the Arden Connections are treated as family matters, apart from
John Shakespeare's special biography. I have done what I could to avoid
mistakes, and neither time nor trouble has been spared. I owe thanks to
many who have helped me in my long-continued and careful researches, to
the officials of the British Museum and the Public Record Office, to the
Town Council of Stratford-on-Avon and Mr. Savage, Secretary of the
Shakespeare Trust, to the Worshipful Company of the Haberdashers, for
allowing me to study their records; to the late Earl of Warwick, for
admission to his Shakespeare Library, and to many clergymen who have
permitted me to search their registers.
CHARLOTTE CARMICHAEL STOPES.
CONTENTS
PART I
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE NAME OF SHAKESPEARE 1
II. THE LOCALITIES OF EARLY SHAKESPEARES 4
III. LATER SHAKESPEARES BEFORE THE POET'S TIME 10
IV. THE SHAKESPEARE COAT OF ARMS 17
V. THE IMPALEMENT OF THE ARDEN ARMS 24
VI. THE ARDENS OF WILMECOTE 35
VII. JOHN SHAKESPEARE 50
VIII. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 61
IX. SHAKESPEARE'S DESCENDANTS 87
X. COLLATERALS 110
XI. COUSINS AND CONNECTIONS 113
XII. CONTEMPORARY WARWICKSHIRE SHAKESPEARES 118
XIII. SHAKESPEARES IN OTHER COUNTIES 132
XIV. LONDON SHAKESPEARES 142
PART II
I. THE PARK HALL ARDENS 162
II. THE ARDENS OF LONGCROFT 183
III. OTHER WARWICKSHIRE ARDENS 188
IV. THE ARDENS OF CHESHIRE 196
V. BRANCHES IN OTHER COUNTIES 213
TERMINAL NOTES 222
INDEX 239
ILLUSTRATIONS
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PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE _Frontispiece_
SHAKESPEARE'S ARMS 17
OLD HOUSE AT WILMECOTE, BY SOME SUPPOSED TO BE
ROBERT
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