68; his notion regarding Shake-
speare as an Actor, 85; his with-
drawal of Spenser's allusion to
Shakespeare, in 1591, 93; his ac-
count of Shakespeare in retirement
at Stratford, 214

Salisbury Court Theatre pulled down
in 1649, 208
"Salmacis and Hermaphroditus" not
written by Francis Beaumont, 89
Sandells, Fulk, and John Richardson,
their bond in 1582 for the mar-
riage of William Shakespeare and
Anne Hathaway, 62

Scotland, English Actors in, in 1589
and 1599, 162; the possibility that
William Shakespeare was there, 165
"Sejanus" by Ben Jonson, and Shake-
speare's aid to him in, 174
Shakespeare, persons of that name
resident at early dates in Warwick-
shire, Worcestershire, &c., 39
Shakespeare, Anne, daughter of John
Shakespeare, baptized in 1571, 55;
died in 1579, 56

Shakespeare, Anne, never went with

her husband to London, 66; entitled
to dower on the death of her hus-
band, 221; whether she married a
second time, 220; her death in 1623,
and inscription on her monument
at Stratford, 218

Shakespeare, Edmund, baptized in
1580, 59; a player, his death in
Southwark in 1607, 184
Shakespeare, Edward, his base-born
son buried, 185

Shakespeare, Gilbert, baptized in 1566,
50; his agency for his brother
William, 172; a youth, so named,
buried in 1611-12, 205
Shakespeare, Hamnet, baptized in
1585, 68; his death in 1596, 130
Shakespeare, Henry, of Snitterfield,
brother of John Shakespeare, 42
Shakespeare, Joan, daughter to John
and Mary Shakespeare, born in
1558, 44; her death, 46
Shakespeare, Joan, third daughter of

John and Mary Shakespeare, bap-
tized in 1569, 50; her marriage with
William Hart, hatter, 205
Shakespeare, John, his debt to Thomas
Siche in 1555, his trade that of a
Glover, 41; his means of introduc-
tion to Mary Arden, 42; one of the
Jury of a court-leet in 1556, ib.;
his marriage with Mary Arden, 44;
his houses in Greenhill-street and
Henley-street, Stratford, in 1556, 45;
fined in 1558 for not keeping a
gutter clean, 46; one of the Ale-
tasters of Stratford in 1557, Consta-
ble in 1558, and Affeeror in 1559,
ib.;
called Mister after having been
Bailiff of Stratford, 47; Chamberlain
of Stratford, 48; his subscriptions for
relief of sufferers by the Plague, 49;
not able to write, 50; sworn in
Alderman of Stratford in 1565, ib.;
elected Bailiff of Stratford in 1568,
ib.; the grant, exemplification and
confirmation of arms to, considered,
51, 52; his supposed property, 54;
his purchase in 1574 of two free-
hold houses in Henley-street from
the Halls, 56; decline in his pecu-
niary affairs, ib.; when first distin-
guished as Mister, ib.; he and his wife
mortgage Asbyes to Edmund Lam-
bert in 1578, 57; his contribution to
the poor in 1578, ib.; his contribu-
tion in 1578 for pikemen, billmen,
&c., ib.; his debt in 1578 to Roger
Sadler, a baker, ib.; he and his wife
sell their property in Snitterfield to
Ro. Webbe in 1579, 58; termed
"Yeoman" and not "Glover," in
1597, 59; deprived of his Alderman's
gown at Stratford in 1579, 78; un-
prosperous state of his affairs, 79;
his non-attendance at Church in
1592, 108; his real or supposed
recusancy in 1592, 108. 110; his
residence in Bridge-street, Stratford,
in 1589, 109; he and others employed
in 1592 to take an inventory of the
goods, &c. of Henry Field, 112; all
his children baptized Protestants,
113; and his wife, their Chancery-
suit, in 1597, to recover Asbyes,

127; his death at Stratford-upon-

Avon in 1601, 155
Shakespeare, John, the shoemaker,
married to Margery Roberts, and
their three children, 47; formerly
confounded with John Shakespeare,
the father of William, ib.
Shakespeare, Judith, daughter of Wil-
liam and Mary Shakespeare, baptized
in 1585, 68; married to Thomas
Quyney or Quiney in 1616, 215
Shakespeare, Margaret, daughter of
John Shakespeare, baptized and
buried in 1562, 48

Shakespeare, Mary, wife of John Shake-
speare, her estate of Asbyes in Aston
Cantlowe, her estimated property on
her marriage, 45; her death at Strat-
ford in 1608, 185

Shakespeare, Peter, probably a resident
in Southwark in the first year of
Richard III., 39

Shakespeare, Richard, of Snitterfield
and Rowington, the grandfather of
William Shakespeare, his will and his
death in 1592, 40. 42
Shakespeare, Richard, son of John and
Mary Shakespeare, probably named
after his grandfather, baptized in
1574, 56; his death at Stratford
in 1612-13, 205
Shakespeare, Roger, son of Richard,
40; his information on oath against
Cuthbert Temple for not attending
church, 109

Shakespeare, Susanna, daughter of
William and Anne Shakespeare,
baptized 26th May, 1583, 64; mar-
ried to Dr. John Hall in 1607, 184;
her death, 209
Shakespeare, a William, drowned in the
Avon in 1574, 40
Shakespeare, William, son of John,
and grandson of Richard Shake-
speare, baptized 26th April, 1564,
48; how and where educated, 59;
when and why he left school, 60;
wrote a good hand, and with facility,
61; probably clerk to an attorney, ib.;
his hasty marriage with Anne Hatha-
way, 62, 63; perhaps, not a very
happy married man, 66; the father

of twins in 1585, 68; abandonment
of home by, and when, 68. 79;
whether he left Stratford on account
of deer-stealing, 74; several fellow-
actors from Warwickshire and Strat-
ford, 76; whether he was at Kenil-
worth in 1575, 77; why he joined
the Lord Chamberlain's company of
Players, ib.; when and why he be-
came a Player, 80; he and fifteen
other sharers in the Blackfriars
Theatre in 1589, 82; his importance
in the Company, 83, 84; whether
he were a good actor, 83. 85; what
he may be supposed to have written
by 1589, 87.91; his Sonnets handed
about in MS., 88; his "Venus and
Adonis," 1593, written, perhaps, be-
fore he came to London, ib.; his judg-
ment of horses and horsemanship, 89;
the assertion respecting his holding
horses, ib.; when probably he wrote
his "Lucrece," 1594, 90; very pos-
sibly an actor in Stratford before he
came to London, 91; his claims to
the praise of Spenser in his "Tears
of the Muses," 1591, 93; his pos-
sible concern in "The Yorkshire
Tragedy,"
," "Arden of Feversham,"
and other Plays, 94; what he may
have written by 1591, 97; whether he
ever visited Italy, 99; alluded to by
Robert Greene as "the only Shake-
scene" in 1592, 102; his import-
ance to the Lord Chamberlain's
Players, 103; his offence at H.
Chettle, and the apology, ib.; his
"Romeo and Juliet," "Richard II.,"
and "Richard III." probably writ-
ten before 1594, 107; Lord South-
ampton's gift of 1000l. to, 116;
Shakespeare's position as sharer in
the Blackfriars Theatre in 1596, 125;
his instrumentality in procuring the
grant, &c. of arms to his father,
53; his residence in Southwark in
1596, 125; a landed proprietor, or
land occupier, 129. 132; owner of
ten quarters of wheat in 1598, 131;
his aid to Ben Jonson in regard to
"Every Man in his Humour," 133;
to 1598 only five of his plays printed,

139; never authorized the printing of
any one of his plays, 142; his right to
poems in "The Passionate Pilgrim"
ascertained, 143; buys New Place in
or before 1598, 146; his plays printed
before 1600, 151; mentioned by
name in a street-ballad, 160; the
question, whether he visited Scotland
considered, 162; his employment on
his plays of " Henry V.," "Twelfth
Night," and "Hamlet," 164; his
wife mentioned in Thomas Whit-
tington's Will in 1601, 165; patent
to Shakespeare and others, from
James I., 168; Shakespeare's Epi-
gram upon James I., 171; his pur-
chase of 107 acres of land at Strat-
ford, ib.; his purchase of a messuage,
&c. from H. Underhill, 172; his
purchase of a house in Walker's-
street, Stratford, ib.; his aid to Ben
Jonson in writing "Sejanus," 174;
his retirement from the Stage as an
Actor, ib.; suitor for an office
against S. Daniel, ib.; the characters
he performed, ib.; perhaps a soldier
in Warwickshire in 1605, 181; his
purchase of a lease of Tithes in 1605,
182; godfather to William Walker
in 1608, 185; his high reputation in
1609, 186; rated to the poor of the
Liberty of the Clink in 1609, ib.; his
wife and family not residing with him
in London, 188; his shares in the
Blackfriars Theatre, and owner of
the Wardrobe and properties, 190;
Letter of H. S. in favour of, 193;
his income, as stated by the Rev.
John Ward, ib.; said to have writ-
ten two plays a year, after his re-
tirement, ib.; no new plays by,
printed between 1609 and 1622,
199; the number of Copies of the
folio of his works in 1623 extant,
ib.; probability that he sold all his
property in Theatres before he re-
tired to Stratford, 200. 202; the
plays he wrote late in his career, 200;
purchase of a house in the Black-
friars by, in 1613, 203; his Chan-
cery-suit about Tithes of Stratford,
&c., 206; his property in Stratford

not burnt in the fire of 1614, 209;
his opposition to the inclosures near
Stratford, 210; in London in Nov.
1614, ib.; his praise in Christ.
Brooke's "Ghost of Richard III.,"
212; how the latter part of his life
was spent, 214; his daughter Judith
married to Thomas Quiney in 1616,
215; date of the preparation of his
Will, ib.; his death at Stratford in
1616, 216; the day of his birth and
death considered, 218; the entry of
his death in the register of Stratford,
219;
his last Will and the probate
of it, 231; his bequest to his wife,
221; his bust at Stratford and its
likeness, 222; the monument to him
in Stratford Church, ib. ; inscriptions
on his monument, 223; his personal
appearance, &c. according to John
Aubrey, 226; whether he was or was
not lame, ib.; his wit-combats with
Ben Jonson and others, 227; his
gift of latten spoons to Ben Jonson's
child, 228; his verses on a tomb in
Tong Church, ib.; Hallam's cha-
racter of Shakespeare, 229
Shakespeare,

Daborne, Field, and
Kirkham, their patent for the Chil-
dren of the Queen's Revels, 197
Shakespeare and Burbadge, anecdote
of their rivalry in love, 156
Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser,
whether friends in Warwickshire, 95
Sharers in the Blackfriars Theatre, the
account of their property, 190
Shiels' "Lives of the Poets," and his as-
sertion respecting Shakespeare hold-
ing horses, 89

Short-hand employed of old to take
down plays in theatres, 142
Sidney, Sir Philip, why not entitled to
Spenser's eulogy in 1591, 98
Snitterfield, John and Mary Shake-
speare sell their property there to
Robert Webbe in 1579, 58. 79; the
Shakespeares probably came from
thence to Stratford, 42
Sonnets, Shakespeare's, printed for
Thomas Thorpe in 1609, 186
Southampton, Earl of, dedication of
"Venus and Adonis" to, in 1593,

89; dedication of "Lucrece" to,
in 1594, 114; his extraordinary
bounty to Shakespeare, 115; his
letter in favour of Shakespeare and
Burbadge, 194; and Rutland, Lords,
frequenting the playhouses in Lon-
don in 1599, 138
Southwark, complaint against Shake-
speare and other inhabitants of, 126
Southwell, Edward, his correspondent
from Stratford in 1693, 41
Spenser, Edmund, his "Tears of the
Muses," 1591, and allusion to Shake-
speare in it, under the name of Willy,
91; perhaps educated in Warwick-
shire, 94; doubts as to the date
of his birth, 95; allusion to, in
"Midsummer Night's Dream," 96;
whether poor at the time of his death,
ib.; Epigram by, and Epitaph upon,
in Manningham's Diary, ib.; his
praise of Shakespeare, under the
name of Ætion, in "Colin Clout's
come home again," 1594, 105
Spenser, Gabriel, killed by Ben Jonson
in a duel in 1598, 135
Strange, Lord, his Players summoned

before the Lord Mayor of London, 81
Stratford-upon-Avon, the Corporation
encourage dramatic performances
from 1569 to 1587, 74; inimical to
Plays in 1602, 76; Fires in, 209;
inclosures contemplated there, 210
Sturley, Abraham, his letter on the

Tithes, &c. of Stratford, &c., 67. 182
Sunday, the arrest of persons upon, for
debt, illegal, 109; plays upon, Pro-
clamation against in 1603, 166

Shakespeare in, under the name of
Willy, 91

Theatre, the, in Shoreditch, the Players
silenced at, 81

Theatres, the temporary closing of, on
the arrival of James I., 167.
Theatrical Property in Southwark and
Cripplegate rated to the poor, 187;
its value about the year 1612, 202
Tithes, a lease of, purchased by Shake-
speare in 1605, 182

Tooley, Nicholas, the actor, originally

from Warwickshire, 76; his death
and burial in 1623, 169

Tomlins, Mr. F. G., his opinion on
Shakespeare's first employment as a
dramatist, 87

Townshend, Aurelian, and his beautiful
daughter, 72

"Twelfth Night," allusion to disparity
of years between husband and wife
in, 64; the performance of it in
Feb. 1602, 156

Underhill, Hercules, his sale to Shake-
speare of a messuage, &c., 172

Veale, Richard, his note to Henslowe
regarding the repair of the Black-
friars Theatre, 124
"Venus and Adonis," 1593, its origi-

nality, and productions in imitation
of it, 88; perhaps written before
Shakespeare came to London, ib.

"Tale of Troy," George Peele's

poem, printed in 1589 and 1604, 84
Tarlton, Richard, his jig of "The
Horseload of Fools," 80; his "Jests,"
edited by Mr. Halliwell for the Shake-
speare Society, 83

Taylor, John, the Water-poet, his

epigram in his wherry on the burning
of the Globe, 208

"Tears of the Muses," 1591, by
Edmund Spenser, and allusion to

Walker, Henry, his sale of a house in
the Blackfriars to Shakespeare, 203
Ward, the Rev. John, Rector of Strat-
ford-upon-Avon, his Diary, 192; his
statement of the cause of the death
of Shakespeare,.216

Wardrobe, theatrical, on the value of a,
in 1592, 190

Warrants granted by John Shakespeare,
signed only with his mark, 51
Warwickshire, Players from, concerned
in the Blackfriars in 1589, 81

Wheat and Malt, return of the quantity of in Stratford in 1598, 130 Whittington, Thomas, of Shottery, his will mentioning W. Shakespeare and his Wife, 165

Williams, Mr. W. W., on the birth and

death day of Shakespeare, 218 Willoby, Henry, his " Avisa," 1594, W. S. and Shakespeare's "Lucrece," mentioned in it, 115

Willy, the name given to Shakespeare, in Spenser's "Tears of the Muses," 1591, 92. 96

Wilson, Robert, his claims to Spenser's eulogy, 98; his comedy, "The "Cobbler's Prophecy," quoted regarding improper grants of arms, 55 Worcester, the Earl of, his Players adopted by Queen Anne, 170