ABSTRACT
On February 18, 1638, Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery, began reading the second edition of John Selden’s Titles of Honor (1631). She was able to get through it in about a month: “I did make an ende of reding, or over loking itt all over the first of Marche folloinge 1638.” We know this because she carefully inscribed her reading dates on the title page of a copy of this book which is now at the Folger Shakespeare Library 1 (see Figure 7.1).
