710, July 13. John Shakespeare, senior, buried."

"1721-2, Jan. 30. (By licence) Francis Chernocke, of
Killingworth, co. Warr., gent., about 24, and Mary
Shakespeare, of Rowington, about 24, maiden, his father
consenting, her parents dead. He sealed ... within ... on a
bend ... three crosses crosslet[584] in sinister ... chief a
mullet for difference" (see Worcester Marriage Licenses).

From overseers' books: "Buried in Woolen":

"1695, Aug. 10. William Shakespere, senior."

"1697, May 12. Henry Shakespere of London."

"1707, March 24. Edward Shakespeare."

"1710, July 13. John Shakespeare, senior."

"1716, Dec. 4. William Shakespere, Blacksmith."

Page 131.--In "The Book of John Fisher, Bailiff of Warwick in 1580,"
edited by Mr. Thomas Kemp, deputy-Mayor of Warwick, are several notices
of Shakespeare. In the first page he is mentioned, and later on we find
that he lived in the Market-Place Ward, and was assessed 1d. weekly for
relief of the poor.

A "Thomas Shakesper" lived at the same time in West Street Ward, and was
assessed the same amount. These may be the Thomas and John, sons of
Thomas Shakespeare, shoemaker, of Warwick, who made his will in 1557.
There is also a casual allusion to Shakespeare the turner, of Rowington;
and in 1580-81 John Fisher notes: "I paid to ---- Shakesper, servant to
Mr. Humphrey Catheryns, for fees for the discharge of 39/7-1/2 charged
upon the Church of St. Maryes, in Mr. Boughton's account for subsidy
supposed to be due in the 5th yere of Queen Elizabeth, 9/-."

"Thomas Shakespeare of Warwick's son John was apprenticed to William
Jaggard the Stationer of London 1609" (Rylands's "Records of
Rowington").

"John, son of Thomas Shakespeare of Coventry, co. Warwick, pleb. p.p.
St. John's Coll., matric. 18th Oct., 1662, aged 18; B.A. from St. Mary
Hall 1666 (subscribes serv.)"--(Oxford Alumni and graduates). "Vicar of
Anstrey, co. Warwick, 1670" (Foster's "Index Eccles.").

Page 134.--The registers of All Saints', Oxford, date from 1549; St.
Michael's, 1559; St. Peter's-in-the-East, 1563; St. Martin's Carfax,
1569; St. Giles', 1576; St. Peter-le-Bailey, 1585; St. Mary's, 1599; St.
John Baptist's, 1616.

Page 134.--"Thomas Shakespeare and Jane Toupe married ye 2nd Maie,
1625." (Register of Mere. _Notes and Queries_, 9th Series, iii. 109.)
The county not named. It may be either Cheshire, Wiltshire or
Lincolnshire.

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