John Taylor Zitate

Early author-attributed palindrome (c. 1614); reported in Dave Fisher, The Wonderful World of Palindromes http://puzzles.about.com/od/palindromes/p/Palindromes.htm (October 30, 2015).

From "The Praise of Hemp-seed" http://ebooks.gutenberg.us/Renascence_Editions/taylor1.html, published 1620. This is the earliest surviving printed reference to the death of William Shakespeare and Francis Beaumont, who had both died in 1616.