[1] Francis Meres, Palladis Tamia (1598), OO3v. [2] Phyllis Brooks Bartlett, ed., The Poems of George Chapman (New York: Modern Language Association of America; London: Oxford University Press, 1941; repr. New York: Russell & Russell, 1962), p. 488; Jean Robertson, ‘The Early Life of George Chapman’, Modern Language Review 40 (1945), 157-165 (p. 161). [3] Despite S. A. Tannenbaum’s claims that the inscription is a forgery, many scholars, including Robertson, Mark Eccles and L. A. Cummings believe it to be genuine. See Tannenbaum, Shaksperian Scraps and other Elizabethan Fragments (New York: Columbia University Press, 1933), pp. 142-52. For a contrasting argument see Cummings’s detailed study of Chapman’s handwriting, Geo: Chapman his Crowne and Conclusion: A Study of his Handwriting (Salzburg: Universität Salzburg, 1989). [4] According to John Wolfall the younger, who took up the case on his father’s death (Eccles, p. 183). [5] Quoted in Mark Eccles, ‘Chapman’s Early Years’, Studies in Philology, 43 (1946), 176-93 (p. 182). [6] Quoted in Eccles, p. 184. This claim is made in response to Chapman‘s petition and was filed circa 27 April 1608 (Eccles, p. 183). [7] The Wood Street Counter records testify that Chapman was imprisoned there on 9 February 1600 (Eccles, p. 184). [8] Hymnus in Cynthiam, ll. 328-47, The Poems of George Chapman, ed. by Bartlett. [9] George Chapman: Plays and Poems, ed. by Jonathan Hudston, Renaissance Dramatists (London: Penguin, 1998), p. x of the chronology. [10] Eccles, p. 190. Robertson attributes this discovery to F. S. Boas, p. 165. [11] Quoted in Robertson, p. 165. [12] Cummings claims that the debt is written in Shaa’s hand, and signed by Chapman (p. 194), contrary to W. W. Greg’s assertion that it is Chapman’s autograph throughout in English Literary Autographs 1550-1650, ed. by W. W. Greg, with J. P. Gilson, Hilary Jenkinson, R. B. McKerrow, A. W. Pollard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925-32), Plate XII (a) and (b). [13] Chapman was also imprisoned with Ben Jonson for anti-Scottish satire in Eastward Ho (1605); their collaborator, John Marston, escaped punishment. [14] C. J. Sisson and Robert Butman, ‘George Chapman, 1612-22: Some New Facts’, Modern Language Review, 46 (1951), 185-190 (p. 186). [15] For a detailed description of this case, see Sisson and Butman. [16] Sisson and Butman, p. 185. [17] Sisson and Butman, p. 187. [18] According to Butman, in Sisson and Butman, p. 187. [19] Sisson and Butman, p. 185. [20] Sisson and Butman, p. 190. [21] Bartlett, p. 478. [22] David Masson, Drummond of Hawthornden: The Story of his Life and Writings (London: Macmillan, 1873), pp. 95-96. [23] John Davies of Hereford, The Scourge of Folly (1611), P8v; Sisson and Butman, p. 190.