The Epistle "To the nobilitye and all other in office" is signed by William Baldwin, who was at one time a corrector of the press to Edward Whitechurch, and later something of a printer himself. He printed with his own hands, using Whitechurch's types and the Garland border, his work entitled ¶ _The Canticles or Balades of Salomon phraſelyke declared in Englyſh Metres. Imprinted at London by William Baldwin, ſeruant with Edwarde Whitechurche._ It was he who edited and saw this work through the press. He says of it: "The wurke was begun and parte of it prynted in Queene Maries tyme, but hyndered by the Lorde Chauncellour that then was, nevertheles, through the meanes of my lord Stafford, the fyrst parte was licenced, and imprynted the fyrſt yeare of the raygne of this our moſt noble and vertuous Queene, and dedicate then to your honours with this Preface. Since whych time, although I have bene called to an other trade of lyfe, yet my good Lorde Stafforde hath not ceaſſed to call upon me, to publyſhe ſo much as I had gott[~e] at other mens hands, ſo that through his Lordſhyppes earneſt meanes, I have nowe alſo ſet furth an other parte, conteynyng as little of myne owne, as the fyrst part doth of other mens," and he expressed the hope that if these prove acceptable, encouragement may be given to "wurthy wittes to enterpryſe and performe the reſt." After the abortive attempt of Wayland to print the book, under the title _A memorial of suche Princes, as since the tyme of King Richarde the seconde, haue beene unfortunate in the Realme of England. In ædibus Johannis Waylandi: Londini_ [1555?], the first part referred to was printed by Marshe in 1559. It contained nineteen legends (although twenty are mentioned in the table of contents), fourteen of which were by Baldwin, and the others by Ferrers, Churchyard, Phaer, and Skelton. Of these helpers, Baldwin says in the Epistle: "Whan I firſt tooke it in hand, I had the helpe of many graunted, & offred of ſum, but of few perfourmed, skarſe of any: So that wher I entended to haue contriued it to Quene Maries time, I haue ben faine to end it much ſooner: yet ſo, that it may ſtande for a patarne, till the reſt be ready: which with Gods Grace--(if I may haue anye helpe) ſhall be ſhortly."