Footnotes

PART II

  1. Churchwardens’ Accounts of Thurston Amere and William Combes, from June 8, 1538, to May 8, 1540, 48th week, 1st year. ↩

  2. Notes and Queries, Seventh Series, vii. 483, June 22, 1889. Compare Third Series, iii. 318; Third Series, viii. 418; Savage’s “Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers in New England,” ii. 528; John Timbs’ “Curiosities of London,” ed. 1855, p. 238, and ed. 1867, p. 297; “Annals of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate,” 221, 322. ↩

  3. Subsidy Rolls, London, Ward of Billingsgate and others, 39 Eliz., 146/369, P.R.O. ↩

  4. Marriage Licenses, Faculty Office, Harl. Publ. ↩

  5. Bishop of London’s Marriage Licenses, Harl. Publ. ↩

  6. Register, St. James’s, Clerkenwell. ↩

  7. Registers of Christ Church, Newgate Street, Harl. Soc. Publ. ↩

  8. He died 1598, and was at one time connected with the Theatre as shareholder. Notes and Queries, Seventh Series, vii. 188. ↩

  9. Registers of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, Harl. Publ. ↩

  10. Account of the Treasurer of the Chamber, 1572, et seq. ↩

  11. “Archæologia,” vol. xiii., appendix, p. 403. ↩

  12. Notes and Queries, Seventh Series, ii. 247. ↩

  13. Registers of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields. ↩

  14. Churchwarden’s Accounts, St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields. ↩

  15. Bishop of London’s Licenses, Harl. Soc. Publ. ↩

  16. Registers of the Church of St. Bride’s. ↩

  17. Registers of the Church of St. Bride’s. ↩

  18. Among the expenses of the Royal Household are entered: 1621—“To John Shakespeare for one gilt bit for the sadle aforesayd £3 13s. 6d. To John Shakespeare for fourteen bittes, guilt silvered and chased, at £5 10s. a peice. For one payre of bosses, richly enamelled, 52s. 6d_, £73 12s. 6d. For 7 bittes for the sadles aforesayd at 52s. 6d. each, £18 7s. 6d.”—“Early Illustrations of Shakespeare,” published by the Shakespeare Society. ↩

  19. State Papers, Dom. Ser., Car. I., ccclxxiv. 20, Docquet. ↩

  20. State Papers, Irish, Dublin Castle, Vol. M., p. 338. Notes and Queries, First Series, vi. 289, 495. ↩

  21. Somerset House, 268, Aylett. ↩

  22. The Registers of St. Thomas Apostle, London. ↩

  23. State Papers, Dom. Ser., Car. I., lxxvi. 41. ↩

  24. Somerset House, 249, Aston. ↩

  25. Lic. Fac. Office, Harl. Publ. ↩

  26. Reg. of St. George’s, Hanover Square. ↩

  27. Marriage Licenses, Bishop of London, Harl. Publ. ↩

  28. Bishop of London’s Licenses, Harl. Publ. ↩

  29. Foster’s “Alumni Oxonienses.” ↩

  30. Bishop of London’s Mar. Lic., Harl. Publ. ↩

  31. Somerset House, 248, Aston. ↩

  32. Notes and Queries, Third Series, vii. 175. ↩

  33. “Book of Apprentices,” 1666–1736, f. 756 ↩

  34. His son stated that he was seventy-seven at the time of his death, in 1689, but his marriage certificate makes him younger. “Publications and Marriages, 1654: John Shakespear, of Ratcliffe Highway, ropemaker, aged thirty-five, and Martha Seeley, of Wapping Wall, mayde, nineteen years. Married before John Waterton, Esquire, on ye 14th June. Richard Mathews, Robert Connolly, witnesses” (French, 547). He might have been a son of John, son of Thomas of Snitterfield, b. 1582. ↩

  35. Notes and Queries Second Series, x. 188, 402; Third Series, vii. 498. ↩

  36. State Papers, Dom. Ser., 1656–57, Commonwealth, cliii., Nos. 55, 56. ↩

  37. “Misc. Gen. et Herald.,” Second Series, v., 371, and Merchant Tailors’ “Book of Apprentices.” ↩

  38. Bishop of London’s Marriage Licenses, Harl. Publ. ↩

  39. Herbert’s “Twelve Livery Companies.” ↩

  40. Gentleman’s Magazine, 1805. ↩

  41. Ibid., 1818. ↩

  42. French, 551, and Times, April, 1867. ↩

  43. “Dict. Nat. Biog.” ↩

  44. Register of Charterhouse Chapel. ↩

  45. French, p. 556. ↩

  46. A writer in Notes and Queries, Sixth Series, i. 494, speaks of a “large silver salver bearing a lion passant and a leopard’s head crowned. In the centre are the arms and crest of Shakespeare, and on an escutcheon of pretence three stags’ heads caboshed. It bears the inscription, ‘William Powlett Powlett, Esq., D.D. William Powlett Shakspear, 1821.’ There is a legend this was made from plate owned by the poet. What is the date of the salver?” ↩

  47. Times, June 13, 1864, and Notes and Queries, Third Series, vii. 498. ↩

  48. Foster’s “Alumni Oxonienses.” ↩

  49. “Misc. Gen. et Herald.,” New Series, i., p. 143. ↩

  50. Register of St. Bartholomew the Less. ↩

  51. Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. lxix., p. 83. ↩

  52. Manning and Bray’s “Surrey,” vol. ii., under Walton-upon-Thames, mentions the tomb of Matthew Shakespear and of George, aged fifteen, August 8, 1775; John Shakespear, of Weybridge, January 3, 1775, aged sixty-seven; William, January 23, 1783, aged seventy-seven; also of George Shakespear of Oxford Street, London, late of this parish, architect, who died March 29, 1797, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. ↩

  53. Notes and Queries, Seventh Series, viii. 89. ↩

  54. Ibid., Sixth Series, ii. 53. ↩

  55. Ibid., Third Series, ix. 346, 398. ↩

  56. British Museum Catalogues. ↩

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