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
ber 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;
bis 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 1., 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