William Fennor

William Fennor

William Fennor (fl 1617), also known as Wilhelmus Vener Fact|date=November 2007, was an English biligual English/Dutch poet and rogue Fact|date=November 2007 of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. He was the author of "The Compter’s Commonwealth" (1617). [ [http://www.bartleby.com/214/1623.html The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume IV. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. XVI. London and the Development of Popular Literature. § 23. Discoverie of the Knights of the Poste.] ] This work was written from his experience of imprisonment at London's Wood Street compter. Fact|date=November 2007

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