxford have revised this book for the second edition (1579)» but the first edition was published in 15?6. 'Afterwards, having learned the art of poetry among the academicians,' Wood continues, Fulwell then 'wrote and published* his interlude, Like Will to Like; Wood was unaware of the first edition of 1568, written well before Fulwell went up to Oxford in 1579* Wood realized that Fulwell must have written something else, for his 'name...stands
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