within the townes Hamletes Villages Fieldes & groundes of Stratford vpon Avon Oldstratford Bushopton & Welcombe or in anie of them in the said countie of warr And alsoe All that messuage or tenemente with thappurtenances wherein One John Robinson dwelleth scituat lyeng & being in the blackfriers in London nere the Wardrobe & all other my landes tenementes & hereditamentes whatsoeuer To have & to hold All & singular the saied premisses with their appurtenances vnto the saied Susanna Hall for & during the terme of her naturall lief & after her deceas to the first sonne of her bodie lawfullie yssueinge & to the heires Males of the bodie of the saied first Sonne lawfullie yssueinge & for defalt of such issue to the second Sonne of her bodie lawfullie issueinge & to the heires males of the bodie of the saied Second Sonne lawfullie yssueinge and for defalt of such heires to the third Sonne of the bodie of the saied Susanna Lawfullie yssueing & of the heires males of the bodie of the saied third sonne lawfullie yssueing And for defalt of such issue the same soe to be & Remaine to the Fourth Fyfth sixte & Seaventh sonnes of her bodie lawfullie issueing one after Another & to the heires' Males of the bodies of the saied Fourth fifth Sixte and Seaventh sonnes lawfullie yssueing in such manner as yt ys before Lymitted to be & Remaine to the first second & third Sonns of her bodie & to their heires Males And for defalt of such issue the saied premisses to be & Remaine to my sayed Neece Hall and the heires Males of her bodie lawfullie yssueing & for defalt of such issue to my Daughter Judith & the heires Males of her bodie lawfullie issueinge And for defalt of such issue to the Right heires of me the saied William Shackspeare for ever Item I gyve vnto my wief my second best bed with the furniture Item I gyve & bequeath to my saied Daughter Judith my broad silver gilt bole All the rest of my goodes Chattel Leases plate Jewels & household stuffe whatsoeuer after my Dettes and Legasies paied & my funerall expences discharged I gyve devise & bequeath to my Sonne in Lawe John Hall gent & my Daughter Susanna his wief whom I ordaine & make executours of this my Last will & testament. And I doe intreat & Appoint the saied' Thomas Russell Esquier & Frauncis Collins gent to be overseers hereof And doe Revoke All former wills & publishe this to be my last will and testament
After "Fourth" the word sonne was written, but erased with the pen.
5 The second sheet ends with the word "heires," and the signature of the testator is at the bottom of it.
The words "Item I gyve vnto my wief my second best bed with the furniture" are interlined.
7 The words "the saied" are interlined.
In Witness whereof I have herevnto put my hand' the Daie & Yeare first aboue written.
• The word "hand " is interlined above seale, which is erased with the pen.
Aberdeen, the freedom of the city given
to Laurence Fletcher, 164 Act of Parliament against strolling Players, 1 Jac. I. c. 7, 170 Actors, early, who had come from War- wickshire, 76
Admiral, the Lord, his Players sum-
moned before the Lord Mayor of London, 81; adopted by the Prince of Wales, 170
Ation, a name given by Spenser to
Shakespeare in 1594, 105
Alleyn, Edward, and William Kempe,
their challenge at the Globe, 149; Alleyn's great profits at the Fortune Theatre, 150; purchase by him of property in the Blackfriars, 201 "All is True," the name of the play
acted when the Globe was burnt down in 1613, 207 "Andromeda Liberata," defended by George Chapman, 176
Apology for Actors, The, 1612, by Thomas Heywood, 82
Arden, the name, and origin of that family, 43
Arden, Agnes, widow of Robert Arden, and mother of Mary Shakespeare, 47 Arden, Edward, execution of, and the cause of it, 79
Arden, Mary, youngest daughter of Robert Arden, 42; her marriage with John Shakespeare, 44 Arden, Mrs. Mary, a Roman Catholic recusant, 111
Arden, Robert, of Wilmecote, the
owner of Richard Shakespeare's
house in Snitterfield, 42; his seven daughters, not four as stated by Malone, 43; offices and lands con- ferred upon the Arden family by Henry VII., 52
Arden, Sir John, Esquire of the body to Henry VII., 44
Arms, the fraudulent granting of, by heralds, satirized, 53. 55 Armyn, Robert, and William Kempe, complained of for personality on the stage, 176
Asbyes, in Aston Cantlowe, mortgaged by John Shakespeare for 407., 57 Ashby, his letter to Lord Burghley on
English Actors in Scotland, 163 Aubrey, John, his assertion that John Shakespeare was a butcher, 41; his statement why W. Shakespeare quit- ted Stratford, 74; on W. Shake- speare's inclination for the stage, 83; on Shakespeare's personal appear- ance, &c., 226
Authors, dramatic, who were also Ac- tors, particularly early in Shake- speare's career, 86
Ballad by Shakespeare against Sir Tho- mas Lucy, 70. Ballad on the death of Queen Eliza-
beth, mentioning Shakespeare, 159 Baptism of infants soon after birth, 48 Barlichway, the Hundred of, return of
soldiers in, in 1605, 181
Barnfield, Richard, his "Encomion of
Lady Pecunia," 1598, and "The Passionate Pilgrim," 1599, 143; his Praises of Spenser, Daniel, Dray- ton, and Shakespeare, 144 Beaumont, Francis, not the author of "Salmacis and Hermaphroditus," 1602, 89; his account of wit- combats at the Mermaid, 227 Beaumont, M., the French Ambassa- dor, his complaint against the English actors at the Globe in 1606, 177 Betterton, Thomas, his visit to Strat- ford, 41; when he went there to make inquiries respecting Shake- speare, 69; his possession of the Chandos Portrait, 225 "Biron's Conspiracy and Tragedy" complained of by the French Ambas- sador, in 1606, 177 Blackfriars Theatre, the original con- struction of, 80; certificate of good conduct from in 1589, 81; the repair and enlargement of in 1596, 122; inhabitants of, their representa- tion against it, 123; the sharers in, and the value of their property, 189; the total estimated value of it about 1608, 191; entirely pulled down in 1655, 208
Bond for the marriage between Wil- liam Shakespeare and Anne Hatha- way, 28 Nov. 1582, 62 Brooke, Christopher, his poem of "The Ghost of Richard the Third," and tribute to Shakespeare, 1614, 212 Brown, Mr. C. Armitage, his work upon
Shakespeare's Sonnets, 99 Buckingham, Sheffield, Duke of, his authority for the letter of King James to Shakespeare, 183 Burbadge, Francis, Bailiff of Stratford- upon-Avon in 1538, 46 Burbadge, James, and his fifteen part-
ners in the Blackfriars Theatre, 81 Burbadge, Richard, list of the principal characters he sustained, 85. 191; his death in Holywell Street, Shore- ditch, 119; epitaph upon him, 158. 202; owner of the freehold of the Blackfriars Theatre, 189; Letter of H. S. in favour of, 194
Burghley, Lord, his obstruction of the
Queen's bounty to Spenser, 96; Ashby's letter to, 163
Camden Society's publication, "The Egerton Papers," in 1840, 73 Cecill, Sir Robert, Ben Jonson's letter to, on the Gunpowder Plot, 180 Chamberlain, the Lord, his Servants, or Players, 84; at the Globe in 1595, 116; at the Curtain and Newington Theatres in 1594, 119; adopted by James I., 167
Chamberlaine, John, his letter respect- ing Gowry's Conspiracy," 175; his letter on the death and property of Richard Burbadge in 1619, 191 Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare, and its authenticity, 225 Chapman, George, his
"Humorous Day's Mirth," 1599, 134; complaint regarding his " Biron's Conspiracy," and "Tragedy," 176; his Defence of his " Andromeda Liberata," ib.; his translation of Petrarch's Seven Penitential Psalms, 177 Chettle, Henry, his publication of
Greene's "Groatsworth of Wit" in 1592, 101; his apology to Shake- speare in "Kind-heart's Dream," 103; his tribute to Shakespeare, 104; his applause of Shakespeare under the name of Melicert in 1603, 105; his "England's Mourning Gar- ment," and praises of many poets of the time in it, 161
Child, Mr. F. J., his edition of Spenser, printed at Boston, 95
Children, companies of, their success about the year 1600, 196
Children of the Queen's Revels pa- tronized by Queen Anne, 173 Churchyard, Thomas, alluded to by Spenser in 1594, 105
Cokayne, Sir Aston, his tribute to Shakespeare and Drayton as natives of Warwickshire, 217 Coleridge, S. T., his opinion of Shake- speare as an actor, 85; his Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton, ib. "Colin Clout's come home again," by
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
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
"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; ber 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 "England's Mourning Garment," 1603, by Henry Chettle, 105 English Actors, royal rewards to, in Scotland, 164
Essex, Earl of, his rebellion, 153; letter of Sir R. Cecill and others, introducing two headsmen, 155; his trial and execution, 153
Essex, Lady (widow of Walter Deve- reux), her Players, 75 "Every Man in his Humour," by Ben Jonson, where first acted, 133
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