[3] The full title of his edition ran: The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed.
(7) Two Bookes of his neuer before printed (i.e. his Dreame and The Floure and the Leafe), published London, folio 1598.
A prefatory letter, addressed to the editor in 1597, by Francis Beaumont (d. 1624) of West Goscote, Leicestershire, supplied "a judicious apology for the supposed levities of Chaucer".
The manuscript went to the Bridgwater library, was first printed in 1810 by Henry John Todd in his Illustrations of Gower and Chaucer (pp.
When a reprint of Speght's edition of Chaucer was called for in 1602, he used Thynne's assistance, acknowledged in the preface, with also notes and corrections supplied by John Stow.
[1] The second edition bore the title: The Workes of our Ancient and learned English Poet Geoffrey Chaucer newly printed.
called La Prière de nostre Dame, at this Impression added, published London, folio 1602.
[1] Speght also contributed Latin commendatory verses to Abraham Fleming's Panoplie of Epistles (1576) and to John Baret's Alvearie (1580).
They lived near Cripplegate, in a house by the chapel of St James in the Wall, where Speght taught.
[3] This house and school were surveyed in 1612 by Ralph Treswell, as the property belonged to the Clothworkers' Company.
[4] Speght's son Laurence accompanied Sir Paul Pindar on his embassy to Constantinople, and was on 10 March 1639 granted in reversion the office of surveyor-general of the customs.