Footnotes
Frances, daughter of Ambrose Arden, bapt. February 19, 1631, buried June 7, 1634.
Humphrey, son of Ambrose Arden, bapt. November 2, 1634.
Henry “ “ “ “ October 7, 1637.
Benjamin “ “ “ “ July 19, 1642.
John “ “ “ “ September 3, 1643.
William “ “ “ “ January 8, 1647 (buried Sept. 18, 1666).
Robert Masson and Elizabeth Arden were married December 22, 1644.
Ambrose Arden, gent., buried July 15, 1656.
Fuller’s “Worthies.” ↩
Administration of goods of Christian Arden, wife of Simon, 1563 (Lichfield Wills). ↩
Nich., “Col. Top. et Gen.,” vol. viii., p. 298. ↩
Lansdowne MS., xxx. 27, 30. ↩
Subsidy Rolls, Yoxall, 1590; Shaw’s “Staffordshire,” i., pp. 100–102 and 499; and Talbot Papers, Heralds’ College, Dugdale p. 932. ↩
See also manuscript notes on the copy of Shaw’s “Staffordshire,” by Samuel Pipe Wolferstan, Esq., of Statfold, preserved in the British Museum, p. 102. ↩
Note that this is the same man appointed trustee by Mary Shakespeare’s grandfather. ↩
“Nichola, d. of Geff de. Shenton, sued Joan, formerly wife of Ralph de Anderne, of Yoxhale, for a messuage in Yoxhale” (De Banco, Trin., 23 Ed. III.). ↩
His will proved 1625 at Lichfield. Simon’s daughter Elizabeth became second wife of Clement Fisher of Wincote, addressed by Sir Aston Cokaine in verses alluding to Shakespeare (Dugdale’s “Warwickshire,” 1140). ↩
Shaw’s “Staffordshire,” p. 102; MS. notes of the author, Brit. Mus. ↩
Ambrose had another son Ambrose, whose family appears in the registers of Barton: ↩
His father had been married twice; but this second Humphrey is the son of Jane Rowbotham. See Registers of Marchington. ↩