Richard Field

Topic: Richard Field

Quoted Source Passages

1. B12045 Controls the Love's Martyr Title Route

• Source: EarlyPrint metadata header B12045 header.
• Quotation:

"Loves martyr: or, Rosalins complaint"

• What it proves: The Richard Field packet's Love's Martyr lane is attached to a concrete EarlyPrint/TCP metadata witness.
• Limits: The local EarlyPrint corpus database does not currently contain a full texts row for B12045, so this is header/catalogue control, not full-text control.

2. B12045 Supplies the R. Field / E. Blount Metadata Imprint

• Source: EarlyPrint metadata header B12045 header.
• Quotation:

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

• What it proves: The Field/Blount printer-publisher link for Love's Martyr is a real bibliographical metadata lane.
• Limits: The bracketed names are from STC metadata; page-image collation is still needed for final title-page wording.

3. B12045 Records the Shakespeare Phoenix-and-Turtle Context

• Source: EarlyPrint metadata header B12045 header.
• Quotation:

"The phoenix and the turtle"; "Threnos" by William Shakespeare

• What it proves: The metadata explicitly routes the Shakespeare poem through the Love's Martyr witness.
• Limits: It does not prove the tweet thread's phrase-borrowing claims or any Neville publication plan.

4. A02622 Controls the Time Is a Turne-Coate Title

• Source: EarlyPrint/TCP A02622, Time is a turne-coate, 1604; extraction A02622; header A02622 header.
• Quotation:

"Time is a turne-coate. Or Englands three-fold metamorphosis"

• What it proves: The second Richard Field-related text in the tweet thread is locally controlled as a specific EarlyPrint/TCP item.
• Limits: It proves the bibliographical route, not the alleged borrowing from the Ignoto poem.

5. A02622 Gives a Second Field Metadata Imprint

• Source: EarlyPrint/TCP A02622; extraction A02622; header A02622 header.
• Quotation:

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

• What it proves: The Richard Field link is not limited to one metadata record; both cited texts route through Field-attributed printing metadata.
• Limits: The names are STC-suggested and bracketed. Treat as bibliographical metadata until page images are checked.

Source-Control Position

• 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 Position

• 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

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

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

• 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 evidence 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 evidence 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.
• Chester, Robert. Loves martyr: or, Rosalins complaint. TCP B12045; EarlyPrint metadata: B12045 header.
• Hanson, John. Time is a turne-coate. TCP A02622; EarlyPrint metadata: A02622 header.
• Chester, Robert. The anuals [sic] of great Brittaine / cancel-title issue of Loves martyr. TCP A18592; EarlyPrint metadata: A18592 header.

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. image witnesses

6. Direct Text and Bibliographical Audit, 13 July 2026

The complete eleven-image Twitter thread has now been recovered and inspected, and its phrase claims have been checked against the EarlyPrint/TCP texts. Plain-text controls are preserved as A19921 plain, A18592 plain, and A02622 plain.

The textual parallels are genuine and more extensive than the original two-image packet showed:

Local lemma-phrase searches deepen the result. Exact silver vault occurs in the relevant EarlyPrint index only in A02622 and A18592; exact decoct blood occurs only in A02622 and A19921. These are corpus observations within the installed EarlyPrint collection, not universal claims about all surviving early-modern print. Orthographic and hyphenated compounds require separate surface-spelling searches, so no inflated count is assigned to the other parallels.

The printer claim needs one important bibliographical qualification. The Folger catalogue record for STC 5119, *Loves Martyr*, gives the imprint London: Imprinted for E.B., 1601 and records the STC attribution “Printed by Richard Field for Edward Blount.” Field’s name is not printed on the title page. Likewise, the local A02622 metadata says [by R. Field]—brackets matter because this is a bibliographical attribution, while the title page itself says the book was printed for I.H.. The connection is therefore substantive but not a pair of openly Field-signed title pages.

The Winwood passage shown in the thread is also real but separate. On printed p. 124 Neville discusses a proposed book that could be “printed in England, though bearing the Name of Douay or som other Place.” The immediate subject is the circulation of Pasquier’s anti-Jesuit work. That letter documents Neville’s knowledge of false-place printing as a tactic; it does not name Field, Love’s Martyr, or Time is a Turne-Coate and cannot by itself authenticate either imprint.

The resulting research avenue is stronger and narrower than the original thread claim: two books bibliographically attributed to Field share a cluster of unusually specific poetic language, and Neville independently discussed false-place printing. The next tasks are to identify the compositor/paper/type evidence behind the Field attributions, establish the issue history of A18592, and search for intervening uses of each phrase between 1599/1601 and 1604. Authorship should not be assigned from phrase transmission alone.

An open-access page-image witness for Grosart’s edition of Love’s Martyr is available through Internet Archive/Wikimedia; it should be used for page images, not as a substitute for the Folger/STC bibliographical description.

2026-07-15 Preservation-First Expansion: original 1601 image witness and internal packet links

The project already holds an original-edition page-image witness for Love’s Martyr, and that internal control is now linked here rather than left isolated in a separate research directory:

• public_archive_witnesses;
• bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_loves-martyr-_chester-r_1601.pdf;
• IA_LOVESMARTYR_1601.

The public landing page is Internet Archive, *Love’s Martyr* (1601). This witness should now be the first place to verify title-page wording, signatures, page sequence, and the phrase passages. The Grosart reprint remains useful for reading and navigation but should no longer stand in for the original print when an image of the 1601 witness is available.

The packet also needs an explicit link to the dedicated phrase-transmission analysis: richard field rare phrase transmission 1599 1601 1604. That topic contains the more specialized corpus work; this person packet should retain the bibliographical map, image witnesses, and publication-history cautions.

The Folger catalogue remains the authority for the distinction between title-page imprint and bibliographical attribution: record 161456 prints Imprinted for E.B. and supplies the STC attribution to Richard Field for Edward Blount. Field’s name must not be described as visibly printed on the title page.

No equivalent public original-image witness for Time Is a Turne-Coate was secured in this pass. That is an acquisition target, not a reason to remove the existing text and metadata controls.