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philosophy—carrying things not quite so far as our mutual hero, Professor Irwin Corey, who for sixty years has billed himself simply as “the world’s greatest expert”; and my long-suffering academic mentors, the late professors William T. Jack, Charles E. Linck Jr., and Morse Peckham. For their help at several crucial points in this research, I am deeply in debt to several learned benefactors: Louis A. Knafla for help with Sir Thomas Egerton and some handwriting-identification problems; Daniel Kinney for assistance with some difficult (for me) Elizabethan manuscripts; Carol Curt Enos for reading and critiquing an early version of the manuscript and particularly for her expertise on the Church of England; Ian Wilson for his graciously shared and truly valuable information, his much-appreciated encouragement, and most of all for granting permission to use his 35mm color photograph of the painting of Ferdinando Stanley as this book’s cover; Barrett L. Beer for sharing his unrivalled knowledge regarding John Stow; and the late Herbert W. Berry for his expert responses to my questions regarding the London stage in and around 1600. For their remarkable expertise and their willingness to share it, I thank with pleasure Benjamin Longsden, senior archive assistant of the Sheffield Archives; Bruce Jackson of the Lancashire Record Office; Claire Muller of the Lambeth Palace Library; and David J. H. Smith, curator at Berkeley Castle. I also wish to acknowledge the help and inspiration of my witty and indispensably helpful 24/7 co-conspirators at FedEx/Kinko’s in Charlottesville, Donna Tirino, Joyce Fedor, and Billie Jenkins. My lifelong intellectual debt to my beloved, history-loving, good-leftist, but otherwise incomprehensible father, Frank Soden Daugherty (1886–1968), is too great to be described adequately in words. He did what he could with what he had—in both of our cases. Last, but certainly not least, thanks to my terrific Shakespeare students over the centuries at the Evergreen State College and now at the University of Virginia.