Richard Field

Topic: Richard Field

Source-Control Update (2026-05-30)

• Local EarlyPrint metadata confirms a real Field bibliographic lane: B12045 (Loves martyr: or, Rosalins complaint, 1601) is listed as imprinted [by R. Field] for E. Blount, with printer/publisher names from STC; A02622 (Time is a turne-coate, 1604) is listed as printed [by R. Field] for I. H[anson?], also with names suggested by STC.
• The same local controls also show that A18592 is the 1611 cancel-title issue of Chester's Loves martyr material and is printed by E. Allde for Mathew Lownes, not Field.
• These checks verify the Field printer-link portion of the tweet thread, but they do not verify phrase-borrowing, false-imprint, Stationers' Register, or Neville-publication-proposal claims.
• A scoped BRO sweep for Richard Field found no direct BRO transcription hit.

Status-Control Update, 2026-05-31

• Current controlled claim: EarlyPrint metadata supports a Field printer-link lead for B12045 and A02622.
• Phrase borrowing, title-page falsity, false-imprint linkage, Stationers' Register absence, and Neville-publication-proposal claims remain untested until page images/register entries/direct transcriptions are extracted.

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• Local EarlyPrint metadata for B12045 identifies Loves martyr: or, Rosalins complaint (1601) and lists the imprint as:

Imprinted [by R. Field] for E. B[lount]

• Local EarlyPrint metadata for A02622 identifies Time is a turne-coate (1604) and lists the imprint as:

Printed [by R. Field] for I. H[anson?]

• Both of those printer identifications are metadata/STC controls, not yet page-image collations.

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• Feinstein, Ken. Tweet, 26 May 2022:

“Obvious parallels between this Ignoto poem and Rosalins Complaint.”

• The same thread states:

“Time is a Turne-Coate takes specific phrases directly from the Ignoto poem.”

Current hardening note: preserve as tweet claim only pending phrase comparison.

• The same thread adds:

“Time is a Turne-Coate also takes phrases from the Ignoto poem of Love’s Martyr.”

• The same thread states:

“This is a false title page. It wasn’t printed in Middleborough.”

• The same thread states:

“Here Henry Neville proposes publishing a book with a false title page.”

• The same thread concludes:

“Remember Richard Field printed both Love’s Martyr and Time is a Turne-Coate. Neither was entered into the Stationers Register. Both have murky authorship.”

Current hardening note: preserve as tweet claim only pending direct Stationers' Register check.

3. Citations

• Feinstein, Ken. Tweet, 26 May 2022, https://twitter.com/user/status/1529852495585071104. Local preservation: twitter_Richard_Field.md.
• Chester, Robert. Loves martyr: or, Rosalins complaint. TCP B12045; local EarlyPrint metadata: B12045_header.xml.
• Hanson, John. Time is a turne-coate. TCP A02622; local EarlyPrint metadata: A02622_header.xml.
• Chester, Robert. The anuals [sic] of great Brittaine / cancel-title issue of Loves martyr. TCP A18592; local EarlyPrint metadata: A18592_header.xml.

4. Notes on Access

• This is now a mixed evidence packet: the Field printer-link claims have EarlyPrint metadata support, while the interpretive phrase-borrowing and false-imprint claims remain leads.
• The preserved thread is primarily about the Ignoto poem, Rosalins Complaint, and Time is a Turne-Coate; Richard Field appears in it as a printer link rather than as the main documentary subject.
• The claims about title-page falsity, Neville’s publication proposal, and Richard Field’s role are preserved here as Ken Feinstein tweet claims pending direct bibliographical extraction.
• The hardened core is the printer-metadata lane; the Ignoto, false-imprint, Stationers' Register, and Neville-publication-proposal claims remain a thread-backed lead toward a fuller bibliographical packet.

5. Local Images