CHAPTER V

BRANCHES IN OTHER COUNTIES

An interesting Arden whom I have not been able to connect with any

relatives was John Arderne, of Newark,[533] a physician who practised

with distinction at the time of the plague, 1349, and whose medical

books were freely quoted by Johannes Argentein and succeeding medical

writers.

I have not found his arms. There is, indeed, the seal of a John Arderne,

son and heir of Sir Adam de Arderne, of Lincolnshire, 1312, in the

British Museum, bearing a shield[534] "Ermine, on a bend three crosses

crosslet, depending from a tree of three small branches," who might have

been the same person.

Richard Arderne owned a messuage in Stanford, Lincoln, 27 Edward III.,

Inquis. P.M. As late as 1501 an Edmund Arden,[535] of St. Martin's,

Lincoln, left a gown to his brother Thomas, a gown to Pierce Arden, and

other legacies. John Gedney married Mary, daughter of John Arden, of

Sibsey, co. Lincoln (Visitation, 1592). In the neighbourhood there was a

noted Robert de Arderne, of co. Norfolk, 1315, whose seal bears two

shields side by side in fesse; Dext. ermine a fesse chequy Arden;

Sinist. on a fesse three garbs with cabalistic letters, explained in

_Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass._, xl. 317.[536]

Nothing brilliant is recorded of the Ardens of Yorkshire. Sir ---- de

Arderne, bearing arms Arg. a lion ramp. az. debruized by a baston gu.,

appears in Planché's Roll of Arms of Henry III.[537] John de Ardern, of

Yorkshire, is in the list of gentlemen of 43 Edward III. He is mentioned

also as witness for Haselden, of Goldyngton, 41 Edward III. Thomas

Arden, of Marton, near Bridlington, 1455, and Margaret, his wife, 1458,

were buried in Bridlington Priory.[538] William Ardern, of Belthorp, was

among the gentlemen of 12 Henry VI.[539] John Arderne, of Kelingthorpe,

secured an exemption from serving on juries, April 1, 8 Henry VIII., at

Greenwich.[540] There are many documents in the Record Office concerning

the sale of the lands of John Ardern, of Kelingthorpe,[541] York; and a

receipt from Thomas Perpoint, draper, London, of £516 paid him by John

Arden; also a release to Perpoint and John Arden by Thomas Hennage of

the Cardinal's household. To this Hennage, Arden grants the wardship of

his son Peter; and, if he should die, the wardship of Raffe; failing

whom, the wardship of John, his third son, 1533. His wife was Margery.

Sir Raff Ellerker married Jane, daughter of John Arden, Esq.

(Visitation, Yorks, 1563). There is also noted the Inquis. P. M., of

Peter Arden, of York, 22 Henry VIII.,[542] and William Arden's lease of

Yaresthorpe, Yorks. The priory of nuns at Arden, founded 1150, was

suppressed in 1536.[543]

[Illustration: SWAN THEATRE (BY DR. GAIDERTY.)

_To face p. 214._]

The Ardens appeared also early in Essex. At the Conqueror's Survey, Earl

Eustace of Boulogne owned Horndon-on-the-Hill,[544] but the next owners

were Ardernes, who built Ardern Hall. In 1122 Thomas Ardern and his son

Thomas gave to the monks of Bermondsey the tithe of the corn in their

lordship of Horndon. Sir Ralph de Ardern, of Horndon, was Sheriff of

Essex, 39 and 40 Henry III.[545] His seal bore on a shield a fesse

chequy between two roundels.[546] Sir Thomas de Arderne, the son of

Ralph, used "a seal, bearing two trumpets, mouthpieces in base, between

nine crosses crosslet in fesse, three and three, in pale S. Thome de

Arderne."[547] John Lovetot, who died in 1295, held land of him in

Horndon, by the service of one rose of yearly rent; and John de Arderne

granted lands in Rochford 33 Edward I.[548] The manor of Walkefares, in

Clavering, Essex, belonged to Walter Arden some time previous to

1340.[549]

The property of Timothy Arden, Somerset, was administered 1631.[550]

There was an Inquisition Post Mortem of William de Arderne, of

Chelesworthy Manor, Devon, in 56 Henry III. (39). Another of Adam de

Ardern, 53 Henry III. (35), owner of Colverden, Walesworth, and Berton

juxta Gloucester.

In 1 Edward VI. Inquisition Post Mortem of William Arden, Wig, the

administration of the goods of Richard Arden, of Worcester, was granted

his wife Margaret, 1636 (Admins., 1636-38, f. 116, Worcester).

William Arden, parson, of Wennington, in 1582, left small legacies to

his sister-in-law, Bridget Doulton, and all the rest to his two

daughters, Alice Arden, who married a Stevenson, and Margaret

Arden.[551]

In the Visitation of the Cheshire Ardens, it is stated that from Thomas,

son of Ralph and brother of John, the Leicestershire Ardens are

descended.[552]

In the great "History of Leicestershire," edited by Nichols, there are a

few notices of the name, and these chiefly of the Warwickshire Ardens,

who held property in the shire. Baldwin Freville owned certain lands at

Ratcliffe held by Roger de Ardern 1387.[553] Sir Robert of Park Hall was

Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 16 Henry VI.

"Thomas Ferrars holds of the heirs of Roger Arden the third part of the

feod of Radcliffe, Leicestershire," 37 Henry VI., Inquis. P. M. (34).

Simon de Ardern and Hugo de Arderne were priests 1387.[554]

In Bedford, the earliest entry I have found is the record of lands of

Sir Thomas de Arderne, "utlagatus pro feloniis et transgressionibus,"

Rokesden Manor and Bereford Cottage in Bedfordshire, 21 Edward III.

(Inquis. P. M. 60).

[Illustration: THE BEAR GARDEN AND HOPE THEATRE]

[Illustration: SWAN THEATRE.

_To face p. 216._]

William Ardern of Struton, in Oskellyswade, co. Beds, Clerk of the

Market to the King's household, Crest a boar quarterly, or and az.,

granted by Barker (Stowe, 692; "Misc. Gen. et Her.," Harwood, New

Series, xii. 13).[555] A William Ardern wrote to Cromwell, from Hawnes,

May 27, 1535, on behalf of Mr. Franklyn, cited before my Lord of Lincoln

(Letters and Papers Henry VIII., Gairdner). Can these be the same?

Compare pp. 171, 172, 188 and notes.

There was an Inquisition Post Mortem on the property of Isabel Arden,

Ideot, Bedfordshire, 10 Elizabeth.

The manor of Lyesnes, in Kent, was released to Thomas Ardern in 37 Henry

VIII.[556] There are many notices of the Kent Ardens in Hasted's

"History of Kent." But perhaps public attention was drawn most to the

member of the family who was murdered.[557] The story is closely

followed in the "Tragedy of Arden of Feversham," by some attributed to

Shakespeare, though with little probability.

Burke[558] gives many other branches; as, for instance, Arden of Sunbury

Park, Middlesex, and Rickmansworth Park, Herts; arms: Ermine, two

barrulets compony or and azure, in chief three boars' heads erased of

the last, armed of the second, langued gu.

Ardens of East Burnham, Bucks, same arms. Arden of Blackden Hall, co.

Chester, Ermine, a fesse chequy or and az.; same crest as the Park Hall

arms, but with different motto.

Various Ardens drifted to London, but there seems to have been one

business family settled there from early times. Thomas of Plumstede left

rents and a cellar, called Drynkwater Taverne, in the parish of St.

Magnus, to John Arderne, fishmonger, September 26, 1361.[559] John

Hanhampsted left the reversion of tenements held for life by John

Arderne, Esquire, in the parish of St. Mary Aldermanchurch, May 4,

1424.[560] An administration of goods of John Arderne, of St.

Sepulchre's, was granted February 15, 1508.[561]

In May, 1534, a pardon was granted John Appowell for abetting John Done,

a thief, who stole a gown and a piece of cloth belonging to Thomas

Ardrenne from the house of Thomas Chief, May, 1534.[562]

Thomas Arden, September 29, 1549, citizen and clothworker, left all his

goods to Agnes, his wife; will proved January 27, 1549.[563]

Robert Arden, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, vintner, and Agnes Mather

of the same, were licensed to be married at any church in the

jurisdiction of Westminster, November 27, 1568.[564]

A Robert Arden was assistant to the Clerk of the Accatory, 1577.[565]

Several deliveries to him of Government victuals are noted in State

Papers, 1594-97.

I do not know whether or not he is the Robert Arden who writes a letter

to the Government about the composition of ling and cod from the Iceland

fisheries, landed in Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, September 14, 1593, a

letter interesting as showing the relative trade of the towns at that

date.[566]

At St. Saviour's, Southwark, Robert Stillard and Bridget Arden were

married August 21, 1618.[567]

Among marriage licenses[568] are those of Richard Bromfield and Jane

Arden, February 14, 1564; John Arden and Dorothy Hazard, of the city of

Westminster, June 16, 1639;[569] Hugh Phillips, gent., of St.

Margaret's, Westminster, and Elizabeth Arden, of same, November 17,

1641;[570] Henry Arden, of Chelmsford, Essex, gent., widower, and Mary

Boosie, of Writtle, spinster, at St. Magnus the Martyr, London, February

22, 1664;[571] Thomas Arden, of the city of Westminster, Esq., to

Theodosia Long, October 10, 1664; William Ardern, junior, gent., Bach.,

of St. Martin's, Ludgate, and Mrs. Margaret Smith, of Great Wigborough,

Essex, widow, to be married there, March 21, 1665-66;[572] John Arden,

of St. James's, Westminster, widower, aged about fifty, and Mrs.

Elizabeth Wright, spinster, twenty-two, January 12, 1687-88.

Gabriel Josselyn, gent., of St. Michael, Bassinghall,[573] and

Elizabeth, daughter of ---- Arden of same, deceased, December 1, 1587.

John Brown, of St. Olave's, Hart Street, London, haberdasher, and Anne

Arden, of St. Andrew's,[574] Holborn, widow of John Ardern, Fletcher,

February 10, 1595.

The will of Robert Arden, gent., Deptford, was proved 1579.[575]

An Alexander Arderne, of Deptford, wished to be buried in the churchyard

beside the hawthorn-tree; he had a wife, Elizabeth, a brother-in-law,

William Inson, and no children, February 26, 1639.[576] Administration

of the goods of James Arden, London, was granted his wife Anne,[577]

1639. Thomas le Barber, from Peter de Arderne, held tenements in the

parish of St. Clements Danes.[578] Alicia Arderne, who was wife of

Richard Hampton, left tenements in the parish of St. Mary in the Strand

and in the parish of St. Clement's Danes, 1466.

It seems wiser to group a set of records not generally accessible to

students, which, though preserved in London, concern the Ardens of many

branches--I mean a set of deeds, charters, and conveyances preserved

among the Guildhall Records of London:

"Johanna Arden, wife of Roger de Arden, tailor, 1295. Roll 24.

"Henry de Arderne, A.D. 1305. Roll 34 (35).

"Cecilia, wife of Henry de Arderne, 1307. Roll 36 (26).

"Agnes, wife of William de Arderne, 1307....

"Henry, son of William de Arderne....

"John, son of William de Arderne, 1337 and 1345.

"Hugh de Arderne, 1321. Roll 50 (5); A.D. 1342. Roll 70 (2).

"Alice, wife of Hugh de Arderne ... Johanna, wife of ...

"Giles de Arderne, 1351. Roll 80 (29).

"John Arden, called Mordon, Stockfishmonger, 1363.

Roll 91 (87) (93); also 1371, 1373, 1374, 1377.

"Margaret, wife of John, called Mordon....

"Isabella, wife of Richard Arden, and widow of John Melbourne,

co. Surrey, 1392. Roll 121 (143).

"Alice, wife of Thomas de Arden, Brewer, 1371. Roll 99 (83).

"... 1372. Roll 100 (54) (55), 1373, 1376; 104 (145).

"Alice, widow of Richard de Arderne, 1403. Roll 131 (61).

"John Arden, Esq., 1413. Roll 141 (25-36); 1421 (Roll 149).

"... 1426. Roll 154 (50); 1457, Roll 185 (32).

"Margaret, wife of John Arden, gent., 1413 and 1421; same Rolls.

"Peter Ardern, chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1459. Roll 188 (37).

"Thomas Arden, clerk, 1466. Roll 196 (17).

"John Arden, of Creechurch, merchant tailor, 1625. Roll 302 (15).

"Francis Arden, son of Richard, Cit. and Loriner,

of London, 1646, Apprentice."

The Royalist Composition Papers,[579] 1644-57, mention as "Delinquents,"

"Mr. Arden," "John," "Robert" is mentioned twenty-three times, "Thomas,"

"Ann," "Elizabeth," "Godetha," "Mary," "Mrs. Arden," "John and Mary

Arderne." And many other allusions could be added to the list of

references to the various members of this distinguished family.

COLONIAL ARDENS.

In speaking of the Ardens of Victoria, Burke[580] disclaims their right

to arms, but nevertheless derives them from Humphrey Arden. He says:

"The first recorded ancestor, Humphrey Arden, of Longcroft, co.

Stafford, died in 1705, and so far from being able to show descent from

Siward, they are unable even to prove connection with the extinct family

of Arden of Park Hall."

Here Burke is clearly in the wrong. If they can prove their descent from

Humphrey of Longcroft, they can through him claim descent from the

Ardens of Park Hall and from Siward, as can be seen from all pedigrees.

FOOTNOTES:

[533] Ashmolean MS., 829, iii., and 1434, i.; also Sententiæ, 1437, Art.

xv., alluded to in Gerard's "Herbal," 657.

[534] Harl. Chart., 45, D. 9.

[535] 23 Moone, proved May 26, 1501.

[536] "Misc. Gen. et Her.," N. S., iv. 21; "Yorksh. Archæo. Journ.," xi.

12.

[537] Burton's "Monasticon Eboracense," p. 250.

[538] Fuller's "Worthies of Yorkshire."

[539] Letters and Papers Henry VIII., 1524, _et seq._, Gairdner.

[540] Pat. 9 Henry VIII., p. 1, m. 14.

[541] Add. Chart. 8069. See also Blomfield's "Hist. of Norfolk," viii.

533.

[542] Peter Arden, son and heir of John, ob. May 20, 21 Henry VIII.;

Inq. at Poklyngton, York. Ralph Arden, brother and heir of Peter, then

aged eighteen.

[543] Burton's "Monasticon Eboracense," p. 90.

[544] Morant's "History of Essex," i. 216.

[545] Fuller's "Worthies of Essex," 341.

[546] Harl. Charters, 45, D. 8, Brit. Mus. See also p. 193.

[547] Add Chart., 19,967.

[548] Inquis. Post. Mort., 33 Edward I., 117.

[549] Morant's "Essex," i. 148. John Arderne was Vicar of Harwich

Chapel, March 23, 1388. Will Arderne, Vicar of Tolleshunt Darcy, April

4, 1676.

[550] Administrations, Somerset, f. 4, 1631-33.

[551] Consistory Court, f. 162, Sperin, and 291, Bullock.

[552] Visitation of Cheshire.

[553] "History of Leicester," iv. 939.

[554] _Ibid._, 19.

[555] This William Arden left a son, Thomas, who had no heirs ("Grants

and Certificates of Arms," _Genealogist_, New Series, xiii.).

[556] Originalia et Memoranda on the Lord Treasurer's side of the

Exchequer.

[557] "Receyved of Mr. Arden for a payer of wheels and the hedd of an

old pageant, 2s. 8d. 1504." "Payd. For the charges of brenning Mrs.

Arden, and the execution of George Bradshaw, 43s."--Chamberlain's

Accounts, City of Canterbury, 1550-1.

[558] Burke's "General Armory."

[559] Wills of the Court of Hustings, ii., p. 63.

[560] _Ibid._

[561] Commissary Court Admins., 1508.

[562] Papers of Henry VIII., P.R.O.

[563] 31^a Clyffe, Commissary Court Wills.

[564] Chester's "Marriage Licenses of Bishop of London."

[565] State Papers, Dom. Ser., Eliz., cxx. 34.

[566] Brit. Mus., Add. MS., 34,729.

[567] Registers of St. Saviour's, Southwark.

[568] "Marriage Licenses of Dean of Westminster," Harl. Publ.

[569] _Ibid._

[570] "Marriage Licenses of Dean of Westminster," Harl. Pub.

[571] _Ibid._

[572] _Ibid._

[573] Chester's "Marriage Licenses."

[574] _Ibid._

[575] 35 Bakou.

[576] 5 Stevenson, Somerset House.

[577] Administrations, 1639, f. 36, Somerset House.

[578] Inquis. P.M., 1 Edward III. (12).

[579] See Index Library (12).

[580] Burke's "Colonial Gentry," _Genealogist_, New Series, xiii.

TERMINAL NOTES.

Page 2.--Mary, Countess of Southampton, was the mother of Shakespeare's

patron, the Earl of Southampton, to whom he dedicated "Venus and Adonis"

in 1593, and "The Rape of Lucrece" in 1594. In both of these poems,

probably corrected by himself, his name is spelt _Shakespeare_. In 1594

the Countess married Sir Thomas Henneage, the Vice-Chamberlain of the

Household, and that same year Shakespeare was invited to act at Court.

Sir Thomas died the following year, after a lingering illness, and his

widow had to superintend the making up of his official books, and check

the bills. And thus it happened that it was she who introduced the

_first official record of Shakespeare's name_, and probably spelt it

correctly, according to the contemporary usage.

Page 5.--Mr. Nanson, the town clerk of Carlisle, has in his possession

the deed which concerns the Shakesperes of Penrith, 21 Richard II.

Page 22.--Shakespeare's shield bore an ordinary _canting_ pattern, or

one that was based upon the supposed meaning of the name. But the use of

the falcon in the crest requires explanation. French says: "The falcon

was one of the badges of Edward IV., father of Henry VII.'s Queen

Elizabeth. No person would venture to adopt this without special favour"

("Shakespeareana Genealogica," p. 523). There is something keenly

suggestive of expected objections in the motto, "Non sanz droict." Some

day, perhaps, it may be discovered why this crest and motto were

assumed.

Page 27.--Aston Cantlow, with the castle of Abergavenny, was settled on

Sir William de Beauchamp, second son of Thomas, Earl of Warwick, 12

Henry IV. It descended to his son, Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester,

whose daughter Elizabeth married Sir Edmund Neville, and brought it to

him (Dugdale's "Warwickshire").

Page 27.--Another opinion of the derivation of Thomas Arden has been

discussed. It has been supposed possible that he might have been

descended from Thomas Arden of Leicestershire, son of Ralph Arden of

Alvanley, by his wife Catharine, daughter of Sir William Stanley, of

Hooton. This would account for the grant of the Cheshire arms, and would

not thrust him out of the Arden pedigree; but the theory is not

satisfactory on other grounds. One main objection is that there was no

known Thomas of suitable date in that family. But in the Park Hall

family there was a Thomas known to be alive during the period between

1502 and 1526, who has _never been traced_, if he did not go to Aston

Cantlow. Members of the Arden family accept him as the missing brother

of Sir John, and believe that it was through a careless mistake of the

heralds that the fesse chequy was struck out, and that the Shakespeares

resented the substitution of another in place of the arms to which they

had a right, and never accepted the grant. During the discussion John

Shakespeare died.

Page 27.--The pedigrees of those associated with the Ardens are worth

noting, and their wills might suggest connections.

Page 32.--It would be interesting to find and group the Warwickshire

Ardens who bore the three cross-crosslets and the chief or, for it has

never been done.

Page 35.--Thomas Arden was presented for owing suit of Court in 1526,

1529, 1531. (See Portfolio 207, Court Rolls, No. 88.)

Page 36.--Thomas and Robert Arden's purchase at Snitterfield had been

witnessed by John Wagstaff,[581] Richard Rushby, of Snitterfield,

Richard Atkins, of Wilmecote, John Alcokkes, of Newenham. The overseers

of Robert Arden's will were Adam Palmer,[582] of Wilmecote, Hugh

Porter,[583] of Snitterfield, and John Skerlett, of Wilmecote; the

witnesses, Sir William Bouton Curett, Adam Palmer, John Scarlet, Thomas

Jenkes, William Pitt. Adam Palmer was overseer of Mrs. Agnes Arden's

will, in conjunction with George Gibbes, who had, later, the lease of

Asbies from the Shakespeares at the time of its mortgage to Lambert.

Page 45.--A Thomas Mayo had a seat in the Church of St. Nicholas,

Warwick, 1595; an Elizabeth Mayo was buried there in 1596; and Henry

Maio in 1601. (See Churchwarden's Accounts of St. Nicholas, Warwick,

edited by Mr. Richard Savage.) The Webbes of Snitterfield appear among

the gentry of the country in 1580 (State Papers, Domestic Series, Eliz.,

c. xxxvii. 68).

Page 51.--It is difficult to imagine John Shakespeare making up the

bills for the other Chamberlains, or conducting so many financial

responsibilities, if he was unable to read and write, as well as reckon

well--as Halliwell-Phillipps says he was.

Page 52.--The goods of Richard Shakespeare were prised at £35 17s., and

the bond for their just administration entered into by John Shakespeare

and Thomas Nicols, of £100, seems disproportionably large, unless there

were some unusually heavy responsibilities attached. John Shakespeare

may very well have been termed a farmer if he had been brought up as

one, and if he had been superintending his father's farm at the time of

his death. In the description of a neighbouring farm, Ingon is mentioned

as "now or late in the occupation of John Shaxspere or his assignes." It

is quite possible that he was the responsible farmer, and that Henry his

brother was his "assigne." Ingon, though in the parish of

Hampton-on-Avon, was very near Snitterfield.

Page 56.--Henry Shakespeare probably quarrelled with Mr. Cornwall, the

second husband of Margaret Arden, about the resettlement of Snitterfield

farm, and went to reside at Ingon, though taken in his brother's name.

The Court Rolls show that he was "contumaceous" in not paying tithes,

May 22, 1582, and was "excommunicated." "Of Henry Shaxper, for not

labouring with teems for the amending of the Queen's Highway, 2/6." "Of

Henry Shaxper for having a dich between Redd Hill and Burmans in decay

for want of repair, Oct. 22nd, 1596." Probably the man was ill and dying

then. He was buried two months later.

Page 58.--The petition of the burgesses of Stratford-on-Avon for relief

of burdens shows that the borough had fallen into decay through the

decline in the wool trade. From this general depression John Shakespeare

probably suffered.

Page 61.--"The Book of John Fisher of Warwick" shows that the master of

the Grammar School there had a salary of £10 a year. Seeing that the

master of Stratford-on-Avon Grammar School had £20 a year, it is

probable that the burgesses had a better selection of scholars as

candidates.

Page 62.--It is too often forgotten that Anne Hathaway lost her father

in the summer of 1582. It is probable that the betrothal would therefore

be a quiet one. It is also more than likely that she went to reside with

a friend or relative after her father's death, and that this caused the

confusion in the address in the marriage bond. The bridegroom in general

only required one guarantee for a bond of the kind; but Shakespeare

being under age, the one became his representative, and the other

guarantor for that representative.

Page 67.--"The Comedy of Errors" was doubtless one of the plays

performed before the Queen at Christmas, 1594, seeing that it was ready

to be put upon the boards at the Gray's Inn Revels on the spur of the

moment. I have discussed this at full in my paper, "The Earliest

Official Record of Shakespeare's Name," Berlin (a copy at the British

Museum); also in a long letter to the _Times_, January, 1895.

Page 70.--James Burbage bought the part of a house in Blackfriars from

Sir William More, February 4, 1596, which he afterwards converted into a

theatre. Regarding the quarrel with Allen and "the Theatre" lease, see

the depositions in the case of Burbage _v._ Allen taken at Kelvedon, in

Essex, August, 1600, reproduced in Halliwell-Phillips's "Outlines," i.

350. Further illustration of the earning proportions of players and

proprietors may be learned from the article by Mr. James Greenstreet,

"The Whitefriars Theatre at the Time of Shakespeare" (The New

Shakespearean Society's Transactions, 1888).

Page 77.--In John Combe's will there is mentioned a field in Ingon Lane,

called Parson's Close, or Shakespeare's Close. This may have been one of

the poet's minor purchases, or merely a name come down from Henry's

time.

Page 78.--A petition was sent up to the Lord Chief Justice from the

Corporation of Stratford-on-Avon, to restrain William Combe, Esq., son

and heir of John Combe, March 27, 1616. He overthrew the Aldermen who

came peaceably to hinder his digging, whereof great tumult arose. In

spite of orders to the contrary, he continued his enclosures, and

another petition was addressed to the Privy Council, describing "Mr.

Combe of so unbridled a disposition," etc. On February 14, 1618, a reply

came signed, "Francis Verulam," "Pembroke," "Naunton," "Fulke Greville"

(Wheler Collection, Stratford-on-Avon).

Page 82.--From the town clerk's account of what took place at the Halls

during Shakespeare's lifetime, we are sure that his position must have

been anomalous.

"The Halle, 17 Dec., 45 Eliz. Plays. At this Halle yt ys ordered that

there shalbe no plays or enterludes played in the Chamber, the Guild

Halle, nor in any parte of the House or Courte, from hensforward, upon

payne that whosoever of the Baylif, Aldermen, and burgisses of this

boroughe shall give leave or licence thereunto shall forfeit for everie

offence 10s.

"7 Feb., 1611-12, 45 Eliz."

"... The inconvenience of plaies being verie seriouslie considered of,

with their unlawfulness, and how contrarie the sufferance of them is

against the orders heretofore made, and against the examples of other

well-governed cities and burrowes the Compaine here are contented, and

they conclude that the penaltie of 10s. imposed in Mr. Baker's year, for

breaking of the order shall from henceforth be £10 upon breakers of that

order, and this to holde until the next common council, and from

henceforth for ever, excepted that be then finally revoked and made

void." This was the period of Shakespeare's retirement to

Stratford-on-Avon.

Page 84.--It may be noted as a coincidence that the plays were published

in folio the year of Mrs. Shakespeare's death. Some change among the

leases, or the termination of the connection with his family through the

death of his widow, may have suggested this.

Page 93.--A Robert Hall rented the old School House in

Stratford-on-Avon, and paved the Guild Hall, 1568. A Richard Hall was

churchwarden of St. Nicholas, Warwick, in 1552, who died in 1558, and

among the churchwarden's accounts are notices of Richard Hall the

younger, Nicholas Hall, John, Alice, Simon and "Eme Hall." "Received of

Ric. Hawle the younger for the benevolence that Richard Hawle gave unto

the poor out of his lands in Church Street, World without end," 1566-67.

Richard Hall was churchwarden in 1600 and in 1606 (Churchwarden's

Accounts, St. Nicholas, Warwick, Mr. Richard Savage).

Page 99.--Michael Drayton frequently visited Sir Henry Rainsford at the

Manor House, Clifford Chambers. This gentleman had married Anne Goodyere

of Polesworth, whose parents were Drayton's patrons. She was the "Idea"

of his sonnets. (See introduction to "Michael Drayton," by Oliver Elton,

1895.)

Page 103.--Susanna Hall's signature appears on the settlements of 1639,

and on that of 1647, in which her daughter joined.

Page 104.--"15th Dec., 1648. Tithes: Mrs. Elizabeth Nashe for Shottery

Corne Tithes, being of the yearly value of one hundred pounds, £5."

"28th June, 1650. Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard for Shotterie Corn tythes of

the yearly value of one hundred and twentie pounds, £6." (Wheler's

Notes, Stratford-on-Avon.)

Page 107.--There are many Bagleys in the parish registers of St.

Martin's-in-the-Fields, and also Hathaways. It _may_ be they were

connections.

Page 110.--Halliwell-Phillipps states that in the "Coram Rege Roll of

1597, Gilbert Shakespeare is named as one of those standing bail for a

clockmaker of Stratford"; and adds that he is described as "Haberdasher

of St. Bridget's Parish, London." Through the kind permission of the

Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, I have been allowed to go through

their books at leisure, and find that there is no trace of a Shakespeare

anywhere, and in the sixteenth century, no trace even of a _Gilbert_,

except "Gilbert Shepherd," who took up his freedom in 1579. Neither is

there any trace of him in the registers of St. Bridget's or St. Bride's,

nor in the Subsidy Rolls, but in both places appear Gilbert Shepherd. I

am, therefore, forced to the conclusion that Halliwell-Phillipps misread

"Shepherd" as "Shakespeare." See my article in the _Athenæum_, Dec. 22,

1900, "John Shakespeare, of Ingon, and Gilbert of St. Bride's."

Page 112.--William Hart, the hatter, died a week before his

brother-in-law, probably of the same epidemic. Joan Hart, his widow,

survived till November 4, 1646. Their eldest son William was an actor.

(See Royal Warrant, May 17, 1636; Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 129.) In

William Hewitt's "Visits to Remarkable Places," 1839, he mentions

Stratford and a boy whom he had noticed from his likeness to the poet.

He turned out to be a descendant of his sister Joan Hart, and was called

William Shakespeare Smith (_Notes and Queries_, 5th Series, VIII. 475).

Probably the same referred to on page 109.

Page 116.--Thomas Shakespeare seemed to have been somewhat like Henry in

character. He was entered on the Court Roll at a rental of £4 in 1563.

"At the Court 31st March, 23 Eliz., he incurred a penalty of 4d. for not

having and exercising bows; for not wearing cappes 4d.; for leaving his

swine unringed in the fields 12d." He appears also as a juror several

times in court.

Page 121.--Mr. Rylands' "Records of Rowington" supply many details, as,

for instance:

"In 1576, a lease by feoffees, among whom was Thomas Shakespeare, was

granted Richard Shakespeare of Rowington, weaver of the 'Tyinges.'"

In the same year a lease of "the Harveys" was granted to "Elenor

Shakespeare, widow, of Rowington," 20 Feb., 18 Eliz.

The customary rent of Rowington, 1605, mentions "Thomas Shakespeare, one

close, 2/; one tofte and 16 acres, 13/4; one messuage, etc., 10/4."

"George Shakespeare, one cottage and 2 acres, 2/."

"Richard Shakespere, one messuage, half a yd land (14

acres), 14/."

"John Shakespeare, one cottage and one quarter yd land (9

acres), 6/8."

The Court Rolls, 1633, give:

"Imprimis of Jane Shaxper for default of sute of court

fined, 4d."

"Thomas Shaxper, vitler, for breaking assize of ale and

beer, 4d."

"1634, Richard Shaxper, for encroaching on common, 2d."

"1647, fine of admittance to land, Thomas Shaxper, 6/8."

"Exchequer lay subsidies," Thomas in 1595, 1598, 1599,

"assessed on goods valued £4,8/."

"Lay subsidies 1668," Thomas, "assessed on land, 30/ and

4/."

In 1674 John Shakespeare, in the name of the other tenants of Rowington,

was empowered to bring an action against enclosures.

A grant of a fee of 20/ a year by will of Humphrey Shakespeare, 1794,

was payable out of premises in Kingswood.

This cottage was the subject of a lawsuit in which Jane Lord and John

Slye _v._ Humphrey Shakespeare and one Culcup were at variance. Humphrey

had a 200 years' lease, and left it to the poor of the parish.

SHAKESPEARES FROM THE REGISTER OF ROWINGTON.

"1616, Mar. 16. Baptisms: Thomas Shaxspere, son of William

Shaxspire."

"1619, Ap. 28. William Shakespeare, son of John

Shakespeare."

"Aug. 13. William Shakespeare, son of Thomas Shakespeare."

"1621, Aug. 18. Thomas Shaxper, son of Thomas Shaxper."

"Nov. 4. Elizabeth, dau. of John Shaxper."

"1622, William Shaxpere was Churchwarden."

"1624, April 26. Clement Shaxpire, son of John Shaxpire,

bapt."

"July 23. John Sheldon and Jone Shaxspear married."

"1630, Ap. 4. Baptisms: Elizabeth Shaxspeare, d. of Thomas

Shaxspire."

"1633, Ap. 20. Thomas Shaxspeare, son of Thomas Shaxspeare."

"1634, Dec. 30. Thomas Shakspeare, son of John Shaxspeare."

"1635, May 5. Burial: John Shakespear buried."

"1637. Baptisms: July 18, Mary, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth

Shakesper."

"1638, Aug. 17. Burial: Christopher Shakspeare buried."

"1639, Mar. 8. Baptism: John, son of John Shakespeare and

Mary bapt.

"William Shaxspere Churchwarden."

"1640, Aug. 3. Burials: Anne, d. of Thomas Shakespeare,

buried."

"1641, April 10. Thomas Shakespear, son of Thomas Shakespear

and Margaret, bur."

"Oct. 30. Mary, daughter of Thomas Shakespear, buried."

"1642, Feb. 14. Thomas, son of John Shakespeare, buried."

"1643, June 14. Clement, son of John Shakespeare, buried."

"1645, Sept. 18. Anne Shakespeare, widowe, buried."

"1646, July 12. William Shakespeare buried."

"July 24. The wife of William Shakespeare buried."

"Feb. 20. William Shakespeare, senior, buried."

"Mar. 8. Thomas Shakespeare buried."

"1647, Sep. 20. Mary, dau. of William Shakespeare, junior,

and Elizabeth his wife, buried."

"Oct. 1. Elizabeth, d. of John Shakespear, buried."

"Nov. 4. Elizabeth, dau. of William Shakespeare, jun., and

Margaret his wife."

"1649, Oct. 5. William Shakspeare, junior, buried."

"1650, Dec. 25. John Shakespeare, junior, buried."

"1651, Mar. 3. Widow Shakspeare buried."

[A gap in the registers.]

"1662, Feb. 17. John, sonne of John Shakspeare of Kingswood,

bapt."

"1663, Mar. 29. Thomas, son of John Shakspeare of ye hill,

bapt."

"1664, Feb. 8. Josiah, sonne of John Shakespeare of ye hill,

bap. Feb. 8, buried Feb. 17."

"1665, Ap. 3. Richard, son of John Shakespeare of Kingswood,

bapt."

"1665, Dec. 3. Mary, dau. of John Shakespeare, bapt."

"1666, Mar. 18. John Shakspeare of Kingswood brook buried."

"1667, Aug. 6. Old William Shakespeare of Brookfurlong

buried."

"Nov. 23. Margaret Shakespeare of Whitehall, widdow, buried.

John Shakesper Churchwarden."

"1668, June 1. Samuel, son of John Shakespeare and Rebecca,

his wife, bapt., buried June 6."

"June 28. Rebecca, wife of John Shakespeare of the Hill,

buried."

"1669, Nov. 20. Old Thomas Shakespeare of Whitley Elme,

buried."

"1670, Sep. 29. Widdow Shakespeare of ye Hill buried."

"Oct. 20. Thomas Shakespear the weaver was buried."

"1672, Ap. 9. Ann, dau. of Mr. Shakespeare of ye Hill,

bapt."

"1676, Mar. 18. (Mary) the wife of Thomas Shakespeare, of

Lowston End, buried."

"1677, April 21. Widdow Shakespeare of Whitley Elme,

buried."

"1679, July 31. William Shakespeare and Alice Jennings

married."

"1679-80, Jan. 27. Thomas Shakespeare of Lapworth buried."

"1680, Nov. 9. Alice, wife of William Shakespeare, buried."

"1682, Oct. 19. William, son of William Shakespeare, of

Lowston ford, bapt., and buried Dec. 27."

"1683, Ap. 24. Thomas Shakespeare and Anne Biddle married."

"1686, June 21. William Shakespeare of Brookfurlong buried."

"Dec. 12. John, son of Thomas Shakespeare, bapt."

"Feb. 19. Thomas Shakespeare of Rowington buried."

"1687, Sep. 15. William, son of John Shakespeare, jun.,

bapt."

"1688, Dec. 10. Thomas Shakespeare buried."

"1693, Nov. 14. John, son of Thomas Shakespeare of Lapworth,

buried."

"1695, Aug. 10. William Shakespeare, senior, buried."

"1696, Nov. 11. Thomas, son of William Shakespere, bapt."

"1697, May 12. Henry Shakespeare of London buried."

"1707, July 1. Thomas Shakespear buried."

"1710, July 13. John Shakespeare, senior, buried."

"1721-2, Jan. 30. (By licence) Francis Chernocke, of

Killingworth, co. Warr., gent., about 24, and Mary

Shakespeare, of Rowington, about 24, maiden, his father

consenting, her parents dead. He sealed ... within ... on a

bend ... three crosses crosslet[584] in sinister ... chief a

mullet for difference" (see Worcester Marriage Licenses).

From overseers' books: "Buried in Woolen":

"1695, Aug. 10. William Shakespere, senior."

"1697, May 12. Henry Shakespere of London."

"1707, March 24. Edward Shakespeare."

"1710, July 13. John Shakespeare, senior."

"1716, Dec. 4. William Shakespere, Blacksmith."

Page 131.--In "The Book of John Fisher, Bailiff of Warwick in 1580,"

edited by Mr. Thomas Kemp, deputy-Mayor of Warwick, are several notices

of Shakespeare. In the first page he is mentioned, and later on we find

that he lived in the Market-Place Ward, and was assessed 1d. weekly for

relief of the poor.

A "Thomas Shakesper" lived at the same time in West Street Ward, and was

assessed the same amount. These may be the Thomas and John, sons of

Thomas Shakespeare, shoemaker, of Warwick, who made his will in 1557.

There is also a casual allusion to Shakespeare the turner, of Rowington;

and in 1580-81 John Fisher notes: "I paid to ---- Shakesper, servant to

Mr. Humphrey Catheryns, for fees for the discharge of 39/7-1/2 charged

upon the Church of St. Maryes, in Mr. Boughton's account for subsidy

supposed to be due in the 5th yere of Queen Elizabeth, 9/-."

"Thomas Shakespeare of Warwick's son John was apprenticed to William

Jaggard the Stationer of London 1609" (Rylands's "Records of

Rowington").

"John, son of Thomas Shakespeare of Coventry, co. Warwick, pleb. p.p.

St. John's Coll., matric. 18th Oct., 1662, aged 18; B.A. from St. Mary

Hall 1666 (subscribes serv.)"--(Oxford Alumni and graduates). "Vicar of

Anstrey, co. Warwick, 1670" (Foster's "Index Eccles.").

Page 134.--The registers of All Saints', Oxford, date from 1549; St.

Michael's, 1559; St. Peter's-in-the-East, 1563; St. Martin's Carfax,

1569; St. Giles', 1576; St. Peter-le-Bailey, 1585; St. Mary's, 1599; St.

John Baptist's, 1616.

Page 134.--"Thomas Shakespeare and Jane Toupe married ye 2nd Maie,

1625." (Register of Mere. _Notes and Queries_, 9th Series, iii. 109.)

The county not named. It may be either Cheshire, Wiltshire or

Lincolnshire.

Page 141.--One, at least, of the Irish Shakespeares was a suspicious

character. "William Shakespeyre, formerly of Kilmaynham Hibernia,

laborer, arrested for suspected felony 6 Ed. VI." ("Chester in the

Plantagenet and Tudor Reigns," Canon Rupert Morris; also _Notes and

Queries_, 8th Series, x. 192).

Page 147.--I find that "Gutheridge" was a Stratford-on-Avon name. Mr.

Gutheridge was a dealer in leather there (see will of Joyce Hobday,

1602); and John Milburn was a Rowington man (see the Records of

Rowington)--which two facts much increase the likelihood of John, of St.

Clement's Danes, being at least a Warwickshire man, if not the

Snitterfield one.

Page 151.--"Edward Shakespear, Clare, A.B. 1728; A.M. 1736"

("Cantabrigensis Graduati").

"Joh. Jos. Art. Shakespear, Trin., A.B. 1844; A.M. 1848"

("Cantabrigensis Graduati").

Page 162.--The first Earl of Warwick, Arthgal, was said to have slain a

bear with a blow from a young tree which he had pulled up, and

afterwards he used as a badge "the bear and the ragged staff"--a device

borne by succeeding earls.

Page 166.--Osbert de Ardern granted an estate near Tamworth to Walter de

Somerville, 2 Henry II. (Shaw's "Staffordshire," i. 118).

Page 168.--Among the Rowington charters is (No. 11) a grant by Robert de

Arderne, son and heir of Thomas le Hayward, of Shrewley, 2 Edward III.

No. 12 is a "Grant from Nicholas Wylemyn de Shrewely to his son John of

his Shrewley tenements and lands, which Thomas de Arderne formerly held

of John, Lord of Shrewley, 2 Edward III." Mr. Rylands thinks these refer

to the same people and property.

The Nottingham Visitation (under Blondeston) refers to the pedigree. Sir

Thomas Arden, 9 Edward II., married Elizabeth, daughter of Roger

Swinford; their son was Roger Arden, whose wife was unknown, but his

daughter and heir Beatrix married William Chamber.

Page 171.--William _may_ have been the member of the Guild of Knowle for

whose sake masses were said in 1512. "Alicia" may have been his wife, or

his sister Alice before she married "Buklond." But I confess I am

puzzled with this William.

Page 171.--The tombs of Walter and Eleanor are well preserved in

Erdington's Chantry of the Church of St. Peter and Paul, at Aston, near

Birmingham. He died August 5, 1502.

Page 173.--The Shropshire Visitation gives: "William de Chettleton m.

Katharine, d. of Sir John Ardern; Elizabeth, d. of Reginald Corbet of

Stoke, Justice of the Royal Pleas, m. Robert Arden of Park Hall."

"Katharine Mucklow" also is mentioned; and "William Wall m. Elizabeth,

d. of Thomas Ardren, of Billingsly, in co. Salop."

Page 173.--Sir John Arden's will is long and interesting. It directs

that the furniture of the King's chamber should be kept as heirlooms,

also "the silver cup." "It is said that it was Henry VII. who honoured

him by staying in his house, and that he then granted Sir John a Cap of

Maintenance, purpure turned up crimson, upon which the wild boar is

represented instead of on a wreath as before" (Arden MSS.).

Page 175.--The indenture of a lease by Thomas Arderne, Esq., and Mary

his wife, to William Wilmer, of Longly, co. Warwick, husbandman, of a

messuage, lands, etc., in Wilmer, late in the tenure of Robert Wilmer,

deceased, was drawn up July 15, 23 Henry VIII., 1541. The lease was for

thirty years, the yearly rent 10s. 3d., with a heriot of the best beast,

the lessee to "furnish a sufficient horse for a harnesseman to ryde

upon, when the King shall call upon the said Thomas Arderne for

harnessyng of men." This is Thomas of Park Hall (Wheler Collection,

Stratford-on-Avon).

Page 178.--The tomb of Sir Edward Devereux (died 1622), and of his wife,

Katharine Arden (died 1627), are preserved in the church of Aston, near

Birmingham, beside those of her ancestors, Walter and Eleanor.

Page 181.--In the "Visitation of Warwickshire," published by the

Harleian Society, there are many evident slips in proper names, which

must be checked from other sources. It makes one extraordinary

statement: "The younger house of the Ardens were Lords of _Upton in

Warwickshire_, and grew to be surnamed Uptons. The heire generall of

them was married to one Fenne of Banburie, who, removing his dwelling to

Hungerford in Wiltshire, was there called by the name of Moeles, of whom

the Moeles, ancestors to the Lord Hungerford, seem to be descended." It

gives the coat of arms as, Chequy or and azure, a chevron ermine.

Stow MS. 692 contains the arms of the gentry and the grants by Sir

Christopher Barker, 1536-49. Among these are: "Ardern goules, a cheff

engrayled and three cross crosslets fitchée in gold. Ardern silver, a

fesse chequy, gold and azur between three cressards gules. Arderne, Sir

Robert, Ermine a fesse or and azur, Warwickshire." Among the grants is

one to William Arderne, of Struton, Oskellyswade, Bedford, Clerk of the

Market to the King's most honourable household. It omits the shield and

only gives, "Crest a boar quarterly, gold and silver and Fleurs de luce,

goules." As the Park Hall Ardens had a boar on their crest, he may have

claimed connection.

In Dugdale's account of Clodshalle's Chantry, near Birmingham, he says

it was founded by Walter de Clodshalle of Saltley, 4 Edward III. The

patronage remained with the Clodshalles until Robert Arden's marriage to

Elizabeth Clodshalle. Robert Arden, arm., was patron in 1441, 1449,

1455; Walter Ardern, arm., in 1468, 1469, 1489; John Ardern de Lee

Lodge, presented in 1510; and Nicholas Cotterell, of Yardley, co. Wig.,

through concession of Thomas Ardern, 1537.

According to Dugdale, Upton was possessed by the Ardens in Henry II.,

one Haraldus filius Gunfridi having made sale to Godfrey de Arden, a

monk of Coventry, and son to Siward de Arden, of certain lands for the

Monastery. In Richard I., Thomas de Ardern granted certain lands there

to the canons of St. Sepulchre's, Warwick. A family who _assumed_ their

name from their residence there held it of the Ardens, but Thomas de

Ardern sold it to Guy de Gyllebrok, who passed it to Will. de Beauchamp,

Earl of Warwick.

Page 181.--Pedimore, Warwickshire, on the Ebroke, at the north of the

Tame, was the chief seat of the Ardens at one time, but was allowed to

go to ruin when the family settled at Park Hall on the south side of the

river. It was all levelled except its double moat by Dugdale's time.

Pedmore, Worcestershire, where "Mistress Joyce Arden" died in 1557, was

part of the possessions of Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Clodeshalle,

which she brought to Robert Arden, of Park Hall, 4 Henry VI., 1425. He

died, seized of Pedmore, Yardly and Stockton, Worcestershire, 3 Henry

VI., 1453. There are entered as residents William Arden, 1455, John

Arden, 1468-83, Thomas Arden, 1530, Edward Arden. But in the State

Papers Edward's brother Francis was entered as "Francis Arden of

Pedmore," in 1583, at the time of the attainder, so it may have been

granted him as a second residence, or it may have been the ruinous old

home in Warwickshire he held. The registers here prove that Robert,

Edward's heir, was residing here, and already married, before 1578, an

important point to be noted in the family history.

Page 183.--Simon in Longcroft, according to Shaw, used the Arden arms

with a difference, the arms being "Ermine a fesse chequy G. and B. Crest

on a Chapeau, Erm. and Gu., a boar passant or." At the north end of the

village of Longcroft was an old half-timbered house, which was purchased

by John of Wisbeach, who died 1709, and thus became the property of the

family of Longcroft.

Page 187.--Shaw mentions the tombstones: "Henry Arden died 1674"; "Henry

Arden died 1698, aged 24"; "Humphrey Arden died 1705, aged 74; Elizabeth

his daughter died 1689, aged 21; Katharine, his eldest daughter, died

1722; John Arden died 1709, aged 84."

Henry Arden died 1728, and Anna his wife and Catherine his twin sister.

The stone erected by John, his son. "John died 1734, aged 40; Anna

Catherina, wife of John Arden, and daughter of John Newton of King's

Bromley, died 1727, aged 29." "Also to the memory of Anne, second wife,

daughter of Rev. John Spateman, died 1764, without issue, aged 67."

"Henry Arden, 1782, aged 59. Alethea, his wife, daughter of Robert

Cotton, Esq., died 1783, aged 60."

Clement Fisher, of Wincot, married as his second wife Elizabeth,

daughter of Humphrey Arden.

(MS. notes in British Museum; copy of Shaw's "Staffordshire.")

Page 189.--The Rev. Robert Arden, of Lapworth, might have been one of

the six unnamed younger children of the Robert executed during the Wars

of the Roses.

Nicholaa was widow of William de Boutvilein when she married Sir Robert

de Arderne de Draiton. After her husband's death she was involved in a

contest with Robert de Wyckham about the presentation to the church of

Swaldyve. There is no doubt that the name on the seal mentioned in the

last line of p. 189 is in the masculine genitive; but I am inclined to

believe that the die-cutter made a mistake, and that it was really the

seal of Nicholaa.

Page 193.--In Blomfield's account of Bawsey, Norfolk, he states that it

belonged to the family of Glanville in 6 Richard I. "Thomas de Ardern

and Ralph, son of Robert, impleaded Sir William de Auberville and Maude

his wife for their portion in Bawsey and Glosthorp." Maud, the eldest

daughter of Ralph de Glanville, married Sir William de Auberville;

Amabil, the second, married Ralph de Arden; and Helewise married Robert

FitzRalph de Middleham, Yorkshire (Blomfield's "Norfolk," viii.

341-342).

Page 194.--John Arderne was a priest at Oxburgh in 1386 (Blomfield's

"Norfolk," vi. 191). Mortimer's Chapel, Attleborough. A benefactor

thereto was John Arderne, buried therein 1479. Other entries may concern

his descendants. Sir Edward Warenne, of Boton, in 1365 married Cecily,

daughter and coheir of Sir Nicholas de Eton, widow of John, son and heir

of Sir John Ardern (ix. 370). John Arderne, Rector of Brinton 1452 (ix.

370). Isolda de Arderne presented to Plasset and Attleborough in King

John's time (i. 503, 523). She was a benefactress to the Abbey of

Windham (ii. 516, 525). She was a daughter of Alured de Plesseto, and

left her body to be buried at Windham, and benefactions to the Abbey,

with the consent of William de Arderne, her son. Thurston Holland, of

Denton, married Jane, daughter of John Ardern, of Hawarden (i. 342).

Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, presented Robert Arderne to the Rectory

of Aldeburgh (149), and at his death, 1504, gave it to Will Taylor (v.

353). Peter Arderne trustee for John Copputdike, of Witlingham, in 1432

(v. 456).

Page 196.--In relation to the Cheshire Ardens, Burke says that "the

elder branch of Ardens became extinct by the death of Walkelin Ardern,

_temp._ Richard II. Sir John Arden, younger brother, became head of the

family. A younger branch of Arderns settled at Alderley (Edward III.),

and ended in a few descents in a female heir, who married into the

Weever family, whose heiress married the ancestor of Sir J. Stanley. The

Ardernes of Leicestershire descended from Thomas, the younger son of Sir

Ralph Arderne of Harden, 1420, and brother of John of Harden." This is

confusing and unsatisfactory.

Page 199.--Does the following notice refer to this Thomas Arden of

Elford, etc.? "Thomas de Arderne, Chivaler, who was in Gascony in the

retinue of Ed. Prince of Acquitaine and Wales, had letters of protection

granted him for a year, Feb. 13, 1367.--Vascess. Roll, 41 Edward III."

(sent me by a member of the family).

Page 201.--In reading through the books of the Haberdashers' Company, I

find that "William Arden of Timporley, co. Cestr., Armiger, apprenticed

John Wigge 1583."

Page 202.--Debrett states that Baron Alvanley descended from Ailwin de

Arden. Vincent's "Cheshire Collections" state that he descended from

Ralph de Hampton. Ormerod disagrees with both.

"Mrs. Anne Goldsmith, of Nantwich, Chester, left a legacy to her

grandson, John Arden, 1709" (Marshall's "Genealogist," ii.).

Page 204.--The letters of the Rev. Thomas Arden, 1472, are among the

MSS. of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.

Page 205.--John Arderne is mentioned in the Inquisition Post-Mortem of

Edward Green, 18 Henry VII., as owning property in London.

Page 207.--The Visitation of Surrey gives "the Ardens' Arms as Azure,

the sun in splendour, argent," but it does not mention the family.

Page 210.--In the Haberdashers' books I found: "Ralphe Arderne, son of

Robert Ardern de Berwick-sup-Twede, in co. Northumberland, gen.,

apprenticed to Edmund Walden, Citizen and Haberdasher, for 8 years from

Christmas, 1589" (October 30, 1589).

Page 211.--Edmond Yate, of Bockland, Berks, Arm., appears as a surety in

1583, in the Haberdashers' books.

Page 213.--Gerard says: "John of Arderne hath set down a composition for

wounds, etc., from Alkanet" (Gerard's "Herbal," 1597, p. 657).

Page 214.--"Yorkshire. Thomas Crake m. Jane, d. and coheir of Thomas

Arden of Marton" ("Visitation of Yorkshire," 1564).

An Agnes Arden married John Middleton, son of Sir John Middleton, of

Stockeld Park, co. Yorkshire ("Visitation of Essex," 1588). She

afterwards became the second wife of Sir Thomas More, and her arms may

be seen on the Chelsea tomb--Ermine a fesse chequy (_Notes and Queries_,

4th Series, iv. 61; _Gent. Mag._, 1833, ii. 481-486).

Sir Edmund Talbot married Agnes, third daughter and coheiress of John

Arderne, of Nether Derwind, co. Lancaster, and quartered the arms of the

Cheshire Ardens. (See Dugdale's "Visitation of Yorkshire," 1665; Surtees

Society's Publications, 1859, vol. xxvi., p. 239.)

Several notices of the name occur in the _Yorkshire Archæological

Journal_, vol. xi., p. 392; vol. xii., p. 212, etc.

Page 215.--Among "the Recusants, 1717," is mentioned Anne Arden, widow

of John Arden, late of Grafton, co. Worcester, gentleman.

Page 216.--"Visitation of Shropshire": William de Chettleton, Arm., m.

Katharine, d. of Sir John Ardern. Elizabeth, d. of Reginald Corbet, of

Stoke, Justice of the King's Pleas, mar. Robert Arden, of Park Hall.

Katharine Arden, daughter of John Arden, who married Richard Muklowe, of

Hodon. William Wall married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Ardren, of

Billingsley, in co. Salop.

The "Visitation of Suffolk," notes: "In the shield of Lady Elizabeth

Morrison, daughter of Nicholas Clerk, of Weston, in Oxfordshire, the

Ardern arms are quartered, a Fesse chequy or and azure, at Great Saxham,

Suffolk."

The will of Robert Arden of Maggotifilde, Gloucester, was proved in 1560

(11 Loftes), and that of Robert Arden of Westtray, Charlton, co.

Gloucester, 1583 (24 Rowe, Somerset House).

"Visitation of Derbyshire," 1569-1611: Robert Ratcliffe of Mellon's 2nd

wife was Jane, daughter of Perkin Ardren:

From Musgrave's "Obituary" (Harleian Publications):

Rev. R. Crewe Arden, of Tarporley, Lancashire, brother of

the Master of the Rolls, August 25, 1787 (_G.M._, 838).

Rev. James Arden, Dean of Chester, F.R.S. 1668, September

18, 1691 (Carter's "Cambridge," 1235; Neve's "Fasti," 344).

James Arden, Captain in the Army, February 24, 1771 (_L.M._,

175; _G.M._, 142).

Mary Arden, aunt of Sir Richard P. Arden, the Master of the

Rolls, August 17, 1788 (_G.M._, 758; _E.M._, 152).

Robert Arden, proctor at Oxford (Clar., 1486; Pointer's

"Oxford," 223).

Rev. Robert, Preb. Worcester, October 25, 1768 (_G.M._,

542).

John Ardern, Harden, Cheshire, May 27, 1703, æt. 40, (Neve's

"Mon.," 64).

Richard Arderne, proctor, Oxford (Clar., 1538; Pointer's

"Oxford," 226).

William Arderon, F.R.S. 1745, at Norwich, November 25, 1767

(_L. M._, 687; _G. M._, 610).

Sir John Ardon, K.B., 1399.

Arden wills preserved at Lichfield:

1541. Margery Arden.

1552. Thomas Arden, of Long Itchington (39).

1561. William Ardren (22).

1562. Henry Arden (29).

1563. Christian Arden, admin. (45).

1575. William Arden (64).

1608. George Ardron, of Barlborough, admin.

1616. Sir Henry Arden, Knight, admin. (80).

1616. Richard Arden (182).

1625. Dame Dorothy Arderne, admin. (306).

1625. Ambrose Arden, Esq. (7).

1634. Humphrey Arden (inv.).

1635. Robert Arden, Esq.

1647. Joan Arden, of Enville.

Berkshire wills:

1578. Edith Arden, Hampton Turvil, Wilts, admin.

1641. Richard Arden, of Chilton.

It may interest some to have the following unrecorded entries:

From the register of St. Bridget's or St. Bride's, Fleet Street, London:

"Marriages: John Hoare and Agnes Arden, 27 June, 1596."

"John Arderne and Dennis Harsted by lycence, 8 Nov., 1609."

From the register of St. Martin-in-the-Fields:

"Johannes Arden duxit Juditham Battersby per. lic. 24 Nov.,

1638."

From the register of St. Clement's Danes, London, in the Strand:

"Marriages: Edward Arden and Mary Waulkner, 11th Nov.,

1587."

"Hamond Rightwood and Elizabeth Arden, 3 Dec., 1618."

"John Foxwell and Mary Arden, 12th July, 1629."

"Baptisms: Thomas Arden, son of Thomas and Anne, 20th July,

1627."

"Guy Arden, son of Thomas Arden and Anne, uxor, 9th Oct.,

1632."

"Burials: Elizabeth Arden, daughter of Thomas, 25th March,

1629."

"Alethia Arden, daughter of John, 21 Feb., 1617."

Also from the Diocese of Bath and Wells (Harleian Publications):

"Marriage Licenses: Thomas Arden of Lopen, bachelor, and Elizabeth

Plumer of same, spinster, 10th March, 1755."

Bishop of London's Marriage Licenses:

"Rich. Bromfield and Jone Aorden of St. Margaret's,

Westminster, Feb. 4, 1564."

"Jan. 15th, 1569-70. John Ardren and Elizabeth Lee 'Puella'

of St. Andrew's, Holborn, to marry there."

"Nov. 9, 1641. Hugh Phillips gent of Westminster, and

Elizabeth Arden, to marry at St. Faith's."

"December 22, 1623. Luke Yates of St. Sepulchre's, and

Frances Arden, d. of ---- Arden of Whethamstead, Herts."

"June 15, 1639. John Arden and Dorothy Hazard of

Westminster."

"Feb. 22, 1664. Henry Arden of Chelmsford and Mary Boosie."

"Oct. 16. 1664. Thomas Arden of Westminster and Theodosia

Long of Parmenter, co. Kent."

"William Ardrene Junior of St. Martin's, Ludgate, gent., and

Mrs. Alice Smith of Great Wigborough, Essex, widow. March

21, 1665-6."

Mar. Allegations, Reg. Vic. Gen. Cant.:

"William Elwes of St. Clement's Danes and Mrs. Dionysia

Arden of same at St. Saviour's, Southwark, Surrey. Ap. 14,

1688."[585]

"John Arden of St. James, Westminster, and Mrs. Elizabeth

Wright of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Jan. 12, 1687, married

at Westminster Abbey."

"John Arden of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, gent., and Mrs. Anne

Ratcliffe, Sept. 28, 1691."

"Francis Marlow of Westham, co. Essex, and Bridget Arden of

St. Sepulchre's, London, September 16, 1674."

Register of St. James, Clerkenwell, Burials: "Feb. 14, 1688. Ellinor

Arden."

"Marriages: Jan. 11, 1561-2. John Arden and Anne Phillips."

"Sept. 15, 1596. Thomas Jerome, and Helen Arden."

"Christenings: March 6, 1712. Ann, d. of Richard Ardin and

Elizabeth his wife."

"Jan. 29, 1685-6. James, son of Christopher, and Elizabeth

Ardon."

"June 25, 1676. Mary, d. of Robert and Jane Arden."

Registers of St. George's, Hanover Square:

"Marriages: May 14, 1757. John Hutchins and Miriam Arden,

Lic."

"October 30, 1786. Thomas Ardren, and Elizabeth Head."

"August 5, 1786. Samuel Ardron, and Mary Bellamy Higdon."

"March 19, 1787. Thomas Oliver, and Susannah Ardrenn."

"Hon. Thomas Walpole and the Right Hon. Margaret Perceval.

Spec. Lic. Witnesses Lord Arden, H. Walpole, and M. E.

Arden."

"Sep. 3, 1788. William Carter and Mary Ardren."

"Sep. 29, 1811. John Exley Adams and Anna Maria Arden, Lic.,

Oct. 24, 1811."

[At the marriage of H. F. Compton Cavendish and Sarah

Fawkenor, a witness is Catharine Emma Arden. Also Lord

Walpole to Mary Fawkenor, July 23, 1812, witnesses Catharine

Emma Arden and Henrietta Arden.]

"Dec. 28, 1815. John Ardin and Sarah West."

"Feb. 12, 1832. James Ardren and Harriet Pugh."

[B. R. Arden witness to marriage of Rich. Pennefather and

the Rt. Hon. Lady Emily Georgiana Butler, July 26, 1836.

Lord Arden witness to Charles Scrase Dickins and the Rt.

Hon. Frances Elizabeth Compton, Feb. 18, 1829.]

Registers of St. Dionis, Backchurch:

"Marriages: October 16, 1653. Edmund Webberley and Elizabeth

Ardourne."

"Dec. 13, 1694. John Arden of St. Faith's, London, and Grace

Lansdale of the same Parish."

"Oct. 27, 1696. Humphrey Arden of Rotherhithe co. Surrey,

and Elizabeth Page of St. John's, Wapping."

Registers of St. George, Hyde Park Corner:

"May 7, 1750. John Pearce of Westminster and Mary Arden of

St. Margaret's, Westminster."

"Jan. 12, 1752. William Houghton and Susannah Arden of St.

James, Westminster."

"June 14, 1753. James Ardern and Elizabeth Bath."

Registers of St. Paul's:

"Nott Fettiplace, Esq., of the Middle Temple, London, and

Anna Catherina Arden of Longcroft Hall in the County of

Stafford, were married by Licence by me in this Cathedral.

Thomas Spateman, 15th Nov., 1753."

Registers of St. Thomas Apostle, London:

"Burial: Thomas Arden, December 11, 1750."

Registers of Kensington Parish:

"Christenings: July 8th, 1649. Elizabeth daughter of John

and Mary Ardin."

"July 24, 1642. Thomas, s. of John and Mary Ardin."

"Dec. 29, 1644. Thomas, s. of John and Mary Ardin."

"March 14, 1646. Mary, daughter of John and Mary Arden."

"Feb. 15, 1651. Christening: Edward son of John and Mary

Arden."

"March 27, 1653. James, son of John and Mary Arden."

"March 27, 1640. Richard, son of John and Mary Arden."

"April 16, 1656. Daniell, son of John and Mary Arden, at

Brompton (buried Nov. 9th, 1656)."

Registers of St. Antholin:

"Marriage: June 22, 1578. Roger Cumber and Joyce Arden."

Christ Church, Newgate Street:

"Burial: Anne Arden, a prisoner, Jan. 31, 1733."

Registers of St. Michael's, Cornhill:

"Marriage: June 8, 1675. John Arden and Elizabeth Briscoe,

by Lic."

"Robert Ardone and Agnes Holder, Aug. 29, 1565."

"Christenings: Dec. 6th, 1670. Thomas, son of John Arden and

Mary his wife, Dec. 6, 1670."

"Richard, son of John Arden and Mary his wife, Dec. 20,

1672."

"Aug. 20, 1683. Alice, daughter of John Arderne and

Elizabeth his wife."

"May 25, 1686. Ralph, s. of John Ardern and Elizabeth his

wife."

"Burials: Sept. 9, 1674. Mary, d. of John Arden and Mary his

wife."

"Thomas, son of John Arden the Parish Clerk in the

Churchyard, Ap. 24, 1679."

"Thomas Arden, a Stranger, in the Cloister, May 20, 1705."

Chancery Proceedings in reign of James I.:

B.A., 2, 8. Arderne _v._ Arderne.

B.A., 5, 70. Arden _v._ Askrigg.

B.A., 7, 49. Arden _v._ Biddulph and others.

B.A., 8, 16. Ardern et al. _v._ Rysbrook et al.

B.A., 9, 28. Arden _v._ Hodges et al.

B.A., 10, 26. Arden _v._ Hodges.

B.A., 4, 13. Ardern _v._ Greenfield, etc.

B.B., 20, 28. Browne Mil. _v._ Arden et al.

Will in the Public Record Office, 5 G.T., p. 20: "No. 8.

John Arden, 16 May, 1718."

FOOTNOTES:

[581] Robert Arden purchased another tenement from him and his wife

Agnes in 1619.

[582] Robert Arden purchased another tenement from John Palmer in 1529.

[583] Adam Palmer and Hugh Porter were trustees for Robert's settlements

on his daughters.

[584] In St. Mary's, Warwick, a marble monument bears similar arms

sacred to the memory of "Franciscus Chernocke of gen. antiqua. Baronet

cognominum in com. Bedford, familia oriundus. Obiit 1727, æt. 69."

[585] Lieutenant, R.N.; died, _s.p._, 1691. Mrs. Elwes died, _s.p._,

1718 (Marshall's "Genealogist," i. 149).

INDEX

Abel, Margaret, 173

Abell, Agnes, 173

Abington, 105

Adams, John Exley, 237

Addenbroke, John, 76, 117

Adderley, Sir Charles, 181

Lady Anne, 181

Ailwin, 32, 165, 234

Albans, St., Hall, 15

Alcester, 10, 14, 122

Alcock, Anne, 186

Alcokkes, John, 30, 223

Alderley, 198, 200

Nether, 199, 200

Aldford, 197, 198, 199

Aldford, Richard de, 197

Alfred, King, vi, 163

Allen _v._ Burbage, 224

Alleyn, 34

Allon, Thomas, 150

Altcar, 171

Alvanley, 197, 198, 199, 201-202

Amabilia, 167

de Glanville, 192, 233

Amicia, 167

Andrew, Mary, 175

Sir Thomas, 175

Appowell, John, 218

Archer, Joan, 160

Margaret, 93

Sir Richard, 160

Archivists, Society of, 3

Archy's "Banquet of Jests," 84

ARDEN, ARDERNE, or DE ARDEN

Adam, 195, 215

Sir Adam, 213

Adela, 166

Adeliza, 167

Agnes, 166, 173, 196, 208, 218, 220

Agnes, of Wilmecote, m. (1) Hewyns, (2) Stringer, 36, 37, 40, 49,

Agnes Webbe, m. (1) Hill, (2) Arden, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 44, 45, 223

Her will, 39, 40, 41, 223

Alethea, 186, 232, 236

Alexander, 196, 219

Alianore, 170

Alice, 209, 216, 220, 230, 238

Alice of Wilmecote, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44, 49

Alicia, 168, 188, 219, 230

Amabilia, 167

Amabilia de Glanville m. Ralph de Hampton, 192, 233

Ambrose, 186, 235

Amicia, 167

Amy, 208

Anna, 232

Anna Catharine, 187, 238

Anna Maria, 237

Anne, 172, 177, 181, 186, 202, 219, 221, 234, 236, 237, 238

Anthony, 209, 210, 211

Arthur, 182

Aveline, 196

Barbara, 177

Beatrix, 230

Benjamin, 186

B. R., 237

Bridget, 177, 211, 218, 236

Catharine, 178, 202, 232, 238

Catharine Emma, 237

Cecilia, 166, 167, 200, 220

Charles, 201

Christian, 183, 235

Christopher, 237

Cicely, 176, 202

Daniell, 238

Dionysia, Mrs., 236

Dorothy, 181, 235

Edith, 207, 235

Edmund, 188, 211, 213

Edward, 30, 64, 94, 176, 208, 221, 230, 232, 236, 238

Edward, of Park Hall, 1532-1583. 30, 64, 94, 177, 178, 179,

180, 183, 184, 185

Eleanor, 49, 170, 171, 209, 230, 231

Elena, 169, 170, 194, 196

Elizabeth, 170, 172, 176, 181, 182, 186, 206, 208, 219, 236, 237, 238

Mistress, 182

Ellinor, 237

Eustace, 196, 197

Eustachia, 167, 195

Felicia or Phillis, 163, 164, 167

Frances, 177, 182, 186, 201, 236

Francis, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 184, 221

Fraunces, 177

Galfridus, 167

Geoffrey, 170, 194

George, 176, 184, 202, 209, 235

Giles, Sir, 160, 169, 220

Godfrey, 232

Goditha, 181, 221

Guy, 204, 205, 211, 236

Harald, 165

Hawisia, 190, 196

Helen, 237

Henry, 26, 49, 166, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172, 181, 186, 187,

188, 189, 209, 211, 219, 220, 232, 235, 236

Henry, Sir, of Park Hall, 169, 181, 195, 198, 235

Henrietta, 237

Heraud, 164

Herbert, 167

Hugh, 166, 178, 190, 201, 216, 220

Hugh de Vienna, 167

Isabel, 199, 200, 209

Isabella, 217, 220

Isolda, 233

James, Rev. Dean, 201, 235

James, Captain, 235

James, 219, 237

Jane, 177, 181, 186, 196, 214, 218, 234, 235

Joan, 168, 172, 207, 235

Joan, of Wilmecote, m. Lambert, 36, 37, 39, 49

Johane, 207, 211

Johanna, 168, 220

John, 169, 171, 172, 176, 182, 185, 188, 190, 195, 196, 197,

198, 199, 201, 202, 203, 205, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212,

213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 229, 230, 231,

232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237

John, Sir, Park Hall, Esquire of the Body, 26, 49, 170, 171,

172, 173, 174, 184, 223, 230, 231, 232, 234, 236

John, Sir, 169, 233

John, of Pepper Hall, 202

John, Clerk of the Works, 202, 203

John, of Newark, 213

John, of Wisbeach, 186, 232

Jone, 236

Joseph, 166

Joyce, 41, 176, 177, 238

Joyce, of Wilmecote, 36, 37, 40, 41, 43, 49, 111, 181

Joyce, Mistress, 41, 181, 232

Judith, 182

Katharine, 203, 204, 205, 209, 230, 231, 234

Katharine, of Wilmecote, m. Edkins, 36, 37, 49

Laurence, 212

Leonard the priest, 209

Letitia, 167

Leverunia, 165

Lucia, 168

Margaret, 166, 169, 178, 183, 198, 200, 209, 212, 214, 216, 220

Margaret, of Wilmecote, m. Webbe, 36, 37, 224

Margery, 198, 211, 214

Martin, 26, 27, 32, 49, 171, 172, 173

Mary, 175, 178, 179, 180, 185, 195, 196, 209, 213, 221, 231,

235, 237, 238, 239

Mary, of Wilmecote, m. Shakespeare, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 31,

32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 45, 49, 51, 60, 175, 180

Matilda, 200

Maud, 199

Miriam, 237

Muriel, 178, 180

Mr., of Feversham, 217

Mrs., 180, 217, 221

M. E., 237

Nicholaa, 168, 169, 190, 195, 233

Nicholas, 189, 190, 208, 233

Oliva, 167, 190

Osbert, 166, 167, 230

Perkin, 235

Peter, 166, 167, 170, 190, 191, 197, 198, 199, 201, 202, 203, 214, 221

Peter, Sir, of Latton, 203, 204, 205, 206, 221

Philip, 167

Pierce, 213

Ralph, 168, 169, 170, 186, 194, 195, 201, 214, 215, 216, 222, 233, 234,

238

Ralph, of Hampton, 166, 190, 191, 192, 193, 234

Ralph, Sir, of Park Hall, 168, 169

Ralph, Sir, of Hornden, 215

Richard, 167, 188, 190, 191, 202, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210,

213, 216, 220, 221, 235, 238

Richard Pepper, Baron Alvanley, 202, 234, 237

Robert, 166, 168, 169, 170, 172, 173, 176, 178, 180, 181,

182, 189, 190, 194, 195, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 218, 219,

221, 233, 235, 237, 238

Robert, of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 234

of Cottesford, 209, 210

of Henley, 211

de Draiton, 168, 233

of Lapworth, Rector, 189, 233

of Park Hall, 26, 27, 46, 49, 170, 181, 182, 184, 185, 194,

195, 216, 232, 233

of Norfolk, 213

Robert, of Wilmecote, 22, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 43,

45, 49, 50, 175, 180, 184

His will, 37, 38

Robert, of Yoxall, 171, 172, 173, 189

Roger, 190, 191

R. Crewe, Rev., 235

Rose, 167, 168, 169

Samuel, 237

Sibilla, 170

Simon, 31, 174, 176, 178, 181, 183, 184, 185, 232

of Longcroft, 175

Siward, 168

Susannah, 237

Thomas, 167, 168, 171, 172, 176, 178, 188, 190, 191, 192,

195, 199, 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211,

212, 213, 214, 216, 217, 219, 220, 221, 222, 228, 229, 230,

231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238

Thomas de Draiton, 168

Thomas de Hanwell, 167, 168, 169

of Long Itchington, 173, 188

of St. Martin's, Outwich, 173, 218

of Park Hall, 26, 27, 31, 35, 172, 173, 175, 176, 177, 178,

183, 184, 231

Thomas, of Wilmecote, 24, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 35, 45, 46, 49,

174, 175, 184, 222, 223

Thomas, son of Walter, 171, 172

Timothy, 215

Turchil, 165, 166, 167

Ursula, 177

Ursuley, 177

Virgil, 208

Walkeline, 197, 199, 200, 233

Walter, of Park Hall, 26, 27, 28, 35, 49, 170, 174, 208, 215, 230, 231

His will, 26, 170, 171

William, 26, 32, 49, 166, 167, 168, 170, 171, 172, 175, 176,

183, 184, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191, 193, 195, 202, 205, 209,

210, 214, 215, 216, 219, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235

William, son of Thomas of Park Hall, his will, 176, 177

William, of Hawnes, 172, 173, 175, 216, 231

Ardens' Arms, The, 26, 31, 32, 33, 168, 169, 174, 175, 176,

179, 182, 189, 190, 193, 196, 198, 201, 202, 209, 216, 217,

221, 223, 230, 231, 232, 234, 235

Impalement of the, 24, 25, 31, 32, 33, 175, 223

Ardens, The, 161, 162, 174, 178, 181, 194, 201, 216, 222, 223

Ardens, The, of Alvanley, 197

Bedfordshire, 32, 216

Burnham, Bucks, 217

Cheshire, 31, 32, 196, 197, 234

Cottesford, 209, 210

Essex, 215

Feversham, Tragedy of, 217

Kent, 217

Kirtlington, 209

London, 217, 220, 236

Longcroft, 183

Oxfordshire, 209, 211, 212

Park Hall, 25, 26, 28, 31, 32, 33, 36, 40, 41, 45, 58, 162,

169, 175, 209, 222

Victoria, 221

Warwickshire, 188, 189, 190, 191

Wilmecote, 28, 31, 33, 35, 36

Yorkshire, 214

Ardeney, Alice, 181

Arden's Grafton, 189

Arderon, William, 235

Armyn, Robert, 73

Arthgal, 230

Asbies, 37, 40, 41, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 56, 57, 62, 71, 223

Ashby, 134

Ashwell, John, 119

Astley, Isabella, Prioress of Wroxall, 11

Aston Cantlow, 27, 31, 39, 40, 51, 174, 175, 222

Athelstan, King, vi, 33

_Athenæum_, 25, 64, 66, 139, 179, 226

Atkins or Edkins, Richard, 30, 223

Atwood, Thomas, 113

Auberville, Matilda de, 93, 232

William de, 93, 232

Averne, Anne, 124

Babthorpe, Margaret, 200

Sir Robert, 200

Baconians, The, 17, 121

Baddesley Clinton, 6, 7, 11, 124, 130

Badger, George, 59

Bagley, Edward, 106, 107, 108

Bagleys, The, 226

Bagot, Hervey, 181

Dorothy, 181

Baker's "Northampton," 168, 189, 196

Balsall, 7, 14, 119, 124

Barbor, John, 9

Barber, Thomas le, 219

Barker, Herald, Sir Christopher, 216, 231

Thomas, 59

Barking, 140

Barnards, The, 105, 109

Barnard, Sir John, 104, 105, 106, 109

Lady Elizabeth, 103, 105, 109, 226

Barnesley, John, 177

Anne, 177

Barnet, James, 151

Barston, 13

Barton, 186

Barton-on-the-Heath, 45, 48, 57

Basnet, Mr., 122

Basse, Master John, 205

William, 84

Bath, Elizabeth, 237

Battersby, Judith, 236

Bawdsey, or Bawsey, 233

Bearley, 36, 37

Beauchamps, de, or Bellocampo, 27, 31, 46, 167, 168, 174, 175

Arms, 167, 174, 175

Alicia de, 168

Elizabeth, 46, 174, 222

Joan, 170, 197

Lady, of Bergavenny, 46, 170

Lord, of Bergavenny, 174

Maud, 167

Richard, Earl of Worcester, 174, 221

Thomas, 169, 174, 221

William, 167, 174, 221, 232

Beaumont, 84

His poems, 86

Beaupré, 176

Elizabeth, 176

Bedfordshire, 26, 32, 172

Belknap, Edward, 171

Bell in Carter Lane, 69

Bellomont, Roger de, Earl of Mellent, 166

Benfield, Swanston and Pollard _v._ Burbage, 70, 71, 81

Berewood Hall, 178

Berkshire, 132

Berkswell, 13, 124

Berry's "Genealogies," 168, 202

Beverston Register, 87

Bevis, Sir, of Hampton, 163

Bibbesworth, Thomas, 204

Bickley, Mr. W.B., 7, 28, 35

Biddle, Anne, 228

Bigsby, Dr., 109

Billesley, 27, 29, 35, 104

Bilton, 188

Birmingham, 35, 130, 131

Birt, John, 136

Blackfriars' tenement, 76, 80, 107

Theatre, 70, 76

Blagrove, John, 158

Blaxton, Rev. Mr., 212

Blomfield's "Norfolk," 193, 214, 233

Blount, John Henry, 132

Bodleian Library, 22

Bohun, Anne, 203

John, 203

D.A., 191

Boles, Rev. Mr., 97

Christian, 183

Thomas, 183

Boosie, Mary, 219, 236

Bordesley, 14, 21

Botecourt, Sir John de, 169

Boteler, John, 171

Boulogne, Earl Eustace of, 215

Bouton, Sir William, Curate, 38, 223

Boutvilein, Nicholaa de, 169

William de, 169

Bowes, Mr., of King's College, 205

Bowles, Anne, 172

Richard, 172

Bracebridges, The, of Kingsbury, 167

Alice, 172

John, 171

Peter, 167

Richard, 172

Bradshaw, George, executed, 217

Bratt, Mr. Robert, 55

Brayley's "Surrey," 207

Braylys, Geys, 173

Thomas, 173

Brearley, Thomas, 130

Bredon, Worcestershire, 132

Brewer, Anne, 150

Bridge's "Northampton," 196

Brigide's, St., Church, 149, 176, 226, 235

Briscoe, Elizabeth, 238

Bristol Wills, 139

Broadspear, 2

Brodesley, 178

Broke, Simon, Clerk, 173

Brome, Beatrice, 11

Jocosa, Prioress, 11, 12

John, 11

Nicholas, 11

Thomas, 11

Bromfield, Richard, 218, 236

Brook, Ralph, York Herald, 22, 24, 25

Brown, daughter, 173

John, 57, 219

Brownlow pedigree, 177

Bucknall, Thomas Skip Dyott, 156

Harriet Sophia, 156

Budbrook, 11, 115, 124, 126, 177

Buklond, Alice, 171, 173, 230

Burbage, Anne, 126

Cuthbert, 70

James, 70, 81, 224

Richard, 34, 36, 70, 73, 77, 80, 136

Thomas, 81, 126, 136

William, 70, 81

Winifred, 70, 81

Burke's "Landed Gentry," 180, 202, 221

"Colonial Gentry," 221

Burleigh, 180

Bushell, Mr., 69

Butler, Lady Emily Georgiana, 237

Byrdsale, William, 9

Cade, Richard, 176

Joyce, 176

Cage, The, 91

Camden, 17, 33, 52, 84

His "Britannia," 84

Campbell's "Lives of the Judges," 192

Campbell, Hon. John, 153

Anne, 153

Carew, Elizabeth, 95

Carlisle, 5

Carter, Maria Anna, 143

Thomas, 182

William, 237

Catesby, John, 182, 205

Catheryns, Humphrey, Mr., 229

Cavendish, H. F. Compton, 237

Chacsper, Thomas, 7

Chafford, 140

Chaloner, John, 207

Chamber, William, 230

Champe, Thomas, 134

Champ, Joseph, 137

Chancery Cases, 48, 77, 121, 123, 129, 133

Charles I., a student of Shakespeare, 85, 101

Charnells, John, 26, 173

William, 179

Charterhouse Chapel, 155

Chaucer, 84

Chaworth, Sir Thomas, 9

Chedwyns, The, 7

Chelesworthy Manor, Devon, 215

Cheney, Katharine, 209

John, 209

Chernocke, Francis, 229

"Cheshire Collections," Vincent's, 234

Chester, Earl of, Prince of Wales, 200

Ranulph, 196, 197

Chettle, publisher, 65

Chettleton, William de, 230

Chief, Thomas, 218

Children's Company of Actors, 70

Church End, Rowington, 13

Claredon, or Claverdon, 123, 129

Clement's Danes, St., Register, 146, 147, 148, 149, 236

Clerk, Nicholas, 235

Clifford Chambers, 119

Clifton Camvile, 199

Clinton, Henry de, Earl of Huntingdon, 174

Clodeshalle, Elizabeth, 170, 176, 231, 232

Richard de, 170, 232

Walter de, 231

Clopton, Barbara, 107

Sir Hugh, 108

Sir John, 107

Mr., 51

William, 45

Cockes, Elena, 12

Codd, Rev. E. T., 124

Codmore, 171

Bailiff of, 171

Codyngton, Mr., daughters of, 206

Cokaine, Sir Aston, 186

Colbrand, 163

Cole, Henry, 50

"Colin Clout's Come Home Again," Spenser's, 2

Collier, J. P., 143

Collins, Agnes, 208

Edith, 208

Elizabeth, 208

Francis, 80, 122

Katherine, 206

name of, 207

Colyns, Hugh, 173

Combe, John, 72, 77, 224, 225

Mr. Thomas, 80

Mrs., 100

Mr. William, 78, 225

"Comedy of Errors," The, 67, 68, 224

Compton, Rt. Hon., Frances Elizabeth, 237

Compton, Philip, 167

Compton Winyate, 166

Condell, Henry, 70, 73, 77, 80, 81

Conway, Edward, 176

Elizabeth, 176

Sir John, 177, 179

Lord, 85

Cooke, Gilbert the, 196

Cooke, Dr. James, 98, 99

J., 85

Thomasine, 139

Cooke, the Herald, 17

Corbet, Elizabeth, 138, 178, 230, 234

Reginald, Justice, 178, 230, 234

Cornish, 41

Cornwall, Edward, 36, 41, 44, 49, 56, 114

Cotgrave, Richard de, 5

Cotesbrook Church, 195

Cotterell, Nicholas, 232

Cotton, Alethea, 187, 232

Robert, 187, 232

Coughton, 166, 169

"Court of Virtue," Dr. John Hall's, 93

Court, Mrs. Grace, 100

Richard, 57

William, attorney, 57

Coventry, 5, 124, 131

Cowley, Richard, 73

Cowper, John, Under-Sheriff, 43

Cowper, Mr. J.M., 141

Coxe, Margery, 209

Walter, 209

Crabhouse, Prioress of, 205

Croke, John, 173

Crollalanza, Goffredo di, 1

Cromwell, Lord, 216

Crosmore, Agnes, 140

Culpepper, Richard, 207

Cumber, Roger, 238

Curdworth, 166, 167, 169, 178, 179, 184

Currie, Colin, 153

Elizabeth, 153

Cymbeline, 163

Dance, Mr. William, 136

Darcy, Edward, 180, 181, 184, 185

Daubeney, John, 211

Davenant, John, 75

Sir William, 75

Davenport, Mary, 154, 157

Rev. William of Bredon and Lacock Abbey, 154, 157

Davies, John, "Microcosmus, the Civil Warres of Death and Fortune," 34

Dawson, Harriet, 157

Debrett's Peerage, 234

Denbigh, Earl of, 149

Denham, Joan, 160

Sir John, 160

Derbyshire, 136, 235

Dethick, Sir William, Garter, 17, 22

Devereux, Lady Catherine, 178, 231

Sir Edward, 178, 231

Deye, John, 207

Dibdin's "History of the Edinburgh Stage," 73

Dickenson, Mr. C. C., 132, 141

Dickins, Charles Scrase, 237

Dier, Sir Edward, 22

Digby, Sir George, 43, 180

Digges, Leonard, 83

Dilcock, Henry, of Coventry, 5

Dimbleby, Mrs., 146

Divos, Rev. Roger, 51

Dixson, Thomas, 31

Dodde, Dorothea (Mrs. Shakespeare), 145

Elizabeth, 145

Jane (Mrs. Wren), 145

Domesday Book, 165

Done, John, 218

Donnelly, Hon. Ignatius, 17

Doulton, Bridget, 216

D'Oyley, Justice, 179

Dragon, The, 163

Draiton, 169

Drape, Richard, 202

Drayton, Michael, the Poet, 99, 225

Drey, Christopher, 177

Drummond's "Noble British Families," 31, 162, 163, 164, 167, 168, 201

Dudley, Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, 131

Dudley, Mr. Thomas, 211

Dudston, 178

Dugdale, Sir William, 11

His "Monasticon," 11, 12, 113, 166

His "Warwickshire," 11, 12, 42, 97, 104, 162, 163, 164, 167,

168, 170, 171, 174, 175, 180, 184, 189, 190, 191, 222, 231,

232

Duncombe, Mr., 111

Dwale, John, 8

Dyer, Rev. Mr., 111

Ealdstreet, Prebendary of (Hugh Saunders, or Shakespeare), 15

"Earliest Official Record of Shakespeare's Name," 3, 66, 224

Earwaker's "East Cheshire," 198, 199, 201, 202

Echenours, 167

Edgehill, 101

Edkyns, or Atkins, Adam, 49

Clement, 49

Richard, 31

Thomas, senior, 36, 49

Thomas, junior, 36, 49

Walter, 31

Edmund, King, 165

Edmunds, Alice, 124

Edward I., 160

Edward the Confessor, 165

the Elder, 162

the Martyr, 165

Edwards, Margaret, 148

Elford, 197, 198, 199, 200

Elizabeth, Queen, 66, 139, 179

Ellerker, Sir Ralph, 214

Ellesmere, Lord, 76

Elton, Oliver, 225

Elwes, William, 236

Empson, Sir Richard, 174, 184

Engelger, 192

Ensors, The, 111, 125

Ermenhild, 163

Errors, Brooke's pamphlet of Camden's, 24, 25

Comedy of, 67, 68, 224

Essex, Countess of, 178

Earl of, 72

Forest of, 4

Essex, Shakespeares of, 7, 138, 139, 140

Etchells, 199, 200

Ethelfleda, 163

Ethelred, 165

Eton, The Master of, 61

Eton, Cicely de, 233

Nicholas de, 167, 233

Euphorbus, 68

Eustace de Arden, 196, 197

Eustachia, 167

Euston, 171

Evenley, 209, 210

Farron, William, 151

Fawkenor, Mary, 237

Sarah, 237

Feckenham, 64

Felicia, or Phillis the Fair of Warwick, 163

Fellows, William, 151

Fenwick, Charles, 157

Fenwick, Octavia, 157

Ferne, Sir John, 17

Ferrars, Thomas, 216

Ferrers, Mr. Henry, 11, 93, 130, 131, 183

Fettiplace, Nott, Esq., 237

Field, Henry, tanner, of Stratford-on-Avon, 58

Richard, his son, printer, of London, 65

Fielding, Basil, 181

Dorothy, 181

Fillongley, 111, 131

Finsbury Fields, The Theatre in, 70

First folio of Shakespeare's Plays, 84

Fisher, Clement, 186, 232

Fisher, John, The Book of, 130, 224, 229

Fisher's "Forest of Essex," 4

Fitzalan, John, 168

FitzCana de Bohun, Engelger, 192

Franco, 192

Gelduin, 192

Ralph, 192

Savaric, 192

Fitzralph, Robert, de Middleham, 233

Fleay's "History of the Stage," 71

"Life of Shakespeare," 76

Flecknoe, Christopher, 123

Fletcher, Charlotte, 157

Giles, 94

Joan, 94

Lawrence, 73

Phineas, 94

"Foedera," Rymer's, Patent to Shakespeare and others, 73, 74

Foss's "Lives of the Judges," 192, 193, 202, 203

Foxwell, John, 236

Franklin, Elizabeth, 172

John, 172

Franklyn, Mr., 217

Freeman's "Epigrams," 34

French, G. R., "Shakespeareana Genealogica," 8, 31, 35, 46, 88, 112,

122, 123, 133, 135, 141, 144, 160, 165, 187, 221

Freville, Baldwin, 216

Freyndon, 5

Fuller's "Worthies of England," 31, 192, 207, 209, 214, 215

Fulwood, John, 39

Mary, 39

Richard, 212

Robert, 59

Furnivall, Dr. F.J., 3, 62

Galton, Mr. Francis, 160

Gamell, John, 170

Garnett, Dr. Richard, 1

Gay, Elizabeth, 143

Gaynsford, John, 205

Gearing, Agnes, 208

Henry, 208

Gedney, John, 213

"Gentlemen of Verona," 68

George, St., 162

Gerard, Father, 212

Gerard's "Herbal," 213, 234

Getley, Walter, 72

Gibbes, George, 40, 42, 223

Nicholas, 31

Gibbons of Oxfordshire, 171

Gifford, Isabel, 209

John, 209

Gilbert, Sir William, Curate, 88

Gilpitts, The, 55

Glanville, Amabilia de, 192, 233

Helewise de, 193, 233

Matilda, or Maud de, 193, 233

Ralph de, 192, 193, 233

Globe Theatre, 70, 77, 78, 83, 84

Glover's "Heraldry," 32, 175

Glover, William, 132

Gloucester Wills, 132

Goldsmith, Mrs. Anne, 234

Gollancz, Mr. Israel, 9

Goodwin, Mary, 151

Goodyere, Anne, The "Idea" of Drayton, 225

Gotheridge, Mary, 147

Grace, Alice, 129

Thomas, 129

Grange, John, 153

Gray's Inn revels, 67, 224

Green, Alice, 205, 206

Anna, 130

Edward, 234

Elizabeth, 205

Margaret, 202

Mrs., 116

Philip, 59

Robert, 205

Thomas, 116, 117, 121, 130

Green, Thomas, alias Shakespeare, 76, 78, 116

Walter, 205

Greene's "Groatsworth of Wit" and the "Upstart Crow," 65

Greenhill Street House, 51

Greenstreet, Rev. James, 224

Greenway the Carrier, 69

Greenwich, Shakespeare plays at, 66

Gregory, Rev. Mr., 212

William, 151

Greswold, Thomas, 170

Gretwyn, Thomas, 31

Greville, Sir Edward, 59

Sir Fulke, 25, 45, 122

Ludovic, 169, 178

Grevilles of Drayton, 178

Grey, Lord, 9

Griffin, Agnes, 140

Alice, 15, 140

Edward, 15

Francis, 15, 140

Guiderius, 163

Guildhall Library, 77, 92

Gutheridge, Mr., a Dealer in Leather, 230

Guthmund, 165

Guy of Warwick, vi, 32, 164

Guy's Cliff, 164

Guy, William, 151

Gwillim's "Display of Heraldry," 22, 87

Haberdasher's Books, The, 226, 234

Hales, Bartholomew, Lord of Manor of Snitterfield, 45

Hall, Alice, 225

Anne, 94

Edmund, 55, 94

Edward, 94

Elizabeth, 93, 94

Elizabeth, poet's grand-daughter, 75, 79, 80, 92, 95, 99,

100, 101, 105, 109

Eme, 225

Emma, 55, 94

Hugh, 181

Hugh, priest, 179, 180

John, 12, 93, 94, 129, 225

Dr. John of Maidstone, 92

Dr. John, the poet's son-in-law, 75, 80, 81, 82, 89, 90, 91,

92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 107, 109

his cures, 98, 99, 100

his epitaph, 97

Joyce, 129

Maria, 93

Mr., 51, 94

Mr. A., 95

Rev. Dr., 212

Richard, 93, 225

Robert, 225

Simon, 225

Susanna, the poet's daughter, 77, 79, 89, 93, 95, 97, 98, 99,

100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 226

Her epitaph, 104

Thomas, 94

Halls, Arms of the, 104

Halls, the, of Henwick, 94

of Idlecote, 94

of Warwick, 225

of Worcester, 93

Hallen, Rev. Cornelius, 112

Halliwell-Phillipps, "Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare," 6, 10, 17,

20, 21, 39, 41, 42, 43, 47, 49, 51, 59, 69, 72, 75, 78, 81, 93, 107,

115, 121, 122, 224, 226

Halstead, Peter, 181

Hamilton, Fanny Isabella, 156

Sir Robert North Collie, 156

Hammond, William, 108

Mrs., 108

Hampden, Eleanor, 26, 49, 170

John, 26, 49, 170

Hampton in Arden, 10, 124, 125

Lucy, 10

-on-Avon, 115

Corley, 13, 115

Hanhampsted, John, 217

Harbage, Francis, 51

Harborne, John, 47

Hareley, 22

Hargrave, John, 37

Harold, 165

Harper, Catherine, 186

Harstead, Dennis, 236

Hart, George, 106

Joan, poet's sister, 49, 54, 79, 101, 107, 109, 226

John, 112

Thomas, 106, 109

William, 109, 112, 226

William Henry, F.S.A., 4

Harts, The, 42, 61

Hartwell, Elizabeth, 143

Harveys, The Rowington, 8, 14, 226

Haselden, 214

Haseley, 10, 13, 14, 122, 124, 125

Hasted's "History of Kent," 217

"Haste-vibrans," 1

Hastings, John, 125

Hathaway, Agnes or Anne, poet's wife, 62, 63, 64, 80, 81, 83, 87, 88,

89, 90, 99, 117, 224

Her epitaph, 90

Bartholomew, 88, 89

Catherine, 88

Elizabeth, 89, 106

Isabel, 89

Joan, 106

John, 87, 88

Judith, 89, 106

Margaret, 88

Hathaway, Richard, 53, 62, 63, 88, 89, 224

Rose, 106

Susanna, 106

Thomas, 88, 89, 106

William, 88, 89

Hathaways, The, 87, 106, 117, 224.

Hatton, 13, 14, 124, 125, 129

Hatton, Sir Christopher, 66

Havering, 139

Hawarden, 199

Hawnes, Beds, 26, 172, 231

Hayles, James, 211

Hazard, Dorothy, 218

Head, Elizabeth, 237

Hedges, Henry, 134

Helen's, St., Parish, Bishopsgate, 142, 143

Hemings, John, 70, 73, 75, 80, 81

Henley, John, 37

Henley-on-Thames, The Ardens of, 211

Henley Street House, 41, 47, 50, 51, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 79, 112

Henneage, Sir Thomas, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, 3, 66, 214, 222

Henrietta Maria, Queen, 101, 129

"Henry IV.," 68

"Henry VIII.," 77

Heraud, 164

Hertfordshire, 136, 137

Hewes, Joan, 173

Hewlands, 88

Hewyns, John, 49

Margaret, 49

Thomas, 49

Heylin's "History of St. George," 163

Higgins, Alice, 124

Highworth, Wilts, 208

Hill, Agnes (Mrs. Arden), 36, 49

Elizabeth, 59

Francis, 143

John, of Bearley, 36

John, of Rowington (1485), 8, 14

Mary, 39

William, 31

Hoare, John, 236

Hobbyns, Julian (Mrs. Shakespeare), 119

Hodgson, Margaret, 154

Joseph, 154

Holder, Alice, 238

Holgrave, Alice, 206

Elizabeth, 206

John, 206

Sir John, 205, 207

Thomas, 205, 206, 207

Holinshed's "Chronicles," 17

Holland, Thurston, 233

Holyoake, Mr., "who made the dictionary," 100

Hooper, Humphrey, 42

Hornby, Richard, 54, 76

Hornchurch, Shakespeares of, 139, 140

Horndon, 215

Hospicium Vocatum le Greyhounde, 9

Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, 9

Hospital of St. Nicolas, Carlisle, 5

Howard, Lord Henry, 22

Howitt's, William, "Visits to Remarkable Places," 226

Huddespit, Elizabeth, 7

Robert, 7

Hugh de Vienna, 167

Hulme, Agnes, 201

Hunter, Rev. Joseph, 13, 14, 33, 142, 145

Huva, or Uve, 164, 165

Hybarnes, 178

Hyde, Cecily de, 201

Ingleby, Dr. Thomas, 78, 85, 116

Ingon, 52, 112, 115, 123

Ingram, Richard, 31

Inson, William, 219

Jackley, 210

Jaggard, William, 229

James I., King, 73, 74

Jenkes, Dorothy, 114

John, 31

Thomas, 38, 222

Jennings, Alice, 228

Jeny, M.L., 159

Jephson, William, vintner, 152

Jerome, Thomas, 236

John, King, 68

John, St., of Jerusalem Hospital, 9

Jons, Joan, 139

Jonson, Ben, 75, 85, 99

Josselyn, Gabriel, 219

Kakley, Isolda, 7

Robert, 7

Kambur, Margaret, 173

Kemp, William, 3

Kenilworth, 124, 127

Kent, Edward, 106

Junior, 106

Kineton, 101

King, Mr. W. Wickham, 181

Kingsmell, John, Sergeant-at-Law, 28, 184

Kirkland, 5

Kirtlington, 209, 210

Knightley, Sir Richard, 28, 184

Knights Templars, 167

Knolles, Nicholas, Vicar of Alveston, 42, 45

Knowle, 124, 126, 131

Guild of St. Anne of, 7, 10, 11, 12, 27, 28, 170, 188, 189

Kyngeston, Avisia de, 189

Kyngeston, Robert de, 189

Lacock Abbey, 154

Ladbroke, John, 177

Joyce, 177

Lambert, Edmund, 36, 40, 41, 45, 46, 48, 49, 57

Joan, 36, 39, 40, 49

John, 36, 39, 40, 45, 47, 48, 49

Lane, Annes, 8

Mrs., 96

Nicholas, 57, 114

Richard, 105

Lane, Green and Shakespeare complain of the tithes, 76

Lane slanders Susanna Hall, 77

Lanfranc's "Chirurgerie," 93

Langham, Alice, 9

Lansdale, Grace, 237

Lapworth, 127, 169, 189

Latton, Essex, 203, 206

Lawrence, Henry, scrivener, 77

Lee, Elizabeth, 236

Lee, John de, 207

Legh, de, Constantia, 4

John de, 200, 201

Matilda, 200, 201

Leicester, 133, 178, 180

Earl of, 178, 179, 210, 211

Mayor of, 133

Leicestershire, 31, 133, 134, 216

Ardens, 216

Shakespeares, 133

Leigh, John de, 201

Maud, 199, 200

Robert, 199, 200

Leighton, Sir Thomas, 160

Leland's "Itinerary," 27, 163, 171

Lench, John, 35

Leofric, Earl of Mercia, 165

Leonetta, 164

Letherbarrow, Elizabeth, 131

Leverunia, 165, 191

Ley, Francis, 15, 119

Joan, 15, 119, 137

Lichfield Wills, 125, 174, 186

Lightfoot, Mr. J. W., 141

Lily, John, 212

Lingard, Rev. Edmund, 179

L'Isle, Richard de, 191

Little, Agnes, Prioress of Wroxall, 11, 12

Littleton, Thomas, 170

Litton, Master, 206

Lloyd, Rev. John William, 158

Lone, Alice, 8-12

Long, Theodosia, 219, 236

Longcroft, 31, 176, 183, 185, 221, 232

Long Itchington, 173, 188

Longsword, 2

"Love's Labour's Lost," 68

"Love's Labour's Wonne," 68

Lovetot, John, 215

Lewis, Lieutenant Ninian, 155

Lowston End, Rowington, 13

Lucy, Sir Thomas, 45, 54, 58, 64, 180

Deer-stealing story fabulous, 180

Lady, 90, 122

Lutterworth, 132

Lyannce, Hatton, 14

"Macbeth," 73

"Macbeth," The Scottish and English, 73

Macray, Rev. Dr., 130, 135

Madoc, Griffin ap, 198

Margaret, daughter of, 198

Madywattons, 128

Malaleone, Eustachia, 167

Savaricius, 167

Malone's "Life of Shakespeare," 23, 115

Malory, Charles, 119

Manning and Bray's "Surrey," 159

Mara, Agnes de la, 192

Marbury, Frances, 201

Thomas, 201

Marchington Register, 186

Margaret's, St., Westminster, 237

Margery, Mrs., 121

Marlow, Francis, 236

Marsh, Antony, 80

Mr. John, 80

Martin's, St., -in-the-Fields, 145, 146, 147, 236

Mary, Queen, 139

Massey, Hugh, 177

Masson, Robert, 186

Mather, Agnes, 218

Matthews, Maria, 129

William, 129

Mauley's, Lord, Arms, 23

Maxton, Charlotte, 155

Maydes, Richard, 50

Mayne, James Edward, 157

Mayowe, "The Appeal," 56, 114

Elizabeth, 223

Henry, 223

John, 45, 174, 223

Thomas, 45, 56

Mazzini, 61

Megre, le, Oliva, 190

Robert, 190

William, 191

Melbourne, John, 220

Mellent, Earl of, 166

Mercia, 163

"Merchant of Venice," 68

Mere's, Professor of Literature at Oxford, "Wit's Treasury," 67, 68

Meriden, 8, 124, 130

Merrick, Madame Anne, 85

"Merry Wives of Windsor," 79

Merton College, Oxford, 15

"Microcosmus," John Davies', 34

Middleton, John, 234

Sir John, 234

"Midsummer Night's Dream," 68

Milburn, Ellen, 150

John, 150, 220

Milton's epitaph on Shakespeare, 85

Minworth, 178

Mixbury, 16

Moeles, The, 231

Montfort, Simon de, 167

More, Agnes, 234

Sir Thomas, 234

John, 212

Morris, Katherine, 119, 212

Morrison, Lady Elizabeth, 235

Mortimer, Isabella, 168

Sir Roger, 168

Mortlake, 75

Moseley's, Mr., account, 85

Mountford, William, 91

Mowsley End, Rowington, 128

Muerson, Louisa, 156

Mug, Rev. Mr., 212

Muklowe, Katharine, 173, 231, 234

Richard, 173

Murray, Edith, 156

William Sim, 156

Myttons, Mr., 69

Nanson, Mr., Town Clerk of Carlisle, 221

Nash, Arms of, 101

Edward, 102, 103, 106, 107

Elizabeth, 96, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 109, 226

Thomas, 89, 91, 95, 96, 97, 100, 101, 102, 109

Nash's "Worcestershire," 14

Naso, Richard, 127

Nason, John, 100

Natford, 171, 172

Neville, Barbara, 177

Richard, 177

Sir Edward, 174

Newburgh, Henry de, 166

Margaret de, 166

William de, 166

Newburghs, or Novoborgos, The, 166, 167, 168

their arms, 168

Newcome, Colonel, 155

Newcourt's "Repertorium," 15, 204

New Place, 60, 67, 71, 72, 76, 77, 80, 89, 95, 101, 102, 103, 107, 108,

117

Newport, Margaret, 204

Newton, Anna Catharine, 187, 232

John, 187, 232

Nicholas, St., Hospital of, Carlisle, 5

Parish, Warwick, 120, 225

Nichols, Sir George, "History of the English Poor Law," 37

Nichols's "Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica," 25, 30, 31, 93,

130, 137, 197, 198

"Herald and Genealogist," 125, 192

"History of Leicestershire," 216

"Progresses of King James," 74

Nicolas, Sir N.H., 21, 175, 198

Nicols, Thomas, 223

"Non Sans Droict," 22

Norhull, 167, 169

Norris, Rev. Henry, 6

Northampton, 194, 195

Northamptonshire, 195

Norton Curlew, 129

"Nottingham Records," edited by Mr. W. Stevenson, 5, 8, 10

Nuneaton, 166

Offord, 189

Oken's, Thomas, money, 119

Oldich, or Woldiche, 6, 7

Oliver, Mary, 154

Laver, 158

Thomas, 237

Ormerod's "Cheshire," 93, 196, 201

"Miscellanea Palatina," 197, 199

Orreby, Agnes de, 197

Sir John de, 198

Ortelius, 52

Oxfordshire, 134, 209, 211

Packwood, 127

Page, Elizabeth, 237

Pakeson, Thomas, 169

Pakingtons, The, of Worcester, 182

their arms, 182

Palmer, Adam, 8, 37, 38, 40, 45, 50, 223

Catherine, 202

Elizabeth, 207

John, 36

Robert, 202

Pardu, John, 115

Park Hall, 178

Parkes, Alice, 135

Penelope, 127

Richard, 127

Parkins, Isabel, 124

Parnassus, Return from, 33

Parsons, Robert, 136

Pate, Rev. Lawrence, 210

Pearce, John, 237

Peche, John, 191

Richard, 190

Pedimore, or Pedmore, Warwickshire, 169, 177, 181, 232

Worcestershire, 40, 181, 232

Peele, George, 143

Isabel, 143

James, 143

Pegge, Mr., 163

Pembroke, Earl of, 70, 71, 74

Pennefather, Richard, 237

Penrith, 5

Pepper, Sarah, 202

Perche, Countess of, 165, 191

Percival, Right Hon. Margaret, 237

Perkes, John, 44

Mary, 44, 49

William, 44

Perkyns, John, 133

Richard, 133

William, 133

Perpoint, Thomas, 214

Peto, Humphrey, 45

Petyfere, Richard, 40

Philip, King, 139

Phillips, Anne, 237

Augustine, 72, 73, 75

Hugh, 218, 236

Sir Thomas, 209

Phillis, or Felicia, of Warwick, 162

Pickering, John, Lord Keeper, 129

Pilkington, Margaret, 200

Pinley, 129

Pipe Office accounts, 3, 66

Pitt, William, 223

Plague in Stratford, 52

Planché's Roll of Arms, 213

Plautus, 68

Players, Earl of Worcester's, 54

King's Company, 73, 74, 75

the Lord Chamberlain's, 66

the Queen's Company, 54

Plays not to be performed in Guildhall, Stratford, 82, 225

Plesseto, Alured de, 233

Plumer, Elizabeth, 236

Plumstead, Thomas of, 217

Plutarch's "Lives," 65

Poate, George, 137

Pole, William de la, Earl of Suffolk, 203

Pollard, Benfield, and Swanston _v._ Burbage, 70, 71, 81

Poole, Isabel, 126

Pooley, Elizabeth, 181

Sir William, 181

Porter, Hugh, 37, 38, 50, 223

John, 30

Robert, 30

Portingale, Richard, 6

Pouter, Nicholas, 210

Powlett, William, D.D., 156

Pre-Shakespearean London Shakespeares, 139

Price, Goditha, 181

Herbert, 181

Michael, 57

Prince, John, of Abingdon, 135

Prins, William, 8

Prior, Walter, 210

"Pruslbury," 4

Pugh, Harriet, 237

Puttenham's "Art of Poetrie," 65

Pythagoras, 68

Pytt, William, 38

Quiney, Adrian, 50, 51, 54, 59, 92

Elizabeth, 91

Judith, poet's daughter, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 89, 91, 92, 100, 105, 109

Richard, of London, 89, 92

Richard, of Stratford, 68, 89, 91

Richard, son of Thomas and Judith, and grandson of the poet, 92, 100

Sarah, 92

Shakespere, son of Thomas and Judith, and grandson of the poet, 92, 100

Thomas, poet's son-in-law, 78, 79, 89, 91, 105, 109

Thomas, son of Thomas and Judith, and grandson of the poet, 92, 100

William, 92

Radcliffe, Elizabeth, 201

John de, 200

Matilda de, 200

Richard de, 200

Rainsford, Lady Anne, 225

Sir Henry, 225

Randall, John, 88

"Rape of Lucrece," 65, 66, 222

Ratcliffe, Mrs. Anne, 237

Robert, 235

"Ratsey's Ghost," 34

Rawreth, 140

Raynborn, 164

Reve, John, 15

William, 15

Rewardine, Gloucestershire, 87

Reynolds, Humphrey, 50

Roger, 27, 29, 30, 194

William, 80

"Richard II.," 68, 72

"Richard III.," 68

Richardson, Cicely, 138

John, 63

Sarah, 150

Ridley, Jane, 154

Sir Matthew, 154

Rightwood, Hamond, 236

Robbins, Antony, 127

Roberts, Margery, 118

Thomas, shoemaker, 118, 119

Robinson, Dr. William, 205

John, 80

Rocliff, Master John, 204

Rodburn, 166

Rogers, Henry, 59

Philip, 121

"Romeo and Juliet," 68, 108

Roses, The Wars of the, 26, 170

Rosswell, Mr., 69

Rotley, 166

Rous, John, 162

Rowbotham, Jane, 188

Rowington, 4, 8, 13, 14, 21, 54, 93, 113, 114, 115, 124, 127, 128, 129

Court Rolls, 4, 8, 13

Records of, edited by Mr. J.W. Rylands, 4, 14, 54, 80, 121,

122, 129, 130, 220, 226, 227

Rucking, Kent, 141

Rupert, Prince, 101

Rushby, Agnes, 36

Richard, 30, 36, 223

Thomas, 80

Ruswell, Mary, 123

Rymer's "Foedera," the grant of Shakespeare and others, 73, 74

Sadler, Hamnet, 80

Judith, 80

Roger, baker, 41

Sage, Joseph, 158

Sakesper, Simon, 4

Sakspere, Henry, 114

Margaret, 114

Salisbury, Earl of, 146

Saltley, 176, 177, 183

Salveyn, Geoffrey, 198

Sandells, Fulke, 63

Sanders, Margaret, 114

Richard, 114

Sattlewell, William, 127

Saunders, Hugh, alias Shakespeare, 15, 16, 134

Sautemaris, Geoffrey de, 197

Savage, Mr. Richard, 120, 225

Saviour's, St., Church of, 83, 110

Saxper, Nicholas, 140

Saray, 143

Sayer, Louisa Caroline, 156

Robert, 156

Scarlett, or Skerlett, Elizabeth, 36, 223

John, 31, 38

Margaret, 31

Scatcliffe, John, 143

Schakespeir, or Schaftspeire, Sir Thomas, priest, 15, 139

Scory, Bishop, 211

Scotland, Shakespeare in, 73

Scott, Sir Walter, 71

Seeley, Martha, 152

Seneca, 68

Sewell, Margaret, 207

Shackspeare v. Lambert, 48, 57, 59

Shakespeare, Abigail, 143

Adam, of Oldiche (1389), 6, 7

the Younger (1441), 6

Adrian, 130, 151

Agnes, 8, 12, 15, 125, 156

Alderman, the, 137, 153, 154, 158

Alice, 7, 10, 12, 15, 40, 119, 123, 124, 125, 126, 140, 228

Alicia, 7

Alexander, 156, 159

Allan, of Cumberland, 5

Andrew, 125

Ann, 124, 136, 138

Annah, 124, 139, 158

Anne, 125, 131, 136, 139, 158, 227, 228

Anne, Mrs., 159

Anne, the poet's sister, 49, 54, 56, 109

Anne, the poet's wife, 80, 81, 88, 89, 90, 225

Annis, 128

Anthony, 115, 147, 148

Antonio, 115, 119

Antony, 12, 115

arms of, 17-34, 59, 153

Arthur, 137, 153, 154, 156

Arthur Bucknall, 156

Arthur Franklin, 157

Arthur Robert, 155

Arthur William, 154

Arthur Wyndham, Rev., 157

Augusta, 155, 156

Barbara, 125

Bennet, 153

Benjamin, 121, 151, 152

Betty, 132

Catharine, 124, 125, 127, 136, 148

Charles Bowles, 134

Charles Maxtor, 155

Charlotte, 155, 157

Christian, 7, 124, 151

Christopher, 11, 125, 127, 227

Clement, 227

Colin, 154, 157

Cornelius, 124

David, 157

Dorothy, 127, 145, 146, 147

Edmund, the poet's brother, 49, 56, 60, 109

Edward, 120, 126, 127, 132, 140, 150, 159, 229, 230

Edward O., 159

Eleanor, 128, 136

Elena, 12

Elizabeth (Huddespit), 7

Elizabeth, 7, 8, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126, 128, 134, 135, 136,

139, 143, 151, 153, 154, 227, 228, 230

Ellen, 134, 148, 150

Ellinor, 135, 226

Emily, 155, 159

Emma, 156

Florence, 129

Frances, 124

Francis, 144

Frederick George, 155

Geoffrey, of Brixton, 4

George, 10, 111, 123, 125, 128, 129, 132, 138, 151, 152, 159, 226, 227

George Bucknall, 156

George Trant, 154

Georgiana, 157

Henrietta Matilda, 157

Gilbert, the poet's brother, 49, 53, 72, 100, 111, 226

Hamnet, the poet's son, 56, 67, 71, 90, 109

Hannah, 130, 136, 158

Harriet, 156, 157

Harriet Blanche, 157

Henrietta, 156

Henry (1349), of Cumberland, 5

Henry, 115, 119, 120, 126, 130, 137, 143, 155, 158, 159, 229

Henry, the poet's uncle, 45, 50, 56, 57, 109, 114, 158, 224

Henry Davenport, 154, 155, 156

Henry John Childe, 156

Hester, 124

Humphrey, 118, 127, 132, 144, 227

Hugh, 144

Hugh, alias Saunders, 15, 16

Ida Nea, 157

Isabel, 123, 125, 143

Isabella, Prioress of Wroxall, 7, 10, 11, 12

Isolda (Kakley), 7

James, 115, 132

Jane, 144, 147, 148, 154, 227

Jane, or Johanna, Domina, 11, 12, 14, 125

Jeames, 115

Joan, 8, 14, 114, 116, 128, 131

Joan, the poet's sister, 49, 51, 52, 54, 79, 109

Joane, 115, 119, 121, 128, 131

Joanna, 7

Johanna, 7, 13, 144

Johanna, or Jane, 12, 116, 144

Johannes (1526), 12

John, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 114, 115, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123,

124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136,

137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 150, 152, 153, 157, 159, 227, 228,

229

John, of Clifford Chambers, 119

of Doncaster, 8

of Ingon, 52, 115, 120, 226

of Kent (1278), 5

of Nottingham (1357), 5

of Oldiche (1414), 7

of Rowington, 114, 115

of St. Clement's Danes, 146, 147, 148, 149

of St. Martin's, 145, 146

of Snitterfield, Agricola, 52, 116, 120, 145, 147, 152, 223

of Warwick, 15, 130, 229

John, the shoemaker, 58, 112, 118, 119, 120, 147

John, the poet's father, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25,

31, 33, 36, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52,

53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 94, 109, 110, 116, 158,

175, 223, 224

comes to Stratford-on-Avon, 50

marries, 51

alderman, 53

bailiff, 53, 54

place of residence, 55

Lambert's mortgage, 45, 57

death, 59

John Davenport, 156

John Dowdeswell, 154, 155

John Jos. Art., 230

John Joseph, 230

John, of Shadwell, 152, 153, 154, 155, 157, 158

John, of St. Clement's, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 230

John, of St. Martin's, 145, 146, 147

John Talbot, 154, 155, 156

Jonathan, 152, 153

Jone, 15, 131, 138, 139, 227

Joseph, 139

Joshua, 158

Josiah, 228

Joyce, 129, 137, 151

Judith, 124, 139, 141, 151

Judith, the poet's daughter, 56, 78, 81, 82, 90, 109

Julian, 119

Lawrence, 13, 14, 126

Leonard, 135, 136, 141

Leslie, 156

Lettyce, 115

Lionel Fairfax, 157

Louisa, 156

Lucy, 137

Luke, 137

Manasses, 151

Margaret, 14, 15, 124, 129, 141, 148, 149, 150, 151, 227, 228

Margaret, the poet's sister, 49, 52

Margaret, wife of Henry, 114

Margeria (1464), 7

Margery (1458), 9

Margery, Mrs., 121

Maria, 129, 145, 146

Marianne, 155

Marie, 125, 127, 129

Martha, 158

Mary, 125, 128, 129, 131, 134, 136, 143, 149, 150, 152, 154,

156, 157, 158, 227, 228, 229

Mary, the poet's mother, 19, 22, 24, 25, 36, 37, 42, 43, 44,

45, 48, 49, 58, 60, 76, 109, 110, 161, 184

heir and executor to her father Robert, 38

probable date of marriage, 51

she died, but no memorial left, 60, 76

Matthew, 138, 143, 144, 159

Matthew, John, 154

Mrs., 137

Mrs. O., 159

Nathaniel, 143

Nicholas, 124, 125, 126, 128

Owen, 157

Peter (1483), 9, 142

Peter (1596), 10

Peter, 14, 124, 125, 130

Philip, 118, 125

Radulphus, 7

Ralph, 7, 13, 136

Reginald, 141

Rebecca, 228

Rebekah, 151

Richard (1457), 7

Richard, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 123, 125

Richard, of Rowington, 14, 15, 114, 121, 226, 227, 228

Richard, of Snitterfield, probably poet's grandfather, 7, 8,

12, 14, 15, 21, 36, 37, 50, 52, 109, 113, 114, 116, 158, 223

Richard, the bailiff, 12, 13, 14, 113

Richard, the poet's brother, 49, 54, 109, 110, 111

Richmond, 155

Richmond Campbell, Sir, 154, 155

Robert, 8, 13, 15, 115, 123, 124, 126, 134, 135, 136, 138,

140, 144, 156, 157, 158

Robert, of Pontefract (1381), 6

Robina, 136

Roger, 21, 114, 123, 124, 125

Roger, the monk, 14, 21, 124

Roger, the Yeoman of the King's Chamber, 21

Samuel, 137, 139, 140, 152, 154

Sara, 125, 143

Sarah, 158

Selina, 155

Simon, of Gloucestershire (1260), 4

Sophia, 159

Susan, 139, 147, 148

Susanna, the poet's daughter, 56, 75, 77, 79, 90, 95, 109

her epitaph, 104

Susannah, 122, 124, 125, 136, 139

Thomas (1359), of Coventry, 5

Thomas (1375), of Youghal, 6, 141

Thomas (1476), 7

Thomas (1486), 7

Thomas (1511), 11

Thomas, 13, 14, 15, 19, 21, 114, 119, 120, 121, 124, 125,

126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 137, 139, 140,

141, 144, 148, 151, 152, 226, 227, 228, 229

Thomas, of Ireland, 6, 8, 141

Thomas, of Lutterworth, 132, 133, 134

Thomas, of Oxford, 134

Thomas, of Snitterfield, 109, 115, 116, 145, 147, 158

Thomas, of Staple Inn, 132, 133, 152

Thomas, Royal Messenger, 21, 144

Thomas, Sir, the Priest, 15, 138

Ursula, 118

Walter, 124

Walter (1379), 6

Widow, 120, 136, 226, 228

William, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 21, 114, 115, 119, 120, 121, 122,

123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 131, 134, 136, 138, 142, 143,

151, 152, 155, 156, 158, 228, 229, 230

William (1398), of Cumberland, 5

William (1413), of London, 9

William Makepeace, 154

William Oliver, 154, 155

William, the money-lender and malt agent, 120, 121

William, the poet, 15, 18, 19, 22, 33, 34, 49, 57, 59, 64, 69, 73, 76,

79, 80, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 95, 97, 100, 104, 108, 111, 112,

120, 121, 147, 148, 160, 180, 186, 217, 222, 227

he used the coat of arms, 33

consented to sale of Asbies, 46

marriage, 56

birth of children, 56

became head of family, 61

his betrothal, 62

marriage license, 63

friends in London, 64

sonnets and poems to same patron, 66

played before the Queen, 66

death of his only son, 67

Quiney's letter to Shakespeare, 69

Shakespeare in Scotland, 73

death of his mother, 76

his will, 78, 79

his epitaph, 84

William, his poems, 86

William Powlett, 156

William Ross, 156

William of Westminster, 142

Winifred, 127

Wyndham, Rev. Arthur, 157

Shakespeare, the arms of, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 33, 59, 112, 153,

156, 222

Impalement of Ardens with, 24, 33, 175, 222

Shakespeare's ancestry, 6

Shakespeare's descendants, 87, 104, 108

"Shakespeareana Genealogica." See G.R. French.

Shakespeare Inn, Gloucester, 109

"Shakespeare Jahrbuch," Berlin, 3

Shakespeare Library in Warwick Castle, 117, 120

Shakespeare's Name, The Earliest Official Record of, 3, 66

Shakespeare signatures, 3

Shakespeares, the, of Alcester, 10, 124

Ascote, 10

Baddesley Clinton, 124

Balsall, 7, 10, 124

Beausal, 10

Bedfordshire, 136

Berkshire, 132

Berkswell, 10, 124

Budbrook, 10, 124

Cumberland, 5

Derbyshire, 136

Dursley, 132

Essex, 4, 10, 138

Fillongley, 111, 131

Gloucestershire, 4, 132

Grafton, 10

Hampshire, 136

Haseley, 10, 124

Hatton, 10, 122, 124

Hertford, 136

Kenilworth, 124

Kingswood, 130

Knowle, 10, 124, 126, 131

Lapworth, 10, 124

Leicestershire, 132, 133, 134

London, 137, 142

Meriden, 11, 124

Northampton, 132

Norton Lindsey, 10

Nottingham, 5, 8

Oxford, 132, 134, 135

Packwood, 10, 11, 124

Rowington, 8, 10, 12, 19, 124, 129

Snitterfield, 10, 28, 36

South Stoke, 136

Staffordshire, 10, 132

Surrey, 4, 136

Tachbrook, 10

Warwick, 10, 14, 130, 131, 132

Worcestershire, 10, 132

Wroxall, 10, 124

Shakespeares, The, 31, 39, 40, 123, 223

"Shakespeare's Warwickshire Contemporaries," 64, 65

Shakespeare, The name of, 1, 2, 3

Shakespeare _v._ Lambert, 47, 48, 57, 59

Shakespeye, Simon, 4

Shakesphere, 140

Shakespurr, 140

Shakspere, William (1413), 9

Shallett, Elizabeth, 153

Shallow, Justice, 64, 79

Shankes' Petition, 71

Shaw's "Staffordshire," 184, 185, 187, 198, 199, 232

Shaxsby, John, 140

Shawe, Ralphe, 58

Sheldon, Mrs., 100

Shenton, Geoff. de, 186

Nichola, 186

Sheppard's, Samuel, "Epigrams," 85

Shillingworth, Mr. Ralph, 134

Shirley, Henry, 176

Shottery, 87, 88, 226

Shotteswell, Catharine, 127

William, 126

Shrawley, 128, 129

Shugborough, Simon, 179

Shuter, Richard, 122

Siche, Thomas, of Arscote, 50

Sidney, Sir Robert, 22

Sigisbert, 1

Siward, 166

Skinner, William, 128

Skreene, Alice, 206

Elizabeth, 203

John, 204

Slender, 79

Sly, John, 227

William, 73

Smith, Mrs. Alice, 236

Henry, 105, 106

Mrs. Margaret, 219

Sir Thomas, 18

William, 57, 105, 109, 119, 124, 145

William Shakespeare, 226

Snitterfield, 27, 30, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 50,

113, 114, 123, 174, 223, 224

Solar, William, 4

Somerville, John, 30, 178, 179, 180

Margaret, 178, 179

Elizabeth, 179

Walter de, 230

Sonnets, The date of, 66

Southampton, Mary, Countess of, 2, 221

Henry, Earl of, 58, 65, 66, 67, 71, 72, 74, 147, 222

Spateman, Anne, 187, 232

Rev. John, 187, 232

Thomas, 238

Spencer, Thomas, 123

Spenser, Edmund, 2

Spondon, Robert le, 5

Stafford, Sir Richard, 199

Katharine, 199

Stanhope, Mrs. Henrietta Maria, 181

John de, 200

Sir William, 201, 222

Thomas de, 200

Starke, Grace, 138

Stanley, Catherine, of Hooten, 201, 222

Statfold, 199

Stevenson's "Nottingham," 5, 8, 10

Stiffe, Barbara, 124

Stillard, Bridget, 218

Robert, 218

Stokeport, Joane, 198

Sir Richard, 198

Stokes, Ralph, 124

Storeton, Grace, 139

Stotesby, Agnes, 209

Stratford-on-Avon, 19, 41, 50, 51, 52, 58, 59, 79, 92, 101, 116

its records, 19, 37, 41, 50, 51, 53, 56, 57, 69, 95, 116,

119, 121

its church, 60, 84

its Grammar School, 61

the master of, 61

Stratton, Thomas, 208

Stringer, Agnes, 40, 41, 49, 62

Arden, 49

Ellice, 49

John, 49

Thomas, 40, 41, 49, 50, 63

Sturley, Abraham, 68

Katharine, 100

Suffolk Visitation, 234

Sulgrave, 170

Surrey Visitation, 234

Sutton, 169

Anne, or Dudley, 64

Sir Edward, Lord Dudley, 64

Swaldyve, 169, 233

Swanston, Benfield and Pollard _v._ Burbage, 70

Swillington, Richard, 209

Swynford, Sir John, 168

Roger, 230

Tachbrook, 123

Talbot, Sir Edmund, 234

Martha, 154

Talbots, The, 160, 234

Tardebigg, 14

Taylor, Alice, 12

Will, 233

Tayloure, Rev. John, Vicar of St. Brigyde, 177

Teery, Balsall, 10

William, 133

Temple, Grafton, 10

Tetherton, William, 121

Thackeray, Emily, 154

William Makepeace, 154, 155

Thickness, Edward, 145

Thomas, Dr. W., 11

Thompson, Marian Sophia, 155

Thomas, 123

Thornbury, Dr., Bishop of Worcester, 100

Thorne, Nicholas, 210

Robert, 210

Thomas, 209

Thrale, George, 172

Throckmorton, Clement, 35

Francis, 64

George, Sir, 28, 178

Job, 122

John, Sir, 64

Mary, 178

Mrs., 100

Nicholas, Sir, 95

Robert, Sir, 27, 28, 29, 178, 184

Thurley, 172

Timbs, John, "Curiosities of London," 143

Timporley, 201, 234

"Titus Andronicus," 68

Toupe, Jane, 230

Townsend, Henry, 115

Tracy, Sir Paul, 94

Traffords, The, 195

Trapp, Mr. John, 100

Trussell, Alured, of Billesley, 28

Dorothy, 28

Thomas, 27, 28, 29, 30, 57, 58, 174

Warine, Sir, 27

William, Sir, 27, 174

Tucker, Mr. Stephen, Somerset Herald, 20

Turchil, 160, 165, 166, 167, 190, 191

Turner, George, 51

Twycroft, The, Rowington, 13

Twycross, John, 127

Tybotes, John, 125

Tyler, Richard, 58

Underhill, Fulke, 67

Hercules, 67

William, 67

Underhills, The, 100

Upton, Cheshire, 200

Upton, Warwickshire, 231

Uva, or Huva, 164, 165

Vale, John, 123

Katharine, 123

Raufe, 173

"Valor Ecclesiasticus," 12, 113

Vassal, Asser, 139

Vautrollier, Thomas, printer of London, 65

Veley, Charles Augustus, Archdeacon of Essex, 138, 139

Venables, Hugh de, 198

Alice, 198

"Venus and Adonis," 65, 66, 222

Verney, Sir Greville, 102

Vernon, Margaret, 129

Ralph de, 168

Rose, 168

Verstegan's "Restitution of Decayed Intelligence," 1

Wadley, Rev. J.P., 139

Waferer, Francis, 176, 177

Wagstaff, John, 30, 223

Waight, Mary, 151

Wake, Nicholas, 169

Robert, 169

Thomas, 169

Wale, Edward, 182

Wales, Prince of, as Earl of Chester, 200

Walker, Barbara, 107

Sir Edward, 107

Henry, 76

William, 76, 80

Wall, William, 231

Walpole, H., 237

Hon. Thomas, 237

Lord, 237

Walton-on-Thames, 137, 138, 159

Wapenham, 170, 194

Ward, Simon, 194

Wardrobe, The tenement in, 80, 102

Warehorne, Kent, 141

Warenne, Sir Edward, 233

Warwick, 10, 14, 119, 122, 124, 130, 131, 164

Castle, 117, 162, 166

Warwickshire, 19, 27, 31, 58, 87, 99, 118, 123, 131, 166, 173, 176, 178,

231

Countess of, 72

Earls of, 31, 58, 72, 137, 162, 163, 166, 168, 169, 174

Gentlemen of, 19, 93, 95, 130, 183

Washington, George, 195

Laurence, 195

Robert, 195

Wasteneys, Ellen, 199

Waterfield, Emma, 156

Watford, William of, 196, 197

Watford, 196, 197

Watts, Richard, 104

Waulkner, Mary, 236

Weale, John, 122

Webbe, Alexander, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 49

Agnes (Mrs. Arden), 36, 49

Margaret, 36, 37, 39, 49, 56

Robert, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 56, 114, 223

Thomas, 42

Webberley, Edmund, 237

Wedgewood, Mary, 186

William, 54

Weever family, 233

Wegeat, or Wigatus, 164

Welcombe, 78, 80

Welles, Thomas, 106

Wennington, 216

Wery, Gregory, 205

West, Edward, 51

Sarah, 237

West's "Symboleography Concords," 42

Westmoreland, Earl of, 174, 177

Whalley's "Northampton," 168, 189, 196

Whateley, Anne, 63

Wheeler, John, 57, 58

Mrs., 58

Mr. R.B., 118, 226

Whitelock, James, 133

Whitmore, William, 88

Whitrefe, Joan, 115

Whittington, Thomas, 88

Whitefriars Theatre at the time of Shakespeare, 224

Wigatus, or Wegeat, 164

Wigod, or Wigotus, 165

William the Conqueror, 165

the Lion, 192

Rufus, 166

Williams, Agnes, 140

Willis, Edward, 54, 59

Wilmecote, 27, 36, 37, 38, 42, 49

Wilmer, Robert, 231

William, 231

Wilmot, Leonard, 135

Wilson, Anne, 139

Harry, 138

Rev. Thomas, 96, 100

Wilson's, Robert, "Cobbler's Prophecy," 18

Wilton, 74, 75

Wilton, Samuel, 153

Wiltshire, James, Earl of, 170

Winch, William, 143

Winchester, 74

Windebanck, Sir Thomas, 145

Winworth, 167, 169

Wolferstan, Samuel Pipe, 184

"Women, History of," 85

Wood, William, 27, 29, 30, 173

Woodcock, William, 157

Woodham, Agnes, 12

Richard, 12, 14, 126

Wood's "Athenæ Oxonienses," 15

Woodward, Isabel, 209

Mrs., 96

Wooten Wawen, 189

Worcester, 63, 93

Bishop of, 100

Earl of, 174

his Court, 77, 79, 122

Worcester, his register, 63, 93

MS., 122

Wills, 13, 14, 37, 38, 52, 93, 128

Worcestershire, 40, 100, 181

Wren, Christopher, 145

Wright, Sir Christopher, 205

Mrs. Elizabeth, 219, 236

Rev. Walter, 210

William, 146

Wrottesley, Sir Hugh, 199, 200

Isabel, 199

Wroxall, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 21, 113, 115, 124, 137

Wyckeham, Robert de, 169, 233

Elizabeth, 169

Wylemyn, Nicholas, of Shrewley, 230

Yate, or Yates, Anthony, 209

Eleanor, 210

Francis, 212

John, 211, 234

Simon, 207, 208

Thomas, 208

Yates, Luke, 236

Yeatman's, Mr. "Gentle Shakespeare," 7, 12, 15, 113, 129

_Yorkshire Archæological Journal_, 234

Visitation, 234

Yoxall, 27, 31, 32, 172, 176, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187

Zouch, Lord, 160

William de la, 194

Zupitza, 162

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