have to thank the proprietors of those
periodicals for permission to reproduce my material in this volume.

{x} For an account of its history see p. 295.

{xi} See pp. 309 and 311.

{1a} Camden, _Remaines_, ed. 1605, p. III; Verstegan, _Restitution_,
1605.

{1b} _Plac. Cor._ 7 Edw. I, Kanc.; cf. _Notes and Queries_, 1st ser.
xi.122.

{1c} Cf. the _Register of the Guild of St. Anne at Knowle_, ed. Bickley,
1894.

{2} See p. 189.

{3a} Cf. _Times_, October 14, 1895; _Notes and Queries_, 8th ser. viii.
501; articles by Mrs. Stopes in _Genealogical Magazine_, 1897.

{3b} Cf. Halliwell-Phillipps, _Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare_,
1887, ii. 207.

{3c} The purchasing power of money was then eight times what it is now,
and this and other sums mentioned should be multiplied by eight in
comparing them with modern currency (see p. 197 _n_). The letters of
administration in regard to Richard Shakespeare's estate are in the
district registry of the Probate Court at Worcester, and were printed in
full by Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps in his _Shakespeare's Tours_ (privately
issued 1887), pp. 44-5. They do not appear in any edition of Mr.
Halliwell-Phillipps's _Outlines_. Certified extracts appeared in _Notes
and Queries_, 8th ser. xii. 463-4.

{6} French, _Genealogica Shakespeareana_, pp. 458 seq.; cf. p. 191
_infra_.

{7} Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 179.

{8} Cf. Halliwell-Phillipps, Letter to Elze, 1888.

{9} Cf. Documents and Sketches in Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 377-99.

{10} The Rev. Thomas Carter, in _Shakespeare_, _Puritan and Recusant_,
1897, has endeavoured to show that John Shakespeare was a puritan in
religious matters, inclining to nonconformity. He deduces this inference
from the fact that, at the period of his prominent association with the
municipal government of Stratford, the corporation ordered images to be
defaced (1562-3) and ecclesiastical vestments to be sold (1571). These
entries merely prove that the aldermen and councillors of Stratford
strictly conformed to the new religion as by law established in the first
years of Elizabeth's reign. Nothing can be deduced from them in regard
to the private religious opinions of John Shakespeare. The circumstance
that he was the first bailiff to encourage actors to visit Stratford is,
on the other hand, conclusive proof that his religion was not that of the
contemporary puritan, whose hostility to all forms of dramatic
representations was