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LETTER FROM THOMAS DRURY TO ANTHONY BACON

(Lambeth Palace Library, Bacon Papers MS.649 f.246, as transcribed by S. E. Sprott in his 'Drury and Marlowe', TLS , 2 August 1974)

— http://www.rey.myzen.co.uk/drury.htm

Оно же — в современной орфографии:

Sir,

The true love that I have ever born to your honourable father [Nicholas] as also to all his house hath forced me to single you out for many virtuous actions and desires that I know and hear to be in you to unfold as late accidents which are within my knowledge and for brevity sake and for avoiding you further trouble with such circumstance thus standeth the matters.

There was a command laid on me lately to stay one Mr. Bayns [Baines] which did use to resort unto me which I did pursue in time although then I did not so much as imagine where he was, I found him ought and got the desired secret at his hand. For which the city of London promised as also by proclamation was promised a hundred Crowns but not a penny performed and a fine evasion made.

After there was a libel by my means found ought and delivered an old book also by my deciphering taken and a notable villain or two which are close prisoners and [might] had matters against them of an exceeding nature and yet no reward but all the credit pulled ought of my mouth and I robbed of all.

Then after all this there was by my only means set down unto the Lord Keeper and the Lord of Buckhurst the notablest and wildest articles of Atheism that I suppose the like were never known or read of in any age all which I can show unto you they were delivered to her Highness and command given by herself to prosecute it to the full but no recompense, no not of a penny.

Since that time there is old hold and shoe for to get the book that does maintain this damnable sect which book I presume there would be given great sums for and large promises offered in like manner but none of those will I trust but if I may secretly confer with you I and on that I have brought with me a merchant will give you such light as he and I can bring you to the man that doeth know who did write the book and they to how it was delivered as also who read the lecture and where and when with diverse such other secrets as the state would spend ё 1,000 to know and a better penny as himself affirmeth which man himself I can bring forth in love to you if he may be but buckled and rewarded, I can in like manner reveal unto you an Alderman or two that do convey over money to the enemy and get named unto you their poisoned factors. In like manner, I can tell you of such a devise intended against the state by a Captain as never was heard of the like as I think.

I know I am not gras[iu]s in the sight of your brother [Francis] therefore if it please you either to [R]ake your coch or nage I will attend you and declare the rest of my mind and bring a right honest merchant with me which shall justify upon his other all that I have set down [and] I presume you shall know such a secret if you please to hear me a little and go on my way because I know the nature of the party as you have not been possessed of a good while.

Now Sir, I have used a faithful heart to you; I have given you the onset of this action which is notably sought after so use me and my friend as we may have cause to pray for you, and after you shall be possessed of the matters so recommend our services to the Lord Treasurer [Burghley] as we may receive sum reward and favour in his sight and thus praying to God for you with a unified heart until I speak with you or know your pleasure I [am] staying at the waterside until I hear from you in Richmond said the first August.

Yours in all duty to command.

Thomas Drury

На всякий случай, для понимания масштаба цен: рабочая лошадь стоила тогда полтора фунта, цена «Фолио» 1623 года (первое полное собрание Шекспира) — 1 фунт, годовой заработок простолюдина — от 2 до 8 фунтов, актера — 20–25; кило табака, кстати — 4 фунта (т. е. это шло по разряду даже не травы , а кокоши и герыча ).

LETTER FROM THOMAS DRURY TO SIR ROBERT CECIL (1)

(HMC Cecil Volume IV pp.366–7)

— http://www.rey.myzen.co.uk/drury.htm

THE 'BAINES NOTE'

(BL Harley MS.6853 ff.307–8

Endorsed 'Copy of Marloes blasphemyes

As sent to her H'- Before amendment)

— http://www.rey.myzen.co.uk/baines2.htm: 3-й абзац от конца

«…There's small choice in rotten apples». — Шекспир, «Укрощение строптивой», Акт I, Сцена I.

Webster, Archie (1923) «Was Marlowe the Man?» — The National Review 82: 81–86.

Henderson, Philip (1937) «And morning in his eyes: a book about Christopher Marlowe». — London: Boriswood

Downie, J. A. (2007) «Marlowe, May 1593, and the „Must-Have“ Theory of Biography.» — Review of English Studies 58: 245–267.

Kuriyama, Constance (2002) «Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life». — Cornell University Press.

sic! — авт.

Hammer, Paul E. J. (1996). «A Reckoning Reframed: The 'Murder' of Christopher Marlowe Revisited». — English Literary Renaissance (26), pp. 225–242.

Trow, M. J. (2001). «Who Killed Kit Marlowe? A Contract to Murder in Elizabethan England». — Stroud: Sutton Publishing.

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Breight, Curtis C. (1996). «Surveillance, Militarism, and Drama in the Elizabethan Era». — London: Macmillan.

sic! — авт.

Tannenbaum, Samuel A. (1926). «The Assassination of Christopher Marlowe». - New York: Hartford.

Eugènie de Kalb (1925) «The Death of Marlowe» — in: Times Literary Supplement (May 1925).

Honan, Park (2005) «Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy.» — Oxford University Press.

Nicholl, Charles (1992). «The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe». London: Jonathan Cape.

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Черняк, Ефим Борисович (1977). «Пять столетий тайной войны (из истории секретной дипломатии и разведки)» — М.: Международные отношения.

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Нам это обстоятельство может показаться удивительным, но в ту эпоху городское население не было столь атомизировано , как сейчас; «ячейкой общества» был — приход , и приходские советы довольно внимательно приглядывали за паствой, даже в самых что ни на есть трущобах. Из издававшегося в XVIII веке в Лондоне «Pocket News Magazine» (тогдашний «Life news»: происшествия и преступления) вполне можно почерпнуть многолетнюю статистику: в огромном городе (полумилионнике) — буквально в пределах десятка исчезновений людей за год (149 пропавших с1725 по 1745)! Разумеется, была и «неучтенка», но вряд ли она меняла ситуацию принципиально. Что, кстати, неплохо вписывается в общую картину английской уголовной статистики. В последние десятилетия Елизаветинского правления (напр., Emmison F. G., 1973: «Elizabethan Life: Disorder.») уровень убийств был — 5–6 (на 100 000) по стране в целом, и 15–20 — в «жутко криминальном» Лондоне, тогда как на Континенте этот показатель редко когда опускался ниже 40, зачастую превышая 60.

Peter Farey (2005) Marlowe's sudden and fearful end: Self-Defence, Murder or Fake? — The Marlowe Society Research Journal (2): 27–60.

— http://www.rey.myzen.co.uk/sudden.htm

Wraight, A.D. (1994). The Story that the Sonnets Tell. London: Adam Hart.

Hoffman, Calvin (1955). The Man Who Was Shakespeare. London: Max Parrish.

David A More (1996) «Drunken Sailor or Imprisoned Writer?» — The Marlovian newsletter, 1996

— http://www.marlovian.com/essays/penry.html

Заметим, что, например, в упомянутом уже «Pocket News Magazine» в списке пропавших за 1740–41 годы 11 человек двое — матросы; они вполне себе с именами-фамилиями, и не видно, чтоб их как-то отделяли (по профессиональному признаку) от «подмастерья шорника», «торговца сеном», «мастера литейного цеха» и прочих бедолаг. То есть по графе «Расходные материалы под списание» английские матросы никогда не проходили — это тебе не гастарбайтеры на постсоветских стройках, которыми в известном черном анекдоте приладился питаться попавший под кризис медведь: «Э, да кто их там считает!..»

Wilson, Richard (1995) «Visible bullets: Tamburlaine the Great and Ivan the Terrible». — English Literary History, 62, p 47