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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

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5 The second sheet ends with the word "heires," and the signature of the testator is at the bottom of it.

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7 The words "the saied" are interlined.

In Witness whereof I have herevnto put my hand' the Daie & Yeare first aboue written.

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INDEX

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THE LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE.

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

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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

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; 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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