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95: 19: 116:— were published in the last three or four years of his life (1597–1600), and it is on these works that his modern reputation chiefly depends. They were enormously popular, so much so that the original printings were literally "read to pieces" and they survive today only in later 17th-century editions. Deloney's novels are a mixture of historical romance and social and economic realism, which draw heavily in their choice of subject matter, background, and incidental details on his personal experience as a member of the commercial class of artisans and merchants in Elizabethan London. They are often thought to reflect the character and interests of the growing English "middle class". 67:, while others were collected in books and pamphlets. His subject matter, like that of most Elizabethan and Jacobean balladists, was wide-ranging and eclectic, including stories from English history and romance, religious and moral exhortations, social and political commentary, and journalistic reporting of current events. Among his topical poems on news of the day are a description of a fire that devastated the town of 173:
and his successors, and was capable of imitating it when he chose to, his style is normally more simple and straightforward. In its directness and vividness it owes something to the compilations of popular tales in contemporary jest books. He makes much greater use of dialogue than other contemporary
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refers to a tune known as "Thomas Deloney's Epitaph", and writes that he (Kempe) had been the subject of "abominable Ballets" written by "the great Ballet-maker, T.D., alias Tho. Deloney." In a mocking address to the other ballad-writers of London, he concludes "I was given since to understand, your
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Deloney's writings on social and political issues sometimes created controversy. In 1595 he was briefly imprisoned as a result of his contribution to a letter signed by a group of yeoman weavers petitioning for stricter enforcement of the rules of the London Weavers' Company. And in 1596 a ballad on
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Thomas Deloney was born sometime in the middle decades of the 16th century; the precise date is not recorded. Although often alleged to be a native of Norwich, he was most likely born in London, where he was trained as a silk-weaver. French and Walloon immigrants dominated the silk-weaving trade in
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16th-century England, and the name Deloney, which looks like an anglicized form of a French name such as De Laune or De Lanoy, suggests that his family may have been relatively recent arrivals in England. An entry in the parish register of
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in Suffolk in November 1586; the confession of an adulterous wife in Devonshire who conspired to murder her husband in 1590; two accounts of the arrest and execution of the conspirators in the
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A most ioyfull Songe, made in the behalfe of all her Maiesties faithfull and louing Subiects, of the great ioy, which was made in London at the taking of the late trayterous Conspirators
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late general Tho. dyed poorley, as ye all must do, and was honestly buried, which is much to be doubted of some of you." Nothing else is known of the date or circumstances of his death.
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In the late 1590s Deloney turned to writing prose narratives, usually called novels in modern sources (although that word was not used by Deloney or his contemporaries). Four novels —
91:, in part because in it Deloney had the queen engage in a dialogue with her people "in a very fond and undecent sort", which might incite discontent among the poor. 229:. Original date of publication unknown; survives only in 17th-century editions. (The later editions include some additional poems not by Deloney.) Reprinted in 1312: 1406: 241: 1442: 1306: 255:
The Pleasant Historie of Iohn Winchcombe, in his younger yeares called Iack of Newberie, the famous and worthy Clothier of England
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A new Ballet of the straunge and most cruell Whippes which the Spanyards had prepared to whippe and torment English men and women
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During the 1580s and 1590s he became well known as a writer of popular printed ballads, many of which circulated as ephemeral
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Modern assertions that Deloney was born in Norwich can be traced back to a misquotation of a passage from Thomas Nashe's
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the scarcity of grain in London was criticized as "scurrilous" and "vain and presumptuous" by the mayor of the city,
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The ballad has not survived, but Slaney's letter is paraphrased by John Strype in his edition of Stow's
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from 16 October 1586 records the baptism of his son Richard, who may have died within a few months.
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on 19 October 1597; survives only in 17th-century editions. Reprinted from the edition of 1627 in
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on 19 April 1602; survives only in 17th-century editions. Reprinted from the edition of 1612 in
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on 7 March 1597; survives only in 17th-century editions. Reprinted from the edition of 1627 in
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A Commonwealth of the People: Popular Politics and England's Long Social Revolution, 1066-1649
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went through at least 16 editions in the century after its publication, and the first part of
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A proper new Ballad, breefely declaring the Death and Execution of 14 most wicked Traitors
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Strange Histories of Kings, Princes, Dukes, Earles, Lords, Ladies, Knights, and Gentlemen
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to overthrow the queen in 1586; and three ballads inspired by the campaign against the
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A proper newe sonet declaring the lamentation of Beckles a Market towne in Suffolke
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in the English Broadside Ballad Archive (University of California, Santa Barbara).
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The History of John Winchcomb, usually called Jack of Newbury, the famous clothier
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Deloney probably died early in 1600, or perhaps late in the previous year. In
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Thomas Deloney, his Thomas of Reading and Three Ballads on the Spanish Armada
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at the English Broadside Ballad Archive). All three ballads are reprinted in
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at the English Broadside Ballad Archive). The other two Armada ballads are
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The Queenes visiting of the Campe at Tilsburie with her entertainment there
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A ioyful new Ballad, declaring the happie obtaining of the great Galleazzo
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in the article on Deloney by J. B. Ebsworth in the first edition of the
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on 5 March 1593; survives only in 17th-century editions. Reprinted in
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Apology for the Middle Class: The Dramatic Novels of Thomas Deloney
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Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England
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The quotation is from the title page of part one, reproduced in
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Thomas of Reading or the Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West
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at the English Broadside Ballad Archive; reprinted in
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at the English Broadside Ballad Archive; reprinted in
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at the English Broadside Ballad Archive; reprinted in
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at the English Broadside Ballad Archive; reprinted in
1205:"Thomas Deloney's Euphuistic Learning and the Forest" 651:). For lists of surviving editions, see the notes in 323:, pp. 211–272, and from the edition of 1632 in 287:, pp. 89–169, and from the edition of 1648 in 1305: 79:in 1588, including one that describes Elizabeth's 1141:"Artisanal Tolerance: The Case of Thomas Deloney" 826:Aldrich, Charles R.; Kirtland, Lucian S. (1903), 269:, pp. 1–68, and from the edition of 1633 in 165:Although Deloney was familiar with the elaborate 98:One of Deloney's ballads about the Spanish Armada 1414: 1375:A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster 1076:"Thomas Deloney and the London Weavers' Company" 856:, Princeton University Press, pp. 238–280, 319:, pp. 265–343, from the edition of 1623 in 1355:Smallwood, R. L.; Wells, Stanley, eds. (1979), 825: 551: 324: 1354: 725: 542:at the English Broadside Ballad Archive), and 476:The Lamentation of Mr. Page's Wife of Plymouth 236:Miscellaneous broadside ballads. Reprinted in 265:, pp. 1–87, from the edition of 1626 in 1316:(online ed.). 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Index

Title page of the 1648 edition of The Gentle Craft
novelist
ballad
St Giles-without-Cripplegate
broadsides
Beccles
Babington Plot
Spanish Armada
visit and address to the troops at Tilbury
Stephen Slaney
One of Deloney's ballads about the Spanish Armada
Jack of Newbury
John Winchcombe
Thomas Dekker's
The Shoemaker's Holiday
William Rowley
A Shoemaker a Gentleman
euphuistic
John Lyly
Robert Greene
Thomas Nashe
William Kempe
Stationers' Register
Mann 1912
Holinshed's Chronicles
Mann 1912
Mann 1912
English Broadside Ballad Archive
Stationers' Register
Lawlis 1961

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