found: The pallace of pleasure beautified, 1569:t.p. (William Painter)
found: LC data base, 10/24/83(hdg.: Painter, William, 1540?-1594)
found: DNB(Painter, William, 1540?-1594, author)
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, via WWW, June 10, 2014(Painter, William (1540?-1595), translator and administrator, may have come from a Kentish family; died between 19 and 22 February 1595 and was buried in St Olave's, Hart Street, London)
found: Wikipedia, June 10, 2014(William Painter (author); William Painter (or Paynter; 1540?-February, 1595, London); English author and translator; native of Kent; died between 19 and 22 February 1595)
found: Encyclopædia Britannica online, June 10, 2014(William Painter, (born c. 1540-died February 1594, London, Eng.), English author whose collection of tales The Palace of Pleasure, based on classical and Italian originals, served as a sourcebook for many Elizabethan dramatists. Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, Painter was ordained in 1560. In 1561 he became a clerk of the ordnance in the Tower of London, a position in which he appears to have amassed a fortune out of public funds)
found: Oxford reference online, June 10, 2014(William Painter (c. 1540-1594), translator and administrator)
found: A dictionary of writers and their works, via WWW, June 10, 2014(Painter, William (1540?-1594), English translator)
