²⁴ D. R. Woolf, Reading History in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000), 14.

²⁵ Ibid. 18, 22. Louis B. Wright discusses the ‘popularity’ of the chronicles in Middle-Class Culture in Elizabethan England (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1958), 301 and passim.

²⁶ Quoted by Louis B. Wright in ‘Heywood and the Popularizing of History’, Modern Language Notes 43:5 (May 1928), 288.

²⁷ See Annabel Patterson, Reading Holinshed’s Chronicles (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994), 264–76, on how Holinshed was read. See also Woolf, Reading History, especially 132–67, for an attempt to assess the readership of early modern print works about history.