### Information on perrott.e2

#### PPCEME information

> Author | n/a
> Birthdate | n/a
> Filename | perrott.e2
> Manuscript | n/a
> Date of composition | 1592-1603 (see Remarks)
> Genre | BIOGR OTHER
> Edition | Rawlinson, Richard. 1728. The history of that most eminent statesman, Sir John Perrott, Knight of the Bath, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. London: [no publisher].
> Sample | 31.10-44.14 (Helsinki 1), 44.15-86.14 (Penn 1), 98.10-99.9 (Penn 2), 101.13-106.2 (Penn 3), 106.3-120.3 (Helsinki 2), 120.4-129.13 (Penn 4)
> Remarks | According to the titlepage, the original manuscript was "written about the latter End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth." Since the text discusses Perrott's death in 1592, the date of composition must fall between that date and 1603. The titlepage does not identify the author, "probably because of the precarious political status of Sir John Perrott at the time. Nor has the anonymous biographer been later identified in the sources consulted" (Nevalainen, Terttu, and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg. 1993. Early Modern British English. In Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, and Minna Palander-Collin, eds., Early English in the computer age: Explorations through the Helsinki Corpus. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 69). The corpus sample includes several short letters, but omits pp. 86.15-98.9 and 99.10-101.12 because of major stylistic differences with the rest of the text, the sections in question resembling statutes.

#### Helsinki Corpus information

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>Dear Amy >I am sorry not to have replied before but I have been away on >holiday. The item you require is from our Special Collections library >on Deansgate and we have no copy available electronically. We are >usually also unwilling to photocopy as this may damage bindings. >It has however been microfilmed as part of a set by Research >Publications called The Eighteenth Century. The full reference is: Microfilm Woodbridge,CT : Research Publications Inc., 1987. - 1 reel ; 35mmm - (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 2488, no. 1). >I have checked your library catalogue and you do not appear to hold this >set but many libraries in the States do including the Library of >Congress and Yale and Harvard. I hope this information is helpful >for you. >Best wishes >Glynis Platt -- Amy L. Forsyth aforsyth@babel.ling.upenn.edu Administrative Coordinator Linguistics Department Telephone: 215-898-6046 University of Pennsylvania 619 Williams Hall Facsimile: 215-573-2091 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305