et House, 249, Aston.

[336] Lic. Fac. Office, Harl. Publ.

[337] Reg. of St. George's, Hanover Square.

[338] Marriage Licenses, Bishop of London, Harl. Publ.

[339] Bishop of London's Licenses, Harl. Publ.

[340] Foster's "Alumni Oxonienses."

[341] Bishop of London's Mar. Lic., Harl. Publ.

[342] Somerset House, 248, Aston.

[343] _Notes and Queries_, Third Series, vii. 175.

[344] "Book of Apprentices," 1666-1736, f. 756

[345] His son stated that he was seventy-seven at the time of his death,
in 1689, but his marriage certificate makes him younger. "Publications
and Marriages, 1654: John Shakespear, of Ratcliffe Highway, ropemaker,
aged thirty-five, and Martha Seeley, of Wapping Wall, mayde, nineteen
years. Married before John Waterton, Esquire, on ye 14th June. Richard
Mathews, Robert Connolly, witnesses" (French, 547). He might have been a
son of John, son of Thomas of Snitterfield, b. 1582.

[346] _Notes and Queries_ Second Series, x. 188, 402; Third Series, vii.
498.

[347] State Papers, Dom. Ser., 1656-57, Commonwealth, cliii., Nos. 55,
56.

[348] "Misc. Gen. et Herald.," Second Series, v., 371, and Merchant
Tailors' "Book of Apprentices."

[349] Bishop of London's Marriage Licenses, Harl. Publ.

[350] Herbert's "Twelve Livery Companies."

[351] _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1805.

[352] _Ibid._, 1818.

[353] French, 551, and _Times_, April, 1867.

[354] "Dict. Nat. Biog."

[355] Register of Charterhouse Chapel.

[356] French, p. 556.

[357] A writer in _Notes and Queries_, Sixth Series, i. 494, speaks of a
"large silver salver bearing a lion passant and a leopard's head
crowned. In the centre are the arms and crest of Shakespeare, and on an
escutcheon of pretence three stags' heads caboshed. It bears the
inscription, 'William Powlett Powlett, Esq., D.D. William Powlett
Shakspear, 1821.' There is a legend this was made from plate owned by
the poet. What is the date of the salver?"

[358] _Times_, June 13, 1864, and _Notes and Queries_, Third Series,
vii. 498.

[359] Foster's "Alumni Oxonienses."

[360] "Misc. Gen. et Herald.," New Series, i., p. 143.

[361] Register of St. Bartholomew the Less.

[362] _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lxix., p. 83.

[363] Manning and Bray's "Surrey," vol. ii., under Walton-upon-Thames,
mentions the tomb of Matthew Shakespear and of George, aged fifteen,
August 8, 1775; John Shakespear, of Weybridge, January 3, 1775, aged
sixty-seven; William, January