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Edmund Spenser, and its allusion to
Shakespeare in 1594, 105
Combe, John, Shakespeare's supposed
epitaph upon, 171

Combe, William and John, Shake-
speare's purchase of 107 acres of
land from, 171

"Comedy of Errors" quoted respect-
ing a jealous wife, 67

Confession of Faith by John Shake-

speare, its want of authenticity, 112
Confirmation and Exemplification of
arms to the Shakespeares, 53. 55
Cooke, Clarencieux from 1566 to 1592,
and his grants of arms, 52
Cooke, James, his translation of Dr.
Hall's medical work, 216
Cunningham, Mr. P., his Handbook of
London regarding the Mermaid, 227
Curtain and Theatre in Shoreditch or-
dered to be pulled down, 137

Daborne, Robert, his patent, with
Shakespeare, Field, and Kirkham,
for the Children of the Queen's
Revels, 197, 198

Daniel, Samuel, his appointment con-

nected with the Children of the
Queen's Revels, 173

Davies, Rev. R., his additions to Ful-
man's MSS. regarding the deer-
stealing question, 69; his statement
that Shakespeare died a Roman
Catholic, 216

Day, John, his "Humour out of

Breath," 1608, 134

Dearth of corn in England in 1596

and 1597, 130

Declaration of good conduct from the
Players at Blackfriars in 1589, 82
Deer-stealing, whether Shakespeare
were guilty of it, 68; a common
and venial offence, 71

Dethick, Sir William, called to account
for granting arms, especially to John
Shakespeare, 54

Dorset, the Earl of, and Aurelian

Townshend's daughter, 72
Dramatic Authors, when also usually
Actors, 87

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Drayton, Michael, and Henry Willoby,
their mention of Shakespeare's "Lu-
crece in 1594, 90; a Warwickshire
man, 95. 217; his relinquishment of
dramatic poetry, 173; cured of a
tertian ague by Dr. Hall, 217
Droeshout, Martin, his engraving of
Shakespeare in the folio of 1623,
and its resemblance, 223
Drummond of Hawthornden, his speech
for a lion, 151

Dutton, Lawrence, one of the leaders
of the Queen's Players in 1592, 99
Dyce, the Rev. Alexander, his incorrect
edition of "Salmacis and Herma-
phroditus," 89

66

"Eastward Ho!" a comedy, the Au-
thors of it imprisoned, 179
'Egerton Papers," published by the
Camden Society in 1840, 73
Egerton, Sir Thomas, present to, of a
buck by Sir Thomas Lucy, 73; en-
tertains Q. Elizabeth in 1602, 157
Elizabeth, Queen, and the passage in
"Midsummer Night's Dream," 78;
her various companies of Players,
75; her public and personal patron-
age of the stage, 157; her death,
and ballad upon it, 159
Ellesmere, Baron, Lord Chancellor,
and the Players in Blackfriars, 189
Ellesmere, the Earl of, his Translation
of Von Raumer, 178

"Encomion of Lady Pecunia," by
Richard Barnfield, the two editions
in 1598 and 1605, 143

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Falstaff, originally called Oldcastle, 153
Field, Henry, of Stratford, tanner, in-

ventory of his goods in 1592, 112
Field, Richard, the printer, his origin

and history, 113
Fletcher, Bishop, the father of the
dramatist, his objectionable marriage
with Lady Baker, 169

Fletcher, Laurence, the actor, made
free of Aberdeen, 164; the first name
in the Patent of James I. in 1603,
168 or Lazarus, his interest in the
Blackfriars Theatre, 190

Florio, John, the Earl of Southamp-
ton's bounty to, 116
Fluellen, Bardolph, and Audrey, names
in Stratford, 109

Fortune Theatre in Cripplegate, the
building and opening of, 149; re-
moval of Henslowe and Alleyn to,
148; and Globe, dramatic perform-
ances limited to, 150; pulled down
in 1649, 208

Free-school of Stratford-upon-Avon,

and its masters, during the youth of
Shakespeare, 59

Gascoigne, George, his "Princely Plea-

sures of Kenilworth," 1576, 78
Gentle, an epithet especially applied to
Shakespeare, 106. 226
"Ghost of Richard III.," a poem by

Christopher Brooke, 212

Globe Theatre, the building of, 116;
and Fortune, dramatic representa-
tions limited to, 150; opening of in
1594, 118. 121; and Rose Theatres
allowed to be kept open, 139; the
burning and rebuilding of the Globe
in 1613, 118. 207; what became of
Shakespeare's property in it, 202;
pulled down in 1644, 208
Gowry's Conspiracy, a play upon, for-
bidden, 175

Greene, Robert, George Peele, and
Christopher Marlowe, their claims
to Spenser's Eulogy in 1591, 97
Greene, Robert, his "Groatsworth of
Wit," 1592, published by Henry
Chettle, 101; his death in 1592,

ib.; his attack upon Shakespeare,
under the name of "Shake-scene,"
102; quoted on the value of a thea-
trical wardrobe in 1592, 190
Greene, Thomas, a popular comedian,
77; a reconciled Roman Catholic in
1592, 110; "Tu Quoque," a co-
medy in which Thomas Greene acted
with great success, 77

Greene, Thomas, solicitor and cousin
to Shakespeare, his letter regarding
him, 210, 211
Gunpowder plot of 1605, John Mars-
ton's letter regarding, 179

Hall, Dr. John, married to W. Shake-
speare's daughter Susanna, 184; at-
tended his father-in-law in his last
illness, 216; his "Select Observa-
tions on English Bodies," translated
by James Cooke, ib.; inscription
commemorating him, 219
Hall, Edmund and Emma, sale by, to

John Shakespeare in 1574, of two
freehold houses in Henley Street, 56
Hall, Elizabeth, born in 1607-8, 206
"Hamlet," the old play of, mentioned
by Thomas Nash in 1587, 61; the
Ghost in, performed by Shakespeare,
85; the earliest editions of, in 1603
and 1604, 183

Hall, Mrs. Susanna, the inscription
upon her, 219

Hallam, Henry, quoted on the surpass-
ing merits and character of Shake-
speare, 229, 230

Hart, Charles, the actor, whether he

came from Stratford, 206
Hart, William, an infant, born and
baptized in 1600, 205
Hathaway, Anne, reasons for her speedy
marriage with Shakespeare, 63; not
beautiful, 65; from whence she came,
probably from Shottery, 67
Hathaway, Richard, the father of Anne,
his residence, 67; a Dramatist of
that name, ib.
Heminge, John, a party with Shake-
speare to a deed in 1613, 204
Henley Street, William Shakespeare

probably born in, 48; two freehold
houses in, bought by John Shake-
speare in 1574, 56

Henry VII. did not reward the ances-

re-

tors of John Shakespeare, 39
"Henry VIII." or "All is True," the
name of the play when the Globe
Theatre was burnt down, 208
Henslowe and Alleyn, their removal
from the Rose Theatre to the For-
tune, in Cripplegate, 148
Henslowe, Philip, his Diary quoted
respecting W. Kempe, 100;
specting Ben Jonson's "Every Man
in his Humour," 133; Church-
warden, and rated to the poor, 187
Heywood, Thomas, his Apology for
Actors, 1612, 82; his " Rape of
Lucrece," 1608, perhaps the worst
printed play in English, 142; trans-
lations by him from Ovid imputed
to Shakespeare, 144
"Horseload of Fools," Richard Tarl-
ton's Jig of the, 80
Huband, Raphe, his sale of a lease of

Tithes to W. Shakespeare, 182
"Humorous Day's Mirth," 1599, by

George Chapman, 134

Hunsdon, Lord, his letter regarding
the Blackfriars Theatre, 122

Ingon, or Ington, meadow rented by

John Shakespeare, 55

"Isle of Dogs," a play by Thomas Nash,
forbidden, 136

Italy, France, and Spain, poets, &c.,
who visited those countries, 100

Jaggard, William, and "The Passionate

Pilgrim," 1599 and 1612, 143
James I., his Patent to the Players of
the Lord Chamberlain in May, 1603,
168; brought on the stage deroga-
torily, 177; his supposed letter to
Shakespeare in return for "Mac-
beth," 183

James, Elias, Shakespeare's imputed
epitaph upon, 229

Joan, a favourite name with the Shake-
speares,
and why, 50
Johnson, Gerard, the sculptor of Shake-
speare's bust at Stratford, 222
Jonson, Ben, his notice of a passage
in "Julius Cæsar," 62; his Folio of
1616, and why certain plays were
excluded, 93; new particulars re-
garding his Mother, 132; his duel
with Gabriel Spenser in 1598, 135;
his "Every Man in his Humour" first
acted in 1598, 133; his "Sejanus,"
174; his connexion with the Gun-
powder Plot, 179; his letter to Sir
R. Cecill on the Gunpowder Plot,
180; his engagement to write the
play of Richard Crookback, 213;
his lines on Shakespeare as engraved
by Martin Droeshout, 224
"Julius Cæsar," by Shakespeare, a
passage in, noticed by Ben Jonson
in his "Discoveries," 62
Juvenile Companies, their great success
about the year 1600, 196

Kempe, William, the comic actor, and
successor of Tarlton in 1589, 82; his
challenge to E. Alleyn at the Globe,
149; his abandonment of the Lord
Chamberlain's Players, 100; his
supposed death in 1603, ib.; and
Robert Armyn, complained of for
personality, 176

Kenilworth Castle, was Shakespeare
there in 1575? 77; G. Gascoigne's
"Princely Pleasures" of, 1576, 78;
R. Laneham's letter from, ib.
Kimbolton, Lord, John Marston's
letter to, revealing the Gunpowder
Plot, 179
"Kind-heart's Dream," by Henry
Chettle, and his subsequent apology
to Shakespeare, 103

Kingsbury, Warwickshire, Edmund
Spenser there resident, 95
King's Players, Patent by James I. to
Fletcher, Shakespeare, Burbadge,
&c., 68; complaints against, for
personalities in plays, 175

Lambert, Edmund, married to the

sister of Mary Shakespeare, 57
Lambert, John, his mortgage of 401.
upon Asbyes, and Chancery-suit, 128
Laneham, John, the actor, 78
Laneham, Robert, his Letter from
Kenilworth, 1575, 78

Large, his protestant sermon at Strat-

ford, on a marriage in 1537, 111
Leicester, Earl of, royal licence to the

Players of, in 1574, 83

Lintot, B., his edit. of Shakespeare's
Poems in 1710, 183

Lodge, Thomas, his allusion to "Venus

and Adonis," in 1589, 117
London, the Corporation of, and their
hostility to theatres, 80; their com-
plaint against Kempe and Armyn,
176; their wish to buy out the
Players in the Blackfriars, 189
Lord Mayor of London, the Players
of the Lord Admiral and Lord
Strange summoned before, 81
"Lucrece," 1594, when it was pro-

bably written by Shakespeare, 90
"Lucrece, the Rape of," a play, by
Thomas Heywood, 1608, 142
Lucy, Sir Thomas, of Charlcote, his
animosity to W. Shakespeare, 68;
Shakespeare's Ballad on, 70; his
death in 1600, 72; ridicule of, in
"The Merry Wives of Windsor,"
ib.; his son presents a buck to Sir
Thomas Egerton in 1602, 73; Ma-
lone's argument that he had no
park, ib.; a Commissioner against
Recusants in 1592, 108

Lucy, William, his discord with the
inhabitants of Stratford on reli-
gious points, in 1537, 111
Lyly, John, the dramatist, not entitled
to Spenser's eulogy of 1591, 97

Mainwaring, Arthur, his promotion of

inclosures near Stratford, 211
Manningham's Diary quoted respecting

Spenser and his Epigram, 96; re-
garding "Twelfth Night," 156;
an anecdote of Shakespeare and
Burbadge, 157
Marlowe, Christopher, killed by Francis

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Archer in 1593, 86; ballad upon his
death, ib.; his lameness, and that
of Shakespeare, 226; H. Chettle's
allusion to, 104

Marston, John, his letter to Lord
Kimbolton on the Gunpowder Plot
of 1605, 179

Martin Mar-prelate introduced on the
stage by the choir-boys, or Children
of St. Paul's, 81. 98
Meres, Francis, his Palladis Tamia,
1598, and Shakespeare's plays there
enumerated, 140; his residence near
the theatres in Southwark, 141
Mermaid Club established by Sir W.
Raleigh in 1603, and the wit-com-
bats at it, 227

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Nash, Thomas, his allusion to Attorneys'
Clerks, 61; praise of Kempe in his
"Almond for a Parrot," 1589, 82;
imprisonment for his play "The
Isle of Dogs," 136

Nashe, Thomas, who married Shake-
speare's granddaughter, inscription
on his monument, 219

New Place, or the Great House, Strat-
ford upon Avon, bought by W.
Shakespeare in or before 1598, 146;
the mulberry-tree in the garden and
its fate, 147; by whom inhabited
about the year 1612, 206
Newington Butts Theatre, by what
players occupied, 119

Niccols, Richard, his poem on the death
of Queen Elizabeth, 161

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Norfolk, John Duke of, his Household-

book printed in 1844, 75

"Oldcastle, the first part of the Life
of," a play falsely imputed to Shake-
speare, 152

Oldcastle, Sir John, Falstaff originally

so named, 153

Oldys's MS. notes to Langbaine, 65
"Othello," played before Queen Eliza-
beth at Harefield in 1602, 157

"Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury," by
Francis Meres, published in 1598,
the list of plays in, 140
"Passionate Pilgrim," by W. Shake-
speare, 1599 and 1612, and that R.
Barnfield had no share in it, 143
Paul's, St., the Children of, silenced for
introducing Martin Mar-prelate on
the stage, 81. 98

Payments to Players at various early

dates in Stratford-upon-Avon, 74
Peele, George, his employment and
share in the Blackfriars Theatre in
1589, 83; his works edited by the
Rev. A. Dyce, ib.; not one of the
Lord Chamberlain's Players in 1590,
84;
his "Honour of the Garter,"
1593, 86; his abandonment of the
Lord Chamberlain's Players, 103
Petrarch's Seven Penitential Psalms
translated by George Chapman, 177
Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Mont-
gomery, on deer-stealing, 72
Phillips, Augustine, the actor, his
death in 1605, 126; his original ex-
amination before Popham, C. J., and
others regarding a play, 153
Phillips, Sir Thomas, Bart., his dis-
covery of Shakespeare's Marriage-
bond, 62; his discovery of Tho.
Whittington's will, 165

Phoenix Theatre, in Drury-lane, pulled
down in 1649, 208
Plague, prevalent in Stratford in 1564,
49; in London in 1592-3, 99. 114
Players at the Blackfriars Theatre, their
Certificate, 123; first rewarded by
the Corporation of Stratford-upon-

Avon when John Shakespeare was
Bailiff, 74

Plays, &c. forbidden by the Corporation
of Stratford in 1602, 76; with titles
like those of Shakespeare, but older
than his time, 120

Poets careless about the beauty of their
wives, and why, 65

Pope, Thomas, the actor, his will and
death, 119. 169

Privy Council, letter from the, respect-
ing Thomas Nash and his play
of the "Isle of Dogs," 137
Pullyson, Thomas, Lord Mayor of
London in 1585, his letter on the
consumption of venison, 71

Quyney, or Quiney, Adrian, fined in

1558 for not keeping a gutter near
his house clean, 46
Quyney, Richard, his letter to Shake-
speare for a loan of 30%., 147
Quyney, Thomas, married to Shake-
speare's daughter, Judith, 147; and
their children, 215

Rainolds, Dr. John, upon stealing deer,
robbing orchards, &c. in 1599, 71
Recusancy, supposed, of John Shake-
speare in 1592, 109
Remonstrance of the actors at the
Blackfriars Theatre in 1596, 123
Replingham, William, and the tithes of
Stratford, 207

"Return from Parnassus," 1606, the
praise of Shakespeare in it, 145
Revels, Children of the Queen's, list of
plays proposed to be acted by, 198
"Richard II.," or "Henry IV.," a
play not by Shakespeare, acted at
the Globe in Feb. 1601, 154
"Richard Crookback," a play which Ben
Jonson engaged to write for Hens-
lowe, 213

"Romeo and Juliet" never assigned to
its author in the 4tos, 141
Rowe, Nicholas, his assertion that
John Shakespeare was a dealer in
wool, 41; his statement respecting
William Shakespeare's education,
60; on the deer-stealing question,

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