ABSTRACT
William Austin (1587-1634), professionally a barrister, was writer of a number of religious works. His literary activity in this field won him a place on the list of members of the projected Royal Society of Literature in 1620. On the pieces below see E. A. Strathmann, 'William Austin's "Notes" on The Faerie Queene', Huntington Library Bulletin, XI (1937), 155-60, and on the second piece see Carroll Camden, 'The Architecture of Spenser's "House of Alma",' MLN, LVIII (1943), 262-5, and Alastair Fowler, Spenser and the Numbers of Time (1964), 260 ff. See also Digby, in No. 71b.
