A light bondell of liuly discourses called Churchyardes charge, presented as a Newe yeres gifte to the right honourable, the Earle of Surrie ..
A 1580 London book printed by I. Kyngston under the name of the poet Thomas Churchyard, dedicated as a New Year's gift to the Earl of Surrey, a collection of verse discourses. The pictures are four decorative woodcut initial letters 'I', each a large capital set in a dark ground of foliage, scrollwork and grotesque ornament, with the letter shown in white or outlined form. A designer could take from them a model for historiated or ornamental drop capitals, contrasting solid black grounds against open line-drawn acanthus leaves.
