"£100 & a butt of sack yearly"

References

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Edmund K. Broadus, The Laureateship. A Study of the Office of the Poet Laureate in England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.

Kenneth Hopkins, The Poets Laureate. London: Bodley Head, 1954.

Thanks to: Bill Manhire, Elizabeth Smither, Brian Turner, Glenys Woods & Hone Tuwhare, Brendan O'Brien & Jenny Bornholdt, Random house, John & Wendy Buck at Te Mata Estate, Victoria University Press, Airplane.co.nz, and the Hocken Library.