1. Tresilian by _Ferrers_. 2. Two Mortimers _Cavyll_. 3. Gloucester _Ferrers_. 4. Norfolk _Chaloner_. 5. Richard II. _Ferrers_. 6. Owen Glendour _Phaer_. 7. Northumberland *_Baldwin_. 8. Cambridge _Baldwin_. 9. Salisbury *_Baldwin_. 10. James I. _Baldwin_. 11. Suffolk _Baldwin_. 12. Jack Cade *_Baldwin_. 13. Yorke *_Baldwin_. 14. Clifford *_Baldwin_. 15. Worcester *_Baldwin_. 16. Warwick *_Baldwin_. 17. Henry VI.[22] *_Baldwin_. 18. Clarence _Baldwin_. 19. Edward IV. _Skelton_. Several of these lives have always been printed without signatures, and, from want of a knowledge of other claimants, are conjecturally supposed to be written by BALDWIN. A slight authority for this appropriation is found in the Epistle before the continuation of the work in the next edition, in the observation: “I have nowe also set furth another parte conteynynge as litle of myne owne, as the fyrst doth of other mens.” With no better testimony, ten of the lives, distinguished above with asterisks, are attributed to his pen, while in another place Baldwin makes questionable his own title. The passage alluded to is found in the preface, and has been hitherto passed over unnoticed. He says: “The numbre of seauen, were through a generall assent at one apoynted time and place, gathered together, to deuise thereupon; (and, he adds) I resorted vnto them.”[23] After this formal annunciation of a company consisting of eight persons, including the EDITOR, given at the head of the volume, may we not expect to find, that each was a contributor? Yet in the above list, are only six names, viz: FERRERS, CAVIL, CHALONER, PHAER, BALDWIN, and SKELTON; and the last doubtful, as he died as early as 1529; and Baldwin repeats the lines from memory. Perhaps this difficulty may be avoided by adding to the five certain names those of SACKVILLE, DOLMAN, and SEGAR; concluding that the EDITOR had received their assurance of articles in time for another edition, and which are found inserted in the next accordingly. No other name interferes with this disposition, except that of CHURCHYARD, whose communication of _Shore’s Wife_ was no sooner read, than Baldwin observes: “all together exhorted me instantly to procure Maister Churchyarde to vndertake and to penne as manye moe of the remaynder as myght by any meanes be attaynted at his handes.” This presumptively shows that the author was not enumerated as one of the company.