 In his dedication Boys takes the opportunity of mentioning his obligations to Sir John and to Archbishop Whitgift for having watered what 'that vertuous and worthy knight' had planted.The work supplied a great need and had a very large and rapid sale; new editions followed 
one after another in quick succession, and it would be a difficult task to draw up an exhaustive bibliographical account of Boys' publications.Archbishop Bancroft died in November 1610, and George Abbot was promoted to the primacy in the spring of 1611.