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I'm sure, Ted.
About George North's book -- I've never heard of it before -- which means nothing in as much as I'm not an Elizabethan scholar. But if it is now to be right up there with Holinshed's Chronicles as a source used by Shakespeare, I wonder how Shakespeare got his hands on it. George North was a minor diplomat. Was his "Rebellion" book a big deal (or any kind of deal) among... whom... his class? Beyond his class? What would have been North's readership?
And, as noted, George North through Lord North, had connections to both Burghley and De Vere. It certainly makes sense that De Vere could have had notice of it and gotten a copy, probably quite easily. (Holinshed's book, by the way, was dedicated to Lord Burghley, De Vere's father-in-law.)
I'm not an Oxfordian, to be clear.
I just find it fascinating that any new discovery about Shakespeare makes him seem more mysterious.
That De Vere's father-in-law was an incredibly prominent personage certainly makes connecting him to virtually anything of note during his time really not that mysterious. It's not proof of anything, but... interesting!
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