ABSTRACT
The names of George and Elizabeth Ludlowe in the Yale copy of Ravenscroft's Briefed discourse an American colonial connection. George accompanied his brother Roger to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and was later a landowner in Virginia and a member of Virginia's council. The seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries they encounter the names of Richard Aldrich, the two Richard Godsons, father and son, the singing man John Gostling and his son William, and, of course, the two diarists, Pepys and Evelyn. All these are discussed in surveys of British book and music collecting by Seymour de Ricci and Alec Hyatt King, whose monographs celebrate another important bibliographer and collector, Samuel Sanders. Royal College of Music copy of the Tallis-Byrd Cantiones has the names 'Wilkinson' and 'Thomas' among the pen trials on the titlepage of the Contratenor part. Bodleian and Folger items bear the distinctive mark of an owner, the protestant theologian William Charke an early instance of consecutive ownership.
