, 41

Scott, Reginald, allusion to Monarcho in 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft'
of, 51 _n_

Scott, Sir Walter, at Charlecote, 28

_Scourge of Folly_, 44 _n_ 2

Sedley, Sir Charles, apostrophe to the poet, 331

_Sejanus_, Shakespeare takes part in the performance of, 44 401

_Selimus_, 179

Serafino dell' Aquila, Watson's indebtedness to, 77 _n_ 2 102 103 _n_ 1
442 _n_

Seve, Maurice, 104 and _n_ 430 442 445 _n_ 1

Sewell, Dr. George, 315

'Shadow of the Night, The,' Chapman's, 135 _n_

Shakespeare, the surname of, 1 2 cf. 24 _n_

Shakespeare, Adam, 1

Shakespeare, Ann, a sister of the poet, 11

Shakespeare, Anne (or Agnes): her parentage, 18 19
her marriage to the poet, 18 19-22
assumed identification of her with Anne Whateley, 23 24 and _n_
her debt, 187
her husband's bequest to her, 273
her widow's dower barred, 274 and _n_
her wish to be buried in her husband's grave, 274
committed by her husband to the care of the elder daughter, 275
her death, 280 and _n_

Shakespeare, Edmund, a brother of the poet, is 'a player,' 283
death, 283

Shakespeare, Gilbert, a brother of the poet, 11
witnesses his brother's performance of Adam in _As You Like It_, 44
apparently had a son named Gilbert, 283
his death not recorded, 283

Shakespeare, Hamnet, son of the poet, 26 187

Shakespeare, Henry, one of the poet's uncles, 3 4 186

Shakespeare, Joan (1), 7

Shakespeare, Joan (2), see Hart, Joan

Shakespeare, John (1), the first recorded holder of this surname
(thirteenth century), 1

Shakespeare, John (2), the poet's father, administrator of Richard
Shakespeare's estate, 3 4
claims that his grandfather received a grant of land from Henry VII,
2 189
leaves Snitterfield for Stratford-on-Avon, 4
his business, 4
his property in Stratford and his municipal offices, 5
marries Mary Arden, 6 7
his children, 7
his house in Henley Street, Stratford, 8 11
appointed alderman and bailiff, 10
welcomes actors at Stratford, 10
his alleged sympathies with puritanism, 10 _n_
his application for a grant of arms, 2 10 _n_ 188-92
his financial difficulties, 11 12
his younger children, 11
writ of distraint issued against him, 12
deprived of his alderman's gown, 12
his trade of butcher, 18
increase of pecuniary difficulties, 186
relieved by the poet, 187
his death,