Shakespeare, fifty-three in 1616, is only seven years
younger than one reckoned sixty-seven in 1623.

[185] Henry Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings."

[186] See coats of arms of the burgesses, Guildhall MS. 491.

[187] "Outlines," i. 219.

[188] Acton Registers.

[189] See Worcester Wills and Marriage Licenses.

[190] See List of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Warwick, 1577, by Henry
Ferrers; Nichols's "Coll. Top. et Gen.," vii., p. 298, and State Papers,
Dom. Ser., Eliz., 137 (38).

[191] State Papers, Dom. Ser., Eliz., lxiii. 55.

[192] The arms of these Halls were three talbots' heads erased sable,
between nine cross-crosslets azure. Shakespeare's son-in-law bore the
talbots' heads only, which may merely have been a mark of cadency. A
suit in Chancery in the time of Elizabeth was brought by Giles Fletcher,
LL.D., Joan his wife, and Phineas his eldest son, against John Hall (not
the physician) concerning the site of the manor of Henwick and the land
of Hallow. In the chapel is a mural monument to Edward Hall, Esq., who
married Anna, eldest daughter of Sir Paul Tracey, having by her four
sons and seven daughters. He died September, 1616, aged fifty-four.
Addit. MSS., Brit. Mus., 19,816.

[193] It has been suggested by Mr. A. Hall that he might have been son
of the John Hall who married Elizabeth Carew, niece to Sir Nicholas
Throckmorton. He had a son of the name.

[194] Stratford Registers.

[195] Miscellaneous Documents and Corporation Records,
Stratford-on-Avon.

[196] _Notes and Queries_, Fifth Series, vii. 287.

[197] Dugdale's "Warwickshire Antiquities," ed. 1656, p. 518. This may
be translated thus: "Here is the dust of Hall, most famous in medical
art, awaiting the glorious joys of the Kingdom of God. Worthy was he to
have surpassed Nestor in well-earned years, in every land, but impartial
Time has snatched him away. Lest anything be wanting to the tomb, his
most faithful spouse is there, and he has the companion of life now also
in death."

[198] Sir Hugh Clopton to Theobald.

[199] Halliwell-Phillipps, "Outlines," ii. 108.

[200] Easter Term, 23 Car. I.

[201] Somerset House, 96, Alchin, also in Juxon.

[202] "Warwickshire Antiquities," ed. 1656, p. 518.

[203] Abington Parish Registers.

[204] Somerset House, 96, Alchin, also in Juxon.

[205] Halliwell-Phillipps, "Outlines," ii. 119.

[206] Somerset House, 36 Hale.

[207] Admin., October, 1686; Somerset House.

[208] _Morning Herald_