mentions Elizabeth Skerlett as an eighth,
surely in error.

[87] I believe that I have found the register of her death in
association with the Ardens of Park Hall, see p. 41.

[88] This supposition is strengthened by the language of the lease which
Mrs. Arden granted her brother of a farm in Snitterfield, May 21, 1560,
of which "estate was made to me the said Agnes by my late husband in the
fourth year of the raigne of the late King Ed. VI., 1550;... now in
tenure of Richard Shakespeare, John Henley, and John Hargrave."

[89] See Records of Stratford-on-Avon.

[90] _Ibid._

[91] Worcester Wills. Consistory Court.

[92] See Sir George Nichols' "History of the English Poor Law."

[93] See "Release from Thomas Stringer of Stockton, co. Salop, to
Alexander Webbe of Snitterfield, _husbandman_, 12th Feb., 11 Eliz.,
witness John Shaxpere," confirmed after the marriage of Margaret to
Edward Cornwall, October 16, 18 Elizabeth. "A transfer from John
Shakespeare and Mary his wife" of her shares of Snitterfield, 21 Eliz.,
for L4; 15 Oct., 22 Eliz., for L40; and 23 Eliz., 6s. 8d. "Release from
Thomas Stringer and Thomas Edkins to Robert Webbe, 23rd Dec., 21 Eliz."
"A grant from Edmund Lambert and Joane his wife to Robert Webbe of their
interest in Snitterfield, 2nd May, 23 Eliz." (Stratford-on-Avon
Records).

[94] Stratford-on-Avon Miscellaneous Papers.

[95] Chamberlain's Accounts, Stratford-on-Avon.

[96] Worcester Wills.

[97] Reply of John Lambert in 1597, Chancery Proceedings.

[98] Note of the fine (Halliwell-Phillipps' "Outlines," ii., 11 and
202).

[99] _Notes and Queries_, 8th Series, vol. v., pp. 127, 296, 498.

[100] West's "Symboleography Concords," pp. 10, 11.

[101] Halliwell-Phillipps, "Outlines," ii. 202. Wilmcote Fines, Hilary
term, 21 Eliz.

[102] Halliwell-Phillipps points out that it is for L4, which is an
evident error ("Outlines," ii. 179).

[103] _Ibid._, p. 179.

[104] "Sealed in the presence of Nycholas Knooles, Vicar of Auston."

[105] Halliwell-Phillipps, "Outlines," ii. 182. Dugdale, Alveston.

[106] _Ibid._, ii. 176.

[107] Warr. Fines. "In onere Georgii Digbie Armigeri Vicecomitis
comitatu praedicti de anno vicesimo tercio Regine Elizabethe, fines de
Banco anno vicesimo secundo Regine Elizabethe pro termino Pasche," etc.
"Recepta per me Johannem Cowper sub vice comitem."

[108] Halliwell-Phillipps, "Outlines," ii. 179.

[109] Stratford-on-Avon Miscellaneous Documents.

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