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

ventory of bis goods in 1692, 112
Field, Richard, the printer, his origin

and history, 118
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, Dames

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

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; & 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

Gascoigne, George, his “ Princely Plea-

sures of Kenilworth," 1576, 78
Gentle, an epithet especially wpplied 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, U18. 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 apon, for-

bidden, 175
Greene, Robert, George Peele, and

Christopher Marlowe, their claims

to Spenser's Eulogy in 1591, 97
Greene, Robert, bis “Groatsworth of

Wit," 1592, pablished by Henry
Chettle, 101; his death in 1592,

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

Jobo 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 ber 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; & Dramatist of

that dame, ib.
Heminge, Jobn, & party with Shake-

speare to a deed in 1613, 204
Henley Street, William Shakespeare

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; bis supposed letter to
Shakespeare in return for “Mac-

beth,” 183
James, Elias, Shakespeare's imputed

epitaph upon, 229

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, bis 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, bis

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

inbabitants of Stratford on reli-

gious points, in 1537, 111
Lyly, John, the dramatist, not entitled

to Spenser's eulogy of 1591, 97

Archer in 1593, 86; ballad apon

his
death, ib.; bis 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
“Merry Wives of Windsor" and the

ridicule of Sir Thomas Lucy in A.

i. sc. 1, 72
Meyrick, (or Merrick,) Sir Gilly, bis

examination regarding a play at the
Globe, 154
Middleton, Thomas, his epigram on

the death of R. Barbadge, 192
“Midsummer Night's Dream," and

the passage relating to Queen Eliza-

beth, 78
More, Sir Thomas, & play upon the

Life of,
Mulberry-tree in the garden of New

Place, and its fate, 147

Mainwaring, Arthur, bis 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

VOL. I.

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 inbabited

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

to

Salisbury Court Theatre palled down

in 1649, 208
“Salmacis and Hermaphroditus " not

written by Francis Beaumont, 89
Sandells, Fulk, and John Richardson,

their bodd 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 Joba

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 bus.
band, 221; wbether she married &
second time, 220; her death io 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, batter, 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 bis 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.; bis 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; be 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,