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 CALENDAR.
 
 Recipients of this little Volume would confer a great favour 
 on the Compiler by informing him of any other old records, books, 
 or engravings, illustrative of the life of Shakespeare.
 
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 A CALENDAR 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SHAKESPEAREAN RARITIES, 
 
 DRAWINGS AND ENGRAVINGS, 
 
 PRESERVED AT 
 
 HOLLINGBURY COPSE, NEAR BRIGHTON, 
 
 that quaint wigwam 011 the Sussex Downs which has the honour of sheltering mart 
 
 record and artistic evidences connected with the personal history of the Great 
 
 Dramatist than are to be found in any other of the World's libraries. 
 
 But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy 
 Must sanctify his relics." 
 
 feonfcon : 
 for Special Circulation and for Presents only. 
 
 MDCCCLXXXVII.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 FOR nearly half a century I have been an ardent 
 Shakespearean collector, being most likely the only- 
 survivor of the little band who attended the sale 
 of the library of George Chalmers somewhere 
 about the year 1 840. But for a long time, attempt- 
 ing too much in several directions with insufficient 
 means, and harassed, moreover, by a succession 
 of lawsuits, including two in the Court of Torture, 
 I mean Chancery, I was unable to retain my 
 accumulations : and thus it came to pass that book- 
 case full after bookcase full were disposed of, some 
 by private contract, many under the vibrations of 
 the auctioneer's hammer. This state of affairs 
 continued till February, 1872, but since that period, 
 by a strict limitation of my competitive resources 
 to one subject, the Life of Shakespeare, I have 
 managed to jog along without parting with a single 
 article of any description, nor is there a probability 
 that the collection described in the following pages 
 will ever be dispersed. 
 
 When the reader, or, rather, I should say, the 
 inspector of this calendar bears in mind that, 
 exclusive of the Blight sketches, all but the whole 
 of this collection has been formed within the last 
 fifteen years, and that it already stands pre-eminent 
 amidst the libraries of the world in no less than 
 four of the most important divisions of Shake- 
 speareana, the product will be regarded with no
 
 small astonishment by those who know how ex- 
 ceedingly difficult it is, and how very rarely as a 
 rule it is possible, to obtain even a single document 
 of the sixteenth or seventeeth century, or a single 
 original drawing of the eighteenth, that is per- 
 ceptibly illustrative of the poet's biography. Half- 
 a-dozen of either would be infinitely more difficult 
 to obtain than an impenetrable fifty-thousand- 
 volume library of modern books on the works 
 of the great dramatist. The four divisions to 
 which allusion has here been made are, i. Early 
 engraved portraits of Shakespeare. 2. Authentic 
 personal relics. 3. Documentary evidences re- 
 specting his estates and individuals who are 
 connected with his biography. 4. Artistic illus- 
 trations of localities connected with his personal 
 history. 
 
 i. The most important of these is of course 
 the copy of the Droeshout portrait (No. 220) of 
 Shakespeare in its original proof state before it 
 was altered by an inferior hand into the vitiated 
 form in which it has been so long familiar to the 
 public. This is the earliest engraved portrait 
 of the great dramatist, and differs so materially 
 from the later impressions that it gives a new and 
 more pleasing idea of his features. Here we have 
 the most reliable likeness of Shakespeare in exist- 
 ence, the only one which has not been injuriously 
 tampered with, while, at the same time, the 
 evidences of its genuineness and its antiquity are 
 incontestable, and it is most unfortunate that the 
 appliances of modern art are inadequate to its 
 satisfactory reproduction. The collection includes 
 several other impressions of the engraving in 
 various states of the plate, as well as all the known 
 engraved portraits of the great dramatist up to
 
 that which was published by Rowe in 1 709 ; but 
 scarcely any have been admitted that were issued 
 after that year, none of the latter being of real 
 value, and very few that can be fairly said to be 
 of the slightest interest. 
 
 2. Very few authentic personal relics of the great 
 dramatist, that is to say, articles that were at one 
 time indubitably in his own possession, are known 
 to be in existence. They are, in fact, restricted to 
 the will, now preserved at Somerset House, and 
 to a small number of title-deeds, for there is not a 
 single other domestic memorial of any description 
 the genuineness of which is not open to either doubt 
 or suspicion. But that the title-deeds of his un- 
 mortgaged estates, those that are dated previously 
 to the twenty-third of April, 1616, were once in 
 his own hands, does not admit of rational question; 
 documents of this kind having been, in his day, 
 jealously guarded by their owners, never being 
 entrusted, as now, to the custody of solicitors. Of 
 these title-deeds there are no fewer than six in the 
 present collection, the four New Place indentures, 
 Nos. 143 to 146, and the two (No. 140) original 
 indentures of a fine between the poet and Her- 
 cules Underhill that was levied in the year 1602. 
 
 To these may in all probability, though not with 
 absolute certainty, be added the original convey- 
 ance (No. 148) of Shakespeare's Blackfriars estate, 
 1613, which was unquestionably on the table when 
 the poet executed the concurrent mortgage, and 
 as it must have been formally passed over to him, 
 it is altogether most unlikely that he did not touch 
 it with his own hands. This was the deed that 
 was enrolled in Chancery soon after the purchase, 
 the official endorsement still remaining in a perfect 
 state of preservation, and it was for many years
 
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 one of the leading treasures of the Sainsbury 
 collection. It subsequently passed into that of 
 the late Sir William Tite, who very kindly, on 
 December the 2oth, 1872, transferred the purchase 
 to me. I afterwards had the good fortune to 
 acquire the other Shakespearean ornament of the 
 Sainsbury hoard, the original deed (No. 149) trans- 
 ferring the house in the Blackfriars in trust to 
 follow the directions of the poet's will, a document 
 that was executed in 1618, and handed over to 
 his daughter Susannah. A record of later date 
 respecting the same estate, the exemplification of 
 a fine that was levied in 1647, will be observed at 
 No. 124. 
 
 3. Amongst these may be noticed, in addition 
 to the six interesting title-deeds above-mentioned 
 respecting New Place, the series of documents 
 relating to the same estate, Nos. 125 to 131 ; two 
 deeds (Nos. 133, 258) each having the autograph 
 of the poet's Sir Thomas Lucy, the first with a 
 perfect impression of the seal exhibiting the three 
 luces; the deed (No. 142) of 1596, witnessed by- 
 John Shakespeare ; a large number of records of 
 Hathaway families, including several relating to a 
 house at Stratford that undoubtedly belonged to 
 relatives of the poet's Anne, two of them mention- 
 ing the boundary of his estate ; the Clopton 
 cartulary (No. i) in which is found the earliest 
 discovered notice of any part of Shakespeare's 
 property ; other documents with the very rare 
 signatures of John a' Combe ; Thomas Greene, 
 the poet's cousin ; Walter Roche, his schoolmaster; 
 Francis Collins, his solicitor; Thomas Combe, to 
 whom he left his sword ; and Shakespeare Hart. 
 There are also two with the autographs of the 
 Earls of Southampton and Essex.
 
 4. It is very difficult to meet with pictorial 
 illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare that belong 
 to even a small antiquity. With the exception 
 of the very few engravings to be met with in 
 periodicals, in editions of the poet's works, and 
 in Ireland's Warwickshire Avon, and which are 
 sufficiently common, any of the kind which were 
 executed before the commencement of the present 
 century are of exceedingly rare occurrence. The 
 Bodleian Library, so rich in English topography, 
 has none ; while in that enormous literary ware- 
 house, the British Museum, there are hardly any 
 of the slightest interest. There are, indeed, only 
 two large and important collections of drawings 
 and engravings illustrative of Shakespearean 
 biography. One of these, that now preserved at 
 the Birth-Place, was formed by the late Mr. W. 
 O. Hunt and myself in years gone by, when we 
 ransacked Stratford-on-Avon and its neighbour- 
 hood for every relic of the kind. The other, the 
 present one, is all but entirely the result of 
 purchases from other localities. Each collection 
 is, at present, of unique interest, and is likely to 
 remain so. It is not probable that another, of 
 equal value to either, could now be formed, and 
 even many of the engravings and lithographs of 
 forty or fifty years of age are of great rarity, 
 obtainable only by accident. 
 
 The biographical student should guard against 
 the too easy rejection of comparatively modern 
 illustrations. Every representation of an old 
 building, however recent, if taken from nature and 
 before its alteration, is of a definite and permanent 
 value. Thus, for example, the only perfect 
 evidences of the state of the back of the Birth- 
 Place previously to its restoration were preserved
 
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 in a number of photographic plates executed in 
 1854, now in the museum of that institution, but 
 so faded that they are all but valueless ; and had 
 I not had the precaution of having had copies 
 made of them before many of the details had 
 disappeared, those evidences would have been lost 
 for ever. The copies are in the unrivalled series 
 of Birth-Place illustrations calendared in the 
 following pages. No early views of the. above- 
 mentioned portions of the building have yet been 
 discovered, and even late unpublished sketches of 
 the street-exterior are of such immense rarity that 
 I thought myself fortunate in obtaining Shepherd's 
 water-colour view (No. 668) taken about the year 
 1830, and Neale's large pencil sketch (No. 733) 
 taken in July, 1820. As for original drawings of 
 the last century, many readers will be surprised 
 to hear that only three are known to exist, the 
 so-called one in the British Museum being a mere 
 variation of the published engraving of 1769. 
 Two of those three are in the present collection, 
 Greene's sketch, No. 654, and Ireland's view taken 
 in 1792, No. 733. Some years ago there was a 
 fourth, a large sketch by Jordan, but it perished 
 with the rest of the Staunton library in 1879. A 
 facsimile tracing, in the volume described at No. 
 733, is now its unique representative. 
 
 The collection of printed Shakespeareana has 
 been mainly restricted to books that were issued 
 before the Restoration of Charles the Second in 
 1660, the few belonging to a later period owing 
 their admission to their being in some way either 
 illustrative of the poet's biography, or of practices 
 in the representation of his dramas that may have 
 been adopted from those that had been current 
 at the Globe or Blackfriars. Amongst the articles
 
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 in this division may be mentioned the all but 
 unique surreptitious edition of Pierce Penilesse, 
 1592, in which there is the earliest allusion to any 
 of the works of Shakespeare that has yet been 
 discovered ; the drama of Promos and Cassandra, 
 the foundation-play of Measure for Measure, 1578; 
 the Destruction of Troy, partially used by Shake- 
 speare in the construction of Troilus and Cressida, 
 1596; the History of Tom Drum, 1598, alluded 
 to in All's Well that Ends Well ; the unique work 
 by Morley, 1600, with the only known contem- 
 porary copy of the original music to a song in 
 As You Like It; the Rape of Lucrece, 1624; 
 Love's Labour's Lost, 1598. To these may be 
 added the unique 1 568 impression of Lily's Shorte 
 Introduction to Grammar, being the edition pro- 
 bably used at the Stratford school during the 
 poet's sojourn at that institution. 
 
 The critical study of the poet's text being alto- 
 gether outside the scope of my design, the few 
 early editions of his works that are herein men- 
 tioned have been admitted, generally speaking, 
 by the merest accident. The unique portion of 
 the first edition of the First Part of Henry the 
 Fourth, 1598, No. 19, is one of the chief excep- 
 tions. But early notices and the foundation-stories 
 of the plays are included, these belonging to the 
 history of his work. 
 
 Amongst the numerous articles that illustrate 
 the history and topography of Stratford-on-Avon 
 may be mentioned the Clopton cartulary, No. I ; 
 the ground-plan of the College, temp. Hen. 8, No. 
 221 ; the interesting perambulation of the town, 
 1591, No. 222 ; two curious old levies, No. 248 ; 
 the earliest books of the manorial court that are 
 known to exist, Nos. 67 and 68 ; a plan of the
 
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 town made in 1759, the earliest complete one yet 
 discovered, No. 580 ; and Fisher's original draw- 
 ings of the singularly curious paintings discovered 
 on the walls of the Guild Chapel in 1804. These 
 last-mentioned works are of considerable value, 
 the published copies not being strictly accurate, 
 and they are now unique, the only replicas that 
 were made having been lost in the disastrous 
 accident that befell the Staunton collection. 
 
 Shakespeare having been as much of a Lon- 
 doner as he was a Stratfordian, great attention 
 has been paid to the acquisition of plans and 
 views relating to the contemporary metropolis. 
 Amongst these one of the most interesting is 
 Norden's engraving of London Bridge, 1597, 
 described at No. 238. It is the earliest authentic 
 large view of the bridge in the state in which it 
 must necessarily have been familar to the great 
 dramatist. Braun's plan of the city, 1574, in the 
 original state of the plate before the Royal Ex- 
 change was introduced, No. 529, is of great rarity, 
 as is also Harrison's view, 1604, No. 292, while 
 the edition of Visscher, No. 162, is unique. 
 
 It having been decisively ascertained that 
 Shakespeare was intimately acquainted with 
 Windsor, a considerable number of views of that 
 town have been admitted. H erne's Oak has also 
 received its due meed of attention. In Collier's 
 map, 1742, No. 324, there is the first extrinsic 
 notice of the tree, and a description of the earliest 
 known view, an original drawing by Rooke, will 
 be found at No. 420. 
 
 Some of the manuscripts of the Rev. Joseph 
 Greene, who was master of the grammar-school 
 of Stratford-on-Avon from 1746 to 1787, and who 
 was the first antiquary the town has produced, are
 
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 of considerable interest and include valuable in- 
 formation nowhere else to be found. They were 
 purchased by me, in 1873, ^ rom ms descendant, 
 the late Richard Greene, F.S.A. About the same 
 time I acquired from the late Joseph Lilly, the 
 well-known bookseller, a copy of the first edition 
 of Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656, 
 which had belonged to Richard Greene of Lich- 
 field, a person who was intimately connected with 
 Stratford-upon-Avon, and who had illustrated that 
 fine old work with original drawings made by him- 
 self and others between the years 1 760 and 1 769. 
 It was thus that I became possessed of the in- 
 estimable earliest representation of the Birth-Place 
 known to exist, and of various drawings executed 
 during that period, all of which are unique ; but 
 a sketch of the Jubilee Amphitheatre of 1769, 
 the only contemporary one that has yet been 
 discovered, I gave to the Birth-Place Museum as 
 an article of essential local interest. With that 
 exception the whole of the original illustrations 
 that were found in the volume have been added 
 to the present collection. 
 
 There is a variety of articles not readily classi- 
 fied, such as the unique copy of the Return from 
 Parnassus, 1602, No. 37, the only manuscript of 
 the time of Elizabeth in a private library in which 
 any of the works of Shakespeare are mentioned ; 
 several early manuscript miscellanies of Shake- 
 spearean interest ; the important original plan of 
 Middlesex executed by Norden about the year 
 T 593 No. 352; and the first, also the unique, 
 edition of Foole vpon Foole, 1600, No. 751. 
 
 Amongst the pieces of theatrical interest may 
 be mentioned the all but unique tract of 1588, 
 No. 56, containing the notice of The Theatre ;
 
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 the original edition of Roscius Anglicaniis, No. 
 6 1 ; the old play-bill, one of the earliest known, 
 No. 229 ; the rare tract by Field on the accident 
 at Paris Garden, 1583 ; the unique fragment of a 
 contemporary prompt-copy of Marlowe's Massacre 
 of Paris, No. 287 ; Gosson's Playes Confuted, 
 No. 285 ; the original certificate respecting the 
 Blackfriars Theatre, No. 198 ; the annotated copy 
 of Spenser identifying Tarlton as the " pleasant 
 Willy," No. 3 ; the interesting document respect- 
 ing the locality of the Globe Theatre, No. 245 ; 
 the earliest engraving of Shakespearean characters 
 in a theatre, No. 764. 
 
 The artistic portion of the present collection, 
 although so singularly extensive, is not the result 
 of a mere desire for accumulation. It has been 
 formed with the definite purpose of illustrating the 
 Life of Shakespeare by representations of every 
 morsel that could be found of his own contem- 
 porary England, that is to say, of every object 
 that he himself was likely to have seen. Deeply 
 impressed by the rapidity with which these vestiges 
 were disappearing, I engaged Mr. J. T. Blight, 
 F.S.A., a very accomplished draughtsman, to make 
 sketches in furtherance of this design during the 
 years from 1862 to 1868. Not only was every 
 corner of Stratford-upon-Avon and its neighbour- 
 hood explored, but we followed as far as we could 
 the routes known to have been taken by the poet 
 in his various journeys, anxiously searching for 
 remains that could be positively assigned to his 
 own times, and carefully excluding those which 
 had passed through the hands of the modern 
 restorer. 
 
 I made the acquaintance of Mr. Blight at his 
 native town of Penzance in 1860, an acquaintance
 
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 which soon ripened into a warm friendship that 
 terminated only with his death to the world 
 through a grievous and incurable malady. A 
 thorough good fellow in every sense of the word, 
 he was also a most agreeable companion, his 
 conversation teeming with quaint and original 
 thought, while he wisely refrained, out of working- 
 hours, from that perpetual chatter on literature 
 and art which some students consider it necessary 
 to maintain, but which, to say the least, does not 
 always act as a restorative. As an archaeological 
 draughtsman he was unrivalled in accuracy, taking 
 infinite pains with unlimited patience to secure 
 the representation of the minutest details. That 
 accuracy has added immeasurably to the value of 
 the numerous sketches from his pencil that enrich 
 the present collection, and it is not too much to 
 say, so many of the objects of his work having 
 since been either modernized or destroyed, that 
 no artistic monograph Life of Shakespeare could 
 be complete without the insertion of a large pro- 
 portion of his drawings. 
 
 A large work on the lines above indicated could 
 hardly fail to be welcome to the student, but, as 
 is so often the case, the time occupied in gather- 
 ing together the necessary artistic and literary 
 material has practically excluded the collector 
 himself from the opportunity of making an effec- 
 tive use of his accumulations. As our Brighton 
 whip, in the old days of coaching, used to say, 
 " tempus will fudgit," and it has fudgited with 
 me until there is but a little working slice of it 
 left. That slice is insufficient for the due execu- 
 tion of such an undertaking. In a very few years, 
 half a century will have elapsed since my first 
 work on Shakespeare was published, and the ter-
 
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 mination of that period must also, if I survive, be 
 that of my student-work. If the fate of the Arch- 
 bishop of Grenada is to be escaped, this should 
 be the resolve not merely of those who have 
 traversed the higher walks of literature, but of 
 the lesser votaries, who, like myself, lay claim to 
 nothing beyond a capacity for research and the 
 ability of utilizing its products. 
 
 Little autobiographical reflections of this kind 
 might anyhow be excused in a privately-printed 
 brochure of very limited circulation, but they are 
 in fact given as the most effectual method of ad- 
 vising a younger enthusiast that he can, without 
 lack of courtesy to the originator, carry out an 
 important design. When such a one arises with 
 the large means that will be requisite to complete 
 the work in a satisfactory manner, the artistic and 
 other materials that are briefly described in the 
 following pages cannot fail to prove of essential 
 service 
 
 J. O. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS. 
 
 Hollingbury Copse, Brighton, 
 29 June, 1887.
 
 A CALENDAR. 
 
 The arrangement here adopted follows that in 
 which the articles are placed in the cases or volumes, 
 no regard being paid to chronological or other order. 
 
 1. The original cartulary, compiled in the time 
 of Henry the Eighth, of the Cloptonsof Stratford- 
 on-Avon and Clopton. A folio volume in the 
 ancient vellum covers with leather fastenings. 
 This manuscript, the most important record of 
 the family known to exist, contains numerous 
 interesting notices of Stratford-on-Avon, including 
 two respecting that which was afterwards the 
 Shakespearean estate of New Place. The dates 
 run from 1313 to 1515. 
 
 2. Collections respecting the Free-school of 
 Stratford-on-Avon, by the Rev. Joseph Greene, 
 the head-master ; the original manuscript written 
 about the year 1760. 4to. 
 
 3. Spenser's Faerie Qveene, 1609, a "d the 
 Shepheards Calender, 1611, with manuscript 
 notes, some of which are extremely interesting, 
 especially the one which identifies Tarlton as the 
 " pleasant Willy." They were written either in 
 
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 or about the year 1628, as appears from the 
 memorandum at the bottom of the first title. 
 The printed book is not complete, but this is a 
 matter of no importance, its special value resting 
 solely on the manuscript additions. 
 
 4. The Rape of Lucrece, by Mr. William 
 Shakespeare. Newly Reuised : London, printed 
 by I. B. for Roger lackson, and are to be sold at 
 his shop neere the Conduit in Fleet-street, 1624. 
 I2mo. Of great rarity, not more than one or two 
 other copies being known to exist. 
 
 5. A paper in the hand-writing of the Rev. 
 Joseph Greene, Master of the Grammar School 
 of Stratford-on-Avon, 1767, containing the only 
 account of Shakespeare's residence of New Place 
 that has been recorded from the spoken words of 
 a person who had actually seen the building, one 
 Richard Grimmitt, who was born at Stratford in 
 January, 1683, and who "said he in his youth 
 had been a playfellow with Edward Clopton, 
 senior, eldest son of Sir John Clopton, knt., and 
 had been often with him in the great house near 
 the chapel in Stratford call'd New Place ; that, to 
 the best of his remembrance, there was a brick 
 wall next the street, with a kind of porch at that 
 end of it next the Chapel, when they cross'd a 
 small kind of green court before they enter'd the 
 house, which was bearing to the left and fronted 
 with brick, with plain windows consisting of com- 
 mon panes of glass set in lead." 
 
 6. The View of the House where Shakespear 
 dy'd, since pulled down by Frank Gastrill. A 
 drawing by T. Sharp, of mulberry-tree notoriety, 
 taken by him from some older sketch, c. 1770.
 
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 7. New Place, Chapel, Guild-hall, &c., drawn 
 by R. B. Wheler, engraved by F. Eginton, 1806. 
 
 Stratford-on-Avon, Street View, Shakespeare's 
 Hall, New Place Garden, Guild Chapel, &c., 
 published by Henry Merridew, Coventry. 
 
 8. The most excellent Historic of the Merchant 
 of Venice, with the extreame crueltie of Shylocke 
 the lewe towards the said Merchant in cutting a 
 just pound of his flesh, and the obtaining of Portia 
 by the choice of three Chests. As it hath beene 
 divers times acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his 
 Servants. Written by William Shakespeare. 
 London, printed by M. P. for Laurence Hayes, 
 and are to be sold at his shop on Fleetbridge. 
 1637. Quarto. 
 
 9. The True Tragedie of Richarde Duke of 
 Yorke, and the death of good King Henry the 
 sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two 
 Houses, Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundry 
 times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of 
 Pembroke his seruantes. Printed at London by 
 W. W. for Thomas Millington, and are to be sold 
 at his shoppe vnder Saint Peters Church in 
 Cornewall, 1600. Two leaves in sheet E. are 
 in facsimile. This is the second edition of the 
 surreptitious copy of the Third Part of Henry the 
 Sixth. Only about six copies known. Quarto. 
 
 10. The First Part of the True and Honourable 
 History of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle. the 
 good Lord Cobham. Written by William Shake- 
 speare. 410. 1600. A play impudently ascribed 
 by the publisher to the great dramatist, an evi- 
 dence of the early commercial value of his name. 
 
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 11. A Wittie and Pleasant Comedie called the 
 Taming of the Shrew. As it was acted by his 
 Maiesties Seruants at the Blacke Friers and the 
 Globe. Written by Will. Shakespeare. London, 
 printed by W. S. for lohn Smethwicke, and are 
 to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstones Church- 
 yard vnder the Diall. 1631. Quarto. 
 
 12. The xv. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, enty- 
 tuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into 
 English meeter by Arthur Golding, gentleman, 
 a worke very pleasaunt and delectable, 1567. 
 Imprynted at London by Willyam Seres. 410. 
 One of the few books that can be positively as- 
 serted to have been at least partially read by 
 Shakespeare, several passages from it being 
 adopted in the Tempest. 
 
 13. The Life and Death of King Richard the 
 Second, with new Additions of the Parliament 
 Scene and the Deposing of King Richard. As 
 it hath beene acted by the Kings Majesties 
 Servants at the Globe. By William Shakespeare. 
 London, printed by lohn Norton, 1634. Quarto. 
 
 14. An Apology for Actors containing three 
 briefe Treatises. Written by Thomas Hey wood. 
 4to. 1612. The postscript contains Hey wood's 
 interesting note respecting the attribution to 
 Shakespeare of the Passionate Pilgrim, and the 
 annoyance that its publication inflicted on the 
 latter. 
 
 15. The Most Royall and Honourable Enter- 
 tainement of the famous and renowned King 
 Christiern the Fourth, King of Denmarke, who, 
 with a fleet of gallant ships, arriued on Thursday 
 the 16 day of July, 1606, in Tylbery-Hope, neere
 
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 Grauesend. By H. R. At London, 1606. 
 England's Farewell to Christian the fourth famous 
 King of Denmarke, with a relation of such shewes 
 and seuerall pastimes presented to his Maiestie, as 
 well at Court the fift day of August last past, as in 
 other places since his Honourable passage thorow 
 the Citie of London. By H. Roberts. Printed 
 at London for William Welby, 1606. In one 
 volume, quarto. Shakespeare's company played 
 three times before the King of Denmark during 
 the visit herein chronicled. 
 
 1 6. Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the 
 Diuell, describing the ouer-spreading of Vice and 
 suppression of Vertue. Pleasantly interlac'd with 
 variable delights, and pathetically intermixt with 
 conceited reproofes. Written by Thomas Nash, 
 gentleman. London, imprinted by Richard 
 Ihones, dwelling at the Signe of the Rose and 
 Crowne, nere Holburne Bridge, 1592. There 
 were two editions issued in this year, the present 
 being the excessively rare first and surreptitious one 
 which was entered at Stationers' Hall on August 
 the 8th, 1592. It is of singular interest in its 
 earliest allusion to any of the works of Shakespeare 
 that is to be found in our printed or other litera- 
 ture. Quarto. Only one other perfect copy 
 known. 
 
 1 7. Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury, being the 
 second part of Wits Common Wealth, by Francis 
 Meres, Maister of Artes of both Universities. 
 At London, printed by P. Short for Cuthbert 
 Burbie, and are to be sold at his shop at the 
 Royall Exchange, 1598. This curious and inte- 
 resting little volume contains the earliest list of 
 Shakespeare's works known to exist. I2mo.
 
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 1 8. The Battell of Alcazar fought in Barbaric 
 betweene Sebastian King of Portugall, and Ab- 
 delmelec, King of Marocco. 4to. Lond. 1594. 
 
 -This is one of the very few contemporary plays 
 that are distinctly quoted by Shakespeare. 
 
 19. A fragment of four leaves only, but unique, 
 no other vestige of a copy having yet been 
 discovered, of the first edition of the first part of 
 the Hystorie of Henry the Fourth. 1598. The 
 last line is the only existing record of the true 
 reading in Poins's speech " How the fat rogue 
 roar'd!", and it is something at this late day to 
 recover even one lost word of the immortal text. 
 
 20. The First Booke of Ayres, or Little Short 
 Songs to Sing and Play to the Lute, with the 
 base Viole. Newly published by Thomas Morley, 
 Bachiler of Musicke, and one of the Gent, of her 
 Maiesties Royall Chappel. Imprinted at London 
 in litle S. Helen's by William Barley, the assigne 
 of Thomas Morley, and are to be sold at his 
 house in Gracious Streete, 1600. Folio. 
 Although imperfect, this book is unique, and it 
 is of peculiar value and interest as containing the 
 only known contemporary copy of the original 
 music to the song, "It was a lover and his lass," 
 in As You Like It. 
 
 21. A Pleasant Conceited Comedie called 
 Loues labors lost. As it was presented before 
 her Highnes this last Christmas. Newly cor- 
 rected and augmented by W. Shakespere. Im- 
 printed at London by W. W. for Cutbert Burby, 
 1598. Quarto. This is the earliest work of 
 Shakespeare in which his name occurs on a title- 
 page. Three leaves of the text are in facsimile
 
 23 
 
 but all the rest, including the title, is in an 
 exceptionally fine condition, as clean and fresh as 
 when it first issued from the press. 
 
 22. The Birth of Merlin, or the Childe hath 
 found his Father. As it hath been several times 
 acted with great applause. Written by William 
 Shakespear and William Rowley. London, 
 printed by Tho. Johnson for Francis Kirkman 
 and Henry Marsh, and are to be sold at the 
 Princes Arms in Chancery- Lane, 1662. Quarto. 
 
 23. A Letter whearin part of the entertainment 
 vntoo the Queenz Maiesty at Killingwoorth 
 Castl in Warwik Sheer in this Soomerz Progress, 
 1575, iz signified ; from a freend officer attendant 
 in the Coourt vnto hiz freend a Citizen and Mer- 
 chaunt of London. Small octavo. The original 
 black-letter edition. 
 
 24. The Teares of the Isle of Wight shed on 
 the Tombe of their most noble, valorous and louing 
 Captaine and Governour, the right Honourable 
 Henrie, Earle of Southampton, who dyed in the 
 Netherlands, Nouemb. 10, at Bergen-vp-Zone. 
 Printed at London by William lones, dwelling in 
 Red-crosse-streete, 1625. Quarto. 
 
 25. The right excellent and famous Historye 
 of Promos and Cassandra, wherein is showne 
 the unsufferable abuse of a lewde Magistrate, the 
 vertuous behaviour of a chaste Ladye, &c., the 
 worke of George Whetstones, gent. Imprinted at 
 London by Richarde I hones, and are to be solde 
 ouer agaynst Saint Sepulchres Church, without 
 Newgate, August 20, 1578. This is the play 
 whence Shakespeare derived the plot of Measure 
 for Measure. Only three other copies known.
 
 24 
 
 26. The Historic of Henry the Fourth, with 
 the Battell at Shrewsbury betweene the King and 
 Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henry Hotspur of 
 the North. With the humorous conceits of Sir 
 lohn Falstaffe. Newly corrected by William 
 Shake-speare. London, Printed by John Norton, 
 and are to be sold by Hvgh Perry at his shop next 
 to Ivie-bridge in the Strand, 1639. 410. 
 
 27. The Raigne of King Edward the Third, as 
 it hath bene sundry times played about the Citie 
 of London. Imprinted at London by Simon 
 Stafford for Cuthbert Burby, and are to be sold at 
 his shop neere the Royall Exchange, 1599. 
 A play generally believed to have been revised by 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 28. Timbre de Cardone ende Fenicie van Mes- 
 sine, a Dutch play on the story of Much Ado 
 about Nothing acted in Holland in the year 1618, 
 with a wood-engraving of one of the scenes. Mr. 
 E. W. Gosse, in a long and interesting article on 
 this drama which appeared in the Athenaeum of 
 10 Nov. 1877, observes, "in the year after 
 Shakespeare died, the Dutch poet wrote his tragi- 
 comedy of Timbre de Cardone, in which it appears 
 to me that he made large use of his reminiscences 
 of Much Ado about Nothing. The next year saw 
 its publication. This excessively rare play, which 
 was at one time thought to have entirely dis- 
 appeared, and which has never been reprinted, is 
 so interesting, both intrinsically and to Shake- 
 spearean scholars, that I may be permitted to 
 describe it somewhat minutely. The title runs : 
 ' J. J. Starter's Blyeyndich-Truyrspel van Timbre 
 de Cardone ende Fenicie van Messine/ or, in 
 English, 'J. J. Starter's Tragi-comedy of Timbre
 
 25 
 
 de Cardone and Fenicie of Messine.' The title- 
 page has an engraving of Gironde pointing out 
 the supposed tomb of Fenicie to Timbre in the 
 church. The imprint states that the play is 
 printed 'for Jan Jensen Starter, Bookseller at the 
 Sign of the English Bible, in Leeuwarden, 1618, 
 4to. There is an interesting prologue, in which 
 Starter refers with modest enthusiasm to his great 
 contemporaries, and deprecates comparison with 
 them." 
 
 29. Lily's Shorte Introduction of Grammar 
 generally to be used, compiled and set forth for 
 the bringing up of all those that intende to attaine 
 the knowledge of the Latine tongue. 410. Lond. 
 1568. An impression which is either unique or 
 of very extreme rarity, being unnoticed by all the 
 bibliographers. It is, in all probability, either 
 this edition or that of 1567, also in this collection, 
 which was in use at the Stratford grammar-school 
 when Shakespeare was gathering his " little Latin 
 and less Greek " at that establishment. That the 
 great dramatist had imbibed something from this 
 book is clear from his quoting a line from Terence 
 in the form in which it is given in this volume, 
 not in that in which it appears in the work of the 
 ancient poet. 
 
 30. Microcosmos, the Discovery of the Little 
 World, with the Government thereof. By John 
 Davies. At Oxford, printed by loseph Barnes, 
 and are to bee solde in Fleetestreete at the signe 
 of the Turkes head by lohn Barnes, 1603. 410. 
 
 At p. 215 are the curious allusions to Shake- 
 speare and Burbage, the identification proved by 
 their initials in the margin.
 
 26 
 
 31. Poems, written by Wil. Shake-speare gent. 
 Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are to be 
 sold by John Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans 
 Church-yard, 1640. I2mo. With both title- 
 pages, one being undated, and with Marshall's 
 original engraved portrait of the author, an inte- 
 resting variation of Droeshout's work. 
 
 32. The History of the Two Maids of More- 
 clacke (Mortlake), with the Life and simple manner 
 of John in the Hospitall. Written by Robert 
 Armin, Shakespeare's colleague, 1609. The wood- 
 cut on the title-page is one of the few pictorial 
 examples that we have of the stage costume of 
 Shakespeare's time. Only four other copies 
 known. 
 
 33. Loues Labours Lost, a wittie and pleasant 
 Comedie, as it was acted by his Maiesties Seruants 
 at the Blacke- Friers and the Globe. Written by 
 William Shakespeare. London, printed by W. S. 
 for lohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his 
 Shop in Saint Dunstones Churchyard vnder the 
 Diall, 1631. Quarto. 
 
 34. The Booke of Honor of Armes, wherein is 
 discoursed the causes of Quarrell and the nature 
 of Iniuries, with their repulses. Also the meanes 
 of satisfaction and pacification. No date, but 
 entered on the Stationers' registers in 1589. 
 Quarto. A book, so far as observations on " lies " 
 are concerned, similar to the one mentioned in the 
 next article. 
 
 35. Vincentio Saviolo his Practise. In two 
 Bookes. The first intreating of the use of the 
 Rapier and Dagger. The second, of Honor and 
 honorable Quarrels. 4to. London, printed by
 
 27 
 
 John Wolfe, 1595. This book is alluded to by 
 Touchstone in As You Like It. " O, sir, we 
 quarrel in print by the book," &c. 
 
 36. The head of Shakespeare in an oval 1655, 
 evidently copied from the Droeshout print, only 
 reversed. Under it is a representation on the 
 stage, with the figures of a man and woman, the 
 latter in the act of stabbing herself. Will: Gilbir- 
 son, John Stafford excud. A modern reproduction 
 of this engraving is sufficiently common, but the 
 present is a very fine specimen of the extremely 
 rare original. Only four other copies known. 
 
 37. A manuscript of the Return from Parnassus, 
 "as it was acted in St. John's Colledge in Cambridge, 
 anno 1 602. ! '- -This is the only manuscript of the 
 time of Elizabeth in a private library in which any 
 of the works of Shakespeare are mentioned. It 
 is of great interest and literary value as the record 
 of a more accurate text than the hitherto only 
 known early copy, the edition of 1606. The title 
 in the manuscript is " the Progresse to Parnassus," 
 the reason for the adoption of either title being 
 obscure. 410. 
 
 38. The Auncient Historic of the Destruction of 
 Troy, containing the founders and foundation of 
 the said Citie, besides many admirable and most 
 rare exployts of chivalric and martiall prowesse, 
 with incredible events compassed for and through 
 the love of ladies. 410. London, printed by 
 Thomas Creede, 1596. This is the edition which 
 was used by Shakespeare for a portion of the 
 story of Troilus and Cressida. Only one other 
 copy known, and both are imperfect.
 
 28 
 
 39- M. William Shake-speare, his True Chronicle 
 History of the life and death of King Lear 
 and his three Daughters ; with the vnfortunate 
 life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of 
 Glocester, and his sullen and assumed humour of 
 Tom of Bedlam, as it was plaid before the Kings 
 Maiesty at White- Hall vppon S. Stephens night 
 in Christmas Hollidaies. By his Maiesties Ser- 
 uants playing vsually at the Globe on the Banck- 
 side. Printed for Nathaniel Butter. 1608. 410. 
 
 40. The history of Tom Drum's vaunts, and 
 his rare entertainment at Mistress Farmer's house, 
 the faire widow of Fleete Streete. A fragment of 
 Deloney's Historic of the Gentle Craft, 1598. 
 Alluded to in All's Well that Ends Well. No 
 other copy known. 
 
 41. Hollands Leagver, or an Historical Dis- 
 covrse of the Life and Actions of Dona Britanica 
 Hollandia, the Arch-Mistris of the wicked women 
 of Evtopia ; wherein is detected the notorious 
 Sinne of Panderisme, and the execrable Life 
 of the luxurious Impudent. London, printed 
 by A. M. for Richard Barnes, 1632. Quarto. 
 Curious references to the Globe Theatre and 
 other Shakespearean localities. With the original 
 engraved frontispiece. 
 
 42. The original correspondence and papers 
 of the Rev. Joseph Greene, Master of the Gram- 
 mar-School of Stratford-on-Avon, 1746 to 1787, 
 including numerous documents concerning the 
 restoration of the poet's monumental effigy in 
 1748, the prologue to Othello acted by John 
 Ward's Company in aid of the restoration fund, 
 with an autograph letter from Ward to Greene 
 respecting the monument, &c. 4to. MS.
 
 29 
 
 43- Complaints. Containing sundrie small 
 Poemes of the World's Vanitie. London. Im- 
 printed for William Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules 
 Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops Head, 
 1591. Quarto. The allusion to "our pleasant 
 Willy " is at sig. F. 2. 
 
 44. The Garden of the Muses. Printed at 
 London by E. A. for lohn Tap, and are to be 
 sold at his shop at Saint Magnus corner, 1610. f- 
 This little volume is a collection of passages from 
 
 the works of Shakespeare and other poets. 1 2mo. 
 
 45. The Most Excellent and Lamentable 
 Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet, as it hath been 
 sundry times publikely Acted by the Kings 
 Majesties Servants at the Globe. Written by 
 W. Shake-speare. Newly corrected, augmented, 
 and amended. London, Printed by R. Young 
 for John Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his 
 Shop in St. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet 
 under the Dyall, 1637. 410. 
 
 46. The Late and much-admired Play called 
 Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true Relation 
 of the whole History, adventures, and fortunes of 
 the said Prince. Written by W. Shakespeare. 
 Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, 1635. 410. 
 
 47. A Declaration of egregious Popish Impos- 
 tures, to with-draw the harts of her Majesties 
 Subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth 
 of Christian Religion professed in England, vnder 
 the pretence of casting out deuils. At London, 
 printed by lames Roberts dwelling in Barbican, 
 1603. The first edition of a book that was in 
 Shakespeare's recollection when he composed his 
 tragedy of Lear. 410.
 
 30 
 
 48. Colin Clovt's Come Home Againe. By 
 Ed. Spencer. London, printed for William Pon- 
 sonbie, 1595. --At sig. C. 2 is the allusion to 
 
 >\ Shakespeare under the name of Action. 410. 
 
 49. The True Chronicle Historic of the whole 
 Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell, as it 
 hath beene sundry times publikely Acted by the 
 Kings Maiesties Seruants. Written by W. S. 
 London, printed by Thomas Snodham, 1613. 
 Quarto. 
 
 50. Every Man in his Humor, as it hath beene 
 sundry times publickly acted by the right Honor- 
 able the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. Written 
 by Ben. lohnson. Imprinted at London for 
 Walter Burre, and are to be sould at his shoppe 
 in Paules Church-yarde, 1601. Quarto. Shake- 
 speare was one of the actors in this comedy when 
 it was originally produced in 1598. 
 
 51. Englandes Mourning Garment, worne here 
 by plaine Shepheardes in memorie of their sacred 
 Mistresse Elizabeth, Queene of Vertue while shee 
 liued, and Theame of Sorrow, being dead. 
 Printed at London by V. S. for Thomas Milling- 
 ton, and are to be sold at his shop vnder Saint 
 Peters Church in Cornhil. Quarto. By Henry 
 Chettle, who introduces in the poetical division a 
 plaintive allusion to Shakespeare. Two leaves at 
 the end, containing the Shepherd's Spring Song, 
 are wanting in this as in several of the few other 
 known copies. 
 
 52. The original manuscript poetical common- 
 place-book of Matthew Day, a prominent inhabi- 
 tant of Windsor in the first half of the seventeenth 
 century. He was five times mayor of that town/
 
 3' 
 
 and died in 1661. It includes, amidst a large 
 number of other pieces, verses of " Shakespeare on 
 the King" ; lines on persons buried at Windsor; 
 on Richard Pipe ; on the Cornell tree in the Little 
 Parke ; Randolph on the losse of his little finger ; 
 Paul his Temple triumphant, or a new walke there 
 vp the steppes, by Tho. Dekker ; a new Ballad of 
 the Dauncing of the Ropes, by Tho. Decker ; on 
 the goodwifs ale, &c. Quarto. 
 
 53. The Whole Contention betweene the two 
 Famous Houses, Lancaster and Yorke. With 
 the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey, 
 Richard Duke of Yorke and King Henrie the 
 sixt. Diuided into two Parts, and newly cor- 
 rected and enlarged. Written by William Shake- 
 speare, gent. Printed at London for T. P. 
 Quarto. There is no date in the original, but it 
 was printed in 1619. 
 
 54. The Merry Conceited Humors of Bottom 
 the Weaver. As it hath been often publikely 
 Acted by Some of his Majesties Comedians, and 
 lately privately presented by several Apprentices 
 for their harmless recreation with great Applause. 
 London, printed for F. Kirkman and H. Marsh, 
 1 66 1. Quarto. 
 
 55. A Yorkshire Tragedie, not so New as La- 
 mentable and True. Written by W. Shakespeare. 
 Printed for T. P., 1619. Quarto. 
 
 56. A Trve Report of the Inditement, Arraign- 
 ment, conuiction, condemnation, and execution of 
 lohn Weldon, William Hartley and Robert Sutton, 
 who suffred for High Treason in seuerall places 
 about the Citie of London on Saturday the fifth 
 of October, anno 1588. Imprinted at London by
 
 32 
 
 Richard Jones, 1588. Quarto. Hartley was 
 executed "nigh the Theater "in Shoreditch. 
 
 57. The Merry Divel of Edmonton, as it hath 
 beene sundry times Acted by his Maiesties 
 Seruants at the Globe on the Banke-side. At 
 London, printed by G. Eld for Arthur lohnson, 
 dwelling at the signe of the White Horse in Paules 
 Churchyard over against the great North Doore of 
 Paules, 1617. Quarto. 
 
 58. The Malcontent, augmented by Marston. 
 With the Additions played by the Kings Maiesties 
 Servants. Written by Ihon Webster, 1604. At 
 London, printed by V. S. for William Aspley, and 
 are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church- 
 yard. Quarto. This edition contains the 
 induction in which the Shakespearean actors are 
 introduced. 
 
 59. Satiro-Mastix, or the Vntrussing of the 
 Humorous Poet. As it hath bin presented publikely 
 by the Right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine 
 his Seruants, and priuately by the Children of 
 Paules. By Thomas Dekker. London, printed 
 for Edward White, and are to bee solde at his 
 shop neere the little North doore of Paules 
 Church, at the signe of the Gun, 1602. Quarto. 
 Includes notices of the Comedy of Errors and 
 Justice Shallow. 
 
 60. One of the volumes of Ireland's pseudo- 
 Shakespearean library, in the same binding, green 
 morocco, in which it was sold at his sale in May, 
 1 80 1, lot 566. Some of the forged notes are very 
 quaint, especially a delicious one at p. 9, "werte 
 notte for those who dydde give mee thys booke, I 
 would reade noe more ont."
 
 33 
 
 6 1. Roscius Anglicanus, or an Historical 
 Review of the Stage after it had been suppress'd 
 by means of the late unhappy Civil War, giving 
 an Account of its rise again, of the times and 
 places the Governours of both the Companies 
 first erected their theatres, the names of the principal 
 Actors and Actresses, &c. I2mo. Lond. 1708. 
 
 62. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Den- 
 marke, newly imprinted and inlarged, according 
 to the true and perfect copy lastly Printed. By 
 William Shakespeare. London, printed by W. S. 
 for lohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold in his 
 Shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet- 
 street vnder the Diall. Quarto. 
 
 63. The Late and much admired Play called, 
 Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true Relation 
 of the whole History, aduentures, and fortunes of 
 the saide Prince. Written by W. Shakespeare. 
 Printed for T. P., 1619. Quarto. 
 
 64. The Two Noble Kinsmen, presented at the 
 Blackfriers by the Kings Maiesties servants with 
 great applause. Written by the memorable 
 Worthies of their time, Mr. John Fletcher and 
 Mr. William Shakspeare, gent. Printed at 
 London by Tho. Cotes for lohn Waterson, and 
 are to be sold at the signe of the Crowne in Pauls 
 Church-yard, 1634. Quarto. 
 
 65. The most excellent Historic of the Merchant 
 of Venice, with the extreame cruelty of Shylocke 
 the Jew towards the said Merchant in cutting a 
 just pound of his flesh, and the obtaining of Portia 
 by the choyce of three Chests. As it hath been 
 diverse times acted by the Lord Chamberlaine 
 his Servants. Written by William Shakespeare.
 
 34 
 
 London, printed for William Leake, and are to be 
 solde at his shop at the signe of the Crown in 
 Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates. 
 1652. Quarto. 
 
 66. The Retvrne from Pernassvs, or the 
 Scourge of Simony. Publiquely acted by the 
 Students in Saint lohns Colledge in Cambridge. 
 At London, printed by G. Eld for lohn Wright, 
 and are to bee sold at his shop at Christchurch 
 Gate, 1606. Quarto. The well-known allusions to 
 Shakespeare occur at sig. B. 2 and sig. G. 2. In 
 this impression the word lazy is omitted in the 
 verses on his poems. The following contemporary 
 manuscript note occurs upon the title-page, " to 
 my lovinge Smallocke, J. D." 
 
 67. The original Presentments and Orders made 
 at the Court Leets of Stratford-on-Avon from 
 1682 to 1743. A manuscript volume, in folio, of 
 extreme interest in its notices of the condition of 
 the town and the usages of the inhabitants during 
 that period. It includes occasional allusions to 
 Shakespearean localities and autograph signatures 
 of some of the Hathaways. 
 
 68. The original court-book, with presentments, 
 of Old Stratford from 1684 to 1697. Manuscript, 
 in folio, with the primitive vellum covers. It 
 includes curious notices of the Shakespearean 
 common-fields. 
 
 69. The Droeshout engraved portrait of Shake- 
 speare, an unnoticed impression which was issued 
 by Herringman in 1672 from the plate used in the 
 third folio of 1664. No other copy known. 
 
 70. A Treatise concerneinge the tenure of 
 Coppy holders, teachinge bothe Lorde and
 
 35 
 
 Tennant how to demeane them in all sortes, very 
 necessarye for eyther of ther vses to be had and 
 understood. Dedicated by its author, Philip 
 Chapman, " to the Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas 
 Lucye, knight, his singuler good master, and the 
 right vertuous and his very good lady, the Lady 
 Constance his wife." This was the son of the 
 poet's Sir Thomas. A minute beautifully-written 
 manuscript, in the original impressed vellum bind- 
 ing. i8mo. Temp. Jac. I. 
 
 71. Tragi-Comsedia, being a Brief Relation of 
 the strange and wonderfull hand of God discovered 
 at Witny in the Comedy acted there February the 
 third, where there were some slaine.many hurt, with 
 severall other remarkable Passages. By John 
 Rowe of C. C. C. in Oxford, Lecturer in the Towne 
 of Witny. Oxford, printed by L. Lichfield for 
 Henry Cripps, 1653. A singularly curious account 
 of an accident that happened at the White Hart 
 inn, Witney, during the performance of the comedy 
 of Mucedorus by some itinerant players. 410. 
 
 72. The Ancient Historic of the Destruction of 
 Troy, conteining the Founders and Foundation of 
 the said Citie. Translated out of French into 
 English by W. Caxton. Newly corrected, and the 
 English much amended, by William Fiston. 
 London, printed by Thomas Creede, 1607. The 
 title-pages and Shakespearean portions only. 
 Quarto. 
 
 73. A Declaration of egregious Popish Impos- 
 tures to withdraw the harts of his Maiesties 
 Subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth 
 of Christian Religion professed in England, vnder 
 the pretence of casting out of deuils. At London, 
 
 c 2
 
 36 
 
 printed by lames Roberts, dwelling in Barbican, 
 Anno Dom. 1604. A re-issue of extreme rarity. 
 4to. It was from this book that Shakespeare 
 adopted the names of spirits mentioned in his 
 tragedy of Lear. 
 
 74. A Shorte Introduction of Grammar gene- 
 rally to be vsed, compiled and set forth for the 
 bringing vp of all those that intende to attaine the 
 knowledge of the Latine tongue, 1567 ; Brevis- 
 sima Institutio, 1567. Of extreme rarity, and 
 probably unique in this fine perfect state. 410. 
 Either this or the next year's edition, copies of 
 both of which are in this collection, was most 
 likely the one in use at the Stratford school in the 
 poet's boyhood. 
 
 75. Remains of a Greater Worke concerning 
 Britaine, the inhabitants thereof, their Languages, 
 Names, Surnames, Empreses, Wise Speeches, 
 Poesies and Epitaphes. At London, printed by 
 G. E. for Simon Waterson. 1605. This work 
 
 y contains one of the very few contemporary notices 
 of Shakespeare. 4to. 
 
 76. The cover of an old book containing lines 
 from the Lover's Complaint and the Passionate 
 Pilgrim in a hand-writing of the time of Charles 
 the First. I2mo. 
 
 77. The History of Titus Andronicus, the 
 renowned Roman General, who, after he had saved 
 Rome by his Valour from being destroyed by 
 the barbarous Goths, and lost two-and-twenty of 
 his valiant sons in ten Years War, was, upon the 
 Emperor's marrying the Queen of the Goths, put 
 to Disgrace and banish'd ; but being recall'd, the 
 Emperor's Son by a first Wife was murder'd by
 
 37 
 
 the Empress's Sons and a bloody Moor, and 
 how, charging it upon Andronicus's sons, tho' 
 he cut off his hand to redeem their lives, they 
 were murder'd in Prison. How his fair daughter 
 Lavinia, being ravish'd by the Empress's Sons, 
 they cut out her Tongue and Hands off, &c. How 
 Andronicus slew them, made Pyes of their Flesh, 
 and presented them to the Emperor and Empress ; 
 and then slew them also. With the miserable Death 
 he put the wicked Moor to ; then, at her Request, 
 slew his Daughter and himself to avoid Torments. 
 Newly translated from the Italian copy printed at 
 Rome. London, printed and sold by C. Dicey in 
 Bow Church-yard, and at his wholesale Warehouse 
 in Northampton. Of singular rarity. It is prob- 
 ably a chap-book version of the prose tale of Titus 
 Andronicus, which was popular in Shakespeare's 
 time, but of which no copy is now known to exist. 
 
 78. The original memorandum book of Thomas 
 Sharp, the clock-maker of Stratford-on-Avon, who 
 purchased the wood of Shakespeare's mulberry- 
 tree when it was cut down in the middle of the 
 last century. This manuscript came afterwards 
 into the hands of Sharp's only surviving assistant, 
 Thomas Gibbs, whose note at p. 186 shows how 
 he came into the possession of some pieces of 
 the mulberry-wood, the few remaining portions of 
 which were purchased by me at the sale of his 
 effects in the year 1866. I2mo. 
 
 79. A small piece of the wood of Shakespeare's 
 mulberry-tree, interesting as being an unworked 
 fragment as it must have originally appeared, 
 nearly all the bark still remaining. This is one of 
 the few bits of the wood that are mentioned in the 
 preceding article as having been in the possession
 
 38 
 
 of Thomas Gibbs at the time of his decease. He 
 died in 1866, aged 84. 
 
 80. A small tea-caddy, one of the best specimens 
 extant of Sharp's carved-work from the wood of 
 the poet's mulberry-tree, with the original stamped 
 note, " Shakespear's Wood, Sharp, Stratford-on- 
 Avon." Sharp purchased the wood about the 
 year 1759, and traded in relics made from it until 
 his death in 1 799, but the present specimen has 
 every appearance of belonging to one of the 
 earlier years of that period. Five inches long, 3^ 
 wide, 4 deep. 
 
 8 1. An interesting account of Shakespeare's 
 Birth- Place written by the late F. W. Fairholt 
 immediately after his first visit to the spot in the 
 year 1839. Autograph and unpublished. 8vo. 
 
 82. New Shreds of the Old Snare, containing 
 the Apparitions of two new female Ghosts. By 
 John Gee, Master of Arts, late of Exon Colledge 
 in Oxford. London, printed for Robert Myl- 
 bourne, 1624. Curious allusions to Hamlet and 
 the Midsummer Night's Dream at p. 20. 410. 
 
 83. The Manner of the Proceedings of Robert 
 Earle of Essex, and Henry Earle of Southamp- 
 ton, with their Arreignement. The Speaches of 
 Ro: Earle of Essex, with his Poem, before his 
 execution. Letters, together with their answeres, 
 sent vnto the Earle of Essex by my Lord Keeper 
 and others. Diuers Speeches against the Earle of 
 Essex and his proceedings in Ireland. 1601. 
 Written by Francis ap Rice, and by him approued 
 of. A neatly written contemporary manuscript, 
 some of the most curious portions of which are 
 unpublished. See extracts from it in the Outlines
 
 39 
 
 of the Life of Shakespeare, ed. 1886, i., 178-182. 
 In quarto. 
 
 84. The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, 
 in two Parts ; acted at the Theater Royall. 
 Written by John Dryden, Servant to His Majesty. 
 In the Savoy. 1672. Contains the traditional 
 account of Shakespeare's treatment of the character 
 of Mercutio and various other notices of the great 
 dramatist. 410. 
 
 85. Titus Andronicus, or the Rape of Lavinia. 
 Acted at the Theatre Royall. A Tragedy 
 alter'd from Mr. Shakespears Works by Mr. 
 Edw. Ravenscroft. London, 1687. 410. The 
 address to the reader contains the assumed tradi- 
 tional notice of the original authorship. 
 
 86. The Orator, handling a hundred seuerall 
 Discourses in forme of Declamations ; some of 
 the Arguments being drawne from Titus Livius 
 and other ancient Writers, the rest of the Authors 
 owne inuention ; part of which are of matters 
 happened in our Age. Written in French by 
 Alexander Siluayn, and Englished by L. P. 
 London, printed by Adam I slip, 1596. Decla- 
 mation 95, of a Jew who would for his debt haue 
 a pound of the flesh of a Christian, and the 
 Christian's answere. 410. 
 
 87. Macbeth, a Tragedy, with all the Altera- 
 tions, Amendments, Additions, and New Songs. 
 As it is now Acted at the Dukes Theatre, 1674. 
 Quarto. 
 
 88. The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, a 
 Comedy, as it is now Acted at His Highness the 
 Duke of York's Theatre, 1670 and 1674. Two
 
 40 
 
 vols., 4to. These editions differ materially from 
 each other, but they both contain the interesting 
 notice of the performance of the drama at the 
 Blackfriars. The later issues follow, I believe, 
 the second of these editions. 
 
 89. The Comical Gallant, or the Amours of 
 Sir John Falstaffe, a Comedy, as it is Acted at the 
 Theatre Royal in Drury-lane by his Majesty's 
 Servants. By Mr. Dennis. London, printed and 
 sold by A. Baldwin near the Oxford Arms in 
 Warwick-lane, 1702. 410. With a dedication in 
 which there is the earliest traditional account of 
 the causes which led to the composition of the 
 Merry Wives of Windsor. 
 
 go. Verginia, Comedia di M. Bernardo Accolti 
 Aretino, intitolata la Verginia, con un Capitolo 
 della Madonna, nuouamente corretta, et con somma 
 diligentia ristampata. Stampata in Vinegia per 
 Nicolo di Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1535. A play 
 on the story that was dramatized by Shakespeare 
 in All's Well that Ends Well. i2mo. 
 
 91. Epitia Tragedia di M. Gio. Battista 
 Giraldi Cinthio, nobile Ferrarese. In Venetia, 
 appresso Giulio Cesare Cagnacini, 1583. A play 
 on the story that was afterwards dramatized by 
 Shakespeare in Measure for Measure. I2mo. 
 
 92. Naps upon Parnassus, a sleepy Muse nipt 
 and pincht, though not awakened ; such voluntary 
 and jovial Copies of Verses as were lately receiv'd 
 from some of the Wits of the Universities in a 
 Frolick, dedicated to Gondibert's Mistress by 
 Captain Jones and others. London, printed by 
 express Order from the Wits, for N. Brook at 
 the Angel in Cornhill, 1658. At sig. B. 5 is a
 
 singularly quaint allusion to Shakespeare's Falstaff. 
 Small 8vo. 
 
 93. Le Notti di M. Gio. Francesco Straparola 
 da Carauaggio. In Vinegia, 1560, appresso Fran- 
 cesco Lorenzini de Turino. With the autograph 
 and manuscript notes of Gabriel Harvey, the 
 former being on the title-page of the second part. 
 Interesting in connexion with the history of the 
 foundation-story of the Merry Wives of Windsor, a 
 proof that one copy at all events of this book had 
 found its way into England in Shakespeare's time. 
 Small 8vo. 
 
 94. The Pleasant and Delightful History of 
 Dorastus and Fawnia, pleasant for Age to shun 
 drowsie Thoughts, profitable for Youth to avoid 
 other wanton pastimes, and bringing to both a 
 desired content. By Rob. Green, Master of Arts 
 in Cambridge. London, printed by W. O. for G. 
 Conyers at the Ring in Little Britain. The lower 
 part of the imprint cut off. A curious wood-cut 
 on the title-page. This is a chap-book version of 
 the foundation-story of the Winter's Tale. i2mo. 
 The History of Dorastus and Fawnia, where 
 is declared the cruelty of Pandosta to his fair 
 Bellaria ; and how the child Fawnia was put into 
 a boat to be drown'd, but was taken up by the 
 sea-side out of the boat by a shepherd ; and how 
 he brought up the fair Fawnia to keep sheep, 
 and how Dorastus fell in love with the fair 
 Fawnia, &c. London, printed for J. Blare at the 
 Looking-glass on London Bridge. A quaint 
 wood-cut on the title-page. Substantially perfect, 
 but the right hand of title is slightly cropped. 
 An extremely rare edition of this popular Shake- 
 spearean tale. 121110. In one volume.
 
 42 
 
 95- Cornelianvm Dolium. Comaedia lepidis- 
 sima, optimorum judiciis approbata, et theatrali 
 coryphceo, nee immerito, donata, palma chorali 
 apprime digna. Auctore T. R., ingeniosissimo 
 hujus aevi Heliconio. Londini, apud Tho. 
 Harperum, et vseneunt per Tho. Slaterum et 
 Laurentium Chapman, 1638. With Marshall's 
 frontispiece of the man in the tub. In this curious 
 old Latin play there is an interesting notice of 
 Shakespeare's " wanton book," that is to say, his 
 Venus and Adonis. I2mo. 
 
 96. Epigrams Six Bookes, also the Socratick 
 Session, or the Arraignment of Julius Scaliger, 
 with some select Poems, by S. Sheppard. London, 
 printed by G. D., and are to be sould by Tho: 
 Bucknell at the Golden Lion in Duck-lane. 
 1651. Epig. 17, in Memory of our Famous 
 Shakespeare. Small 8vo. 
 
 97. Cesar Tragedie, par laques G rev in de 
 Clermont en Beauuaisis. A Paris, par Nicolas 
 Bonfons, rue neuue nostre Dame, a 1'enseigne 
 sainct Nicolas, 1578. A French tragedy on the 
 subject of Julius Caesar. I2mo. 
 
 98. An Account of the Lady Lucy, write to a 
 pertickular friend of hers, Mrs. Moore. This 
 Lady Lucy was the wife of the second Sir Thomas 
 of Charlecote. It was drawn up by Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Lucy, one of her descendants. See an account of 
 this manuscript in Hunter's Illustrations of Shake- 
 speare, i. 6 1, 62. I2mo. 
 
 99. The Passionate Pilgrim, by W. Shake- 
 speare. At London, printed for W. laggard and 
 are to be sold by W. Leake at the Greyhound in 
 Paules Churchyard, 1599. A facsimile tracing
 
 43 
 
 made by E. W. Ashbee from the original printed 
 copy preserved in the Capell collection. 
 
 100. Histoires Tragiques extraictes des oevvres 
 Italiennes de Bandel, et mises en nostre langue 
 Fran9oise par Pierre Boaistuau, surnomm6 
 Launay, natif de Bretaigne. A Paris, par 
 Benoist Preuost, rue Frementel, a 1'enseigne de 
 1'estoille d'or pres le cloz Bruneau, 1 559. Includes 
 the story of Romeo and Juliet. Small 8vo. 
 
 101. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Den- 
 mark, as it is now acted at His Highness the 
 Duke of York's Theatre. By William Shake- 
 speare. London, 1676. 410. 
 
 102. Original drafts of advertisements, letters, 
 and conditions of sale drawn up on the occasion of 
 the projected auction of Shakespeare's Birth-Place 
 in the year 1805. Fol. MS. 
 
 103. Marc Antonio e Cleopatra, tragedia del 
 R. don Celso Pistorelli da Vicenza. In Verona, 
 per Sebastiano dalle Donne, et Giouanni frattelli, 
 1576. i2mo. 
 
 104. The Barrens Wars in the raigne of 
 Edward the Second, with Englands Heroicall 
 Epistles, by Michaell Dray ton. At London, 
 printed by I. R. for N. Ling, 1603. That portion 
 only of the book which contains the prototype of a 
 passage in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. i2mo. 
 
 105. Julius Caesar, a Tragedy, as it is now acted 
 at the Theatre Royal. Written by William 
 Shakespeare. London, 1691. 410. 
 
 1 06. Stanzas on the Shakespeare Hunt at 
 Stratford-upon-Avon, December the 2d, 1793,
 
 44 
 
 illustrated with Notes ; humbly inscribed to Charles 
 Henry Hunt, esq., by John Jordan. Some of 
 the Shakespearean notes are biographical. Auto- 
 graph manuscript. Fol. 
 
 107. The Merry Deuill of Edmonton, as it hath 
 been sundry times acted by his Maiesties Seruants 
 at the Globe on the Bancke-side. London, 
 printed by T. P. for Francis Falkner, and are to 
 be sold at his Shoppe neere vnto S. Margarites- 
 hill in Southwarke, 1631. 4to. 
 
 108. Ben Johnsons Ode to Himself; Randolph's 
 Answer to B. J., ode ; the Ode in Latine by Mr. 
 Stroude ; the same by Thomas Randolph. A 
 manuscript of the time of Charles the First, contain- 
 ing interesting notices of the drama of Pericles. 
 1 2 mo. 
 
 109. The Hoggehath Lost his Pearle, a Comedy 
 divers Times publikely acted by certaine London 
 Prentices. By Robert Tailor. London, printed 
 by Richard Redmer, and are to be solde at the 
 West dore of Paules, at the signe of the Starre, 
 1614. Curious allusion in the Prologue to the 
 drama of Pericles. 4to. 
 
 no. Euphues Golden Legacie found after his 
 death in his Cell at Silexedra, bequeathed to 
 Philavtvs Sonnes, nursed vp with their Father in 
 England. Fecht from the Canaries by T. L. 
 Gent. Imprinted at London for lohn Smethwick, 
 and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstanes 
 Church-yard in Fleet Streete, vnder the Dyall, 
 1623. Black-letter. The eighth edition of the 
 popular foundation-story of As You Like It. 
 
 in. An Abstract of the several Deeds and 
 Writings relating to the Title of one part of a
 
 45 
 
 messuage or tenement and premises in Stratford- 
 upon-Avon, formerly called the Swann Inn and 
 now the White Lyon Inn, belonging to Mr. John 
 Payton, 1770. This property adjoins the poet's 
 Birth-Place, and the abstract commences with a 
 notice of a feoffment, dated in 1591, in which there 
 is an allusion to John Shakespeare. Fol. MS. 
 
 1 1 2. Draft Abstracts of Title to the White Lion 
 Inn and to grounds which adjoin Shakespeare's 
 Birth-Place, c. 1822. These abstracts are of con- 
 siderable importance in tracing the history and 
 boundaries of the garden belonging to the Birth- 
 Place. Fol. MS. 
 
 113. Rex Platonicus, sive de potentissimi 
 principis lacobi Britanniarum regis, ad illustris- 
 simam Academiam Oxoniensem, adventu, Aug. 27, 
 anno 1605. Narratio ab Isaaco Wake, Pvblico 
 Academiae ejusdem Oratore. Oxoniae, excudebat 
 losephus Barnesius, anno Dom. 1607. Has an 
 account of the interlude on the subject of Macbeth 
 which was performed before King James at 
 Oxford in 1605. 4to. 
 
 1 14. A copy of Shakespeare's Will made about 
 the year 1747 by the Rev. Joseph Greene, of 
 Stratford-on-Avon, taken apparently from an early 
 official copy that had been collated with the 
 original by one Gilbert Rothwell, a public 
 notary. 410. MS. 
 
 1 1 5. Original documents respecting Warwick- 
 shire families of the name of Shakespeare, sixteenth 
 and seventeenth centuries. 410. MS. 
 
 1 1 6. A Levy of Knolle Manor, co. Warw. A 
 manuscript of the seventeenth century containing
 
 4 6 
 
 notices of persons of the name of Shakespeare. In 
 octavo. 
 
 117. Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Too 
 Late, a Tragedy, as it is acted at the Duke's 
 Theatre, to which is Prefix'd a Preface containing 
 the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy. Written by 
 John Dryden, Servant to His Majesty. London, 
 1679. With the rare poetical address to the 
 author by R. Duke. 4to. Dryden's Preface in- 
 cludes much of Shakespearean interest. 
 
 1 1 8. Julius Csesar, a Tragedy, as it is now acted 
 at the Theatre Royal. Written by William 
 Shakespeare. London, n.d. This edition was 
 printed about the year 1695, and the present is 
 a prompter's copy of it, with manuscript notes and 
 alterations made long afterwards, in all probability 
 in the time of Garrick. 4to. 
 
 119. La Hadriana, Tragedia Nova, di Lvigi 
 Groto Cieco d'Hadria. Nuouamente ristampata. 
 In Venetia, appresso Fabio et Agostin Zopini 
 fratelli, 1586. Probably known to the writer of 
 the ancient English play of Romeo and Juliet, the 
 one that was anterior to Shakespeare's tragedy on 
 that subject. i2mo. 
 
 1 20. Othello, the Moor of Venice, a Tragedy, 
 as it hath been divers times acted at the Globe 
 and at the Black-Friers, and now at the Theatre 
 Royal, by his Majesties Servants. Written by 
 William Shakespear. London, 1687. 4to. 
 
 121. The Example, as it was Presented by her 
 Majesties Servants at the private House in Drury- 
 Lane. Written by lames Shirly. London, printed 
 by lohn Norton for Andrew Crooke and William
 
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 Cooke, 1637. A quotation at sig. C. 4 from 
 Henry the Fourth. 410. 
 
 122. An Account of Plays acted at the New 
 Theatre Royal in Lincolns Inn Fields and at the 
 Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, 1714 to 1723. 
 The original manuscript chronicle of theatrical 
 performances, including a large number of notices 
 of theatrical and Shakespearean interest. 4to. 
 
 123. The Correspondence of the Harts respect- 
 ing matters connected with Shakespeare's Birth- 
 place, a collection of original letters, 1793 to 1806. 
 -4to. MS. 
 
 124. The original exemplification, on vellum, of 
 a fine that was levied in Michaelmas Term, 23 
 Car. I., 1647, on Shakespeare's London estate, 
 therein described as unum mesuagium cum 
 pertinentiis in parochia Sancte Anne, Blackfriers, 
 29 November, 23 Car. i. 
 
 125. Counterpart of a Lease, dated i December, 
 1675, granted by Sir Edward Walker, knight, 
 Garter Principall Kinge of Armes, to Joseph 
 Hunt, of Stratford-upon-Avon in the county of 
 Warwick, gent., of "all that messuage with 
 thappurtenances comonly called or knowne by the 
 name of the New Place, scituate, lyinge and 
 beinge in Stratford-upon-Avon aforesaid, in the 
 said county of Warwicke, in a certaine streete 
 there called the Chappell Streete." The original 
 indenture signed by Joseph Hunt. 
 
 126. Conveyance from Edward Clopton, of 
 Stratford-upon-Avon, esq., to Hugh Clopton, of 
 Clopton in the county of Warwick, esq., of "all the 
 said seate or pew scituate in the Parish Church of
 
 4 8 
 
 Stratford aforesaid belonging to the messuage 
 called the New Place," i May, 1701. The original 
 indenture signed by Edward Clopton, witnessed 
 by Sir John Clopton and Nathaniel Mason. 
 
 127. Lease for Possession on the Marriage of 
 Hugh Clopton, esq., with Miss Mil ward, 25 Sep- 
 tember, 1702, of "all that messuage or tenement, 
 scituate, lyeing and being in the Chappell Street 
 and Chappell Lane, within the burrowe of Strat- 
 ford-upon-Avon in the county of Warwick, 
 comonly called or known by the name of the New 
 Place, late in the tenure of John Wheeler, gent.," 
 with farms and lands at Clopton, &c. The 
 original indenture signed by Sir John Clopton, 
 Hugh Clopton, Thomas and Anne Milward. 
 
 128. Articles of Agreement Tripartite, made, 
 concluded, and fully agreed vpon this six and 
 twentieth day of September, annoque Domini 
 1702, betweene Sir John Clopton, of Clopton in 
 the county of Warwicke, knight, of the first part, 
 Hugh Clopton, of Clopton aforesaid, in the said 
 county of Warwick, esq., of the second part, and 
 Thomas Mill ward of Cud worth, in the said county 
 of W r arwicke, esq., of the third part. Mentions 
 at length the new mansion then recently erected 
 on the site of Shakespeare's residence at New 
 Place. The original deed signed by Sir John 
 Clopton, Hugh Clopton, and Thomas Milward. 
 
 129. Lease for a year from Edward Clopton, 
 esq., of Stratford-upon-Avon, to Aston Ingram, 
 of Little Woolford, in the county of Warwick, 
 esq., of "all that peece or parcell of ground, 
 lyeing and beeing within the borrough of Stratford- 
 upon-Avon, called or known by the name of the
 
 
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 Great Garden, and which did formerly belong 
 to New Place, and is adjoyning to the now 
 dwelling-house of him, the said Edward Clopton, 
 and conteynes by estimation about three quarters 
 of an acre, bee the same more or less," 21 March, 
 1705. The original indenture signed by Edward 
 Clopton. 
 
 130. Release from Edward Clopton, esq., of 
 Stratford-upon-Avon, to Aston Ingram, esq., of 
 " the Great Garden, which formerly did belong 
 to New Place," 22 March, 1705. The original 
 indenture signed by Edward Clopton, with his 
 receipt for the consideration-money, ^140, en- 
 dorsed. It refers to the same piece of land which 
 is described in the preceding article. 
 
 131. A counterpart of the deed 
 
 the original signed by Sir John Clopton, Hugh 
 Clopton, and Thomas Mil ward, 1702. 
 
 132. A shorte and pithie Discourse concerning 
 the engendring, tokens, and effects of all Earth- 
 quakes in generall, particularly applyed and con- 
 ferred with that most strange and terrible worke 
 of the Lord in shaking the Earth, not only within 
 the Citie of London, but also in most partes of all 
 Englande, which hapned vpon Wensday in Easter 
 weeke last past, which was the sixt day of April, 
 almost at sixe a clocke in the euening, in the 
 yeare of our Lord God, 1580. Written by T. T. 
 the 13. of April, 1580. At London, printed by 
 Richarde lohnes, 1580. In black-letter with a 
 wood-cut on the title-page. This is the earthquake > 
 alluded to by the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet. 410. 
 
 133. An indenture dated 14 May, 3 Elizabeth, 
 between William Clopton of Clopton, co. Warwick, 
 
 D
 
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 esquyer, and Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, co. War- 
 wick, esquyer. The latter, afterwards knighted, 
 was the Sir Thomas and Justice Shallow of the 
 great dramatist. With his signature and the seal 
 of the three luces, the whole being in a fine state 
 of preservation, as perfect and bright as when 
 the deed was executed in 1561. The only other 
 specimen, I believe, of his signature accompanied 
 with an impression from the three-luces seal that 
 is in private hands is one in the library of the 
 Marquis of Bath. 
 
 134. An original indenture of 1611 with the 
 , signature of John Greene, the individual to whom 
 
 the latest recorded words of Shakespeare were 
 addressed. It is attached as a witness to a legal 
 v endorsement of 1612. 
 
 135. An original Stratford-on-Avon indenture 
 of 1605, with the signatures of Abraham Sturley 
 and Richard Tyler, the latter having been one of 
 the legatees named in the original draft of the 
 poet's will. 
 
 136. An autograph signature of Shakespeare's 
 John a' Combe as a witness to an indenture re- 
 ferring to properties at Stratford-on-Avon, 1593. 
 
 137. A fine specimen of the autograph of 
 Thomas Greene, the poet's intimate friend, as a 
 witness to an indenture respecting estates at Old 
 Stratford, Shottery, &c., 1613. 
 
 138. An indenture, dated 27 March, 1604, 
 between Sir George Carewe and William Walker, 
 respecting estates in the parish of Stratford-on- 
 Avon, with the signature of Abraham Sturley, the 
 writer of the two letters of 1598 in which there 
 are the curious allusions to Shakespeare.
 
 5' 
 
 139- A mortgage indenture of 1564 with the 
 signature of William Clopton, who was the owner 
 of New Place in the middle part of the sixteenth 
 century. 
 
 140. The two original indentures of a fine that 
 was levied on New Place between Shakespeare 
 and Underhill in the year 1602. Quite perfect, 
 and in the same condition in which they must 
 have been when in the poet's own hands. 
 
 141. An original deed, executed in the year 
 1605, with the rare autograph, as a witness, of 
 Francis Collyns, who was also one of the witnesses 
 to Shakespeare's will and the poet's solicitor. 
 
 142. The original settlement executed on the 
 marriage of Robert Fulwood of Little Alne and y 
 Elizabeth, the sister of Richard Hill, rector of 
 Hampton Lucy, 1596. It was witnessed by John 
 Shaxpere, in all probability the poet's father. See 
 
 an account of this document in Outlines of the 
 Life of Shakespeare, ed. 1886, ii. 246, 247. 
 
 143. The original conveyance-deed of New 
 Place from William Clopton of Clopton to William 
 Botte of Stratford-on-Avon, 20 February, 5 
 Elizabeth, 1563. 
 
 144. An indenture made 20 December, 6 
 Elizabeth, 1563, between William Clopton of 
 Clopton, co. Warwick, esquier, and William Bott 
 of Stratford-on-Avon, relating to the manor of 
 Clopton, " parcell of the premisses cauled the Newe 
 Place," &c. 
 
 145. Indentur of certen covenauntes bytwen 
 William Clopton esquyer and Elsabeth Cole, 
 hys syster, for hyr marryage money, 20 July, 24 
 
 D 2
 
 52 
 
 Henry viii, 1532, charged, inter alia, on "a 
 mesuage or tenemente sett and beyng in 
 Stratford callyd the Newe Place." 
 
 146. An Indenture of bargayne and sale of the 
 Newe Place from William Bott and Elizabeth his 
 wife to William Underbill, i September, 9 Eliz., 
 1567. Mutilated. It was from this Underbill 
 that Shakespeare purchased the estate in 1597. 
 
 147. An Indenture between Richard Castell of 
 Stratford-on-Avon and Thomas Combe of Old 
 Stratford, to which is attached, on an endorsement 
 dated in 1655, the extremely rare signature of 
 Thomas Combe, the gentleman to whom Shake- 
 speare bequeathed his sword. 
 
 148. The original conveyance to Shakespeare 
 of the house in the Blackfriars that he purchased 
 in the year 1613, made "betweene Henry Walker, 
 citizein and minstrell of London, and William 
 Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon in theCountie 
 of Warwick, gentleman." Quite perfect, and in a 
 beautiful state of preservation. The premises 
 conveyed by this deed were situated within one 
 or two hundred yards to the east of the Blackfriars 
 Theatre. This is the identical record that was 
 enrolled in Chancery, and it has the original 
 official endorsement. 
 
 149. The original deed transferring the legal 
 estate of the house last-mentioned, 10 February, 
 1617-8, in trust to follow the directions of Shake- 
 speare's will, subject only to the remaining term 
 of a lease granted by the poet to one John 
 Robinson. It appears from an endorsement that 
 this deed was handed over at the time to Susanna 
 Hall, the poet's daughter.
 
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 150. An original deed of conveyance granted 
 by the Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare's friend 
 and patron, with a fine specimen of his autograph 
 signature. It refers to property at Romsey, near 
 Southampton, and it was executed by the earl in 
 the year 1603, a few weeks after his release from 
 his imprisonment in the Tower of London. 
 
 151. An inscribed pane of glass presumed to 
 have been in one of the windows of New Place 
 during the life-time of the poet, but so much decep- 
 tion has been practised in advancing the claims of 
 Shakespearean relics that it is impossible to be too 
 cautious in investigating the testimonies by which 
 those claims are supported. All that is known 
 respecting the present one may thus be briefly 
 stated. It was thus first publicly mentioned in 
 Fairholt's Home of Shakespeare, 1847, p. 27, 
 "there is an apparently genuine relic of New Place 
 at present (1847) in the possession of the Court 
 family, who own Shakespeare's house. It is a 
 square of glass, measuring nine inches by seven, 
 in which a circular piece is leaded, having the 
 letters W. A. S. for William and Anne Shakespeare, 
 tied in a true lover's knot, and the date, 1615, the 
 year before the poet's death, beneath. A relative 
 of the late Mrs. Court, whose ancestor had been 
 employed to pull down New Place, had saved this 
 square of glass, but attached little value to it. He 
 gave it to her, but she had an honest dislike to the 
 many pretenders to relics, and never showed this 
 glass unless it was expressly requested by the few 
 who had heard of it. She told her story simply, 
 made no comments, and urged no belief. The 
 letters and figures are certainly characteristic ; 
 they are painted in dark brown outline, tinted with
 
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 yellow ; the border is also yellow. The lead is 
 decayed, and the glass loose." The late Mr. 
 Fairholt, one of the best judges in such matters 
 that ever lived, was of a decided opinion that the 
 glass is a genuine work of art of the Shakespearean 
 period. If so, it may be taken for granted that it 
 is an authentic Stratford relic, for it is incredible 
 that any one should have pounced elsewhere upon a 
 glass with the three desirable initials, brought it from 
 a distance into the town, and then invented a New 
 Place story without a commercial or any other sort 
 of intelligible object. But how came the piece of 
 glass to be in the possession of the tenant of the 
 Birth-Place ? An explanation has recently pre- 
 sented itself in a passage in a manuscript compiled 
 in the year 1796, and now in the Bodleian (MS. 
 Malone 40) ; the writer, after mentioning the 
 Clopton painted glass, which, as is well known, 
 was taken by Shakespeare Hart from the Chapel 
 (amongst other refuse from alterations that had 
 been ordered in that building) and inserted in a 
 window of the Birth-Place, says, "there are 
 several more scraps of painted glass dispersed in 
 other windows of the said premises." Now when 
 New Place was pulled down in the year 1701, 
 Shakespeare Hart was at all events the leading, 
 if not the only, glazier in the town, and it is 
 most likely, if the New Place glass is correctly so 
 designated, that it had been inserted by him in a 
 Birth-Place window, remaining there till 1796, 
 getting afterwards into Mrs. Court's hands through 
 some alteration or repairs in the window in which 
 it had been placed, a more likely hypothesis than 
 her statement as recorded by Fairholt and perhaps 
 misunderstood by him. There is thus somewhat 
 more than a possibility of its genuineness as a
 
 55 
 
 Shakespearean relic, but it is unlikely that evidence 
 leading to a decisive opinion will now ever be 
 accessible. Unless, however, its genuiness as a 
 work of art of the year 1615 be disputed, and no 
 suspicion in this direction has yet transpired, even 
 the few known details of its history appear to be 
 explicable only on the assumption that it is a 
 genuine relic of William Shakespeare and Anne 
 Hathaway. 
 
 152. An original trust-deed with the signature 
 of Shakespeare Hart, great-grandson of the poet's 
 sister. He spells his name most oddly Shaxpeer 
 Hart a curious evidence of the local pronunciation 
 of the first name. There are several examples 
 of his signature at Stratford-on-Avon, but this is 
 nearly the only one in private hands. 
 
 153. An original deed of 1578, with the extremely 
 rare signature of Shakespeare's schoolmaster, 
 Walter Roche. It relates to a tenement in Ely 
 Street, Stratford-on-Avon. 
 
 154. Le Cinqvanta Novelle di Massuccio Saler- 
 nitano intitolate il Novellino Nvovamente con 
 somma diligentia reviste, corrette, et stampate. 
 Sm. 8vo. Without date or place, but about 1560. 
 The Shakespeare tale like Romeo and Juliet 
 relates to Mariotto Miguanelli and a girl named 
 Gionozza. See it at p. 239, nov. 33. 
 
 155. Two Bookesof Epigrammes and Epitaphs, 
 dedicated to two top-branches of Gentry, Sir 
 Charles Shirley, baronet, and William Davenport 
 esquire. Written by Thomas Bancroft. 410. 
 Lond. 1639. The two epigrams on Shakespeare 
 are numbered 1 18 and 1 19.
 
 56 
 
 1 56. The Antiquity and Power of Parliaments 
 in England, written by Mr. Justice Doddridge and 
 several other learned Antiquaries. London, printed 
 for William Leake and John Leake at the Crown 
 in Fleet-street, between the two Temple-Gates, 
 1679. 1 2 mo. With a list of books which is 
 curious as showing that Leake had then still on 
 sale his Merchant of Venice of 1652 and his 
 Othello of 1655. 
 
 157. Paroemiologia Anglo-Laiina, in usum 
 Scholarum concinnata ; or Proverbs English and 
 Latine, methodically disposed according to the 
 commonplace heads in Erasmus his Adages, very 
 use-full and delightfull for all sorts of men on all 
 occasions. More especially profitable for Scholars 
 for the attaining Elegancie, sublimitie, and varietie 
 of the best expressions. London, Imprinted by 
 Felix Kyngston for Robert Mylbourne, and are to 
 be sold at the signe of the Vnicorne neere Fleet 
 bridge, 1639. I2mo. This rare little volume 
 enters into the Shakespearean series by reason of 
 the very curious allusion to the old play of Hamlet 
 at p. 71. The author was master of the free- 
 school at Lincoln. 
 
 158. Gli Inganni Comedia del Signor N.S., 
 recitata in Milano 1'anno 1547, dinanzi alia Maesta 
 del Re Filippo. Nvovamente ristampata, et con- 
 somma diligenza corretta. In Vinegia, 1587. 
 I2mo. The plot of this comedy resembles that 
 of Twelfth Night. 
 
 1 59. Greene's Groatsworth of Wit bought with 
 a Million of Repentance, describing the Folly of 
 Youth, the falshood of make-shift Flatterers, the 
 Misery of the Negligent, and Mischieves of
 
 57 
 
 deceiving Curtezans. Published at his dying 
 request, and newly corrected, and of many errors 
 purged. London, printed for Henry and Moses 
 Bell, 1637. 410. A later edition of the work, 
 originally published in 1592, which contains the 
 singular and first distinct notice of Shakespeare in 
 printed literature. 
 
 160. The English Treasury of Wit and Lan- 
 guage, collected out of the most and best of our 
 English Drammatick Poems, methodically digested 
 into Common Places for Generall Use. By John y 
 Cotgrave, gent. London, printed for Humphrey 
 Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the 
 sign of the Princes Armes in S. Pauls Church- 
 yard, 1655. Small 8vo. This little volume 
 contains numerous extracts from the works of 
 Shakespeare, some with textual variations. 
 
 1 6 1. Three Weekes, three daies, and three 
 houres, Observations and Travel from London to 
 Hamborgh in Germanic, amongst Jewes and 
 Gentiles, with Descriptions of Townes and 
 Towers, Castles and Cittadels, artificiall Gallowses, 
 naturall Hangmen ; and dedicated for the present 
 to the absent Odcombian knight-errant, Sir 
 Thomas Coriat, Great Brittaines Error and the 
 Worlds Mirror. By lohn Taylor. London, 
 printed by Edward Griffin, and are to be sold by 
 George Gybbs at the signe of the Flower-deluce 
 in Pauls Churchyard, 1617. 410. A curious 
 allusion to the size of "our English Sir lohn 
 Falstaff" at sig. C. 
 
 162. Londinum Florentissma Britanniae Urbs, 
 emporiumque toto orbe celeberrimum. Visscher 
 excudit. A long view of London from Whitehall
 
 to Rotherhithe, showing the Globe and the other 
 theatres. This is the second edition of Visscher's 
 celebrated view, undated but published about the 
 year 1625. No other copy known. 
 
 163. Abstracts of Title, made about the year 
 1 782, of the house in Chapel Street, Stratford-on- 
 Avon, which belonged in the seventeenth century 
 to the Hathaways, relatives of the poet's wife. 
 They commence with the notice of a feoffment of 
 8 April, 1647, in which the eastern boundary is 
 given as " the land of Mr. Hall," that is, the garden 
 of New Place. 
 
 1 64. Caius Julius Caesar Tragaedia, ex Plutarcho, 
 Appiano, Alex. Suetonio, D. Cassiojoh. Xiphilino, 
 &c., maximam partem concinnata, et ad versus 
 omnem temerariam seditionem atque tyrannidem 
 ita conscripta, authore M. Casparo Brulovis, Pome- 
 rano. Publice exhibita in Academise Argentor. 
 theatre, 1616. Small 8vo. 
 
 165. An Abstract of Title, 1590 to 1723, of the 
 Fetherstonhaugh London estates. It contains 
 much valuable information respecting Shake- 
 speare's house in the Blackfriars nowhere else to 
 be found, the original deeds, with the exception of 
 one or two, not being known to be in existence. 
 
 1 66. Bond of Susanna Hathaway to Richard 
 Wilson for the performance of covenants, 9 Sep- 
 tember, 1692. - - The original document, with 
 Susanna Hatha way's seal and autograph. 
 
 167. Original document respecting the Shake- 
 speares of Lapworth, 1658, signed by Humphrey 
 Shakespeare.
 
 59 
 
 1 68. Bond of Thomas Hathaway, citizen and 
 joiner of London, for the performance of covenants 
 in an indenture made between Jane Hathaway of 
 Stratford-on-Avon, late wife of Thomas Hathaway, 
 late of Stratford-on-Avon, joiner, deceased, and 
 Thomas Hathaway, son and heir of the said 
 Thomas Hathaway, 14 December, 1662. The 
 original document, with signature of Thomas 
 Hathaway. 
 
 169. A Letter of Attorney of Jane Hathaway of 
 Stratford-upon-Avon, relict of Thomas Hathaway, 
 late of Stratford aforesaid, joyner, deceased, 28 
 February, 1690-1. The original document, with 
 the mark and seal of Jane Hathaway. 
 
 170. An Indenture respecting the Hathaway 
 house in Chapel Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 14 
 November, 1662. The original document, but 
 slightly defective. 
 
 171. An autograph signature and note of Lord 
 Hunsdon, 1584, the patron of Shakespeare's com- 
 pany in the early years of his theatrical career. 
 
 1 72. An original copy of court-roll in which 
 there, are notices of the Shakespeares of Shrewley, 
 co. Warwick, 1605. 
 
 173. II Sacrificio de Gl" Intronati, celebrato ne 
 i Givochi d'vn Carnevale in Siena, et Gl' Ingannati, 
 comedia de i Medesimi. In Venetia, 1554. 
 I2mo. This is the curious Italian drama the 
 plot of which so greatly resembles that of Twelfth 
 Night. See Hunter's Illustrations of Shakespeare, 
 vol. i., p. 393. 
 
 174. Gli I nganni Comedia, dell' illvstriss. Sig- 
 nor Cvrtio Gonzaga. In Venetia, 1592. This is
 
 6o 
 
 the play which is referred to by Manningham in 
 his very curious notice of Twelfth Night, 1602. 
 With engravings of some of the scenes. 
 
 175. Jordan's version of Shakespeare's adven- 
 ture under the crab-tree near Bidford. The 
 original manuscript and the one mentioned in 
 Ireland's Confessions, 1805, P- 34- 8vo. 
 
 176. Select Observations on English Bodies, 
 or Cures both Empericall and Historicall per- 
 formed upon very eminent Persons in desperate 
 Diseases. Written in Latine by Mr. John Hall, 
 physician, living at Stratford-upon-Avon in War- 
 warickshire. I2mo. Lond. 1657. The first and 
 very rare edition of the cases attended to by 
 Shakespeare's son-in-law. 
 
 177. A pleasant and fine Conceited Comedie 
 taken out of the most excellent wittie poet Plautus, 
 chosen purposely from out the rest as least harmefull 
 and yet most delightfull. Written in English by 
 W. W. 410. Lond. 1595. There is no evidence 
 that Shakespeare ever saw this production, but 
 Collier may be right in conjecturing that its 
 publication was suggested through the popularity 
 of the Comedy of Errors. Wants the last leaf. 
 Only two other copies known. 
 
 178. The Tragedy of Hoffman, or a Reuenge 
 for a Father, as it hath bin diuers times acted with 
 great applause at the Phenix in Druery-lane. 
 London, printed by I. N. for Hugh Perry, and 
 are to bee sold at his shop, at the signe of the 
 Harrow in Brittaines-burse, 1631. -- Quarto. 
 " Some degree of resemblance to Hamlet 
 suggests itself both in the general motive of 
 Hoffman and in the madness of the heroine,"
 
 6i 
 
 Ward's History of English Dramatic Literature, 
 vol. i., p. 232. 
 
 179. An^Ethiopian H istorie written in Greeke by 
 Heliodorus, very wittie and pleasaunt. Englished 
 by Thomas Underdoune. Imprinted at London 
 by Henrie Wykes for Fraunces Coldocke, dwell- 
 inge in Powles Churche-yarde at the signe of the 
 Greene Dragon. Quarto. An edition of ex- 
 treme rarity. A story in this work is alluded to 
 in Twelfth Night, v. i. 
 
 1 80. The Famous Tragedy of the Rich lew of 
 Malta, as it was played before the King and 
 Queene in his Majesties Theatre at White- Hall 
 by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit. 
 Written by Christopher Mario. London, printed 
 by I. B. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold 
 at his Shop in the Inner Temple neere the Church 
 1633. Quarto. There cannot be much doubt 
 that Shakespeare had either witnessed a represen- 
 tation of, or acted in, this tragedy at the Rose 
 Theatre. No earlier edition known. 
 
 1 8 1. The story of the drunkard, similar to that 
 which is dramatized in the Induction to the 
 Taming of the Shrew, from Barckley's Discovrse 
 of the Felicitie of Man, 1598. 
 
 182. A manuscript list of the common fields 
 in Snitterfield, 1 765, as they existed previously to 
 the enclosure. Useful for the identification of 
 the Shakespearean properties. Quarto. 
 
 183. A pleasant Comedie of Faire Em, the 
 Millers Daughter of Manchester, with the Loue of 
 William the Conqueror. As it was sundry times 
 publiquely acted in the Honourable Citie of Lon-
 
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 don, by the right Honourable the Lord Strange 
 his Seruants. London, printed for lohn Wright, 
 and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the 
 Bible in Guilt-spur street without New-gate, 1631. 
 Quarto. 
 
 184. A Woman is a Weather-cocke, a new 
 Comedy, as it was acted before the King in White- 
 Hall, and diuers times Priuately at the White- 
 Friers by the Children of her Maiesties Reuels. 
 Written by Nat: Field. Printed at London for 
 lohn Budge, and are to be sold at the great South 
 doore of Paules, and at Brittaines Bursse, 1612. 
 Quarto. Field was one of Shakespeare's most 
 eminent colleagues. 
 
 185. An Heptameron of Ciuill Discourses, con- 
 taining the Christmasse Exercise of sundrie well 
 Courted 'Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, &c. A 
 worke intercoursed with Ciuyll Pleasure to reaue 
 tediousnesse from the Reader, and garnished with 
 Morall Noates to make it profitable to the 
 Regarder. The Reporte of George Whetstone, 
 gent. At London, printed by Richard I ones, at 
 the signe of the Rose and Crowne neare Holburne 
 Bridge, 3 Feb. 1582. Quarto. This rare volume 
 includes the foundation-story of Measure for 
 Measure. 
 
 1 86. A most pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus, 
 the King's Son of Valentia, and Amadine, the 
 King's Daughter of Aragon. With the merry 
 Conceits of Mouse. 410. Lond. 1668. 
 
 187. The Waking Mans Dreame, from the 
 Admirable Events of John Peter Camus, 4to. 
 Lond. 1639. This is the Story of the Induction 
 to the Taming of the Shrew.
 
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 1 88. The Anatomy of the English Nvnnery at 
 Lisbon in Portvgall, dissected and laid open by 
 one that was some-time a yonger Brother of the > 
 Covent. 410. Lond. 1622. The curious notice 
 
 of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis will be found 
 at p. 17. 
 
 189. Remaines concerning Britaine, but es- 
 pecially England and the Inhabitants thereof. 
 Reviewed, corrected, and encreased. Printed at V 
 London by lohn Legatt for Simon Waterson, 
 1614. In this edition there was first printed the 
 tract on the Excellencie of the English Tongue 
 
 that includes the curious notice of Shakespeare. 
 
 1 90. The White Divel, or the Tragedy of Paulo 
 Giordano Vrsini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Life 
 and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the famous 
 Venetian Curtizan. Acted by the Queenes 
 Majesties Seruants. Written by lohn Webster. 
 London, printed by N. O. for Thomas Archer, and 
 are to be sold at his Shop in Popes Head Pallace, 
 neere the Royall Exchange, 1612. Quarto. An 
 allusion to Shakespeare in the address to the reader. 
 
 191. The Philosophers Satyrs, written by M. 
 Robert Anton of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge. 
 London, printed by T. C. and B. A. for Roger 
 lackson, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet- 
 street, ouer against the great Conduit, 1616. 
 Quarto. The earliest work in which there is an 
 allusion to Shakespeare's tragedy of Antony and 
 Cleopatra. 
 
 192. A Collection of Poems, being all the Mis- 
 cellanies of Mr. William Shakespeare. London, 
 printed for Bernard Lintott. This edition was pub- 
 lished in 1 709. An interesting and unique copy,
 
 6 4 
 
 with Dr. Farmer's manuscript notes, collations, 
 and cuttings from contemporary newspapers. In 
 a preliminary note is the curious account of the 
 letter said to have been written to Shakespeare 
 by James I. 
 
 193. M. William Shake-speare, his True 
 Chronicle History of the Life and Death of King 
 Lear and his Three Daughters. With the Vnfor- 
 tunat Life of Edgar and his sullen assumed humour 
 of Tom of Bedlam. As it was plaid before the 
 Kings Maiesty at Whit-Hall vpon S. Stephens 
 night in Christmas Hollidaies. By his Maiesties 
 Servants, playing vsually at the Globe on the 
 Bank-side. London, printed by Jane Bell, and are 
 to be sold at the East-end of Christ-Church, 1655. 
 
 Quarto. 
 
 194. An indenture, 20 February, 18 James I., 
 1621, between the Urles and Sandells of Shot- 
 tery, one of the latter being Fulke, the son, I 
 believe, of Shakespeare's marriage-bondsman. 
 Witnessed, amongst others, by Edmund Hathaway, 
 a marksman. 
 
 195. A conveyance of 9 September, 1692, from 
 Susanna Hathaway, spinster, grand-daughter of 
 Thomas Hathaway, heretofore of Stratford-on- 
 Avon, joiner, to Richard Wilson of St. Giles's, 
 Cripplegate, of the house in Chapel Street that 
 belonged to the relatives of Shakespeare's Anne 
 Hathaway. The original, with the vendor's 
 signature. The "land now or heretofore of Mr. 
 Hall," that is, the New Place Great Garden, is 
 mentioned as one of the boundaries. 
 
 196. A black-letter fragment of the Hundred 
 Mery Talys, a book of stories mentioned by
 
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 Shakespeare. It is part only of the curious 
 anecdote of John-a-Droyns. 
 
 197. A copy of verses by R. P. Jodrell on the 
 mulberry-tree planted by Shakespeare and cut 
 down by the Rev. Francis Gastrell. 
 
 198. The original certificate from the Justices 
 of the Peace of Middlesex respecting the Black- 
 friars Theatre, 20 November, 1633, a report on 
 the value of the property, its tenure by the 
 Burbages, &c. This interesting document, first 
 noticed in Collier's New Facts, 1835, p. 27, has 
 been pronounced a forgery without the shadow of 
 a reason. It is, in my opinion, of unquestionable 
 authenticity, and I will back that opinion with the 
 observation that, should the officials of the British 
 Museum and our national Record office collectively 
 arrive at a different conclusion, I will cheerfully 
 give fifty guineas to the funds of any charity that 
 they may do me the favour to indicate. 
 
 199. A terier of the halfe yard land at Shottery 
 which Giles Roberts houlds of John Hatheway, 
 May, 1647. 
 
 200. Counterpart lease, 27 May, 1647, of land 
 at Shottery, from John Hathaway, yeoman, and 
 Elizabeth his wife, to Giles Roberts of Luddington. 
 
 20 1. Shakespearean scraps from original copies 
 of the following works. Decker's Satiro-Mastix, 
 1602 ; list of books sold by Ga. Bedell and Th. 
 Collins, 1656 ; Brathwait's Strappado for the 
 Divell, 1615 ; Shcppard's Epigrams, 1651 ; Mar- 
 ston's Parasitaster, 1606; Cranley's Converted 
 Courtezan, 1639 ; the Returne from Pernassus, 
 1606; Brome's Joviall Crew, 1652; A Helpe to 
 
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 Discourse, 1640; Letters of Sir Tobie Mathews, 
 1660; Swan's Speculum Mundi, 1643; The 
 Hogge hath lost his Pearle, 1614; the Palace of 
 Pleasure; Eastward Hoe, 1605; Every Man out 
 of his Humour, 1600; Nash's Pierce Penilesse ; 
 Whetstone's Heptameron, 1582; Ben Jonson's 
 Execration against Vulcan, 1640; Decker's Dead 
 Terme, 1608. 
 
 202. Autograph letter of Thomas Warton, 1 770, 
 respecting the Wilmecote Shakespearean tradi- 
 tions. 
 
 203. Administration of the Effects of Robert 
 Hathaway, late of Shottery in the parish of Old 
 Stratford, granted to his widow Sarah in 1728. 
 
 204. Probate copy, with an annexed memoran- 
 dum, 1692, of the will of Richard Hathaway of 
 Shottery, in the parish of Old Stratford, yeoman, 
 26 November, 1684. 
 
 205. A deed of 1692 in which three members of 
 the same family, a London stationer, his uncle and 
 mother, have written their surnames on the same 
 day in three various orthographies. 
 
 206. Facsimiles of extracts from the Henley 
 Street deeds, 161 1 to 1639 ; of the entry respecting 
 the funeral of Shakespeare's daughter Anne ; of 
 manuscript notes from a copy of the Second Part 
 of Henry the Fourth, 1600 ; of the mark-signature 
 of Joseph Phillips of the Falcon tavern, Stratford- 
 on-Avon ; and of Quiney's letter to Shakespeare, 
 October, 1598. 
 
 207. A bond for the performance of covenants, 
 with the signatures of Shakespeare Hart and 
 William Shakespeare Hart, 1727.
 
 6? 
 
 208. A facsimile tracing, beautifully executed by 
 E. W. Ashbee, of the conveyance-deed of Shake- 
 speare's Blackfriars estate, 1613. 
 
 209. The music to the song of "My flocks feed 
 not," from the madrigals of Thomas Weelkes, 1 597 ; 
 a version of one of the poems introduced into the 
 Passionate Pilgrim. 
 
 2 1 o. Two facsimiles of extracts respecting Shake- 
 speare the shoemaker, 1589, 1592 ; Where the bee 
 sucks, from the Musical Companion, 1672 ; facsimile 
 of attestation to a Henley Street deed of 1573; 
 memorandum in the autograph of R. B. Wheler 
 respecting Anne Hathaway's cottage; two Shake- 
 spearean scraps from the Workes of Ben Jonson, 
 ed. 1616. 
 
 211. Original title-page of the Puritaine or the 
 Widdow of Watling-streete, 1607 ; autograph of 
 Jonson on the fly-leaf of an edition of Martial, 
 1619, one of Ben's favourite authors; title and 
 preface to Shakespeare's Poems, 1640; notice of 
 Shakespeare from the last leaf of Hey wood's 
 Apology for Actors, 1612. 
 
 212. A plan of Oxford, c. 1640. 
 
 213. A deed respecting the Hathaway house in 
 Chapel Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 20 March, 1696. 
 The New Place boundary mentioned. Signed by 
 Susanna Hathaway. 
 
 214. An indenture, 30 April, 8 James I., 1610, 
 respecting land at Shottery. Witnessed by Francis 
 Collins, the poet's friend and solicitor. Another 
 indenture, 10 October, 1605, with two finer ex- 
 amples of Collins's signature. 
 
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 215. A Mappe of Penbrokeshire, Glamorgan- 
 shire, Monmouthshire, Glostershire, Somersetshire, 
 Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall, part of 
 Wiltshire, etc. An edition of Hollar's map of 1644, 
 with the roads inserted by a later hand, the earliest, 
 I believe, in which there is a delineation of the 
 road to Barnstaple, a town visited by Shake- 
 speare's company in 1605. 
 
 2 1 6. An early, perhaps the earliest, title-page in 
 which a quotation from Shakespeare is introduced, 
 that of Pendragon or the Carpet Knight his 
 Kalendar, 1698 ; a biographical notice of Shake- 
 speare from an Historical Dictionary of England 
 and Wales, 1692 ; Shakespearean scraps from 
 Harington's Ariosto, 1591, and Davenant's 
 Works, 1673; the dimensions of Stratford-on- 
 Avon Church, a paper by the Rev. Joseph Greene, 
 c. 1762 ; Shakespearean notices in a list of books 
 printed for Thomas Bennet, 1697, and in the 
 induction to Bartholomew Fair. 
 
 217. An attestation from a deed of the year 
 1555, relating to a messuage in the village of 
 Packwood, co. Warwick, one Christofer Shaxspere 
 being one of the witnesses. 
 
 218. A deed of 1647 respecting the Hathaway 
 house in Chapel Street, Stratford-on-Avon. The 
 original indenture signed by the Lanes. 
 
 219. The engraved portrait of Shakespeare by 
 Droeshout on a copy of the title-page of the second 
 folio edition of the poet's works, 1632. This is 
 one of the only four impressions known of the 
 title-page of the edition 0^1632 before the spelling 
 of the word coppies was altered, a circumstance 
 which, although apparently trivial, is of value as
 
 6 9 
 
 showing that it includes one of the earliest im- 
 pressions from the plate after it had been used 
 for the first folio. 
 
 220. The engraved head of Shakespeare on the 
 title-page of the first collective edition of his plays, 
 1623, Martin Droeshout sculpsit, London. The 
 original engraving by Droeshout before it was 
 altered by an inferior hand ; of extreme rarity, and 
 the earliest engraved portrait of Shakespeare in 
 existence. 
 
 The following observations upon this proof- 
 engraving are from the pen of the late F. W. 
 Fairholt, F.S.A., " the portrait in this state of 
 the engraving is remarkable for clearness of tone ; 
 the shadows being very delicately rendered, so 
 that the light falls upon the muscles of the face with 
 a softness not to be found in the ordinary impres- 
 sions. This is particularly visible in the arch under 
 the eye, and in the muscles of the mouth ; the 
 expression of the latter is much altered in the later 
 states of the plate by the enlargement of the up- 
 turned moustache, which hides and destroys the 
 true character of this part of the face. The whole 
 of the shadows have been darkened by cross- 
 hatching and coarse dotting, particularly on the 
 chin ; this gives a coarse and undue prominence to 
 some parts of the portrait, the forehead particularly. 
 In this early state of the plate the hair is darker 
 than any of the shadows on the head, and flows 
 softly and naturally ; in the retouched plate the 
 shadow is much darker than the roots of the hair, 
 imparting a swelled look to the head and giving 
 the hair the appearance of a raised wig. It is 
 remarkable that no shadow falls across the collar ; 
 this omission, and the general low tone of colour in
 
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 the engraving, may have induced the retouching 
 and strengthening which has injured the true 
 character of the likeness, which, in its original 
 state, is far more worthy of Ben Jonson's com- 
 mendatory lines." The late Mr. William Smith, 
 Director of the National Portrait Gallery, whose 
 knowledge of early engraving was unrivalled, thus 
 wrote to me in reference to a suggestion that the 
 variations were caused by an accident to the plate, 
 " I was unwilling to answer your note until I had 
 made another careful examination of your engrav- 
 ing, as well as of the very fine impression in the 
 usual state which we have recently purchased 
 for the National Portrait Gallery. This I have 
 now done, and I can find no traces of any damage 
 whatever. I fully believe that, on what is tech- 
 nically termed proving the plate, it was thought 
 that much of the work was so delicate as not to 
 allow of a sufficient number of impressions being 
 printed. Droeshout might probably have refused 
 to spoil his work, and it was retouched by an 
 inferior and coarser engraver." 
 
 221. A rough ground-plan on vellum of the 
 College at Stratford-on-Avon, with the adjoining 
 roads, made very early in the sixteenth century. 
 The site of the tyth barne is shown. This is by 
 far the earliest plan of any part of the town that is 
 known to exist. 
 
 222. A presentment made att a leete there 
 (Stretford Burgus) holden the vij. daye of Aprill, 
 anno xxxiij. Elizabeth regine, 1591. This very 
 curious perambulation of the borough of Stratford is 
 quoted in the sixth chapter of Knight's Biography 
 of Shakspere as being then, 1843, in the possession 
 of Mr. R. B. Wheler, but there is a mistake in
 
 thinking that the old boundary elm, a sketch of 
 which is given in that work and which was cut 
 down in 1847, was the identical tree mentioned in 
 the present document. It stood, however, on the 
 same site, that is to say, on the bank between the 
 turnpike road and the foot-path to Birmingham, 
 just beyond the lane to Clopton. 
 
 223. A grant from James de Clopton to Walter 
 de Cokefeld of a messuage and lands at Clopton 
 and in la Grave. A deed of the time of Henry III. 
 One of the witnesses is noted as Richard de Peyto, 
 showing at how early a period the surname of 
 Peto was known in the neighbourhood of Strat- 
 ford-on-Avon. 
 
 224. A grant from Peter de Monte fort to Isabel, 
 daughter of Stephen Norton, clericus, and Edmund 
 de Middeltone, her son, of a messuage and lands 
 within the manor of Clopton, temp. Hen. III. 
 The boundaries, which are given with unusual 
 minuteness, including notices (with the names) of 
 upwards of thirty fields or common-lands, go far to 
 prove, in conjunction with the memorandum of 
 1614 respecting Shakespeare's outlying property, 
 that the poet held nothing at Clopton. 
 
 225. A lease with the autograph of Richard 
 Hyll, the woollen-draper, penned a few months 
 before his death in 1593. This individual, whose 
 singular metrical epitaph is yet to be seen in 
 Stratford Church, was intimately acquainted with 
 the poet's family, having been bail for his father in 
 some law proceedings that were instituted against 
 him in 1587. 
 
 226. A lease for twenty-one years, dated 22 
 November, 1 562, from William Clopton of Clopton,
 
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 esquire, to William Smythe of Stratford-on-Avon, 
 haberdasher, of a close of land "in the lordshyp of 
 Cloptone, beneythe the park next unto the coman 
 fyldes ther, now in the tenure and occupacyon of 
 the said William Smyth." The consideration paid 
 for the lease was ^31, the reserved annual rent 
 being "only on cowple of capons." Witnessed 
 by William Bott, the purchaser of New Place. 
 Signed by William Smythe, the deed itself being 
 in the autograph of Henry Higford, the steward 
 of the Stratford Court of Record. This latter 
 circumstance invests the document with no little 
 degree of interest, the accounts drawn up by the 
 poet's father in 1564 and 1565 being in the same 
 handwriting. It is also worth notice that John 
 Shakespeare acted as one of the Chamberlains 
 when William Smythe nominally held the office 
 in the year last-mentioned. 
 
 227. A lease from Sir George and Lady Carewe, 
 27 March, 2 James I., 1604. to William Courte of 
 Stratford-on-Avon, gentleman, of land near the 
 Wier Brake. With the signature of William 
 Courte, who was one of Shakespeare's neighbours 
 in Chapel Street and concerned with others in the 
 tithe-suit that was instituted by the poet about 
 the year 1609. 
 
 228. Another lease from the same, 27 March, 
 1604, to John Lane of Stratford-on-Avon, gentle- 
 man, of " all that close called Crosse on the Hill," 
 &c. Witnessed, with their autographs, by the 
 William Courte, mentioned in the preceding article, 
 and by Abraham Sturley, the individual who was 
 interesting himself in the poet's investments in 
 the year 1598.
 
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 2 29- A play-bill of the time of William the Third, 
 announcing a performance of Dryden's Troilus 
 and Cressida on October the 28th, 1697. This is 
 the earliest authentic play-bill of a Shakespearean 
 character which is known to exist. Play-bills, or 
 " billes for players," as they are termed in the 
 Stationers' Registers for 1587, were in ordinary 
 use throughout the time of the great dramatist, but 
 none earlier than the reign of William the Third 
 are known to be in existence. Even any of the 
 latter are of extreme rarity. The names of actors 
 do not appear to have been inserted before the 
 time of George the Second, the frequently-quoted 
 bill of the Humorous Lieutenant, 1663, being an 
 undoubted forgery. 
 
 230. Shakespearean scraps from original copies 
 of the following works, Drayton's Elegies, 1631 ; 
 Randolph's Hey for Honesty, 1651 ; a Declaration 
 of the Treasons of the Earl of Essex, 1601 ; 
 Kirkman's list, 1671 ; Blurt Master Constable, 
 1602; Goulart's Histories of our Time, 1607; 
 Suckling's Fragmenta Aurea, 1648; Cokain's Small 
 Poems of Divers Sorts, 1658 ; Sharpe's Noble 
 Stranger, 1640; Marston's Malcontent, 1604; 
 Cawdray's Treasurie or Store-house of Similies, 
 1600; Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertain- 
 ment in Rushia, 1605; the Palace of Pleasure; 
 Playford's Musical Companion, 1667 ; Scarron's 
 Comical Romance or Facetious History, 1676 ; 
 Cartwright's Poems, 1651. 
 
 231. Itinerant players acting on a scaffold in 
 what is generally said to be a view of Old Smith- 
 field. An engraving from Scarron's Comical 
 Romance, 1676, "printed for W. Crooke at the 
 Green Dragon without Temple Barr."
 
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 232. A plan of the city of Bath. Speed, 1610. 
 
 233. Four pages from a prompter's copy, temp. 
 Car. II., of the tragedy of Macbeth, with numerous 
 alterations of the original text. 
 
 234. The title-page of the second folio edition 
 of Shakespeare's Plays, 1632, with the Droeshout 
 portrait. This copy differs from that in No. 219, 
 the word copies being rightly spelt and the notice 
 "at his shop" being omitted in the imprint. 
 
 235. Two copies of the Droeshout portrait from 
 the early folios, but from which editions is unknown. 
 The first came to my hands in an illustrated copy 
 of the octavo variorum, the compiler of which had 
 reduced the width of the engraving by a barbarian 
 clipping of the sides. 
 
 236. Paul's Cross, a wood-engraving in the title- 
 page of Three Looks over London, 1643. 
 
 237. A woodcut facsimile of Shakespeare's Rime 
 he made at the Myter in Fleete Streete, from a 
 manuscript compiled about the year 1640. 
 
 238. The View of London Bridge from East to 
 West, to the Right Honorable Sir Ric. Salstonstall, 
 Lord Mayor of the Cittie of London. He was 
 mayor in 1597, the obvious date of this undated 
 engraving, which is slightly pared on the lower 
 margin. An inferior variation of it was published 
 in 1624, but no other copy in this first state is 
 known to exist. Mr. William Rendle, the historian 
 of Southwark, thus writes respecting this engraving 
 in Notes and Queries of June the 5th, 1886 "now 
 visiting my friend Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, I have 
 been favoured by him with the sight of a large 
 plate, Norden's London Bridge, in his possession,
 
 75 
 
 as beautiful as it is rare. The ordinary copy, in its 
 main features like this one, is so different in some 
 other respects that I am tempted to send you the 
 particulars. I suppose it to be the one referred to 
 in the 1624 print thus. 'I described it in the time of 
 Queene Elizabeth, but the plate having bene neare 
 these twenty yeares imbezeled and detained by a 
 person, till of late unknown, and now brought to 
 light,' c. From its clearness and sharpness, it 
 must be one of the earliest, if not the earliest, 
 impression, and from the writing on it, so exactly 
 like Norden's, probably his own copy. Cropped 
 at the bottom it yet shows its date by the dedica- 
 tion to the ' Right Honorable S r Ric' Saltonstall, 
 Lord May r of the Citti of London,' as 1597,35 the 
 ordinary copy dedicated to Sir John Gore implies 
 1624. We face the eastern side of the bridge, and 
 looking through the arches, see the Bankside with 
 its continuous houses. As in the later print, boats 
 are upset and people are struggling in the water, 
 but in this the features and costume of the many 
 more people in many more boats are very clear ; 
 there are boats sharp at both ends, sharp at one 
 end, boats with one or two persons, one with five. 
 Midstream are four wide, large, rounded boats, 
 empty, one covered with a sort of caged work, 
 possibly, I think, bumboats or for conveyance of 
 goods generally, the caged one perhaps for lively 
 cattle, or it may be for the securing pressed men 
 for the tenders at the Tower close at hand. The 
 arms of the earlier print have the lion one side, a 
 dragon the other, with, underneath, 4 Semper 
 eadem '; in the 1624 copy the dragon gives place 
 to the unicorn, and the 'Semper eadem' to 'Diev 
 et mon droit.' The writing is as follows : At 
 the top, ' Pontis Londinensis facies orientalis,
 
 76 
 
 Joanne Norden descriptore.' South end, where 
 the ' Bear-at-the- Bridge-foot ' was, ' Southewark- 
 B ridge-gate.' Immediately over the heads on 
 poles, 'the Draw-bridge.' By Nonsuch, 'Capella 
 S. Thomae'; further on ' S. Marie Lock. Newe 
 fish street.' Then ' Longitude hujus Pontis est 
 prope 800 pedes. Altitude est 60 ped. Latitude 
 est 30 pedes. Domus institorum et mercatorum, 
 hie qui omnis generis merces vendunt. Sunt supra 
 100, &c." This is the earliest separate large view 
 of the bridge known to exist, and there is no other 
 that can be confidently assigned to the period of 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 239. Braun's plan of London, 1574, uncoloured 
 and in an earlier state than the copy No. 313. 
 
 240. Profil de la Ville de Londre, cappitalle dv 
 Royavme Dangleterre. Undated, but published, 
 I believe, at Paris in 1641. This long view 
 includes the Swan and Globe Theatres, and was 
 therefore taken from a much earlier one. 
 
 241. The engraved title-page to Sir Richard 
 Baker's Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1643, 
 including a miniature view of London and South- 
 wark that exhibits two of the Bankside theatres. 
 
 242. A plan of Westminster, London and 
 South warke, W. Hollar fecit. Dedicated to Sir 
 Robert Vynar by Richard Blome, 1673. 
 
 243. The Kingdome of Great Britaine and 
 Ireland, graven by I. Hondius, and are to be solde 
 by I. Sudbury and George Humble in Popes 
 Head Alley in London, 1610. With a view of 
 London showing the old Globe Theatre in the 
 foreground. Coloured.
 
 77 
 
 244- Londinum Celeberrimum Angliae Em- 
 porium, published at Amsterdam by Dancker 
 Danckerts, 1640. A view of London showing 
 the Swan, the Bear Garden, and the Globe. 
 
 245. Proceedings " att a Session of the Sewers 
 holden in South wark," July and October, 1653, 
 respecting the one " in Maide Lane nere the place 
 where the Globe playhouse lately stood." This 
 interesting document establishes the exact locality 
 of the theatre. 
 
 246. Original documents in which there are 
 references to the Shakespeares of Kingswood, a 
 hamlet of Lapworth, 1658-1673. The earliest of 
 them has the autograph of Humphrey Shakespeare, 
 considered by Malone, ed. 1821, ii. 62, to have 
 been the son of John, the shoemaker of Stratford. 
 
 An indenture relating to land at Packwood, 
 co. Warwick, 1528, in which there is a notice of 
 Cristofer Shakspeyre. 
 
 247. An indenture respecting the Falcon in 
 Southwark, n April, 32 Hen. VIII., 1541, a 
 tavern said, but on very uncertain grounds, to 
 have been frequented by Shakespeare. 
 
 248. A levie and taxacion for the reliefe of the 
 poore in the parishe of Old Stratford, in thecountie 
 of Warwicke, by the churchwardens and overseers 
 for the poore there, whose names are heervnder 
 written the xiij.th daie of Aprill, 1640, with the 
 mark-signature of John Hathaway. A levie made 
 the tenthe daie of August, 1635, by Roger Barnard 
 and Thomas Harris, churchwardens of the parish 
 of Old Stratford, towardes the repaire of the Parishe 
 Church there, with autograph of Edmund Hath- 
 away. These two manuscripts, which contain
 
 78 
 
 several entries of Shakespearean interest, were 
 amongst those which were lately discovered by 
 Mr. Sims of the British Museum in the archives 
 of Wallop Hall, co. Salop. 
 
 249. A document on vellum respecting lands 
 in Kent leased to Sir Robert Sidney, with the 
 signature of Robert, Earl of Essex, 1596. There 
 can scarcely be a doubt that this nobleman, the 
 object of the graceful compliment in Henry the 
 Fifth, was on friendly terms with the great drama- 
 tist. 
 
 250. A deed of covenant, 10 October, 1647, for 
 the levy of a fine on the land where the Bear in 
 Bridge Street, Stratford-on-Avon, formerly stood, 
 and on the house in Chapel Street that had been 
 purchased by Thomas Hathaway, a lineal de- 
 scendant from the parents of Shakespeare's wife. 
 
 251. A deed with the mark-signature of John 
 Richardson of Shottery, 1610, the son perhaps of 
 one of Shakespeare's marriage-bondsmen. A levy 
 made by the inhabitants of Lap worth, 1650, in- 
 cluding notices of the Shakespeares of that parish. 
 
 Shakespearean scraps from an original copy of 
 Gayton's Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, 1654. 
 
 252. John Jones and Mary his wife, the widow 
 and relict of John Hathaway, to Robert Hathaway 
 of Shottery, a receipt for a legacy bequeathed to 
 Mary by her first husband, 6 August, 1 703. 
 
 253. A collection of Shakespearean scraps from 
 Camden's Remaines, 1605 to 1636. 
 
 254. An inventory of the goods and chatels of 
 Robert Hathaway (here spelt Athaway) of Shotrey, 
 in the parish of Old Stratford, lately deceased,
 
 79 
 
 1728. An important document. See Outlines 
 of the Life of Shakespeare, ed. 1887, ii. 192. 
 
 255. Deed of gift of personal effects from Sarah 
 Hathaway, widow of Robert Hathaway of Shot- 
 tery, to Susannah Taylor, her daughter, wife of 
 William Taylor, 1752. 
 
 256. An indenture and bond, March, 1604, 
 respecting land near Stratford-on-Avon, with two 
 signatures of Richard Tyler, a contemplated 
 legatee under Shakespeare's will. The bond is 
 witnessed by Abraham Sturley, the person who 
 interested himself in the poet's business arrange- 
 ments of 1598. 
 
 257. Facsimile of an entry respecting Sir 
 Thomas Lucy, 1595; manuscript notes by R. B. 
 Wheler on the Charlecote traditions ; a fragment 
 from the Rev. Joseph Greene's revised copy of 
 Rowe's Life of Shakespeare, the portion referring X 
 to the Charlecote adventure, c. 1750; facsimiles 
 
 of the signatures and attestation to the poet's will, 
 Neele sculpsit ; the second nominated allusion to 
 Shakespeare in our printed literature, the original 
 leaves from Polimanteia, 1595. 
 
 258. An original deed with the rare signature 
 of the Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, the indi- 
 vidual who owes his celebrity to his inconsiderate 
 treatment of the youth who was afterwards to be 
 the national dramatist of England. This indenture 
 was executed in December, 17 Elizabeth, 1574, 
 and it bears also the signatures of Sir Thomas's 
 two brothers, Timothy and Edward. 
 
 259. The conveyance of a piece of land, 20 
 April, 14 James I., 1616, from Sir Thomas Lucy
 
 8o 
 
 of Charlcott, in the county of Warwick, knight, to 
 James Combe of Hyneleadon, in the county of the 
 cittye of Glocester, yoman, with the signature of 
 the former. This Sir Thomas was fond of literary 
 society, but there is no good evidence in favour of 
 the oft-repeated assertion that he was on friendly 
 terms with the great dramatist. He was the 
 grandson of the poet's Justice Shallow, who, as 
 well as the intermediate Sir Thomas Lucy, is 
 mentioned in the present indenture. 
 
 260. Memoranda in the autograph of Philip, 
 Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. They are 
 of great curiosity, including four notices of one 
 " Squeal of Cotswold," who appears to have been 
 a very indifferent character ; singular evidences of 
 the poet's introducing the name of a local celebrity 
 of his own day into an historical drama. 
 
 261. A large plan of the basement of a house 
 adjoining northwards to New Place. 
 
 262. Indenture, 14 June, 12 Elizabeth, 1570, 
 respecting lands at Snitterfield and Fulbrooke, 
 with a signature of Bartholomew Hales. Wit- 
 nessed amongst others by Thomas Perkes and 
 Alexander Webbe, the poet's uncle. 
 
 263. A Plan of the Town and Borough of 
 Stratford-upon-Avon by W. R. Swanwick. En- 
 graved by J. Tolley, Birmingham. Published by 
 J. Ward, Stratford. 
 
 264. Indenture of lease, 10 November, 1 7 James 
 I., 1619, of apiece of land called Little Rushbrooke, 
 situated at Bridgetown, Stratford-on-Avon, with 
 the signatures of Lord and Lady Carew of Clopton, 
 a traditional anecdote respecting whom is believed
 
 Si 
 
 to have been in the poet's thoughts when he makes 
 Prospero speak so enigmatically of the loss of his 
 daughter. 
 
 265. A very large plan of Stratford-on-Avon, 
 divided into four sheets, executed about the year 
 1780. It should be noticed that some of the 
 memoranda are of a more recent date than that of 
 the drawing itself. 
 
 266. A view of the interior of the chancel of 
 Stratford Church, published at Birmingham in 
 December, 1827. Drawn by H. Hutchinson ; 
 engraved by W. Radclyffe. Two copies, one of 
 them in the rare state before the insertion of the 
 carved roof. 
 
 267. Ancient bedroom in George's farm-house 
 at Grendon Underwood ; Elizabethan houses at 
 Aylesbury. Two sketches taken by Blight in 
 September, 1865. 
 
 268. Charlecote House, river front. Drawn by 
 J. V. Barber. Engraved by W. Radclyffe. 
 Published at Birmingham, September, 1824. 
 
 269. Charlecote House and Gateway, front view. 
 Drawn by J. D. Harding. Engraved by W. 
 Radclyffe. Published at Birmingham, March, 
 1827. 
 
 270. Tracings of the inscriptions under Shake- 
 speare's monumental effigy and on his tomb-stone, 
 taken by Mr. William Butcher, jun., in 1885 ; 
 with a rubbing of the former. 
 
 271. A water-colour sketch of the exterior of 
 Stratford Church, executed about the year 1840. 
 
 F
 
 82 
 
 272. The monumental effigy, engraved by I. S. 
 Agar from an original . drawing by A. Wivell in 
 the possession of John Cordy, esq. Published 
 by Geo. Lawford, November, 1825. A proof. 
 
 273. Shakespearean scraps from an original 
 copy of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1628. 
 
 274. An Account of the English Dramatick 
 Poets, or Some Observations and Remarks on the 
 Lives and Writings of all those that have publish'd 
 Comedies, &c. By Gerard Langbaine. Oxford, 
 1691. Octavo. With a few manuscript notes by 
 Oldys. Account of Shakespeare at pp. 453-469. 
 
 275. A Brief Account of Stratford-upon-Avon, 
 with a particular Description and Survey of the 
 Collegiate Church, the Mausoleum of Shakespeare. 
 i2mo. Stratford, printed by E. Walford, n.d. 
 This, which is the earliest guide-book to Stratford, 
 was published about the year 1791. 
 
 276. An account of the discovery of John 
 Shakespeare's Confession of Faith, with notes on 
 other Shakespearean traditions, by John Jordan, 
 1790. Folio. Autograph manuscript. 
 
 277. A volume of miscellaneous poems, many 
 of which are quaint and curious, collected, appa- 
 rently by an Oxford student, chiefly between the 
 years 1633 and 1639. This interesting manuscript 
 includes, at ff. i2.b, 26, two of Shakespeare's 
 sonnets, the seventy-first and thirty-second. Also, 
 at f. 20, " Take, oh take, those lipps awaie," with 
 additional verses. Allusions to Pericles and Julius 
 Csesar, the latter termed "the tragcedy of Brutus 
 and Cassius," at f. 62. " On the Earle of Pen- 
 brookes death, or Earle uppon Earle," f. 85.
 
 83 
 
 278. A manuscript collection of verses and 
 epitaphs made in the time of Pope. It includes, 
 at p. 2, the verses on John-a-Combe, here stated 
 to be " by Shakespear." 410. 
 
 279. Essayes of Certaine Paradoxes. The 
 second Impression, inlarged. London, printed for 
 Richard Hawkins, and are to be sold at his Shop 
 neare Serjeants- 1 nne in Chancery-Lane, 1617. 
 Quarto. The allusions to the Richard the Third 
 plays will be found at sigs. C. 3 and E. 3. 
 
 280. A Bright Burning Beacon forewarning all 
 wise Virgins to trim their lampes against the 
 comming of the Bridegroome, conteining agenerall 
 doctrine of sundrie signes and wonders, specially 
 earthquakes both particular and generall ; a dis- 
 course of the end of this world ; a commemoration 
 of our late Earthquake the 6. of April, about 6. of 
 the clocke in the euening, 1580. Newly translated 
 and collected by Abraham Fleming. Imprinted 
 at London by Henrie Denham, dwelling in Pater- 
 noster Rowe at the signe of the Starre. I2mo. 
 This is the earthquake which is alluded to in 
 Romeo and Juliet. 
 
 281. A Godly Exhortation by occasion of the 
 late Judgement of God shewed at Parris-Garden the 
 thirteenth day of lanvarie, where were assembled 
 by estimation aboue a thousand persons, whereof 
 some were slaine, and of that number, at the 
 least, as is crediblie reported, the thirde person 
 maimed and hurt. Giuen to all estates for their 
 instruction concerning the keeping of the Sabboth 
 day. By John Field, minister of the word of 
 God. i2mo. At London, printed by Robert 
 Walde-grave, dwelling without Temple-barre, for 
 Henry Carre in Paules Churchyard, 1583. 
 
 F 2
 
 8 4 
 
 282. An extract from Rowe's Life of Shake- 
 speare, revised by the Rev. Joseph Greene of 
 Stratford-on-Avon about the year 1 750. Exceed- 
 ingly important in the question of the identifica- 
 tion of the Hathaway cottage at Shottery. 8vo. 
 Manuscript. 
 
 283. England's Parnassus, or the choysest 
 Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their 
 Poeticall Comparisons. Descriptions of Bewties, 
 Personages, Castles, Pallaces, Mountaines, 
 Groues, Seas, Springs, Riuers, &c. Where- 
 unto are annexed other various discourses, both 
 pleasaunt and profitable. Imprinted at London 
 for N.L., C.B., and T.H. 1600. Small octavo. 
 An interesting collection that includes numerous 
 extracts from the works of Shakespeare. This 
 copy, which belonged successively to Theobald 
 and Oldys, is perhaps unique in one small matter, 
 the two fly-leaves of sheet A preceding the title- 
 page. In common with two other copies in the 
 British Museum, it has not the verses com- 
 mencing, " Fame's windy trump," which have 
 been said, I am sure erroneously, to form a 
 genuine portion of the work. 
 
 284. Mount Tabor, or Private Exercises of a 
 Penitent Sinner, serving for a daily Practice of 
 the life of Faith, &c., written in the time of a 
 voluntary retrait from secular affaires. By R. W. 
 esquire. Published in the yeare of his age 75, 
 anno Dom. 1639. Some of the "exercises" of 
 this author, who was born in the same year with 
 Shakespeare, are strikingly illustrative of the boy 
 and school life of exactly the poet's own time. 
 At p. no is the well-known chapter "upon a 
 stage -play which I saw when I was a child."
 
 285. Playes Confuted in fiue Actions, prouing 
 that they are not to be suffred in a Christian 
 common weale ; by the waye both the Cauils 
 of Thomas Lodge and the Play of Playes written 
 in their defence, and other objections of Players 
 frendes, are truely set downe and directlye 
 aunsweared. By Steph. Gosson, Stud. Oxon. 
 London, imprinted for Thomas Gosson, dwelling 
 in Paternoster Row at the signe of the Sunne, 
 n.d. I2mo. The original black-letter edition. 
 
 286. Original sketches taken by J. P. Neale in 
 1825 of parts of the Church of the Holy Trinity, 
 Stratford-on-Avon, with others of the font and the 
 base of the market-cross, the two latter relics then 
 in the possession of Captain Saunders. 
 
 287. A fragment of an original contemporary 
 manuscript of Marlowe's Massacre of Paris, con- 
 taining a number of passages that were omitted 
 in the old printed edition. This interesting relic, 
 which was first noticed in Collier's History of 
 Dramatic Poetry, 1831, iii. 133, is the only vestige 
 of the tragedy in the state in which it left the 
 hands of the author, and is important as a striking 
 evidence of the extent to which texts of some of 
 our early dramas were mutilated in the copies 
 that were used by the printers. 
 
 288. An impression of Droeshout's engraved 
 portrait of Shakespeare, issued by Henry Her- 
 ringman and Thomas Dring in the year 1673. 
 No other copy known. 
 
 289. Births, marriages, and burials of the 
 Shakespear family, faithfully transcrib'd from the 
 register-book of the parish of Stratford-on-Avon, 
 with a note respecting the Hathaway house at
 
 86 
 
 Shottery, by the Rev. Joseph Greene, 1769-1770. 
 The accuracy of the extracts from the register is 
 certified by the Rev. Stephen Nason, the then 
 vicar. 410. 
 
 290. The Last Judgment, or the Day of 
 Doom, copied by Fisher in 1804 from paintings 
 discovered on the west side of the wall that 
 divides the nave and chancel of the Guild Chapel. 
 Miracles of the Holy Cross, two paintings on 
 the north side of the Chancel, Fisher del. The 
 original drawings, coloured, and, like the other 
 ones by the same artist in this collection, more 
 accurate than the published reproductions. They 
 are now unique, the only replicas that were made 
 having perished with the rest of the Staunton 
 library. 
 
 291. The tombs of Sir Thomas Lucy (the 
 poet's Justice Shallow) and his son, from the 
 monuments in Charlecote Church. W. Hollar 
 fecit, 1656. 
 
 292. The Arches of Triumph erected in honour 
 of King James the First at his Majesties entrance 
 and passage through his honourable Citty of 
 London, upon the i5th day of March, 1603-4. 
 Five of the original very rare contemporary 
 engravings by William Kip, Stephen Harrison, 
 and another, including the one which has the 
 view of London. There is authentic record 
 evidence that Shakespeare was in the procession 
 on this interesting occasion. 
 
 293. Thomas Lucie, miles, the grandson of the 
 poet's Sir Thomas, a monument on the south side 
 of the chancel in Charlecote Church. P. Lombart 
 sculpsit Londini, 1656.
 
 8; 
 
 294- A plan of Shrewsbury, from Speed's 
 Theatre of Great Britaine, 1610. 
 
 295. The monumental effigy of Shakespeare 
 with the verses underneath and those on the 
 grave-stone. Dugdale, 1656. 
 
 296. Exterior of Stratford Church. An un- 
 coloured lithograph by J. Salmon, from a drawing 
 by Mrs. Dighton. Published at Stratford-on- 
 Avon, 1835. 
 
 297. A south-east view of the exterior of Strat- 
 ford Church. A large original drawing in water- 
 colours by J. C. Buckler, 1823. 
 
 298. A large pen-and-ink drawing of the 
 exterior of Stratford Church, showing the tower 
 and southern side of the western end, executed 
 about the year 1 762. This and the next-mentioned 
 drawing were in Richard Greene's illustrated copy 
 of Dugdale, but it may be suspected, from the 
 style, that they were not executed by him. 
 
 299. A Mappe of Kent, Sovthsex, Surrey, 
 Middlesex, Barke and Southamptonshire and the 
 He of Vight, and part of Essex and Wiltshire, 
 etc. W. Hollar, 1644. See No. 308. 
 
 300. A large pen-and-ink drawing of the north 
 exterior side of Stratford Church, executed about 
 the year 1 762. 
 
 301. The Mappe of Norfolke, Svffolke, Cam- 
 bridgeshire, Bedford, Hartford, Buckingham. 
 Oxford, Northampton, Warwick, Huntington and 
 Lecestershires, and Rutland, part of Lincolne, 
 Nottingham, Darbye, Glocester and Barckshires, 
 and of the County of Essex. W. Hollar, 1644.
 
 88 
 
 302. The Font at which Shakespeare was 
 baptized. A coloured lithograph by J. Salmon 
 from a drawing by Mrs. Dighton. Published at 
 Stratford-on-Avon, 1835. 
 
 303. A large sketch taken by Blight in 1864, 
 of the Wier Brake. The kitchen and chimney- 
 corner of Shakespeare's Birth-Place, from a sketch 
 taken by Fairholt in August, 1839. 
 
 304. A view of the town and castle of Windsor 
 from a painting at Greenwich Hospital executed 
 about the year 1690. 
 
 305. Charlecote Church, from a sketch by 
 Saunders, taken differently from No. 621. 
 
 306. A view of Exhall ; St. Christopher, the 
 hood-mould termination of the doorway leading 
 from the chancel to the charnel-house, Stratford 
 Church ; a street in Wixford ; a portion of the so- 
 called Arden House at Wilmecote. All sketched 
 by Blight in 1863. 
 
 307. The Road from Glocester to Coventrey, 
 by lohn Ogilby, esq., His Majesties Cosmo- 
 grapher, containing 58 miles 2 furlongs, viz., 
 from Glocester to Cheltenham, to Winchcomb, 
 through Broadway to Campden, to Stratford, to 
 Warwick, to Coventrey, 1675. 
 
 308. A Mappe of Kent, Sovthsex, Surrey, 
 Middlesex, Barke, and Southamptonshire, &c. 
 Hollar's map of 1644, with roads added by a later 
 hand. " Printed, coloured, and sold by lohn 
 Garrett, at the South Entrance of the Royall 
 Exchange in London." See No. 299. 
 
 309. Warwici Comitatvs Descriptio, quam 
 primus aedidit Christophorus Saxton anno 1576,
 
 8 9 
 
 nunc de integro correcta, aucta et restituta ; cui 
 adduntur (pneter 60 locos qui priore desidera- 
 bantur) singula hundreda, viae notiores, in vsum 
 itinerantium accomodatae, et alia non infimae notae 
 nonnulla, anno 1603. Near the corner is 
 Printed and sovld by P. Stent. This is the 
 earliest map of Warwickshire in which the roads 
 are marked, Stent having, I believe, put or stamped 
 his name as publisher to a plate of older date than 
 the period at which he flourished. 
 
 310. Pen-and-ink views of Islip Church, co. 
 Oxon, from photographs that were taken before 
 the extensive alterations that were made about 
 the year 1860. Islip was in one of the routes from 
 Stratford to Oxford. 
 
 311. A pen-and-ink view of Middle-row, Strat- 
 ford-on-Avon, from a photograph taken just 
 previously to its removal in 1857. 
 
 312. The Counti of Warwick, the Shire Towne 
 and Citie of Coventre described. Performed by 
 lohn Speede, and are to by solde in Popes-heade 
 ally against the Exchange by lohn Sudbury and 
 George Humble, 1610. No roads marked. 
 There is a plan of Warwick in the left-hand 
 corner and one of Coventry in the right. 
 
 313. Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni 
 Metropolis. An uncoloured copy of Braun's plan 
 of London, 1574. 
 
 314. The title-page of Colloquia Physica Nova 
 et Admiranda, 1614, with the autograph of Ben 
 Jonson. 
 
 315. La Ville de Londres, an edition of Braun's 
 map published at Paris in 1579. It was taken
 
 90 
 
 from an engraving that was in the first and rare 
 state of the plate, before the Royal Exchange 
 was introduced. 
 
 316. A New Description of Kent divided into 
 the fyue Lathes therof, and subdivided into 
 Bayly wickes and Hundredes, with the parishe 
 Churches conteyned within euery of the same 
 Hundredes. All which, for better vnderstandinge, 
 are distinguished with varyetye of coloures : 
 comprehendinge as well the cities, the vsuall 
 market townes and the portes with their mem- 
 bers lying in Kent ; as also such of the howses of 
 the nobylitie and gentrye as the plott coulde 
 conueniently receaue. Wherin moreover the 
 nature of the soyle, whether playne, hyllye or 
 wooddye, is more diligentlye observed, and the 
 tractes of ryuers, rylles and creekes, with the 
 trendinge of the sea-shore, be more naturally de- 
 scribed then heretofore it hath ben done. By 
 the travayle of Phil : Symonson of Rochester, gent. 
 Printed and sovld by P. Stent at the White 
 Horse in Giltspure street, 1659. At the top is a 
 view of Dover by Hollar, and one of Rye by Sir 
 Anthony Van Dyck, the latter showing the sea up 
 to the town. 
 
 317. Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shottery, 
 drawn and etched by W. Rider. Published in 
 November, 1827. A proof. 
 
 318. A front view of Charlecote House, in 
 lithotint by F. W. Hulme from a sketch by J. G. 
 Jackson. Published by Chapman and Hall in 
 September, 1845. The back of Charlecote House, 
 from a drawing by Saunders.
 
 319- Sketches taken by Blight, 1863 to 1865, of 
 the well at Anne Hathaway 's Cottage ; the barn 
 at the pseudo-Asbies farm-house at Wilmecote ; 
 a room on the basement at Anne Hathaway 's 
 Cottage, the one which is the furthest from the 
 road, with the original stone-bench for the milk- 
 pans ; exterior, north side chancel, Stratford 
 Church; interior of the door-way leading from the 
 tower to the roof of the nave of the Guild Chapel ; 
 the basement wall of Nash's House. 
 
 320. Inside of charnel-house, Stratford Church, 
 looking south, from a sketch by R. B. Wheler ; 
 Luddington Chapel, from a sketch by Dugdale ; 
 a large pike (or luce) from an old painting at 
 Charlecote. 
 
 321. Interior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage, 
 drawn and etched by W. Rider. Published in 
 November, 1827. A proof. 
 
 322. The room in which Shakespeare was born, 
 an uncoloured lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. 
 P. Dighton. Published at Stratford-on-Avon in 
 the year 1835. 
 
 323. Plan du Chateau et Parcde Windsor, dans 
 la Cont de Berk, a 20 Milles de Londres, ren- 
 ferment une des maisons et jardins du Due de 
 Marlborough ; tres exatement leve et grave par 
 J. Rocque, 1738. 
 
 324. A Plan of the Town and Castle of Windsor 
 and Little Park, and the Town and College of Eton, 
 survey 'd and drawn by W. Collier. Publish'd 
 according to Act of Parliament by W. Collier at 
 Eton, 1 742, by whom lands are survey'd and maps 
 drawn of the same in the best and cheapest manner.
 
 92 
 
 Sold by J. Pine, engraver in Old Bond Street, and 
 T. Bakewell, printseller in Fleet Street. Engrav'd 
 by J. Pine. The very rare original engraving, 
 being the earliest plan of Windsor Park in which 
 H erne's Oak is noticed. 
 
 325. Three engraved ground-plans of New 
 Place and the adjoining houses, six impressions 
 only of which were taken previously to the de- 
 struction of the blocks. 
 
 326. A Mapp of Warwickshire, describing the 
 Boundaries and Divisions, the Rivers, Brooks 
 and Rills, the Roman Roads and Stations, the 
 Parish Churches and Chapels, from an actual sur- 
 vey made in the year 1725 by Henry Beighton. 
 
 327. The Market-cross and part of High Street, 
 Stratford, from a drawing by C. F. Green, 1821. 
 
 328. A large view of Charlecote House, copied 
 in pen-and-ink from a photograph taken in 1864. 
 
 329. A View of the Antient Royal Palace, 
 called Placentia, in East Greenwich. Publish'd 
 according to Act of Parliament, April 23, 1767, 
 sumpt. Societ. Antiquar. 
 
 330. A Prospect of the House att Windsor 
 belonging to his Grace, Charles Beauclerck, Duke 
 of St. Albans. L. Knyff de. I. Kip scu. This 
 engraving includes curious and interesting views 
 of the towns of Windsor and Eton. 
 
 33 1 . Windsor Castle. Le Chasteau de Windsor. 
 L. Knyff del. I. Kip sculp. This view shows a 
 good many of the old houses at Windsor about the 
 year 1720.
 
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 332. A Plan of the Town and Castle of Windsor 
 and Little Park, survey'd and drawn by W. Collier, 
 1742; the portion showing Herne's Oak from a 
 varied impression of No. 324. 
 
 333. The East Prospect of Charlecote in War- 
 wickshire, the Seat of the Reverend Wm. Lucy, 
 esq., 1722. H. Heighten delin. 1722. E. Kirkall 
 sculp. 
 
 334. The monumental effigy and oval portrait 
 of Shakespeare on a pedestal, the latter engraved 
 by Vander Gucht. From Rowe's Life of Shake- 
 speare, 1709. 
 
 335. The interior of Charlecote Hall, a sketch 
 by Mrs. Dighton, 1835 ; tne original from which 
 the lithograph was taken. 
 
 336. Prospect of Windsor Castle and Towne 
 from South S. West. Prospect of the same 
 Castle from West South West. Prospect of it from 
 West and by South. W. Hollar delin. et sculp. 
 
 337. The Shakespeare Cliff, Dover. A large 
 etching by one M. S., 1820. 
 
 338. Ciuitatis W'estmonasteriensis pars. W. 
 Hollar fecit, 1647. 
 
 339. Vindesorivm celeberrimum Angliae castrum 
 locus amoenissimus ; aedificia magnifica ; artificiosa 
 Regum sepulchra, et illustris Garetteriorum equi- 
 tum Societas memorabile reddunt. Depingebat 
 Georgius Hoefnagle. Cum priuilegio. 1574. 
 
 340. The Old Stabling of the Three Pigeons, 
 Brentford, " the inn frequented by Shakespeare 
 and Ben Jonson." Drawn and etched by W. N 
 Wilkins, June, 1848.
 
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 - The back of the grammar-school, Stratford- 
 on-Avon, a large water-colour sketch taken by 
 Blight in 1864. 
 
 342. A large and curious sepia drawing of 
 Windsor Castle and part of the town, executed 
 about the year 1640. 
 
 343. Windsor Castle. W. Hollar delineavit et 
 sculpsit. This is a curious view, showing part of 
 the ancient town in interesting detail. 
 
 344. Shakespeare's Tomb, a coloured lithograph 
 from a sketch by Mrs. P. Dighton. Published at 
 Stratford-on-Avon, 1835. 
 
 345. The College in Stratford-upon-Avon, in 
 the county of Warwick, the seat of the Combe's, 
 the Clopton's and the Keyte's, with their arms 
 and quarterings. A large view copied, about the 
 year 1810, from some older drawing. 
 
 346. Sala Regalis cum Curia Westmonasterii, 
 vulgo Westminster Hall. W. Hollar fecit, 1647. 
 
 347. Prospect of Windsor Castle from the 
 North. Christopher Wren delineavit. W. Hollar 
 fecit, 1667. An interesting engraving, including 
 detailed views of many of the old houses. 
 
 348. Two views of houses in the immediate 
 neighbourhood of the Birth-Place, from photo- 
 graphs that were taken about the year 1854. 
 Interior of a room on the ground-floor of Anne 
 Hathaway's Cottage, sketched by Blight in 1864. 
 
 -The great hall at Charlecote in the state in 
 which it was seen by Washington Irving, from a 
 sketch by Fairholt.
 
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 349- Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 and 
 1864 of the Guild Chapel tower; the Council- 
 Chamber and Grammar School ; a baby-chair at 
 Mrs. James's said to have been formerly at the 
 Birth-Place ; a cross at the west-end of Wixford- 
 Church ; a pinnacle of the Guild Chapel then ( 1 864) 
 lying on the roof of the porch ; an old chimney at 
 Wixford. 
 
 350. A Map of Barlichway Hundred, that in 
 which Stratford-on-Avon is situated, reduced 
 from an actual survey made, in the year 1725, 
 by Henry Beighton. 
 
 351. Warwici Comitatus, a Cornauiis olim 
 inhabitatus. Christophorus Saxton descripsitt, 
 William Kip sculpsitt. No roads shown. 
 
 352. Norden's original Plan of Middlesex, on 
 a much larger scale and with numerous variations 
 from the published engraving of 1593 (see No. 
 378). This interesting survey was executed for 
 Queen Elizabeth, Norden referring to " your 
 Magesties howses " in the list of objects he has 
 attached to the plan, and the Queen's arms being 
 depicted in the left-hand corner. Norden was 
 the first English surveyor who had any kind of 
 pretension to scientific accuracy. His original 
 manuscript plans are of great rarity, the present 
 one of Middlesex and that of Essex, the latter in 
 the possession of the Marquis of Salisbury at 
 Hatfield, being the only ones known in private 
 libraries. 
 
 353. The epitaph on the poet's widow, Anne 
 Shakespeare, 1623, a full-sized tracing made by 
 William Butcher, jun., 1885.
 
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 354. Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of an 
 ancient window and gable at Islip, and of the 
 manor-house at Wheatley, both in co. Oxon. 
 
 355. An Ichnography of the Borough of Strat- 
 ford-upon-Avon and the Village of Old Stratford, 
 in the County of Warwick. A large original plan 
 made by Jordan about the year 1 780. 
 
 356. Charlecote Great Hall, a lithotint by 
 F. W. Hulme from a sketch by J. G. Jackson. 
 Published by Chapman & Hall, London, Septem- 
 ber, 1845. 
 
 357. Middlesex olima Trinobantibvs habitata, 
 Johannes Norden descripsit. From Camden, 
 1607. No roads shown. 
 
 358. A view of Stratford Church and river. 
 Drawn by P. Dewint. Engraved by W. Radclyffe, 
 Birmingham, 1824. 
 
 359. A large plan of Oxford and a small view 
 of the town, 1649. An engraving of foreign 
 execution. 
 
 360. Bridge at Hampton Lucy. Drawn by P. 
 Dewint. Engraved by W. Radclyffe, 1825. 
 
 361. A Map of Middlesex, described by lohn 
 Norden, augmented by I. Speed, sold by Henry 
 Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, 
 London. The main roads shown. 
 
 362. The exterior of the Birth-Place and the 
 interior of the Birth-Room, sketches made by 
 Mrs. Dighton in 1834, the originals from which 
 the published lithographs of the following year 
 were taken.
 
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 363. The Ground Plott of Warwick. W. 
 Hollar fecit, 1654. From Dugdale's Warwick- 
 shire, 1656. 
 
 364. Herne's Oak, Windsor Park. Published 
 for S. Ireland in May, 1799. 
 
 365. The Mapp of Barlichway Hundred, that 
 in which Stratford-on-Avon is situated. Ro. 
 Vaughan sculp. From Dugdale, 1656. 
 
 366. A Ground-Plan of Stratford Church, in- 
 cluding that of the Charnel-house, with a scale 
 of feet. Copied by Richard Greene, in the year 
 1 765, from a drawing by S. Winter. The earliest 
 known to exist. 
 
 367. A New Map, containing the Towns, 
 Gentlemen's Houses, Villages and other Remarks 
 round London, as from London to Windsor, Ware, 
 Chelmsford, the Hope, Tunbridge, Guildford, &c. 
 Maed and sold by H. Moll in Vanly's Court in 
 Blackfryers. A very elaborate map showing the 
 main roads. 
 
 368. A large sketch in water-colours of Shake- 
 speare's crab-tree and surrounding scenery. Be- 
 lieved to be a copy of an earlier view. 
 
 369. Two views of the crab-tree copied by 
 Blight from rude originals that were taken about 
 the year 1810. In reference to the second of 
 these views the late Mr. W. O. Hunt thus wrote 
 in 1864, " the above drawing of the tree is very 
 like what I remember of it when I passed some 
 fifty-five years ago to school." 
 
 370. Interior of the Church of the Holy Trinity, 
 Stratford-on-Avon. Printed by M. & N. Han-
 
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 hart. C. Graf, lith., London. Published by 
 Edward Adams. A large view. 
 
 371. A tower and the exterior of adjoining 
 rooms at Charlecote House, sketched by Blight 
 in 1863. A bird's-eye view of the mansion from 
 an old painting in the hall that was executed 
 about the year 1685. 
 
 372. Large sketches by Blight, taken in 1864, 
 of the bedroom adjoining Anne Hathaway's, and 
 of the upper room of the cottage next the road. 
 
 373. The South Side of Windsor Castle. 
 Prospect of the Castle from the S.E. Two long 
 views by Hollar, c. 1670. The first of these 
 views contains, I believe, the earliest representa- 
 tion of the Church at which Anne Page was 
 married. 
 
 374. The Clyff of Dover from Sea. This and 
 another engraved sketch of Hollar's, No. 595, are 
 the earliest views of Shakespeare's Cliff known to 
 exist. 
 
 375. The prospect of Warwick from Coventre 
 Roade on the North-east part of the Towne. 
 The prospect of it from London road on the 
 south side of the Towne. From Dugdale, 1656. 
 
 376. A long narrow view of London from the 
 Surrey side of the river below the bridge. 
 Hollar, c. 1641. 
 
 377. The Mapp of Canterbury. From Som- 
 ner's Antiquities of Canterbury, 1640. 
 
 378. Myddlesex. Johannes Norden Angl. de- 
 scripsit, 1593. This plan shows all the main 
 roads. It is the diminutive published engraving,
 
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 a larger and more elaborate original plan being in 
 this collection, No. 352. 
 
 379. The Droeshout portrait engraved on wood 
 by J. T. Blight. The first proof. 
 
 380. The Monumental Effigy of Shakespeare. 
 F. W. Fairholt. del. et sc., 1852. On India- 
 paper. 
 
 381. An engraved view of Rochester, c. 1760. 
 
 382. Shakespeare's Tomb. An uncoloured 
 lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. P. Dighton. 
 Published at Stratford-on-Avon, 1835. 
 
 383. Vera effigies Ben lohnsonii. Engraved by 
 R. Vaughan, 1 640. 
 
 384. Shakspeare. Engraved by T. A. Dean, 
 after a drawing by A. Wivell, from the bust by 
 Gerard Johnson, London. Published, 1827, by A. 
 Wivell, Castle Street East. On large paper. 
 
 385. The second Sir Thomas Lucy, from a 
 picture in the hall at Charlecote. A pencil copy 
 by Blight from a pen-and-ink sketch by F. W. 
 Fairholt. 
 
 386. The Monumental Effigy. G. Vertue 
 sculp. 1725. 
 
 387. The Monumental Effigy, drawn by Mr. 
 John Boaden from the Stratford Bust. Engraved 
 by E. Scriven, 1825. 
 
 388. Shakespeare's Monument. Drawn by 
 R. B. Wheler. Engraved by F. Eginton, Bir- 
 mingham, 1806. 
 
 389. Mr. William Shakspeare his true Effigies, 
 engraved by Wm. Ward, A.R.A., from a painting 
 
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 by Thos. Phillips, esq., R.A., after a cast by G. 
 Bullock from the bust at Stratford-on-Avon, 1816. 
 
 390. Effigies in the Clopton Chapel, Stratford- 
 on-Avon. Two beautifully executed pencil draw- 
 ings by J. T. Blight, 1864. 
 
 391. The Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare, 
 1623, on wood by Blight from the proof copy of 
 that engraving. One of six impressions that were 
 taken before the block was destroyed. 
 
 392. A large unfinished pencil sketch of the 
 exterior of Stratford Church by J. T. Blight, and 
 another, a finished one, taken by the same artist 
 in 1863 from the eastern side of the river. 
 
 393. A sketch of Chapel Lane showing the 
 cottage on the site of Getley's (afterwards 
 Shakespeare's) copyhold estate. A recent copy 
 of an earlier view. 
 
 394. An engraved portrait of the Earl of 
 Essex, who was beheaded in 1601, and who was 
 one of the patrons of Shakespeare's company. 
 From an original painting then preserved at Essex 
 House. Published by Holland in 1620. 
 
 395. Campden House, near London. 1795. 
 
 396. An East View of the Collegiate Church 
 of Stratford-upon-Avon. A South-East view of 
 the Col. Church of Stratford. These drawings 
 were made in or before the year 1763, and show 
 the designs for a new steeple by Timothy Light- 
 holder. They were, no doubt, although not so 
 stated, made by Richard Greene in 1762. 
 
 397. Backs of old timber buildings in High 
 Street, Stratford-on-Avon, the fronts of which
 
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 have been modernized. A sketch taken by 
 Blight, 29 July, 1863. 
 
 398. Articles called Shakespeare's Jug and 
 Cane, pencil sketches of the originals in the pos- 
 session of Mrs. Fletcher of Gloucester. 
 
 399. A water-colour sketch, by Blight, of an 
 ancient carved oak court-cupboard, formerly in 
 the house said to have belonged to the Ardens at 
 Wilmecote. 
 
 400. The Royal Pallace and Town of Windsor. 
 Published by Cox, 1720. 
 
 401. Shakespeare's Cliff, Dover, from a sketch 
 taken in 1843. F. W. Fairholt, sc. 
 
 402. An engraved portrait of Frederick, Duke 
 of Wirtemberg, the Duke de Jarmany of the Merry 
 Wives of Windsor, published in Germany in 1602. 
 
 403. Exterior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage, an 
 original sketch by Mrs. Dighton, 1835. 
 
 404. Two coloured views, taken by Blight in 
 1864, of the ancient cellar at the Crown Inn, 
 Rochester. Interesting medieval work. This 
 tavern has since been either pulled down or com- 
 pletely modernized. 
 
 405. View of the House at Wilmcotte where 
 Robert Arden resided whose daughter Mary was 
 married to John Shakespeare. An engraved copy 
 of an original sketch by Jordan, one of six copies 
 only that were taken before the wood-block was 
 destroyed. 
 
 406. A view of Broom, co. Warwick, the 
 
 broom " of the well-known verses.
 
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 An original sketch by the Rev. Richard Jago, 
 vicar of Snitterfield, c. 1778. 
 
 407. A water-colour drawing of Shakespeare's 
 crab-tree, as it appeared about the year 1822. A 
 recent copy. 
 
 408. Windsor Castle. A water-colour drawing 
 made about the year 1780. Artist's name un- 
 known. 
 
 409. Old cottage at Shottery. Blight, 1863. 
 
 410. The West View of Welcombe Hills, 
 publishd ist. September, 1777, by S. Hooper, No. 
 25, Ludgate Hill. Some of the poet's land was 
 situated on these hills. 
 
 411. A copy, in water-colour, of an oil painting, 
 executed about the year 1690, of Windsor Castle, 
 showing the houses by the river, and the entrance 
 of the lane through which Falstaff was carried in 
 the buck-basket. The large original painting, 
 formerly in my possession, I gave many years ago 
 to the Birth-Place Museum. 
 
 412. The font at which Shakespeare was baptized. 
 An uncoloured lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. 
 P.Dighton. PublishedatStratford-on-Avonini835. 
 
 413. Charlecote Hall, drawn and etched by W. 
 Rider. Published November ist, 1827, by the 
 artist and by J. Merridew, Leamington and Warwick. 
 A proof. 
 
 414. Stratford Church, &c. Sam. Ireland del., 
 1792. This engraving shows also the river and 
 the old mill. 
 
 415. The mark-signature and seal of George 
 Whateley, 1579, one of six impressions only that
 
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 were taken before the wood-block was destroyed. 
 He was the bailiff of Stratford-on-Avon in the year 
 of the poet's birth. 
 
 416. Ancient bridge over Brent Brook, near 
 Han well, sketched by Blight in July, 1864. 
 
 417. Windsor Castle and Little Park. The 
 royaj carriage and attendants in the foreground. 
 W. Hollar fecit, 1644. 
 
 418. Richmond Palace. M. Van de Gucht 
 sculp. 
 
 419. Herne's Oak. T. Thornton del. Medland 
 sculpsit. Published in June, 1792, by E. Harding. 
 
 420. " A View of Herne's Oak in the Little 
 Park at Windsor," with part of Queen Elizabeth's 
 Walk This original sketch, made by Hay man 
 Rooke, an accurate topographer, about the year 
 1770, is the most interesting early drawing of the 
 oak known to exist. 
 
 42:. The porch and tower of the Guild Chapel, 
 with part of the Falcon Tavern. John Johnson, 
 F.S.A., del. A. Newman lith. Day & Son, 
 lithographers to the Queen. 
 
 422. The ancient carved porch and gateway at 
 the Crown Inn, Rochester, sketched by Blight in 
 1.863. Now pulled down. 
 
 423. The old bridge at Islip, co. Oxon, A 
 pencil sketch by Blight, 1864. 
 
 424. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of the 
 ancient register-book of Stratford-on-Avon, show- 
 ing the old binding and the clasps ; and of an 
 ancient Bible preserved in the Church.
 
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 425. Herne's Oak, 1788. A. E. H. pinxit 
 G. E. H. fecit. An etching. 
 
 426. Borealis Prospectus Ecclesiae Stratfordiae 
 Super Avon in Comitatu Warvvicenci. J. Gwin sc. 
 Viro Reverendo Josepho Greene, Regise Scholae 
 in Stratfordia Moderatori, humillime inscribitur. 
 c. 1740. This is the earliest engraved view of the 
 Church known to exist. 
 
 427. Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of objects 
 in Stratford Church, an effigy in the Clopton 
 Chapel; the old font ; a doorway south side of the 
 chancel. 
 
 428. A sketch from the sedilia in the Stratford 
 Museum, formerly in the Chapel of St. Thomas in 
 Stratford Church. 
 
 429. An exceedingly curious termination of the 
 hood-moulding of a window on the north side of 
 the chancel of Stratford Church, sketched by Blight 
 in the year 1866. 
 
 430. An outline sketch by Blight, 1863, of part 
 of the tower staircase in Stratford Church. 
 
 431. The entrance to Stratford Churchyard, 
 showing the wooden bars on the ground to keep 
 pigs from entering. A copy of an original sketch 
 in the Saunders collection. 
 
 432. Original sketches taken by Blight, in 1863, 
 of objects in the interior and on the exterior of 
 Stratford Church, a boss in the centre of the roof 
 of the porch ; the second and third windows east 
 of porch in the north aisle; mouldings in the tower 
 and south aisle.
 
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 433- A stone over the south window of transept 
 in Stratford Church, and remains of mosaic pave- 
 ment on the altar steps, copied from drawings by 
 R. B. Wheler. 
 
 434. Original sketches, taken by Blight in 1863 
 and 1866, of objects in the interior and on the 
 exterior of Stratford Church, carvings on the 
 canopies of sedilia in the Chapel of St. Thomas ; 
 tower window and turret, with a separate sketch of 
 the roof of the latter ; turret of staircase ; parapet 
 and gargoyle west of porch ; hoodmould termina- 
 tions of doorway leading from the chancel to the 
 charnel-house ; south window in tower ; belfry 
 doorway and window ; the vicar's stall ; windows 
 in the north aisle, north transept, and south aisle. 
 
 435. A view of the Church and village of 
 Hillingdon, sketched by Blight in 1864. This 
 village is on the old road between Stratford-on- 
 Avon and London. 
 
 436. An outline sketch by Blight of the south 
 door in the south aisle of Stratford Church. 
 
 437. A very perfect specimen of a small timbered 
 building of the sixteenth century at Little Alne, 
 co. Warwick, a place where some of the poet's 
 connexions once resided. Sketched by Blight 
 in August, 1863. 
 
 438. Cantvarbvry. Cantvaria, vrbs fertilis simae 
 Angliae Celebris, Archiepiscopati sede, commendata. 
 A curious plan of Canterbury, with part of the 
 road to London, published by Braun in 1574. 
 
 439. Sketches by Blight, taken in 1864, of 
 objects in Stratford Church, the tower window 
 and set-off of stage ; the base of the tower arches ;
 
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 four of the quaint and interesting carvings on the 
 miserere stalls. 
 
 440. Prospects of Dover and Banbury, 1724. 
 Stukeley delin. Toms et E. Kirkall sculp. 
 
 441. The Bridge and part of Bridge Street, 
 Stratford-on-Avon. Drawn by R. B. Wheler. 
 Engraved by F. Eginton, Birmingham. Published 
 in May, 1806. 
 
 442. The Stratford Jubilee. Ireland, 1795. 
 
 443. Herne's Oak, 1788. A lithographic copy, 
 published in 1820 by T. N. 
 
 444. The North Prospect of Trinity Church, 
 Stratford-upon-Avon. R. Hickes fecit, 1737. A 
 recent copy of an old drawing. 
 
 445. The left-hand cover of the old Register 
 Book of Stratford-on-Avon ; a copy of a sketch by 
 Fairholt. 
 
 446. Sedilia in Stratford Church, a pencil sketch 
 by Blight taken in 1863. 
 
 447. The Church at Barton-on-the- Heath, a 
 sketch taken by Blight on the 6th of October, 
 1864. This place was the residence of the 
 Lamberts, who were relatives of the poet. 
 
 448. Original sketches, taken by Blight in 1864, 
 illustrative of Shakespeare's journeys between 
 Stratford and London, viz., Tetsworth, West 
 Wickham, the Crown Inn passage at Oxford, 
 Stokenchurch, and the Three Pigeons. 
 
 449. A sketch taken by Blight in 1865 of a 
 mermaid, from a miserere stall now in the Stratford 
 Museum. It is said to have come from the Guild
 
 Chapel, but no good authority has been given for 
 the statement. 
 
 450. The Church. Drawn by R. B. Wheler. 
 Engraved by F. Eginton, Birmingham. Published 
 in May, 1806. 
 
 45 1. Sketches by Blight of objects at the Crown 
 Inn, Oxford; the manor-house, Wheatley ; Islip 
 and Adderbury. 
 
 452. A large recumbent effigy in the Clopton 
 Chapel, Stratford-on-Avon, sketched by Blight in 
 the year 1864. 
 
 453. The upper part of an old pulpit formerly 
 in Stratford Church. From an old painting made 
 before the alterations of 1836. 
 
 454. A large recumbent figure in the Clopton 
 Chapel ; Blight, 1864. The old pulpit, from the 
 painting in the Church. 
 
 455. Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of the 
 exterior of the Birth-Place, and a view of the interior 
 from the portrait-room looking towards the attic 
 stairs. 
 
 456. Recumbent effigies of a gentleman and his 
 wife, sketched by Blight from the originals in the 
 Clopton Chapel, Stratford-on-Avon. 
 
 457. A recent copy of a view of Shakespeare's 
 Crab-tree taken by C. F. Green in 1823. 
 
 458. Church Street, Oxford. A sketch, 1864. 
 
 459. A sketch of the roof of the nave of 
 Stratford Church looking towards the tower. 
 From a painting executed before the alterations 
 of 1836.
 
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 460. The ancient bridge at Wixford, a copy of 
 a sketch taken about the year 1810. 
 
 461. Curious old timbered houses in Bridge 
 Lane, Warwick, one bearing the date of 1568. 
 A sketch by F. W. Fairholt taken in 1847. 
 
 462. Sketches, taken by Blight in 1864, of 
 localities illustrative of the journeys of Shakes- 
 peare, viz., Postcombe, Wheatley, and Burmington. 
 
 463. The George Inn, Uxbridge, a copy made 
 in 1864 from an older sketch. 
 
 464. Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of 
 Pershore Bridge ; a street in Acton ; Steeple 
 Aston Church from Hopcrofts Holt ; an ancient 
 stone fire-place in the Crown Inn at Oxford; old 
 house at Deddington ; the back of the Rein-deer 
 Inn at Banbury. 
 
 465. Windsor Castle and part of the town, 
 published by Cox, 1720. This view shows the 
 river, and differs altogether from No. 400. 
 
 466. The effigies of William Clopton, esquier, 
 and Anne his wiffe, daughter of Sir George 
 Griffith, knight, 1592 and 1596. Dugdale, 1656. 
 
 467. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 at 
 Temple Grafton, Marston, and Barton. 
 
 468. West side of tomb in the south aisle, 
 Stratford Church, a sketch by Blight, 1863. 
 The charnel-house, from a drawing by Wheler. 
 
 469. Sketches, taken by Blight in 1863, of 
 objects in Stratford Church, figures from the 
 old roofs of the transepts ; the canopy of a sedile ; 
 string-course under the windows in the north
 
 transept ; a bit from the east side of the south 
 transept ; the belfry of the tower ; exterior of the 
 upper part of the tower ; wooden string-courses in 
 the nave ; corbels in the south side of chancel. 
 
 470. Sketches taken by Blight in 1865, one of 
 Stratton Audley and two of Grendon Under- 
 wood. 
 
 471. "A view of the publick house at Wilm- 
 cotte, where Robert Arden esq. lived, whose 
 daughter Mary was married to John Shakespere," 
 copy of a sketch by Jordan. 
 
 472. Sketches by Blight of the curious ancient 
 misereres in Stratford Church ; the back of the 
 Falcon Inn at B id ford ; and of a very old house 
 near the Three Pigeons at Brentford. 
 
 473. An old wooden bridge that was formerly 
 between Windsor and Eton, a copy made in 1863 
 from an early painting in the possession of Mr. G. 
 Tuck of Windsor. 
 
 474. Old timbered house near Datchet, 1863. 
 
 475. Original sketches, taken by Blight in 
 1863, 1864, and 1865, illustrative of Shakespeare's 
 journeys, viz., Warwick, Wixford, Marston, Eton, 
 Bidford, Pebworth, Beaconsfield, Temple Grafton, 
 Waddesdon, Pershore, and Grendon Underwood. 
 
 476. Elizabethan Gateway, St. Alban's, 1867. 
 
 477. Three sketches by Blight of objects in 
 Stratford Church, one being the Chancel doorway 
 leading to the Charnel House, taken in 1863. 
 
 478. Elizabethan house at Rochester, 1863. 
 
 479. Old timbered house at Tetsworth, 1864.
 
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 480. Shakespeare's Crab-tree, a woodcut from 
 Ireland's Picturesque Views on the Avon, 1795. 
 
 481. A curious example of mosaic pavement on 
 the altar steps of Stratford Church, from a drawing 
 by R. B. Wheler. 
 
 482. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of a 
 cornice in the south aisle of Stratford Church ; 
 window in the cellar of the Crown Inn, Rochester ; 
 and the entrance to Stratford Church. 
 
 483. The ancient stocks at Windsor Castle, a 
 sketch taken by Fairholt in 1847. 
 
 484. Four elaborate water-colour drawings by 
 J. C. Buckler, 1823, two of the exterior and two 
 of the interior of Stratford Church. 
 
 485. Three interesting etchings of Dover and 
 its castle. W. Hollar, 1643. 
 
 486. The roof of the nave of Stratford Church, 
 looking east, as it appeared before the alterations 
 of 1836, from the oil painting preserved at New 
 Place. 
 
 487. Sketches by Blight in 1865 and 1866 of 
 a wood carving in the Stratford Museum, said to 
 have been originally placed either in the Church or 
 in the Guild Chapel, and of the canopy of a sedile 
 in the Chapel of St. Thomas, Stratford Church. 
 
 488. A large general view of Stratford-on- 
 Avon taken by Blight in August, 1863, from the 
 Hill, and an unfinished sketch of the Wier Brake 
 taken in 1864. 
 
 489. View of the Clopton Bridge, the river, 
 and the lower part of Bridge Street, from a 
 painting of the last century.
 
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 490. A view of the ancient mill-bridge, the ait, 
 and the river up to the Wier Brake, taken by 
 Blight from the uttermost room of the mill. 
 
 491. Birth-Place sketches taken by Blight in 
 1 864, part of the front exterior ; under the stairs 
 of the record-room ; the upper room of the same ; 
 the butcher's shop. 
 
 492. The back of Mr. Hunt's house in Church 
 Street, as it is believed to have been when 
 possessed by the Cloptons. A conjectural re- 
 suscitation, but founded on an examination of the 
 remains of the ancient timber-work. 
 
 493. Sketches by Blight, 1863 and 1864, of the 
 end of the Birth-Place ; the mill-bridge ; the 
 panelling in the attic at the Birth-Place. 
 
 494. The shop at the Birth-Place, an interior 
 looking to street, from a sketch by Fairholt. The 
 bacon cupboard at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, 
 1697, sketched by Blight in 1864. The shop 
 at the Birth-Place, an interior looking towards 
 kitchen, from the sketch made by Fairholt for his 
 Home of Shakespere. 
 
 495. Four views of the mill-bridge at Stratford, 
 taken by Blight from different positions in 1864. 
 
 496. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 and 
 1864 of the interior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage ; 
 a grate in the possession of Mrs. James, brought 
 from the Birth-Place ; Elizabethan houses at 
 Henley-in-Arden. 
 
 497. An elaborate view of the front exterior 
 of Charlecote House, taken about the year 1762, 
 and believed to be the work of one Rogers, a 
 Birmingham drawing-master.
 
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 498. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 and 
 1864 of a room on the right-hand of the entrance 
 to Anne Hathaway's Cottage ; the room behind 
 the shop at the Birth-Place ; the entrance to the 
 chimney in the room in that building now used 
 for the Museum ; the interior of the old panelled 
 room at Abington Abbey, the residence of Shake- 
 speare's grand-daughter. 
 
 499. Old Settle at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, 
 from a sketch by F. W. Fairholt. The Market- 
 Cross, with the timbered corners of Wood Street 
 and Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon, from a 
 drawing by C. F. Green, 1821. The interior of 
 the College Hall, Stratford-on-Avon, copied from 
 a drawing made by Jordan about the year 1790. 
 
 500. The tomb of Sir Thomas Lucy in Charle- 
 cote Church, an elaborate sketch made by Blight 
 in the year 1863. 
 
 501. The Shakespeare Inn, Shottery, in its 
 old timbered state, a copy of a sketch made by 
 Fairholt in 1847. 
 
 502. The Elizabethan carved oak bedstead at 
 Anne Hathaway's Cottage, and the Birth-Place 
 Museum, sketches taken by Blight in 1863. 
 
 503. Henley-in-Arden. Blight, 1864. 
 
 504. The Grammar-School, Stratford-on-Avon. 
 Five sketches, consisting of two original ones by 
 Blight, 1864, and three others copied by him from 
 drawings by Fairholt. 
 
 505. Six large sketches taken by Blight in 1864, 
 of portions of the Birth-Place, the birth-room ; 
 the attic staircase ; the room on the ground-floor
 
 "3 
 
 next the garden ; the exterior from the garden ; 
 the apartment over the record-room, and decayed 
 timber showing old mortices. 
 
 506. A general view of Stratford-on-Avon 
 showing the Bancroft, a copy of a drawing made 
 by R. B. Wheler about the year 1800. 
 
 507. Four large sketches, taken by Blight in 
 1864, of portions of the Birth-Place, the exterior 
 from the east of garden ; the attic ; the butcher's 
 shop, and the museum. 
 
 508. Five large sketches taken by Blight in 
 1863 and 1864 of, the mill-bridge; the upper 
 room of the Swan and Maidenhead, now the 
 museum ; the interior of the school-room ; another 
 view of the upper room of the museum ; a water- 
 colour drawing of the attic at the Birth-Place. 
 
 509. Whitehall and Lambeth. Hollar, c. 1650. 
 
 510. The Birth- Room, from a sketch taken by 
 Fairholt, 29 August, 1839. 
 
 511. The cottage at Anne Hathaway 's at the 
 end furthest from the road, a sketch by Blight, 
 1864, showing the dairy doorway and the lower 
 part of an old cheese-press serving as a flag-stone. 
 
 512. Sketches by Blight, taken in 1864, of the 
 bass-relief of David and Goliah formerly at the 
 Birth-Place ; the Elizabethan house in the High 
 Street, Stratford. 
 
 513. A south-west view of the collegiate 
 Church, Stratford-on-Avon, R. Greene del., 1762. 
 One of the earliest drawings of the Church known 
 to exist. 
 
 H
 
 H4 
 
 514' Exterior of Stratford Church, a large pencil 
 sketch taken about the year 1830. 
 
 5 1 5. A large coloured sketch by Blight, taken 
 in 1864, of one of the attics in Anne Hathaway 's 
 Cottage. 
 
 516. A water-colour drawing of the Clopton 
 Bridge, Stratford-on-Avon, by Rogers, a Bir- 
 mingham schoolmaster, c. 1762. 
 
 517. Five large engraved views of the old St. 
 Paul's Cathedral, two of the exterior and three of 
 the interior. Wenceslaus Hollar delineavit et 
 sculpsit, 1656, 1658. 
 
 518. Sketches by Blight of the lower stairs at 
 the Birth-Place leading to the birth-room, with 
 portions of the adjoining walls ; the interior of the 
 Hall of the Middle Temple, where Twelfth Night 
 was performed in the year 1602 ; the old gateway, 
 Charlecote. 
 
 519. Bearley Church, from a drawing c. 1810. 
 
 5 20. An elaborate coloured view of the screen 
 and roof of the Hall in the Middle Temple, exe- 
 cuted by Blight in 1867. A cornice of figure 
 heads in the Elizabethan house in the High 
 Street, Stratford-on-Avon, sketched by the same 
 artist in 1864. 
 
 521. A copy of an old sketch in water-colours 
 formerly preserved in the Daniel library, and de- 
 scribed as an " original drawing of the Stratford 
 Jubilee, 1769," but it is evidently of a later date, 
 executed probably about the year 1800. 
 
 522. Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of a lock 
 brought from the Birth-Place and then in the pos-
 
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 session of Mrs. James ; of the portrait-room at 
 the Birth-Place and the little room on the ground- 
 floor near the garden. 
 
 523. A sketch of a box of crab-tree wood which 
 appears to have belonged to one John Jordan of 
 Stratford-on-Avon in 1646, but it has been sus- 
 pected that the inscriptions to that effect were 
 forged by his namesake of the last century. 
 There was, however, a John Jordan living at 
 Stratford about the time above-mentioned, as 
 appears from a document in the Court of Record 
 Papers, iv. 253. 
 
 524. A sketch by Blight, 1864, of a bridge on 
 the road between Hillingdon and Uxbridge, the 
 arches of which are of great antiquity. This 
 bridge would have been passed over by Shake- 
 speare in his journeys between London and 
 Stratford. 
 
 525. Two views of the exterior of the back of 
 the Birth-Place, copied from photographs that 
 were taken previously to its restoration. 
 
 526. Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of the 
 birth-room and the record-room ; portions of a 
 bedstead said to have been brought from the 
 Birth-Place ; the little niche opposite the portrait- 
 room ; a carved desk at Mrs. James's, said to have 
 been formerly in the Birth-Place ; the large desk 
 absurdly stated to be the one that was used by 
 Shakespeare at school ; two large views of the 
 attic at the Birth-Place. 
 
 527. A long view of London, showing the 
 Globe and other old theatres, with views of the 
 exterior and interior of St. Paul's Cathedral. D. 
 
 II 2
 
 u6 
 
 King delin. et excudit, anno 1658. This engrav- 
 ing is evidently based on some unknown copies 
 of earlier drawings. 
 
 528. A large water-colour drawing of old houses 
 in the Mill Lane, Stratford-on-Avon, executed 
 about the year 1820. 
 
 529. Braun's plan of London, 1574. Coloured. 
 One of the very rare impressions from the plate 
 in its first state, before the Royal Exchange was 
 introduced. 
 
 530. Birth-Place illustrations, its elevation as 
 restored ; plan before the restoration, showing the 
 timbers of the original first floor ; a full-sized plan 
 of the ancient wrought-iron fastening to the birth- 
 room window ; a ground-plan taken shortly before 
 the restoration ; a copy of a view of the exterior, 
 taken by John Sharp, c. 1790. 
 
 531. A Map or Ground Plot of the Citty of 
 London and the Suburbes thereof, that is to say, 
 all which is within the Jurisdiction of the Lord 
 Mayor or properlie calldt London, by which is 
 exactly demonstrated the present condition thereof 
 since the last sad accident of fire, the blanke space 
 signifeing the burnt part, and where the houses 
 are exprest, those places yet standing. Sould by 
 John Overton at the White Horse in Little Brit- 
 taine, 1666. 
 
 532. A long view of London engraved abroad 
 in the year 1649, with forty-three references to 
 numbers. The Swan, the Bear Garden, and the 
 Globe Theatre are in the foreground. This 
 engraving is frequently assigned to Hollar, but 
 the Guildhall copy is ascribed in manuscript to 
 Matthew Merian.
 
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 533- A View of London from Howel's Londin- 
 opolis, 1657, with forty-six references to numbers. 
 It is a copy of some earlier drawing, the Globe and 
 other theatres being shown. " London, the glory 
 of Great Britaines ile, Behold her landschip 
 here, and tru pourfile." 
 
 534. Exterior of the Middle-Temple Hall, 1720. 
 
 535. The Prospect of Kenilworth Castle from 
 the old parke ; the prospect thereof upon the 
 road from Coventrie ; the prospect thereof upon 
 Bull-hill neere the road from Colshill towards 
 Warwick. Dugdale, 1656. 
 
 536. Bidford Bridge, from a sketch taken about 
 the year 1810. 
 
 537. The wooden cornice of the lower room 
 (now destroyed) of the Crown Inn, Rochester, a 
 sketch by Blight, 1864. The woodwork is of a 
 very heavy character. 
 
 538. Three sketches by Blight, one taken at 
 Barton-on-the- Heath in 1864, and two at Wixford 
 in 1863. 
 
 539. London and Westminster, two plans; 
 loannes Norden Anglus descripsit, 1593. The 
 first of these plans shows the Rose Theatre, the 
 only regular one then on the south of the Thames, 
 and that in which Shakespeare's earliest dramas 
 were produced. It gives a more accurate idea 
 than any other of the metropolis as it existed in 
 the poet's time. 
 
 540. Later copies, " augmented " by Speed, 
 1610, of the two last views, that of London show- 
 ing two theatres in Southwark.
 
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 541. The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to 
 Solomon, and the victory of Constantine over 
 Mexentius ; Fisher's original coloured copies of 
 paintings in the chancel of the Guild Chapel. 
 
 542. The Invention of the Holy Cross, two 
 paintings on the north side of the Chancel of the 
 Guild Chapel. Fisher del. 
 
 543. The Combat of Heraclius with the son of 
 Cosdroy, King of Persia, and the decapitation of 
 Cosdroy by Heraclius. Paintings discovered on 
 the north side of the Chancel of the Guild Chapel. 
 Fisher del. 
 
 544. The painting of St. George and the 
 Dragon on the west wall of the nave of the Guild 
 Chapel, north of the entrance. Fisher del. 
 
 545. The Judgment of the Whore of Babylon, 
 a painting on the west wall of the nave of the 
 Guild Chapel, north of the entrance and below 
 St. George and the Dragon. Fisher del. 
 
 546. Figures on the porch ; arms on the span- 
 drils of the north door, and carved work on the 
 spandrils of the south door, both of the latter 
 within the Church. Original drawings by Fisher, 
 1 804. These do not appear to have been engraved. 
 
 547. Exterior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage, a 
 small flock of sheep and a dog in the foreground. 
 C. Graf lith., London. Published by F. and E. 
 Ward, 1851. Taken from a drawing made by an 
 Edinburgh artist in 1850. This plate was re- 
 published by Adams as " printed by M. and N. 
 Hanhart." 
 
 548. A view of the Birth-Place, c. 1835. Drawn, 
 printed and published by G. Rowe, Cheltenham.
 
 549- Shakespeare's Birth-Room, from a sketch 
 by E. T. Parris, 1864. 
 
 550. Interior Views of Grammar School-rooms 
 in which Shakespeare was educated ; also the 
 Guild Room and the Council Chamber ; from 
 original sketches by H. B. Clements. 
 
 551. Exterior of the Birth-Place. C. Graf. lith. 
 Published by F. and E. Ward. When the Wards 
 issued this engraving in 1851, it was expressly 
 stated to have been taken from an original draw- 
 ing. 
 
 552. A large view of the exterior of the Birth- 
 Place, " engraved by Alfred Baker, aged 1 3 years, 
 from a sketch taken in 1804." London, published 
 for Alfred Baker by Colnaghi and Co. 
 
 553. The South Prospect of the Church of St. 
 Saviour in Southwark. R. West delin., 1737. 
 W. H. Toms sculp. Published in March, 1739. 
 
 554. Stratford Church, the River and the Mill 
 Bridge, copies of paintings executed about the 
 year 1710. 
 
 555. A View of London, taken in or before 
 the year 1613, showing the old Globe Theatre. 
 Published by Holland in 1620. 
 
 556. The House in which Shakespeare was 
 born. An uncoloured lithograph from a drawing 
 by Mrs. P. Dighton, published at Stratford-on- 
 Avon in 1835. 
 
 557. A plan of commercial designs on the 
 eastern side of the river at St rat ford-on- A von, as 
 projected by Andrew Yarranton, 1677.
 
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 558. Exterior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage, an 
 uncoloured lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. P. 
 Dighton, 1835. 
 
 559. The exterior of the Birth-Place. Two 
 joints of meat hanging under the shop pentice, 
 and one on the outer board ; post on extreme right- 
 hand corner; a little more than half of the western 
 cottage shown. A lithograph c. 1830. 
 
 560. A coloured facsimile of Norden's plan of 
 Windsor and the Little Park, 1607. 
 
 561. The Birth-Place, drawn from nature, and 
 on stone, by J. Brandard. Day and Haghe, 
 lithographers to the Queen. Published by C. 
 Elston, Leamington. 
 
 562. Shakespeare's Desk at Stratford-on-Avon, 
 "still to be seen in the Grammar School where 
 he received his education." An uncoloured litho- 
 graph from a drawing by Mrs. P. Dighton, 
 published in 1835. 
 
 563. A plan of Norwich, xvii. Cent. 
 
 564. The inn yard, Rochester, and Shake- 
 speare's Cliff, sketches taken by Fairholt about 
 the year 1847. 
 
 565. Two sketches, taken by Blight in 1863 
 and 1864, one of the exterior of Stratford Church 
 from Mr. W. O. Hunt's river-garden; the other 
 of ancient houses and the Church at Beaconsfield. 
 
 566. The back of Charlecote Hall. Drawn 
 from nature and on stone by J. Brandard. Leam- 
 ington, published by C. Elston. 
 
 567. Middle Row and Bridge Street, c, 1835 ; 
 a copy by Blight of a drawing by the late Mrs.
 
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 E. F. Flower, an interesting sketch exhibiting 
 details nowhere else to be found. 
 
 568. The kitchen in Anne Hathaway's Cottage, 
 a copy of a sketch taken by Fairholt about the 
 year 1847. 
 
 569. Sketches by Blight of an ancient passage 
 in Windsor Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 1864, and 
 of the pulpit in Alderminster Church, said to have 
 been brought from Stratford, and to have been 
 the one presented to the latter town by the poet's 
 son-in-law, John Hall. 
 
 570. Exterior of the Birth-Place before the 
 restoration. W. L. Walton, 1861. M. and N. 
 Hanhart, lith. 
 
 571. The room in which Shakespeare was 
 born. J. Brandard lith. Sold only at the Shake- 
 speare House. A reduced copy of No. 717. 
 
 572. The Sword of State anciently borne before 
 the Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon. Blight, 1864. 
 
 573. Exterior of the Birth-Place. A coloured 
 lithograph showing the whole of the Swan and 
 Maidenhead, and the cottages on the left. A 
 gentleman and lady in the foreground opposite 
 the Birth-Place, the former pointing it out with 
 his stick to the latter. 
 
 574. Exterior of the Birth-Place. A large 
 unfinished etching, c. 1810, showing the Swan 
 and Maidenhead before that inn was refronted. 
 A man leading a horse, a dog preceding him, in 
 the foreground. Very rare, if not unique. 
 
 575. A view of the Birth-Place and Henley 
 Street, from a photograph taken shortly before
 
 122 
 
 the restoration, and soon after the buildings ad- 
 joining the Birth-Place had been removed. 
 
 576. The Church at Billesley, a copy of an 
 original sketch taken about the year 1810. 
 
 577. The back of the Birth-Place, a small 
 portion of the west of that building with the 
 adjoining cottages in Henley Street, and two 
 views of the exterior, all being copies of original 
 photographs taken shortly before the restoration. 
 
 578. The Mill- Bridge, Stratford-on-Avon, and 
 the Cross-on-the-Hill, a sketch by Blight taken in 
 August, 1864. 
 
 579. A Prospect of Warwick, July 7th, 1725. 
 Stukeley del. 
 
 580. A plan of Stratford-on-Avon by Samuel 
 Winter, 1759. The date, which is not annexed, 
 is ascertained by the following note in the Joseph 
 Greene manuscripts, the houses-number corre- 
 sponding, " in the year 1759 a careful survey of 
 the town was taken, and an exact plan of the 
 same delineated ; when the number of houses 
 therein was found to be 552." This is the earliest 
 complete plan of the town known to exist, and as 
 the site of New Place is marked as a house, it must 
 have been made early in the above-mentioned 
 year, that in which the mansion was pulled down 
 by Gastrell. A later plan by the same surveyor, 
 with a larger display of houses, preserved in the 
 Stratford Museum, was probably taken about the 
 year 1768. 
 
 581. Sketches taken by Blight, 1863 to 1865, 
 of the back of the Birth-Place ; objects in the 
 north transept of Stratford Church and the west
 
 123 
 
 window of the same edifice ; the old font, Charle- 
 cote ; a recess in the south wall of the nave near 
 the chancel arch of the Guild Chapel ; base mould- 
 ings, tower arch of the same Chapel ; backs of 
 old houses in the High Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; 
 the White Swan tavern in the Rother Market ; 
 a loop in the wall adjoining the moat of Shottery 
 manor-house ; a handle, a scutcheon of wood and 
 a catch for a latch, from the refuse of the Birth- 
 Place. 
 
 582. Interior of Gray's Inn Hall, 1804. The 
 Comedy of Errors was performed in this Hall in 
 the year 1594. 
 
 583. An unlikeness of Shakespeare in an en- 
 graved miniature; Gay wood fecit, 1655. As 
 Wivell correctly observes, " the scarcity alone 
 makes it valuable." 
 
 584. Exterior of the Birth-Place, c. 1849. A 
 copy. 
 
 585. A sketch by Blight, 1863, of a portion of 
 the tower arch, Guild Chapel. 
 
 586. Mortlake Church, J. Peak sc. Shake- 
 speare's company were at this village in 1603. 
 
 587. Ancient door of the Church of Weston- 
 on-Avon, a sketch by Fairholt, 1 846. 
 
 588. A south-east view of Bishopton Chapel in 
 the parish of Old Stratford, an original drawing in 
 sepia by Richard Greene, c. 1762. 
 
 589. Charlecote Church, a sketch by J. J. 
 Jackson, 1845. 
 
 590. Baynard's Castle, from a view of Old 
 London painted by Claude de Jongh in 1650.
 
 124 
 
 591- Exterior of the charnel-house, Stratford- 
 on-Avon, from a drawing made by R. B. Wheler, 
 c. 1810. The Golden Lion and White Lion Inns, 
 Stratford-on-Avon, from sketches taken about the 
 year 1820. 
 
 592. The Church of Atherston-upon-Stour, 
 near Stratford-on-Avon, an original drawing by 
 Richard Greene, c. 1762. 
 
 593. A view of London from Tootehill Fields. 
 Hollar, 1641. 
 
 594. Sketches by Blight, 1864, of two pieces 
 of old wood found amongst the refuse of the 
 Birth-Place, and a hood-mould termination, square 
 light, north side of tower, Guild Chapel. 
 
 595. The Clyff of Dover, W. Hollar fecit. 
 This and No. 374 are the earliest known views of 
 Shakespeare's Cliff. 
 
 596. Sketches by Blight, 1864, of pieces of old 
 timber found among the refuse of the Birth-Place ; 
 the exterior of Stratford Church ; and the front of 
 a grate that was formerly in the attic of the Birth- 
 Place. 
 
 597. The pinnacles of the Guild Chapel, a recent 
 copy of a sketch taken by Wheler. 
 
 598. Sketches by Blight, 1864, of a portion of 
 a grate that was formerly in the attic at the Birth- 
 Place, and the spandril of an arch over the door- 
 way of the Guild Chapel. 
 
 599. The font and piscina at Bishopton Chapel, 
 from a drawing made by R. B. Wheler. Weston- 
 on-Avon Church, a sketch by Fairholt, 1846.
 
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 600. Exterior of the Birth-Place, drawn and 
 engraved byj. Storer, 1818. Perhaps the earliest 
 engraving in which the Swan and Maidenhead is 
 shown with the modern brick front. 
 
 60 1. The House at Stratford in which Shake- 
 speare lived. A. Smith, sculp. London, printed 
 for J. Bell, 1 786. A copy of Greene's view. 
 
 602. A south-west view of Alveston Church, 
 near Stratford-on-Avon, an original drawing by 
 Richard Greene, c. 1762. 
 
 603. A minute sketch of an old theatre in the 
 engraved title-page of the Tragedy of Messalina 
 by N. Richards, 1640. 
 
 604. A piece of carved wood in the Birth-Place 
 Museum, said to have been formerly part of a 
 doorway at the Guild Chapel. A sketch by 
 Blight, 1865. 
 
 605. An east prospect of the College in Strat- 
 ford, 1765. The earliest view of this building 
 known to exist. 
 
 606. Sketches by Blight, 1863 and 1867, of an 
 ancient carved figure on the top of a pillar at 
 the Crown Inn, Rochester, and of the silver paten 
 at Bishopton Chapel, the circular enclosure of the 
 date, 1571, being the exact size of the original. 
 
 607. The Mill- Bridge, Stratford-on-Avon, when 
 in process of demolition, from a photograph taken 
 in the year 1867. 
 
 608. Shakespeare's Birth-Place as it appeared 
 previous to 1769, published by Henry Merridew, 
 Coventry.
 
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 609. Stratford Church, exterior. C. F. Green 
 lithog., c. 1820. 
 
 610. Charlecote House, the riverfront. Drawn 
 by J. Roe. Engraved by J. and H. S. Storer. 
 Published by Sherwood & Co., 1823. The late 
 R. B. Wheler, in a letter dated in the same year, 
 bears testimony to the accuracy of this view, ob- 
 serving, at the same time, that Ireland's sketch 
 "from nearly the same point is rather incorrect." 
 
 6 1 1. A house in High Street, Stratford-on- 
 Avon, 1829, a pen-and-ink drawing by Captain 
 Saunders. Henley Street, a copy of a sketch by 
 the same. The latter shows the corner of the old 
 timbered workhouse. 
 
 612. A sketch, taken by Blight in 1867, of the 
 silver chalice in Bishopton Church. It measures 
 5-g- inches in height. The ancient silver paten in 
 the Church of Clifford-Chambers, near Stratford- 
 on-Avon. 
 
 613. Shakespeare's House as it appeared in 
 1787. Shakespeare's House as it now appears, 
 1837. Woodcuts from the Casket of April the 
 23rd, 1837. 
 
 614. The House in which Shakespeare was 
 born. J. Archer del., W. Finden sc. 
 
 615. Exterior of the Birth-Place. An engrav- 
 ing of the house and inn as they appeared about 
 the year 1810. Poultry and a fat child in the 
 foreground. The letter S seen in a compartment 
 over the window of the butcher's shop. A dif- 
 ferent view from that in the Mirror, 1823, in 
 which the S is also found in the same place, but 
 is less conspicuously exhibited.
 
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 6 1 6. An ancient door in the house in the Old 
 Town which is believed to have been the residence 
 of John Hall, the poet's son-in-law. Sketched by 
 Blight, 1864. 
 
 617. North-west view of Stratford College, an 
 engraving, 1808. 
 
 6 1 8. A diminutive map of Warwickshire, 1643. 
 
 619. An oval view of Stratford-on-Avon, c. 
 1 720, a pencil drawing taken from an old painting. 
 
 620. Moll Cutpurse. " Mistress Mall's pic- 
 ture," Twelfth Night, i. 3. The extremely rare 
 original engraving, not the reprint, from the Life 
 and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith, commonly called 
 Mall Cutpurse, 1662. This notorious character 
 was born in 1584 and died in 1659. 
 
 621. Charlecote Church, a copy from Saunders. 
 
 622. Old timbered house in the Rother Mar- 
 ket. Blight, 1864. 
 
 623. A piece of wood-carving in the Birth- 
 Place Museum, said to have been formerly in 
 the College. Sketched by Blight in 1865, it 
 having been then in the possession of Miss 
 Wheler. 
 
 624. Shakespeare's Birth-Place, exterior. T. 
 G. Flowers, Edinburgh. 
 
 625. Houses in Henley Street, Stratford-on- 
 Avon, including the Birth-Place. W. Alexander 
 del. 1820. 
 
 626. A sketch by Blight, 1865, of a scroll of 
 stone-work in the Clopton Chapel, Stratford 
 Church.
 
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 627. A small view of the Birth-Place, copied 
 from Saunders' illustrations to Washington Irving's 
 paper on Stratford-on-Avon. 
 
 628. Figures from the Guild Chapel, sketches 
 copied by Blight from drawings by R. B. Wheler. 
 
 629. A curious little view of an old English 
 theatre in the engraved title-page of the tragedy 
 of Roxana, 1632. 
 
 630. Figures formerly at Stratford College, 
 copies by Blight from drawings by R. B. Wheler. 
 
 631. The Birth-room. T. G. Flowers, Edin- 
 burgh. 
 
 632. The Market-cross, from a drawing by 
 Saunders. 
 
 633. Daisy Hill, a farm-house in which Shake- 
 speare is mendaciously said to have been im- 
 prisoned. Ireland, 1795. 
 
 634. Two engraved views of the exterior of the 
 Birth-Place, the first from the Mirror of January, 
 1823, the other from the Monthly Magazine of 
 February, 1818. 
 
 635. Charlecote Vicarage, an old timbered 
 house, drawn by P. Dewint, engraved by W. 
 Radclyffe. Birmingham, 1823. 
 
 636. The back of Anne Hathaway's Cottage, 
 from a sketch taken by Fairholt in 1847. 
 
 637. The Birth-Place, 1847. W. J. Linton sc. 
 
 638. Alveston Church and old timbered house, 
 1837, sketched from nature and on stone by Mrs. 
 Bracebridge. Day and Haghe, lithographers to
 
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 the King. These are in the immediate neighbour- 
 hood of Stratford -on- A von. 
 
 639. Anne Hathaway 's Cottage, from a sketch 
 taken by Fairholt in 1847. Another view, C. F. 
 Green del.,c. 1820. 
 
 640. Charlecote Park, drawn and engraved by 
 T. Radclyffe, 1829. The Keeper's Lodge, Ful- 
 broke Park, drawn and etched by W. Rider, 1827 ; 
 a proof. 
 
 641. Interior of the Middle Temple Hall, pub- 
 lished by Vernor and Hood, 1804. 
 
 642. Copies by Blight of sketches of the 
 interior of Aston Cantlowe Church, the so-called 
 Arden house at Wilmecote and Bishopton Chapel. 
 
 643. A series of sketches by Blight of objects 
 at Wilmecote (including two interiors of the Arden 
 house), Hampton Lucy, the Dingles, Snitterfield, 
 Bearley and Aston Cantlowe. 
 
 644. Interior of the College Hall, from a draw- 
 ing by R. B. Wheler ; interior of Aston Cantlowe 
 Church, a sketch by Blight, 1863. 
 
 645. Window, finial, and crocket in the Guild 
 Chapel, original sketches by Blight. 
 
 646. The Birth- Place as it appeared at one of 
 the jubilees, and a small portion of an Elizabethan 
 house in Henley Street, from drawings by Captain 
 Saunders. 
 
 647. Original sketches by Blight of panelling 
 with moulded wood found amongst the refuse from 
 the attic at the Birth-Place ; interior perforated work 
 of an ancient dove-cote at Wilmecote ; end of an
 
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 old timbered building at the same place ; grotesque 
 carved heads in the Guild Chapel ; old timbered 
 house near the Grammar School, 1862 ; ancient 
 deed-boxes in the record-room ; arms on the 
 Stratford-on-Avon maces ; distemper paintings in 
 the gable over the Council Chamber, 1863. 
 
 648. Old house at the bottom of Church Street, 
 from a drawing by Captain Saunders. 
 
 649. Original sketches by Blight of pieces of old 
 timber taken from the Birth-Place ; the stocks 
 at Stratford-on-Avon, 1864 ; interior of the old 
 Council-Chamber, 1863. 
 
 650. Corner of old house near the Town Hall, 
 from a sketch by Captain Saunders. 
 
 651. Original sketches by Blight of an old 
 timbered house at Shottery ; the old thatched 
 tavern at the corner of Greenhill Street and the 
 Rother Market, Stratford - on - Avon ; passage 
 leading out of Henley Street ; ancient house at 
 Wilmecote ; old house in Meer Street, Stratford- 
 on-Avon ; a cottage at Wilmecote ; old houses in 
 Ely Street and Church Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; 
 rustic cottage at Wilmecote ; the back of the 
 Grammar-School, and the upper room of the 
 schoolmaster's house, Stratford-on-Avon; a hood- 
 mould termination and other objects at the Guild 
 Chapel ; old house in Henley Street, near the 
 Market Cross ; a panel and door found amongst 
 the refuse taken from the Birth-Place. 
 
 652. Exterior of the Birth-Place, 1848, a copy 
 by Blight of a sketch by F. Goodall, R. A. 
 
 653. A view of Aston Cantlowe, taken by 
 Blight in 1863.
 
 654- An original drawing of the exterior of the 
 Birth- Place, executed by Richard Greene about 
 the year 1762. It is the earliest representation of 
 the house known to exist. 
 
 655. Charlecote and Daisy Hill, copies by 
 Blight of sketches by Captain Saunders. 
 
 656. Original sketches, taken by Blight in 1864, 
 of two figures in the 1596 house in High Street, 
 Stratford-on-Avon ; the doorway south side of 
 nave, Guild Chapel ; the monumental tablet erected 
 to the memory of George and Esther Hart, 1696. 
 
 657. Two sketches, taken by Blight in July, 
 1863, of old houses in Shottery. Elizabethan 
 houses in Wood Street, from a sketch taken by 
 the late Mrs. E. F. Flower, c. 1838. The old 
 font, Bishopton, a sketch by Blight, 1867. 
 
 658. Stratford Church, river and mill, from a 
 painting executed about the year 1720. This 
 was the date assigned to it from the costume by 
 the late Mr. Planche. 
 
 659. The monumental effigy, front and side 
 views. E. Blore del. Thompson sc. 
 
 660. Henley Street and the old timbered work- 
 house, from a sketch taken by the late Mrs. E. F. 
 Flower, c. 1835. 
 
 66 1. Snitterfield Church, from a drawing by 
 Fairholt. An engraved view of the same Church, 
 S.E., Allan E. Everitt del., J. Brandard lith., 
 published by H. T. Cooke, Warwick. 
 
 662. John Combe, taken from his monument in 
 the Church of Stratford-upon-Avon. Drawn and 
 etched by S. Harding, 1/93. 
 
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 132 
 
 663. An engraved view of Clopton House, 
 published in 1829. 
 
 664. The western end of the Guild Chapel, a 
 sketch taken by Blight in 1863. 
 
 665. The Elizabethan house in the High Street, 
 Stratford-on-Avon. F. W. Fairholt del. C. D. 
 Laing sc. 
 
 666. Portrait of Florio, 16 1 [. Gul. Hole sculp. 
 
 667. Sketches, taken by Fairholt in 1847, of a 
 carved wooden impost at the New Inn, Gloucester, 
 and of the ancient cross and old houses at Henley- 
 in-Arden. The interior of the sexton's cottage, a 
 curious old room, Stratford-on-Avon, from a sketch 
 by Saunders. The staircase at the Birth-Place, a 
 sketch by Blight, 1864. 
 
 668. Exterior of the Birth-Place. Part of the 
 Swan and Maidenhead, all the cottages on the 
 left and a small portion of the White Lion Inn 
 shown. An original water-colour drawing by 
 Shepherd. 
 
 669. S. Marie Over's in Southwarke. W. Hollar 
 fecit, 1647. 
 
 670. The Middle Temple Hall, 1803. 
 
 671. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of a 
 cottage at Shottery ; old barn in Greenhill Street; 
 a view of Marsh Gibbon; the moated grange at 
 Milcote ; Barcheston (or Barson) Church, near 
 Shipston-on-Stour ; the Church at Clifford- 
 Chambers. 
 
 672. Bearley Church, from a sketch by Saunders. 
 Barton-on-the-Heath, a sketch by Fairholt.
 
 133 
 
 673- Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of Wei- 
 ford and its maypole ; old desk from Stratford 
 College; the Windmill Inn, Church Street, 
 Stratford-on-Avon ; seal of Richard Quiney, 1592, 
 the exact size of the original ; old house and stair- 
 case, Grendon Underwood. 
 
 674. A pencil sketch of the Combe monument 
 in Stratford Church, c. 1820. The artist's name 
 unknown. 
 
 675. Exterior of the Birth-Place and part of 
 Henley Street. London, J. Harwood, 1847. 
 
 676. The back of the Shakespeare Tavern, 
 Shottery, from a sketch taken by F. Goodall, 
 R.A., in July, 1848. 
 
 677. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863, of the 
 Prince of Wales's Inn, Rother Street, Stratford- 
 on-Avon ; the upper room of the manor-house, 
 Shottery; ancient gateway on the north of Chapel 
 Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; Charlecote Park ; Anne 
 Hathaway 's bed-chamber and exterior of cottage. 
 
 678. The back of the Birth-Place, from a sketch 
 taken by Fairholt in 1847. 
 
 679. The Birth-Place and the Swan. H. Fitzook 
 del. 
 
 680. A room in Anne Hathaway's Cottage, 
 1847. W. J. Linton sc. 
 
 68 1. The Charnel House, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 exterior and interior, from copies by Saunders of 
 early drawings. 
 
 682. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of the 
 back of Shottery manor-house ; the interior of a
 
 134 
 
 room in the supposed John Hall's residence in 
 the Old Town, Stratford-on-Avon, and a view of 
 Shottery from the Evesham Road. 
 
 683. The old timbered school-house at Snitter- 
 field, 1825. The foot-bridge near Anne Hatha- 
 way's Cottage, from a sketch taken by Fairholt in 
 1 842. The shop at the Birth-Place, from a drawing 
 by Saunders. 
 
 684. Sketches, taken by Blight in 1863 and 
 1864, of an old timbered house adjoining the 
 workhouse in Henley Street, and the mud- wall 
 of an old barn near the Old Thatched Tavern, 
 Stratford-on-Avon. 
 
 685. The birth-room, from a sketch by Saunders. 
 A sketch by Blight of a tower at Charlecote from 
 
 the old painting in the hall, and of mouldings at 
 the gateway. Old buildings at Stratford-on-Avon 
 that were removed when the new market-place 
 was built, and interior of Bishopton Church, from 
 sketches by Saunders. Ancient house in the 
 Rother Market, a sketch by Blight, 1864. 
 
 686. Shakespeare's grave-stone and inscription, 
 with the dimensions of the stone, a lithograph from 
 a drawing by Saunders, published by Ward of 
 Stratford-on-Avon, 1827. 
 
 687. The Indian in his boat, the one brought 
 over to England about the year 1580, and after- 
 wards embalmed. Supposed to be alluded to in 
 the Tempest. A contemporary German engraving 
 of great rarity. 
 
 688. Hood-moulds in the large west window of 
 the tower of the Guild Chapel, sketched by Blight 
 in 1864. Ancient timbered house at Birmingham,
 
 135 
 
 1576, a sketch taken by Fairholt previously to 
 its destruction in 1849. A piece of old timber 
 from the Birth-Place and the W.S. ring, two 
 sketches by Blight. The tomb and effigies of Sir 
 Thomas and Lady Lucy in Charlecote Church, 
 copied by my daughter Charlotte from a sketch by 
 Saunders. 
 
 689. Sketches, taken by Blight, 1862 to 1867, of 
 the Stratford-on-Avon maces; old house in Bridge 
 Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; interior of room in the 
 tower of Charlecote gatehouse ; ancient knocker 
 on the door of house near the grammar-school, 
 Stratford-on-Avon ; a dormer window in Turnmill 
 (Turnbull) Street, London, the only fragment of 
 old work remaining there in 1865 ; the stone- 
 carved sign of the Cock-and-Pye tavern at 
 Bewdley, and another one, also in stone, of St. 
 George and the Dragon at Snow Hill, London, 
 these two signs being interesting relics of the 
 taverns of the Shakespearean period. 
 
 690. Bishopton Chapel and the old school- 
 house, Snitterfield, copies of sketches taken by 
 Captain Saunders. 
 
 691. Sketches by Blight, 1863 to 1865, of an 
 old house and the Church at Aston Cantlowe ; the 
 porch of Welford Church ; steps, doorway, and 
 end of Anne Hathaway 's Cottage ; a piece of 
 decayed timber found amongst the refuse of the 
 Birth-Place; south door of Chapel in the manor- 
 house, Shottery ; back of Anne Hathaway 's 
 Cottage ; old nouses at Bishopton and Aston 
 Cantlowe. 
 
 692. Welford Church Porch, a sketch by Fair- 
 holt.
 
 136 
 
 693- Sketches by Blight, taken in 1863 and 
 and 1864, of Long Lane, near Stratford-on-Avon ; 
 old houses at Clifford-Chambers; Pathlow Hill 
 farm-house ; old cottages by the Water Side, 
 Stratford-on-Avon. 
 
 694. Shakespeare's Desk. Rev. R. Nixon, 
 F.S.A., del. 1824. Fahee lithog. Printed by C. 
 Hullmandel. Published by J. Ward. 
 
 695. The Birth-Place, c. 1805, a copy; old 
 houses in Church Street, Stratford-on-Avon, a 
 sketch taken by Blight in 1863. 
 
 696. Two views of Charlecote House, taken on 
 22 August, 1823. Name of artist unknown. 
 
 697. Sketches by Blight, taken in 1862 and 
 1863, of the Old Thatched Tavern, Greenhill 
 Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; cottages at Snitter- 
 field ; old houses in Chapel Street near New 
 Place. 
 
 698. Shakespeare's Hall. An etching so en- 
 titled, showing the Town Hall, Chapel Street and 
 the Guild Chapel, Stratford-on-Avon. Published 
 by Ward, 1827. 
 
 699. Sketches by Blight, taken in 1863, of the 
 Old Black Swan, river-side, and timbered houses 
 in Greenhill Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; an Eliza- 
 bethan house at Tiddington, a hamlet in the parish 
 of Alveston, Stratford-on-Avon ; the roof of the 
 ancient Chapel at the Manor- House, Shottery ; 
 old houses in the village of Charlecote. 
 
 700. Shakespeare's Birth-Place as it appeared 
 at the time of the Jubilee. Fahey lithog. Pub- 
 lished by J. Ward, 1827.
 
 701. The Birth-Place of Shakespeare. London, 
 published by O. Hodgson. An uncoloured view 
 of the exterior. The house is represented as it 
 appeared about the year 1812, but the engraving 
 seems to be of a later date. 
 
 702. TheGuildhall, Aston Cantlowe.J.Saunders, 
 1825. Exterior of Shakespeare's Birth-Place, 
 1847, a sketch by Fairholt. The King's Head 
 Inn, Aylesbury, 1865, and the back of the White 
 Swan in the Rother Market, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 1863, sketches by Blight. Another view by 
 Fairholt of the exterior of the Birth-Place, 1847. 
 
 703. Charlecote House. Drawn by J. P. Neale. 
 Engraved by W. Radclyffe, 1820. 
 
 704. Sketches, taken by Blight in 1863 and 
 
 1864, of an old timbered house at Charlecote; 
 hood-mould termination, interior of the porch 
 door, and door on south side of the Chancel of 
 the Guild Chapel ; Warkmore Bridge over the 
 Stour, between Milcotc and Weston, looking 
 towards Stratford, the stream dividing the parishes 
 of Old Stratford and Weston-on- Avon ; an ancient 
 fire-place in a room at the gateway of Charlecote 
 House, with a water-colour view of the gateway 
 itself. 
 
 705. Sketches by Blight of objects at the Guild 
 Chapel, 1864, handle of door on the south side 
 of the Chancel ; canopy of second panel from the 
 tower, south side of nave ; portions of wood-carving 
 from an old screen ; the doorway to the bell-loft, 
 and interior of the north doorway. 
 
 706. Mary Arden's house, from a sketch by 
 Saunders.
 
 38 
 
 707. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863, one of 
 Charlecote House, and another of its ancient 
 stables; old houses at Shottery. Shottery, 1848, 
 from a sketch by F. Goodall, R.A. Old timber 
 from the Birth- Place, two sketches by Blight, 
 1864. Anne Hathaway's Cottage, from a sketch 
 by Fairholt. 
 
 708. Sketches by Blight, 1863, of small pieces 
 of old timber from the Birth-Place ; the back of 
 Downing's house in Henley Street ; backs of old 
 houses in the High Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; 
 ancient fire-place at George's farm-house, Grendon 
 Underwood. 
 
 709. Henley-in-Arden, a sketch by Fairholt, 
 taken in 1854. 
 
 710. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 and 
 1864 of Barton-on-the- Heath ; Rother Street, 
 Stratford-on-Avon; old cottage at Weston-on- 
 Avon ; timbered cottages near the Bell Lane, 
 Snitterfield ; old houses at Uxbridge ; timbered 
 buildings at Welford ; the old rectory and barn, 
 Clifford-Chambers ; a view of Luddington ; Snitter- 
 field Church ; timbered cottage near the Chapel 
 Lane, Luddington ; a lane in Snitterfield ; interior 
 of old house at Bishopton. 
 
 711. A large ground-plan of the Church and 
 Churchyard at Stratford-on-Avon, taken about 
 the year 1800. 
 
 712. View of the exterior of the Birth-Place, 
 from a sketch taken in 1846. Drawn by J. T. 
 Clark. Engraved by T. H. Ellis. 
 
 713. Anne Hathaway's Cottage, drawn from 
 nature and on stone by J. Brandard, Leamington.
 
 139 
 
 Published by C. Elston. This is an independent 
 view taken from the road. 
 
 714. A portrait of Sir William Davenant, the 
 poet's godson. Jo. Greenhill pinx. W. Faithorne 
 sculp., 1673. Front of the Crown Inn, Oxford, a 
 sketch taken by Blight in July, 1864. 
 
 715. A perspective view of the New Place, the 
 residence of Shakespeare, with the Chapel, Gild 
 Hall and Alms Houses, with part of the Falcon 
 Inn. John Jordan of Stratford del., 1793. A 
 view of part of Old Stratford from the Evesham 
 road, dogs in the foreground, a sketch by Jordan, 
 1 793. These are the original drawings from which 
 the reduced copies in the Saunders collection were 
 taken. 
 
 716. A large and curious plan by Jordan of 
 Stratford-on-Avon and its neighbourhood, c. 1 790. 
 In the corners are inartistic views of the Church 
 and Guild Chapel. 
 
 717. The " room in which Shakspere was born" 
 and the exterior of the Birth-Place. The latter is 
 a view similar to that in No. 561, but with several 
 variations in the minor details. Two lithographs 
 "drawn from nature on stone "by J. Brandard. 
 Leamington, C. Elston. 
 
 718. Anne Hathaway's Cottage, an unfinished 
 sketch taken by Blight in 1864. 
 
 719. A view of the Falcon Inn and Church 
 Street, Stratford-on-Avon, by Captain Saunders. 
 
 720. A full-length portrait of James I. on his 
 throne, with verses that have been attributed to 
 Shakespeare. Simon Passaeus sculpsit, London. 
 John Bill excudit.
 
 140 
 
 721. Miserere seats in the Chancel of Holy 
 Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, from original 
 sketches by H. B. Clements. 
 
 722. Anne Hathaway's bed and the settle at 
 her cottage, sketched by P. Dighton, 1834. The 
 original drawing from which the published litho- 
 graphs were taken. 
 
 723. Original tracings made by the elder Ireland, 
 c. 1790, of the water-marks upon the paper on 
 which Shakespeare's will is written. 
 
 724. A large view of the Guild Chapel, 1807. 
 
 725. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of 
 Wixford, Hillborough and Broom. 
 
 726. The Chandos portrait of Shakespeare, a 
 mezzotint engraved by Samuel Cousins, 1 849. 
 
 727. Interior of Stratford Church. A sketch 
 by Blight, 1864. 
 
 728. A coloured print, with a view of Shake- 
 speare's monumental effigy and part of the Chancel 
 of Stratford Church, as seen through an open door 
 on the south. 
 
 729. The town of Pershore. Blight, 1865. 
 
 730. I nterior of the old Crown I n n at Rochester ; 
 remains of the Roman Pharos and first Christian 
 Church at Dover, original sketches by F. W. 
 Fairholt. Shottery, from a sketch by the same. 
 
 731. "Front View of the Houses in Henley 
 Street in Stratford, the reputed Birth- Place of the 
 immortal Poet." Engraved on wood from an 
 original sketch by Jordan. One of six copies 
 only that were taken before the block was de-
 
 stroyed. This is a small view showing the 
 cottages on the west of the Birth-Place. 
 
 732. Wilmecote, from a sketch taken by Fair- 
 holt in 1852. Copied by Blight, 1864. 
 
 733. A volume of collections respecting the 
 Birth-Place, consisting of the following pieces, 
 the exterior traced from a sketch taken by D. 
 Parkes in July, 1806. Printed hand-bill of an 
 auction of the estate that was projected in March, 
 1805. A large view of the exterior traced from 
 an original sketch by Jordan that was destroyed 
 in the lamentable fire which destroyed ever}' 
 vestige of the celebrated Staunton collection. 
 Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of the kitchen 
 and of the birth-room. Pen-and-ink drawings of 
 the exterior, the first from a photograph taken in 
 1858, and the other from one believed to be of 
 about the same date. Elevations of the house 
 before the restoration was commenced, four large 
 drawings. Plan of the estate and adjoining pro- 
 perties by Joseph Hill, in two states of the plate. 
 
 -The cellar, a sketch by Blight, 1864. A 
 coloured lithograph of a part of the town near the 
 Birth-Place during the period of a jubilee, evi- 
 dently for the most part fanciful. The exterior, 
 from a photograph taken by H. T. Buckle about 
 the year 1854. Another view, printed by M. and 
 N. Hanhart, a lithograph by C. Graf. The ex- 
 terior, from the Mirror, January, 1823, with a 
 slight variation from, and a lighter impression 
 than, the one in No. 634, and another " from an 
 old print," W. Harvey del., T. Williams sc., from 
 the prospectus of the Birth-Place Committee, 
 1847. The exterior, drawn by R. B. Wheler, 
 engraved by F. Eginton, 1806 ; another, D.
 
 142 
 
 Parkes del., 1806, J. Basire sculp. An engraved 
 copy of Greene's view of 1769, from Malone's 
 Supplement, 1780. "A House in Stratford-upon- 
 Avon in which the famous poet Shakespeare was 
 born," R. Greene del., B. Cole sculp., 1769. A 
 small clumsy water-colour sketch of old houses in 
 Henley Street, 1820. The exterior, a copy by 
 Blight of a photograph taken soon after the re- 
 moval of the adjoining houses. The birth-room, 
 a lithograph, c. 1840. The kitchen, etch'd by 
 S. Ireland, 1795. An original pencil sketch of 
 the exterior taken by J. P. Neale, 4 July, 1820. 
 The House in which Shakespeare was born, pub- 
 lished by F. and G. Ward, Stratford, drawn and 
 printed by G. Rowe. The exterior, drawn and 
 etched by W. Rider, published by J. Merridew, 
 1827. Its appearance in 1806, R. B. Wheler 
 delin., C. F. Green lithog., May, 1823. Its ap- 
 pearance in 1824, C. F. Green delin. et lithog. 
 North and south parts of the chamber in which 
 Shakespeare was born, C. F. Green delin. et 
 lithog. The shop, C. F. Green lithog., March, 
 1823. The kitchen, C. F. Green delin. et lithog. 
 Arms of the Merchant of the Staple and the 
 old sign affixed to Shakespeare's House. David 
 and Goliah, from the plaster-relievo formerly in 
 the house of Shakespeare's birth, C. F. Green 
 lithog. The exterior, from a prospectus in which 
 subscriptions were solicited for the restoration of 
 the Church, 1835. Engraved views of the ex- 
 terior, both evidently taken from the sketch, No. 
 521, the first from the edition of Shakespeare that 
 issued from the Chiswick Press in 1814, and the 
 second, Alexander del., John Thompson sc., from 
 Britton's Remarks on the Life and Writings of 
 Shakespeare, 1818. Three small engraved views
 
 of the exterior, from Clara Fisher's Shakespearean 
 Cabinet, 1830. A large engraving of the exterior 
 from the Shakespeare Newspaper, 1847. The 
 exterior and the birth-room, large chromo-litho- 
 graphs by Frederick Dangerfield from drawings 
 made by S. Stanesby in 1856. These were 
 amongst the last sketches of these objects that 
 were made previously to the restoration, and they 
 are extremely accurate. Two other views of the 
 exterior and the birth-room, coloured lithographs 
 from drawings by Mrs. P. Dighton, published at 
 Stratford-on-Avon, 1835. Ireland's original view 
 of the exterior, a water-colour sketch, slightly de- 
 fective, taken by him in 1792, with the engraving 
 from it that was published in 1795. The exterior, 
 from a sketch by Saunders, a privately issued 
 lithograph. The exterior, with the Swan and 
 Maidenhead, a wood-engraving from the pro- 
 spectus issued by the Birth-Place Committee in 
 1847, and therein stated to have been taken 
 " from a recent drawing." Two lithographic views 
 of the exterior, without date or artists' names, as it 
 appeared in 1 769 and about 1 840. 
 
 734. Painting of the Death of Becket on the 
 west wall of the nave, south of the entrance to the 
 Guild Chapel, Fisher del. Below are fragments 
 of inscriptions not in the published copy. 
 
 735. The Exaltation of the Holy Cross, paint- 
 ings on the south side of the chancel of the Guild 
 Chapel. Fisher del. 
 
 736. Saint Modwena and St. Edmund the 
 King, paintings in the westernmost niches on the 
 south and north sides of the nave of the Guild 
 Chapel. Fisher del.
 
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 737- Sketches of the north and south sides of 
 the chancel of the Guild Chapel, showing the 
 situation of the paintings ; the paintings at the 
 vicar's door. Fisher del. 
 
 738. An angel with admonitory verses, a 
 painting on the west wall of the Guild Chapel, 
 south of the entrance and beneath the Death of 
 Becket. Fisher del. 
 
 739. Plan of Shakespeare's Birth-Place, W. 
 Hemings delin., 1824. C. F. Green lithog. 
 
 740. Erthe onte of Erth ys wondurly wrought, 
 metrical inscriptions on the west wall of the nave 
 of the Guild Chapel. These are the verses in 
 No. 738, separately drawn by Fisher and on a 
 larger scale. 
 
 741. A coloured map of Leicestershire, with a 
 ground-plan of Leicester, and a delineation of the 
 boundaries of " King Richards feild," from Speed's 
 Theatre, 1610. 
 
 742. Original drawings by Mrs. P. Dighton, 
 1834, of the Falcon sign surrounded by presumed 
 Shakespearean relics; Shakespeare's desk ; the font 
 and base of the market-cross ; Luddington Chapel ; 
 interior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage ; exterior of 
 Stratford Church. 
 
 743. A coloured map of Kent, with plans of 
 Canterbury and Rochester, from Speed, 1610. 
 
 744. A large printed hand-bill respecting a 
 burglary at Charlecote House, 1850, with a list of 
 the articles stolen. 
 
 745. A coloured map of Gloucestershire, with 
 plans of Gloucester and Bristol. Speed, 1610.
 
 M5 
 
 746. A ground-plan of the Church and Church- 
 yard of Stratford-on-Avon, executed about the 
 year 1800. 
 
 747. A coloured map of Oxfordshire, with a 
 plan of Oxford, 1605. From Speed, 1610. 
 
 748. A view of Oxford by Hoefnagle, 1574. 
 
 749. A large sketch of the mill and part of the 
 mill-bridge, Stratford-on-Avon, taken about the 
 year 1820. 
 
 750. M. William Shaks-peare, His True 
 Chronicle Historic of the Life and Death of King 
 Lear and his three Daughters, a large fragment 
 of the Fide Bull edition of 1608, with numerous 
 textual variations. 
 
 751. Foole Vpon Foole, or Six Sortes of Sottes, 
 shewing their hues, humours and behauiours, with 
 their want of wit in their shew of wisdome. Not 
 so strange as true. Written by one seeming to 
 haue his mothers witte, when some say he is fild 
 with his father's fopperie, and hopes he liues not 
 without companie. Clonnico de Curtanio Snuffe. 
 London, printed for William Ferbrand, dwelling 
 neere Guild-hall gate ouer against the Maiden- 
 head, 1600. Quarto. No other copy of this, 
 the first edition, is known to exist, and it differs 
 importantly from the later ones. This extremely 
 curious book, written by one of the poet's col- 
 leagues, is described in the Outlines of the Life of 
 Shakespeare, ed. 1887, i. 322. 
 
 752. The most excellent Historic of the 
 Merchant of Venice, printed by I. R. for Thomas 
 Heyes, and are to be sold in Panics Church-yard 
 at the signe of the Greene Dragon, 1600. Quarto. 
 
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 146 
 
 The title-page and three leaves in facsimile. 
 Malone's copy, presented to him by Dr. Farmer. 
 
 753. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and 
 Romanes compared together by that grave learned 
 Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke of 
 Chceronea ; translated out of Greeke into French 
 by lames Amiot, and out of French into English 
 by Thomas North. Imprinted at London by 
 Richard Field for Bonham Norton, 1595. Folio. 
 There are sound reasons for believing that this 
 is the edition that was used by Shakespeare. 
 
 754. A large collection of manuscript pieces in 
 verse and prose, mostly of a comical nature, partly 
 written and partly compiled by an Oxonian in the 
 reign of Charles the First. It includes, at p. 74, 
 Basse's verses, here entitled, "an Epitaph on Mr. 
 Shakespeare," at pp. 119-121 verses on the play 
 of Ignoramus, at p. 141 an allusion to the Globe 
 Theatre ; at p. 232 lines of " Shakespeare on Sir 
 John Coome." At pp. 182-217 ls a contemporary 
 transcript of the lost edition of Earle's Micro- 
 cosmography, 1626, containing numerous textual 
 variations and several passages omitted in the 
 later impressions, e.g., the following in the 
 Character of a Player, " his commings in are 
 tollerable, yet in smal money, and, like Halifax 
 great vicaradge, most in twopences." 4to. 
 
 755. Birth-Place sketches by Blight, 1864, 
 the interior of the Record Room ; the room 
 behind the shop ; the shop. 
 
 756. The back of the Birth-Place, from a 
 photograph taken previously to the restoration. 
 
 757. A chair formerly at Anne Hathaway 's 
 Cottage and called Shakespeare's Courting-Chair,
 
 from Ireland's Views, 1795. Two copies of this 
 wood-cut, varying slightly from each other. 
 
 758. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of 
 interior of room on the ground-floor of the ancient 
 house in the Rother Market, the church of 
 Weston-on-Avon, and old houses at Shottery. 
 
 759. Deale Castle and the neighbouring sea- 
 coast, W. Hollar delin. 
 
 760. Shakespeare's Birth-Place as it appeared 
 previous to the Jubilee in 1769. C. F. Green 
 lithog., 1823. 
 
 761. Upper room of the ancient house in the 
 Rother Market. Blight, 1863. 
 
 762. Three engraved views of the exterior of 
 the Birth-Place, the first drawn by Calvert, on 
 stone by W. P. Sherlock, published by J. Ward ; 
 the second either engraved or drawn by Bonner ; 
 and the third marked as published by J. Boosey 
 & Co., lithographers, 310, Strand. The last is 
 slightly varied from, but is evidently a copy of, 
 Fancy's lithograph of 1827. 
 
 763. London, a diminutive view, with the 
 theatres, in the title-page of the edition of the 
 Bible published at Cambridge in 1648 ; a long 
 narrow view showing the theatres and part of 
 South wark, c. 1640; a view of the sixteenth 
 century, Londra, Fr. Valegio f. 
 
 764. The interior of an old English theatre, 
 Sir John Falstaff and Mrs. Quickly in the fore- 
 ground, from Kirkman's Witts or Sport upon 
 Sport, 1672. This is the very rare original 
 engraving, not the later copy so often substituted 
 
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 148 
 
 for it. It is this engraving, not the book itself, 
 that is of so much rarity. 
 
 765. The Church of Grendon Underwood, a 
 sketch taken by Blight in 1865. 
 
 766. The Right Honourable and most noble 
 Henry Wriothsley, Earle of Southampton, 
 Baron of Titchfield, Knight of the most noble 
 Order of the Garter. Simon Passseus sculp., 
 [617; are to be sould in Popes Head Ally by 
 John Sudbury and Georg Humble. 
 
 767. South-east Prospect of Stratford-on-Avon, 
 1746. 
 
 768. The Market- Cross, Stratford-on-Avon, as 
 it appeared in 1820. Drawn and lithographed 
 by C. F. Green. 
 
 769. Stratford Bridge; Ireland, 1795. Ex- 
 terior of the Birth-Place, with small portions of 
 the adjoining houses; Mason sc., 1825. A view 
 of Wilmecote, 1852. Anne Hathaway's Cottage; 
 Ireland, 1795. 
 
 770. Jubilee Amphitheatre, drawn by R. B. 
 Wheler, engraved by F. Eginton, 1806. The 
 monumental effigy, C. Graf lith., published by 
 F. & E. Ward, Stratford-on-Avon. 
 
 771. Charlecote House; Ireland, 1795. New 
 Place and the Guild Chapel, drawn from nature 
 and on stone by J. Brandard, published by J. C, 
 Elston, Leamington, lithographed by Day & 
 Haghe. 
 
 772. The Church and Free-School, Hampton 
 Lucy, 1822 ; Saunders del., C. F. Green lithog., 
 1824. An unpublished view.
 
 149 
 
 773' Chapel of the Holy Cross, Stratford-on- 
 Avon, showing the Grammar-School and site of 
 New Place. " Printed by M. & N. Hanhart. 
 C. Graf lith., London. Published by Edward 
 Adams. 
 
 774. New Place, Guild Chapel, &c. Ireland, 
 1795- 
 
 775. The Hall at Charlecote "where Shake- 
 speare was tried." An uncoloured lithograph from 
 a drawing by Mrs. P. Dighton, 1835. 
 
 776. Bidford, Warwickshire, and arms of the 
 Merchant of the Staple in a pane of glass formerly 
 in the Birth-Place. Ireland, 1795. 
 
 777. An original tracing made by the elder 
 Ireland, c. 1790, of the signature of Shakespeare 
 from a deed, in Mr. Wallis's hand, belonging to 
 the Featherstonhaugh family. 
 
 778. Charlecote Hall and Stratford Church. 
 W. Rider, Leamington, July ist, 1835. 
 
 779. Back of George's Farm ; J. Niemann, 
 1847. David and Goliah ; Ireland, 1795. 
 George's Farm, formerly the Ship, Grendon 
 Underwood, 1847. 
 
 780. The Ancient Chapel of Bishopton, its font 
 and piscina. An original drawing, c. 1810. A 
 sketch by Fairholt of the Lich-gate, Welford 
 Church, c. 1847. 
 
 781. The Birth-Place of Shakespeare, a coloured 
 view published by O. Hodgson. View of the 
 Brook House " in which Shakespeare was really 
 born," J. Jordan del., 1799
 
 782. A view of Chapel Street, showing the old 
 character of the house on the New Place side 
 of the Town- Hall. Drawn and engraved by T. 
 Radclyffe, 1829, 
 
 783. The monumental effigy, the grave-stone 
 and entrance to Charnel-House. Ireland, 1795. 
 
 784. Arms in the windows of Stratford Church ; 
 arms in the window and porch of the Guild Chapel. 
 Dugdale, 1656. 
 
 785. A view of Stratford-on-Avon from the 
 bridge. Drawn and engraved by T. Radclyffe, 
 1829. 
 
 786. A lower room at the Birth-Place, and the 
 garret over the birth-room, 1852. Exterior of 
 the Birth-Place, Ph. de la Motte, 1 788. 
 
 787. The Nag's Head Inn, Bicester, sketched 
 by Blight in 1865. Plan of Shakespeare's close. 
 
 788. Exterior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage. 
 Barn on the left, but differing from the view by 
 Rider. A drawing in water-colours executed 
 about the year 1830. 
 
 789. Monument in Stratford Church to the 
 memory of the Earl and Countess of Totness. 
 Dugdale, 1656. 
 
 790. Anne Hathaway's Cottage, a wood-en- 
 graving from the Casket of 23 April, 1837. 
 Arms in Snitterfield Church, from Dugdale, 1656. 
 
 Exterior of Stratford Church, Fahey lithog., 
 published by J. Ward. Interior of Stratford 
 Church, T. G. Flowers, Edinburgh. Herne's 
 Oak, from the Mirror of 15 July, 1826. Sign of 
 the Boar's Head Tavern, 1668.
 
 Shakespeare's School and Old Guildhall. 
 London, J. Harwood, 1847. Views of Stratford- 
 on-Avon and the College, drawn by R. B. VVheler, 
 engraved by F. Eginton, 1806. Clopton House, 
 from Ireland's Views, 1795. 
 
 792. Interior of Anne Hatha way's Cottage. 
 An uncoloured lithograph from a drawing by 
 Mrs. P. Dighton, 1835. 
 
 793. The Birth-Room, from a drawing by 
 J. Brandard. A proof before letters. 
 
 794. Anne Hathaway's Bed and Chair. An 
 uncoloured lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. 
 P. Dighton, 1835. 
 
 795. The Deer- Barn at Grove Field, Warwick- 
 shire, drawn by W. Jackson, 1798. A lithograph. 
 
 796. The monumental effigy, a coloured view 
 published, although not so stated, by C. Elston 
 of Leamington. Probably a proof before letters. 
 
 797. Bidford Grange. Ireland, 1795. 
 
 798. Front of Charlecote House. Allan E. 
 Everitt del. M. & N. Hanhart imp. J. Bran- 
 dard lith. Published by H. T. Cooke, Warwick. 
 
 799. The Exterior of the Birth-Place from a 
 drawing by J. Brandard. Shows part of the 
 Swan and Maidenhead. Four figures opposite 
 the shop-window. 
 
 800. Shakespeare's Desk. A coloured litho- 
 graph from a drawing by Mrs. P. Dighton, 1835. 
 
 80 1. Exterior of Stratford Church, Fahee 
 lithog., published by J. Ward. A view of the 
 Church from the opposite side of the river, printed
 
 X 
 
 152 
 
 by M. & N. Hanhart, C. Graf lith., published by 
 Edward Adams. 
 
 802. Some Account of the Life of Mr. William 
 Shakespeare. By N. Rowe. From the 1709 
 edition of the Poet's works. 8vo. 
 
 803. Englands Helicon. At London, printed 
 by J . R. for lohn Flasket, and are to be sold in 
 Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Beare, 
 1600. Quarto. The present copy of this ex- 
 tremely rare book unfortunately wants a few 
 leaves, but it is complete in all the Shakespearean 
 pieces. 
 
 804. Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Enter- 
 tainment in Rushia, with the tragicall ends of two 
 Emperors and one Empresse within one Moneth 
 during his being there. Printed at London for 
 Nathanyell Butter, 1605. Quarto. The curious 
 allusion to the old tragedy of Hamlet is at sig. K 
 
 805. An oblong volume, in manuscript, that 
 belonged to one Giles Lodge in 1591, containing 
 the original music to a number of songs and 
 dances, including several that are either quoted 
 or mentioned by Shakespeare, and no doubt 
 familiarly known to him, e.g., Robin Hoode, a 
 galiarde, passa mesers galiarde, the antycke, a 
 pavion, a hornepippe, the passe a mesures pavion, 
 a round, the hunt ys uppe, a dumpe, quarter 
 brawles, the Frenche galiarde, all of grene willowe, 
 and a measure. Amongst the miscellaneous 
 pieces may be mentioned Westones pavion and 
 " my Lord of Essex sorige," the latter being thus 
 noted, finis quoth William Hewese. So Tyr- 
 whitt's conjecture respecting the VV. H. of the 
 Sonnets may thus receive a trifling support. At
 
 153 
 
 the end of the book, following a collection of 
 receipts, is an unpublished drama in five acts, 
 avowedly written for boy-actors, and entitled "a 
 new comody of July and Julian." There is no 
 date to this curious production, but it may be 
 confidently assigned to the period of Shakespeare's 
 boyhood.
 
 NOTES. 
 
 Page 6, line 7. More difficult to obtain. The market has 
 been swept and the day has now gone by for reasonable ex- 
 pectations to rise beyond the endless acquisition of modern 
 Shakespeareana and the occasional gleaning of an important 
 rarity. So it was with no small amusement that those who 
 are conversant with such matters observed the alarm that was 
 expressed by more than one journal at a recent movement 
 which was supposed to involve the danger of the Shakespearean 
 interests of London being sacrificed to those of Warwickshire. 
 Perhaps the worthy critics imagined that the dulcet tones of 
 a committee of solicitation would attract early editions and 
 title-deeds from the firmament, it is difficult to understand 
 how else they could be gathered to an extent that would allure 
 metropolitan students to the bank of the Avon. At the same 
 time it is only fair to recognise the local utility of the collection 
 that is now being formed in the elegant library which Stratford 
 owes to the generous liberality of Mr. Charles Flower. 
 
 Page 6, line 8. An impenetrable fifty-thousand volume 
 library. It may be well, in view of the present tendency to 
 herald numerical supremacy as a test of value, to observe that 
 no ambition of the kind has stimulated the gathering of the 
 collection which is described in the preceding pages. The 
 whole, indeed, is comprised in about two hundred volumes, 
 a striking contrast to the seven thousand that are already 
 accumulated in the recently-formed Shakespearean Library at 
 Birmingham ; but victory in these cases is not always with the 
 largest battalions, and the accomplished Shakespearean Director 
 of that town, Mr. Sam. Timmins, would be the first to acknow- 
 ledge that at least fifty per cent, of its modern acquisitions could 
 be consigned to the waste-paper basket without the slightest
 
 156 
 
 prejudice to the interests of literature or to the honour of the 
 great dramatist. I speak feelingly, in the hope that the Shake- 
 speare drag-net may be relieved of its weeds and sand, for if a 
 much larger percentage of my own writings in this kind could 
 be eliminated, the operation would add very much to my com- 
 placency. Perhaps, however, in my own individual case, it is 
 better as it is ; " our virtues might be proud, if our faults 
 whipped them not." 
 
 Page 7, line 22, New Place. The ancient title-deeds of 
 New Place, which form so distinguished a feature of the present 
 collection, were discovered two years ago by Mr. Richard Sims, 
 of the British Museum, in the private archives of Wallop Hall, 
 co. Salop. The discovery of these indentures has added little 
 or nothing of moment to our previous knowledge of the history 
 of the estate, but they are inestimable as personal relics of the 
 great dramatist. Ancient deeds are almost the only articles 
 that, with proper care, maintain their precise original condition 
 for indefinite periods. 
 
 Page p, line 20. The present one. Nearly the whole of the 
 drawings and engravings have been mounted with great taste 
 and judgment by Mr. James Biddle, of North Street, Brighton, 
 and so mounted that they are protected from the danger that 
 would have accrued had they been liable to contact with other 
 surfaces.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Abington Abbey, 498 
 
 Accolti, Bernard, 90. 
 
 Acton, 464. 
 
 Adams, Edward, 370, S47,773,8oi. 
 
 Adderbury, 451. 
 
 Agar, I. S., 272. 
 
 Allans. See Saint A Wans. 
 
 Alcazar, battle of, 18. 
 
 Alexander, W., 625, 733. 
 
 Allot, Robert, 283. 
 
 All's Well that Ends Well, 40, 90. 
 
 Alms'-houses, 715. 
 
 Alne, Little, 437. 
 
 Alveston, 602, 638. 
 
 Anne Hatha way's Cottage, 210, 282, 
 289. Exterior, 317, 403, 547, 
 558, 636, 639, 677,691, 707, 713, 
 718, 769, 788, 790. Interior, 
 319, 321, 348, 372, 494, 496, 498, 
 511, 515, 568, 677,680, 742, 792. 
 Relics, 499, 502, 722, 757, 794. 
 The well, 319. 
 
 Anton, Robert, 191. 
 
 Antony and Cleopatra, 103. 
 
 Archer, J., 614. 
 
 Armin, Robert, 32, 751. 
 
 Aston Cantlowe, 642, 643, 644. 
 653 691, 702. 
 
 As You Like It, 20, 34, 35, no. 
 
 Atherston-upon-Stour, 592. 
 
 Austin, Samuel, 92. 
 
 Aylesbury, 267, 702. 
 
 Baker, Alfred, 552. 
 
 Baker, Sir Richard, 241. 
 
 Banbury, 440, 464. 
 
 Bancroft, Thomas, 155. 
 
 Bandello, Matteo, 100. 
 
 Barber, J. V., 268. 
 
 Barcheston, 671. 
 
 Barclay, Sir Richard, iSi. 
 
 Barlichway Hundred, 350, 365. 
 
 Barnstaple, 215. 
 
 Bartholomew Fair, 2 1 6. 
 
 Barton, 467. 
 
 Barton-on-the- Heath, 447, 538, 672. 
 
 710. 
 
 Basire, J., 733. 
 Basse, William, 754. 
 Bath, plan of, 232. 
 Baynard's Castle, 590. 
 Beaconsfield, 475, 565. 
 Bearley, 519, 643, 672. 
 Bear Tavern, 250. 
 Bedell, Gabriel, 201. 
 Bedfordshire, 301. 
 Beighton, Henry, 326, 333, 350. 
 Bell.J., 601. 
 Bennet, Thomas, 216. 
 Berkshire, 299, 301, 308. 
 Bible in Stratford Church, 424. 
 Bicester, 787. 
 Bidford, 472, 475, 536, 742, 776, 
 
 797- 
 
 Billesley, 576. 
 
 Birmingham, 688. 
 
 Biith of Merlin, 22. 
 
 Birth-Place, Si, 102, III, 1 12, 123, 
 348, 733. 739-- Exterior, 362, 
 455. 49", 493. 505, 5<>7, 5 2I 5*5- 
 530,548, 55'.552. 556, 559.561. 
 570,573.574. 575.577, 5. 5^4. 
 600, 601, 608, 613, 614, 615, 624, 
 625, 627, 634, 637, 646, 652, 654, 
 668, 675, 678, 679, 695, 7to, 701, 
 702, 712, 717, 731, 733, 760, 762, 
 769, 781, 786, 799. Interior, 303. 
 455. 49, 493. 494, 498, 502, 505, 
 507, 508, 518, 522, 526, 530, 667, 
 683, 733, 755, 786. Kelics, 349, 
 496, 522, 526, 581, 594, 596, 598, 
 647, 649, 651, 688, 691, 707, 708, 
 776. 
 
 Birth- Place Committee, 733. 
 
 Birth- Room, 322, 362, 505, 510, 
 526, 530, 549. 57', 631, 685, 717, 
 
 733. 793- 
 
 Bishoplon, 588, 599, 606, 612, 642, 
 6S7, 685, 690, 691, 710, 780.
 
 Blackfriars Estate, 124, 148, 149, 
 
 165, 208. 
 
 Blackfriars Theatre, 198. 
 Blome, Richard, 242. 
 Blore, E., 659. 
 Blurt, Master Constable, 230. 
 Boaden, John, 387. 
 Boaistuau, Pierre, 100. 
 Boars' Head Tavern, 790. 
 Jtodenham, John, 44, 803. 
 Bonner, 762. 
 Boosey & Co., 762. 
 Bott, William, 226. 
 Bottom the Weaver, 54. 
 Bracebridge, Mrs., 638. 
 Braithwait, Richard, 201. 
 Brandard, J., 561, 566, 571, 661, 
 
 713, 717, 771, 793, 798, 799- 
 Braun, 239, 313, 315, 438, 529. 
 Brent Brook, 416. 
 Brentford, 340, 472. 
 Bridge, Stratford, 441, 489, 516, 
 
 769. 
 Bridge Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 441, 489, 567, 689. 
 Bristol, 745. 
 Britton, John, 733. 
 Brome, Richard, 201. 
 Brook House, 781. 
 Broom, co. Warwick, 406, 725. 
 Brulovis, Caspar, 164. 
 Buckinghamshire, 301. 
 Buckler, J. C., 297, 484. 
 Bullock, G., 389. 
 Burmington, 462. 
 Burton, Robert, 273. 
 Butcher, William, 270, 353. 
 Calvert, 762. 
 Cambridgeshire, 301. 
 Camden, William, 75, 189, 253, 
 
 357- 
 
 Campden House, 395. 
 Camus, John Peter, 187. 
 Canterbury, 377, 438, 743. 
 Carew, Lord and Lady, 264. 
 Cartwright, William, 230. 
 Casket, the, 613, 790. 
 Cawdray, Robert, 230. 
 Chandos Portrait, 726. 
 Chapel Lane, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 393- 
 Chapel Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 6?7, 697, 698, 782. 
 Chapel Street House, once Hatha- 
 
 way's, 163, 170, 195, 213, 218, 
 
 250. 
 
 Chapman, George, 201. 
 
 Chapman, Philip, 70. 
 
 Chapman & Hall, 318, 356. 
 
 Charlecote Church, 305, 581, 589, 
 621. 
 
 Charlecote Gate-house, 518, 685, 
 689, 704. This building is in- 
 cluded in some of the views of the 
 exterior. 
 
 Charlecote House. Exterior, 268, 
 269, 318, 328, 333, 371, 413,497, 
 566, 610, 640, 655, 677, 685, 696, 
 703, 707, 771, 778, ^.-Interior, 
 335, 348, 35 6 , 775- ^lics, 320, 
 744- 
 
 Charlecote Traditions, 257. 
 
 Charlecote Village, 635, 699, 704. 
 
 Charnel House, 306, 320, 366, 468, 
 477, 59i, 681, 783- 
 
 Chettle, Henry, 51, 178. 
 
 Chiswick Press, 733. 
 
 Church Restoration Fund, 733- 
 
 Church, Stratford, 216, 225, 248, 
 366, 453,454, 7",746, 784- * 
 terior, 271, 286, 296, 297, 298, 
 300, 319, 35 8 > 392, 396, 414, 
 426, 432, 434, 444, 450, 469, 482, 
 484, 5!3> 5 J 4, 554, 5 6 5> 596, 609, 
 716, 742, 778,790,801. Interior, 
 266, 286, 306, 370, 427, 429, 430, 
 432, 433, 434, 436, 439, 446, 459, 
 468, 469, 477, 481, 482, 484, 486, 
 487, 581, 727, 728, 790. See 
 Clapton Chapel and Saint Thomas's 
 Chapel. 
 
 Church Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 492, 648, 651, 658, 673, 695, 
 719. 
 
 Churchyard, Stratford, 431, 711, 
 746. 
 
 Cinthio, Giraldi, 91. 
 
 Clark, J. T., 712. 
 
 Clarke, John, 157. 
 
 Clements, H. B., 550, 721. 
 
 Clifford Chambers, 612, 671, 693, 
 710. 
 
 Clopton, Anne, 466. 
 
 Clopton Chapel, 390, 427, 452, 454, 
 456, 626. 
 
 Clopton common-lands, 224. 
 
 Clopton estate, I, 223. 
 
 Clopton family, I. 
 
 Clopton House, I, 663, 791. 
 
 Clopton, William, 139, 226, 466. 
 
 Cock and-Pye tavern, 689. 
 
 Cokain, Francis, 230.
 
 159 
 
 Cole, B., 733. 
 
 Colin Clout, 48. 
 
 College, Stratford, 221, 345, 499, 
 
 605, 617, 623, 630, 644, 673, 
 
 791. 
 
 Collier, W., 324, 332. 
 Collins, Francis, 141, 214. 
 Collins, Thomas, 201. 
 Combe, John, 136, 278, 662, 674, 
 
 754- 
 
 Combe, Thomas, 147. 
 Comical Gallant, 89. 
 Cooke, H. T., 661, 798. 
 Cordy, John, 272. 
 Cornelianum Dolium, 95. 
 Cornwal, 215. 
 
 Cornwallis, Sir William, 279. 
 Cotgrave, John, 160. 
 Council-Chamber, Stratford - on - 
 
 Avon, 349, 550, 647, 649. 
 Court, William, 227, 228. 
 Court-Leet Books, 67, 68. 
 Cousins, Samuel, 726. 
 Coventry, 312. 
 
 Cox, Rev. Thomas, 400, 465. 
 Crab-tree, Shakespeare's, 175, 368, 
 
 369, 407, 457, 480, 523. 
 Cranley, Thomas, 201. 
 Cromwell, Thomas, Lord, 49. 
 Cross-on-the-Hill, 228, 578. 
 Daisy Hill, 633, 640, 655, 795. 
 Danckerts, Dancker, 244. 
 Dangerfield, Frederick, 733. 
 Datchet, 474. 
 
 Davenant, Sir William, 216, 714. 
 David and Goliah, 512, 779. 
 Davies, John, 30. 
 Day & Haghe, 581, 638. 
 Day & Son, 421. 
 Day, Matthew, 52. 
 Deal Castle, 759. 
 Dean, T. A., 384. 
 Decker, Thomas, 52, 59, 2OI. 
 Deddington, 464. 
 Deer-Barn, 795. 
 De la Motte, 786. 
 Deloney, Thomas, 40. 
 Denmark, the King of, 15. 
 Dennis, John, 89. 
 Derbyshire, 301. 
 Desk, Shakespeare's, 526, 562, 694, 
 
 742, 8po. 
 
 Destruction of Troy, 38, 72. 
 Devonshire, 215. 
 Dewint, P., 358, ^60, 635. 
 Dighton, Mrs. P., 296, 302, 322, 
 
 335. 344, 362, 382, 403, 412, 
 
 556, 558. 562, 722, 733, 742, 
 
 775, 792, 794, 800. 
 Dingles, the, 643. 
 Dodd ridge, Justice, 156. 
 Dorastus and Fawnia, 94. 
 Dorsetshire, 215. 
 Dover, 316, 440, 485, 730. See 
 
 Shakespeare's Clijf. 
 Downes, John, 61. 
 Drayton, Michael, 104, 230. 
 Droeshout. See Portraits. 
 Drury-Lane Theatre, 122. 
 Dryden, John, 84, 117, 229. 
 Dugdale, Sir William, 295, 363, 
 
 365, 375, 466, 535, 784, 789, 790. 
 Earle, John, 754. 
 Earthquake in London, 132, 280. 
 Eastward Hoe, 2OI. 
 Edward the Third, 27. 
 Eginton, F., 7, 388, 441, 450, 733, 
 
 770, 791. 
 Ellis, T. H., 712. 
 Elm, the Boundary, 222. 
 Elston, C, 561, 566, 713, 717, 796. 
 Elston, J. C., 771. 
 Ely Street, Stratford -on- Avon, 651. 
 England's Helicon, 803. 
 England's Parnassus, 283. 
 Epitia Tragedia, 91. 
 Essex, 299, 301, 308. 
 Essex, Earl of, 83, 230, 249, 394. 
 Eton, 324, 330, 475. 
 Euphues Golden Legacie, 1 10. 
 Everitt, Allen E., 661, 798. 
 Every Man in his Humour, 50. 
 Every Man out of his Humour, 
 
 201. 
 
 Exhall, 306. 
 Fahee, 694, 80 1. 
 Fahey, 700, 790. 
 Faire Em, 183. 
 
 Fairholt, F. W., 81, 380, 401, 665. 
 Falcon Tavern, Southwark, 247. 
 Falcon Tavern, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 206, 421, 719. 
 Field, John, 281. 
 Field, Nathaniel, 184. 
 Finden, W., 614. 
 Fisher, Clara, 733. 
 Fisher, Thomas, 290, 541 to 546, 
 
 734 to 738, 740. 
 Fitzook, H., 679. 
 Fleming, Abraham, 280. 
 Fletcher, John, 64. 
 Fletcher, Mrs., 398.
 
 i6o 
 
 Florio, John, 666. 
 
 Flowers, T. G., 624, 631, 790. 
 
 Font, Shakespeare's, 286, 302,412, 
 
 427, 742. 
 
 Free-School See Grammar- School. 
 Frith, Mary, 620. 
 Fulwood, Robert, 142. 
 Garden of the Muses, 44. 
 Gastrell, the Rev. Francis, 6. 
 Gayton, Edmund, 251. 
 Gaywood, Robert, 583. 
 Gee, John, 82. 
 
 George-and-Dragon Inn, 689. 
 Gibbs, Thomas, 78, 79. 
 Gilbirson, William, 36. 
 Glamorganshire, 215. 
 Globe Theatre, 245, 754. 
 Gloucester, 667, 745. 
 Gloucestershire, 215, 301, 745. 
 Golden Lion Inn, 591. 
 Golding, Arthur, 12. 
 Gonzaga, Curtio, 174. 
 Gosson, Stephen, 285. 
 Goulart, John, 230. 
 Graf, C., 370, 547, 551, 733, 770, 
 
 773. 801 . 
 Grammar-School, 2, 29, 74, 341, 
 
 349, 504, 508, 550, 647, 651, 689, 
 
 773, 791- 
 
 Gray's Inn Hall, 582. 
 Green, C. F., 327, 457, 499. 609, 
 
 639, 733, 739, 76o, 768, 772. 
 Greene, John, 134. 
 Greene, the Rev. Joseph, 2, 5, 42, 
 
 114, 216, 257, 282, 289, 426. 
 Greene, Richard, 298, 366, 396, 513, 
 
 588, 592, 602, 654, 733. 
 Greene, Robert, 94, 159. 
 Greene, Thomas, 137. 
 Greenhill Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 671, 684, 697, 699. 
 Greenwich Palace, 329. 
 Grendon Underwood, 267, 47, 475, 
 
 673, 7o8, 765, 779- 
 Grevin, Jaques, 97. 
 Griffith, Sir George, 466. 
 Grimmitt, Richard, 5. 
 Groto, Luigi, 119. 
 Guild Chapel, 290, 319, 449, 487, 
 
 541, to 545, 581, 585, 594, 597, 
 
 598, 604, 628, 645, 647, 651, 656, 
 
 664, 688, 698, 704, 705, 734 to 
 
 738, 740, 784. Exterior, 7, 349, 
 
 421, 715,716,724, 771,773,774- 
 Guild-Hail, Stratford, 7, 550, 715, 
 
 791. 
 
 Gwin, J., 426. 
 
 Hadriana Tragedia, 119. 
 
 Hall, John, 163, 176, 195, 616, 682. 
 
 Hamlet, 62, 101. 
 
 Hampton Lucy, 360, 643, 772. 
 
 Hanhart, M. & N., 370, 457, 570, 
 
 733, 798, 801. 
 Harding, E., 419. 
 Harding, J. I)., 269. 
 Harding, S., 662. 
 Harington's Ariosto, 216. 
 Harrison, Stephen, 292. 
 Harsnet, Samuel, 47, 73. 
 Hart family, 123, 656. 
 Hart, Shakespeare, 152, 207. 
 Hartley, William, 56. 
 Harvey, Gabriel, 93. 
 Harvey, W., 733. 
 Harwood, J., 675, 791. 
 Hathaway, Anne, 353. See Anne 
 
 Hathaway 's Cottage. 
 Hathaway, Edmund, 194, 248. 
 Hathaway, Jane, 168, 169. 
 Hathaway, John, 199, 200, 252. 
 Hathaway, Richard, 204. 
 Hathaway, Robert, 203, 252, 254, 
 
 255- 
 
 Hathaway, Sarah, 255. 
 Hathaway, Susanna, 166, 195, 213. 
 Hathaway, Thomas, 163, 168, 169, 
 
 170, 195, 218, 250. 
 Heliodorus, 179. 
 Help to Discourse, 2OI. 
 Hemings W. , 739. 
 Henley-in-Arden, 496, 503, 667, 
 
 709. 
 Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 348, 499, 575, 577, 61 1, 625, 646, 
 
 651, 660, 675, 684, 708, 733. 
 
 Deeds, 206, 210. 
 Henry the Fourth, 19, 26, 206. 
 Henry the Sixth, 9, 53. 
 Herne's Oak. See Windsor. 
 Hertfordshire, 301. 
 Heywood, Thomas, 14, 21 1. 
 Hickes, R., 444. 
 Higford, Henry, 26. 
 High Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 327, 397, S 12 , 5 2 , 5^1, 61 1, 650, 
 
 656, 665, 685, 708. 
 Hill, Joseph, 733. 
 Hill, Richard, 225. 
 Hillborough, 725. 
 Hillingdon, 435, 524. 
 Historical Dictionary, 2 1 6. 
 Hodgson, O., 701, 781.
 
 Hoefnagle, George, 339, 748. 
 
 Huffman, a tragedy, 178. 
 
 I lole, William, 666. 
 
 Holland, Henry, 394, 555. 
 
 Hollands Leaguer, 41. 
 
 Hollar, 215, 242, 291, 299, 301, 
 
 3'6, 336, 338. 343, 346, 347, 363, 
 
 373, 374, 376, 4>7, 45 5<>9, 5'7> 
 
 532, 593, 595, 669, 759- 
 Honor of Armes, 34. 
 Hooper, s., 410. 
 Howell, James, 533. 
 Hullinandel, C., 694. 
 Hulme F. W., 318, 356. 
 Hundred Mery Talys, 196. 
 Hunsdon, Lord, 171. 
 Huntingdonshire, 301. 
 Hutchinson, H., 266. 
 Inganni comedia, 158, 174. 
 Ingannati comedia, 173. 
 Ireland forgeries, 60. 
 Ireland, Samuel, 364, 414, 442, 
 
 480, 633, 723, 733, 757, 769, 
 
 771,774,776,777, 779, 783,791, 
 
 797- 
 
 Irving, Washington, 348, 627. 
 Isle of Wight, 24, 299, 308. 
 Islip, co. Oxon, 310, 354, 423, 451. 
 Jackson, J. G., 318, 356. 
 Jackson, W., 795. 
 [ago, the Rev. Richard, 406. 
 [fames the First, 292, 720. 
 Jew of Malta, 180. 
 Johnson, John, 421. 
 Jones, Richard, 34. 
 Jones, the Rev. William, 24. 
 Jonson, Ben, 50, 108, 201,210, 211, 
 
 216, 314, 383. 
 Jordan, John, 106, 175, 276, 355, 
 
 405, 410, 523, 715, 716, 731, 781. 
 Jubilee, the Stratford, 442, 521, 
 
 770. 
 Julius Caesar, 97, 105, 118, 164, 
 
 277- 
 
 July and Julian, 805. 
 Keeper's Lodge, Fulbrooke, 640. 
 
 See Daisy Hill. 
 Kenilworth Castle, 23, 535. 
 Kent, 299, 308, 316, 743. 
 King, D., 527. 
 
 Kingswood, co. Warwick, 246. 
 Kip, I., 330, 331. 
 Kip, William, 292, 351. 
 Kirkall, E., 333. 
 Kirkman, Francis, 230, 764. 
 K nolle Manor, 1 1 6. 
 
 Knyff, L., 330, 331. 
 
 Laing, C. D., 665. 
 
 Lambeth, yx>. 
 
 Laneham, Robert, 23. 
 
 Langbaine, Gerard, 274. 
 
 Lapworth, co. Warwick, 167, 246. 
 251. 
 
 Lawford, George, 272. 
 
 Lear, King, 39, 47, 73, 193, 750. 
 
 Leicestershire, 301, 741. 
 
 Lightholder, Timothy, 396. 
 
 Lily, William, 29, 74. 
 
 Lincolns Inn Fields Theatre, 122. 
 
 Lincolnshire, 301. 
 
 Linton, W. J., 637, 680. 
 
 Lintott, Bernard, 192. 
 
 Lisbon nunnery, 188. 
 
 Little Alne, 437. 
 
 Lodge, Thomas, no, 285. 
 
 Lombart, P., 293. 
 
 London, Bridge, 238. Plans, 
 239, 242, 313, 315, 529, 531, 
 539, 540. Vieu's, 162, 240, 241, 
 243, 244, 292, 376, 527, 532, 
 
 533, 555, 593, 763. 
 Long Lane, 693. 
 Lover's Complaint, 76. 
 Love's Labour's Lost, 21, 33. 
 Lucrece, Rape of, 4. 
 Lucy, Lady, 70, 98, 688. 
 Lucy, Sir Thomas, 70, 133, 257, 
 
 258, 259, 291, 293, 385, 500,688. 
 Luddington, 320, 710, 742. 
 Macbeth, 87, 233. 
 Maces, the Stratford, 647, 689. 
 Malcontent, 58. 
 Malone, Edmund, 733. 
 Manuscript Miscellanies, 52, 277, 
 
 278. 
 Market-Cross, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 286, 327, 499, 632, 742, 708. 
 Marlowe, Christopher, 180, 287. 
 Marsh Gibbon, 671. 
 Marston, 467, 475. 
 Marston, John, 58, 201, 230. 
 Mason, 769. 
 
 Massuccio Salernitano, 154. 
 Mathews, Sir Tobie, 2OI. 
 Measure for Measure, 25, 91, 185, 
 
 277. 
 
 Mcdland, 419. 
 Meer Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 651. 
 
 Merchant of \ cnice, 8, 65, 752. 
 Merculio, 84. 
 Meres, Francis, 17.
 
 162 
 
 Merian, Matthew, 532. 
 
 Merlin, Birth of, 22. 
 
 Merridew, Henry, 7, 608. 
 
 Merridew, J., 733. 
 
 Merry Devil of Edmonton, 57, 107. 
 
 Merry Wives of Windsor, 89, 93. 
 
 Messalina, 603. 
 
 Microcosmos, 30. 
 
 Middle-Row, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 3",567. 
 Middlesex, 299, 308, 352, 357, 361, 
 
 378. 
 Middle Temple, 518, 520, 534, 641, 
 
 670. 
 
 Middleton, Thomas, 230. 
 Midsummer Night's Dream, 54. 
 Milcote, 671. 
 Mill-Bridge, 490, 493, 495, 508, 554, 
 
 578, 607, 749. 
 Mill-Lane, 528. 
 Mill, Stratford, 414, 658, 749. 
 Mirror, The, 615, 634, 733, 790. 
 Miserere Stalls, 439, 472, 721. 
 Mitre Tavern, London, 237. 
 Moll, H., 367. 
 Moll Cutpurse, 620. 
 Monmouthshire, 215. 
 Monthly Magazine, 634. 
 Monumental Effigy, 42, 270, 272, 
 295, 334, 344, 3^0, 382, 384, 386 
 to 389, 659, 728, 770, 783, 796. 
 Morley, Thomas, 20. 
 Mortlake, 586. 
 Mount Tabor, 284. 
 Mucedorus, 71, 186. 
 Much Ado about Nothing, 28. 
 Mulberry-tree, 79, 80, 197. 
 Music, ancient, 805. 
 Musical Companion, 210, 230. 
 Naps upon Parnassus, 92. 
 Nash's House, 319, 325. 
 Nash, Thomas, 16, 201. 
 Neale, J. P., 286, 703, 733. 
 Neele, 257. 
 Newman, A., 421. 
 New Place, i, 5, 6, 7, 125 to 131, 
 139, 140, 143 to 146, 151, 163, 
 195,213,325, 58o, 715,771,773, 
 ,774- 
 
 Niemann, J., 779- 
 Nixon, the Rev. R., 694. 
 Nominal Orthography, 205. 
 Norden, John, 238, 352, 357, 361, 
 
 378, 539, 540, 560. 
 Norfolk, 301. 
 North, Thomas, 753. 
 
 Northamptonshire, 301. 
 
 Norwich, 563. 
 
 Nottinghamshire, 301. 
 
 Ogilby, John, 307. 
 
 Old Black Swan, 699. 
 
 Oldcastle, Sir John, 10. 
 
 Old Town, Stratford-on-Avon, 616, 
 682. 
 
 Oldys, William, 274. 
 
 Orthography, nominal, 205. 
 
 Othello, 42, 1 20. 
 
 Overton, Henry, 361. 
 
 Overton, John, 531. 
 
 Ovid, 12. 
 
 Oxford, 212, 359, 448, 451, 458, 
 464, 714, 747, 748. 
 
 Oxfordshire, 301, 747. 
 
 Packwood, co. Warwick, 217, 246. 
 
 Page, Anne, 373. 
 
 Palace of Pleasure, 201, 230. 
 
 Paris Garden, 281. 
 
 Parkes, D., 733. 
 
 Paroemiologia Anglo- Latina, 157. 
 
 Parris, E. T., 549. 
 
 Passe, Simon, 720. 
 
 Passionate Pilgrim, 14, 76, 99. 
 
 Pathlow Hill, 693. 
 
 Pauls. See Saint Pauls. 
 
 Paul's Cross, 236. 
 
 Payton, John, n i. 
 
 Peak.J., 586. 
 
 Pebworth, 475. 
 
 Peele, George, 18. 
 
 Pembrokeshire, 215. 
 
 Pendragon, 216. 
 
 Pericles, 46, 63, 108, 277. 
 
 Perkes, Thomas, 262. 
 
 Pershore, 464, 475, 729. 
 
 Peyto, Richard de, 223. 
 
 Phillips, Joseph, 206. 
 
 Phillips, Thomas, 389. 
 
 Pierce Penilesse, 16, 201. 
 
 Pipe, Richard, 52. 
 
 Plautus, 177. 
 
 Play-bill, 229. 
 
 Playford, John, 210, 230. 
 
 Pleasant Willy, 3, 43. 
 
 Plutarch, 753. 
 
 Poems, Shakespeare's, 31, 192,211, 
 
 237- 
 
 Polimanteia, 257. 
 Portraits of Shakespeare, 31, 36, 69, 
 
 219, 220, 234, 235, 288, 334, 379, 
 
 391, 583, 726. 
 Postcombe, 462. 
 Promos and Cassandra, 25.
 
 1 6 
 
 Prompt -copies, 233, 287. 
 
 Pulpit presented to Stratford-on- 
 
 Avon Church by John Hall, 569. 
 Puritan, a comedy, 21 1. 
 Quiney, Richard, 206, 673. 
 Radclyffe, T., 640, 782, 785. 
 Kadclyffe, W., 266, 268, 269, 358, 
 
 360, 635, 703. 
 Randolph, Thomas, 52, 95, 108, 
 
 230. 
 
 Record Box, 647. 
 Register, Stratford-on-Avon, 289, 
 
 424, 445. 
 
 Return from Parnassus, 37, 66, 201. 
 kcx Platonicus, 113. 
 Rice, Francis ap., 83. 
 Richards, N., 603. 
 Richardson, John, 251. 
 Richard the Second, 13. 
 Richmond Palace, 418. 
 Rider, W., 317, 321, 413, 640, 733, 
 
 778. 
 
 Ring, Shakespeare's, 688. 
 Roberts, Henry, 15. 
 Robinson, Thomas, 188. 
 Roche, Walter, 153. 
 Rochester, 381, 404, 422, 478, 482, 
 
 537, 564, 606, 730, 743. 
 Rocque, J., 323. 
 Roe, J., 610. 
 Rogers, 497, 516. 
 Romeo and Juliet, 45, 100. 
 Rooke, Hayman, 420. 
 Roscius Anglicanus, 61. 
 Rother Market, 581, 622, 651, 677, 
 
 685, 702, 710, 758, 761. 
 Rowe, G., 548. 
 Rowe, John, 71. 
 
 Rowe, Nicholas, 257, 282, 334, 802. 
 Rowley, William, 22. 
 Roxana, 629. 
 Rutlandshire, 301. 
 Rye, co. Sussex, 316. 
 Saint Albans, 476. 
 Saint Pauls, 517. 
 Saint Saviour's, Southwark, 553, 
 
 669. 
 Saint Thomas's Chapel, 428, 434, 
 
 487. 
 
 Sandells, Fulke, 194. 
 Satiro-Mastix, 59, 201. 
 Saunders, Captain, 686, 733, 772. 
 Saviolo, Vincentio, 35. 
 Saviours. See Saint Saviour's. 
 Saxton, Christopher, 309, 351. 
 Scar'ron, Paul, 230, 231. 
 
 School, Stratford-on-Avon. 
 
 Grammar School. 
 Scriven, E., 387. 
 Segar, Sir William, 34. 
 Shakespeare, Anne, 206. 
 Shakespeare families, 115, Il6, 
 
 167, 172, 217, 246, 289. 
 Shakespeare, John, III, 142, 276. 
 Shakespeare Newspaper, 733. 
 Shakespeare's autograph, 777. 
 Shakespeare's Cliff, 337, 374, 401, 
 
 564, 595- 
 
 Shakespeare's Close, 787. 
 Shakespeare's Hall. See Ttnt't;- 
 
 Hall. 
 
 Shakespeare the Shoemaker, 210. 
 Sharp, John, 530. 
 Sharp, Thomas, 6, 78, 80. 
 Sharpe, Lewis, 230. 
 Shepherd, George, 668. 
 Sheppard, Samuel, 96, 201. 
 Sherlock, W. P., 762. 
 Sherwood & Co., 610. 
 Shirley, James, 121. 
 Shottery, 409, 501, 581, 651, 657, 
 
 671, 676, 677, 682, 683, 691, 699, 
 
 707, 73. 75- 
 
 Shrewley, co. Warwick, 172. 
 Shrewsbury, 294. 
 Silvayn, Alexander, 86. 
 Smith, A., 601. 
 Smithe, Sir Thomas, 230, 804. 
 Smythe, William, 226. 
 Snitterfield, 182, 262, 643, 661, 683, 
 
 690, 697, 710, 790. 
 Somersetshire, 215. 
 Somner, \Villiam, 377. 
 Sonnets, Shakespeare's, 277. 
 Southampton, Earl of, 24, 83, 150, 
 
 766. 
 
 Southamplonshire, 299, 308. 
 Speed, John, 232, 243, 294, 312, 
 
 361, 540, 741, 743. 745. 747- 
 Spenser, Edmund, 3, 43, 48. 
 Squeal of Cots wold, 260. 
 Stafford, John, 36. 
 Stanesby, S., 733. 
 Starter, Jan Jensen, 28. 
 Steeple Aston, 464. 
 Stent, P., 309, 316. 
 Stocks, the Stratford, 649. 
 Stokenchurch, 448. 
 Storer, J., 600. 
 Storer, J. & II. S., 610. 
 Straparola, Francesco, 93. 
 Stratford-on-Avon. Earliest guide- 
 
 \. 2
 
 164 
 
 book, 275. Levies, 248. Plans, 
 221, 261, 263, 265, 355, 580, 716, 
 746. Presentments, 67, 68, 222. 
 Views, 488, 506, 619, 715, 767, 
 
 785. 791- 
 
 Stratton Audley, 470. 
 Stroude, William, 108. 
 Stukeley, William, 440, 579. 
 Sturley, Abraham, 135, 138, 228, 
 
 256. 
 
 Suckling, Sir John, 230. 
 Suffolk, 301. 
 Surrey, 299, 308. 
 Sussex, 299, 308. 
 Sutton, Robert, 56. 
 Swan, John, 201. 
 
 Swan Inn, Stratford-on-Avon, III. 
 Swanwick, W. R., 263. 
 Sword of State, 572. 
 Symonson, Philip, 316. 
 Tailor, Robert, 109, 201. 
 Taming of the Shrew, 11. 
 Tarlton, Richard, 3. 
 Taylor, John, 161. 
 Tempest, 88, 210, 264, 687. 
 Temple Grafton, 467, 475. 
 Tetsworth, 448, 479. 
 Theatre, The, Shoreditch, 56. 
 Thomas. See Saint Thomas. 
 Thompson, John, 659, 733. 
 Thornton, T., 419. 
 Three Looks over London, 236. 
 Three Pigeons Inn, 448. 
 Tiddington, 699. 
 Timbre de Cardone, 28. 
 Titus Andronicus, 77, 85. 
 Tolley, J., 263. 
 Tombstone, Shakespeare's, 270, 
 
 295, 686, 783. 
 Tom Drum, 40. 
 Toms, W. H., 553. 
 Totness monument, 789. 
 Town-Hall, Stratford, 7, 698. 
 Troilus and Cressida, 38, 72, 117, 
 
 229. 
 
 True Tragedie, 9, 53. 
 Turnbull Street, London, 689. 
 Two Maids of Moreclacke, 32. 
 Two Noble Kinsmen, 64. 
 Twyne, Thomas, 132. 
 Tyler, Richard, 135, 256. 
 Underdoune, Thomas, 179. 
 Underbill, Hercules, 140. 
 Uxbridge, 463, 524, 710. 
 Valegio, Fr., 763. 
 Vander Gucht, 334, 418. 
 
 Van Dyck, Anthony, 316. 
 
 Vaughan, Robert, 365, 383. 
 
 Vavasour, Nicholas, 180. 
 
 Verginia, comedia, 90. 
 
 Vernor & Hood, 641. 
 
 Vertue, George, 386. 
 
 Visscher, J. C., 162. 
 
 Waddesdon, 475. 
 
 Wake, Isaac, 113. 
 
 Waking-Man's Dreame, 187. 
 
 Walford, E., 275. 
 
 Walton, W. L., 570. 
 
 Ward, F. & E., 547, 551, 770. 
 
 Ward, F. & G., 733. 
 
 Ward, J., 263, 686, 694, 698, 700, 
 
 762, 790, 80 1. 
 Ward, John, 42. 
 Ward, William, 389. 
 Warkmore Bridge, 704. 
 Warner, William, 177. 
 Warton, Thomas, 202. 
 Warwick, 312, 363, 375, 461, 475, 
 
 579- 
 Warwickshire, 301, 309, 312, 326, 
 
 350, 351, 6 1 8. 
 Water-side, 693. 
 Webbe, Alexander, 262. 
 Webster, John, 190. 
 Weelkes, Thomas, 209. 
 Welcombe Hills, 410. 
 Weldon, John, 56. 
 Welford, 673, 691, 692, 710, 780. 
 West, R., 553. 
 Westminster, 338, 539, 540. 
 Westminster Hall, 346. 
 Weston-on-Avon, 587, 599, 710, 
 
 758. 
 
 West Wickham, 448. 
 Whateley, George, 415. ~ 
 Wheatley, co. Oxon, 354, 451, 462. 
 Wheler, R. B., 7, 210, 257, 388, 
 
 44i, 450, 733, 770, 791- 
 Whetstone, George, 25, 185, 201. 
 Whitehall, 509. 
 White Lion Inn, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 ill, 112, 591. 
 \Vhole Contention, 53. 
 Wier-Brake, 303, 488, 490. 
 Wilkins, W. H., 340. 
 Will, Shakespeare's, 1 14, 257, 723. 
 Williams, T., 733. 
 Willis, R., 284. 
 Wilmecote, 306, 319, 399, 404, 471, 
 
 642, 643, 647, 651, 706, 732, 769. 
 Wiltshire, 215, 299, 308. 
 Windsor, 52, 304, 323, 324, 330,
 
 1 65 
 
 33 , 332, 336, 339, 342, 343. 347, 
 373, 400, 408, 411, 417, 420, 465, 
 473, 4-83, S^O' Hernes Oak, 324, 
 332, 364, 419, 420, 425, 443, 790. 
 
 Windsor Street, 569. 
 
 Winter, Samuel, 366, 580. 
 
 Winter's Tale, 94. 
 
 Wirtemberg, Duke of, 402. 
 
 Witney, 71. 
 
 Wivell, A., 272, 384. 
 
 Wixford, 306, 349, 460, 475, 538, 
 
 725- 
 
 Woman is a Weathercock, 184. 
 Wood Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 499, 657- 
 
 Wren, Christopher, 347. 
 Yarranton, Andrew, 557. 
 Yorkihire Tragedy, 55.
 
 TO BOOKSELLERS. 
 
 BEING pretty widely known as a Shakespearean collector, 
 hardly a week passes by without my having offers of articles 
 which are illustrative, in one way or other, of either the works 
 or the life of the great dramatist. Collecting, however, only in 
 s :>ecial directions, the large majority of these offers refer to 
 objects that are outside my line of research ; and, in the belief 
 that trouble will often be saved on both sides by an indication 
 of the nature of that limit, I would venture to submit the 
 following memoranda : 
 
 I do not want offers of the following articles : 
 
 1. Printed books or tracts of any descrip- 
 
 tion whatever that were printed either 
 before the year 1564 or after the year 
 1660. 
 
 2. Painted portraits either of Shakespeare 
 
 or of any member of his family. 
 
 3. Mulberry-tree or Herne's Oak relics. 
 
 4. Shakespearean engravings that have been 
 
 published after the year 1660. 
 
 But I should feel particularly obliged by offers of the 
 following articles : 
 
 i. Editions of Shakespeare, and books 
 mentioning Shakespeare, that were 
 ARTICLES printed before the year 1660. 
 
 THAT ' 2 . Popular English literature, especially 
 
 ARE WANTED. plays, story-books, and poems, printed 
 
 during the Shakespearean period, 1564 
 to 1616. With the exception of 
 
 ARTICLES 
 THAT 
 
 ARE 
 
 NOT WANTED.
 
 17634 
 
 ARTICLES 
 
 THAT 
 
 ARE WANTED 
 (continued}. 
 
 1 68 
 
 editions of the plays or poems of 
 Shakespeare which were published be- 
 fore the year 1660, I do not care for 
 any books or tracts that were printed 
 either before 1564 or after 1616. 
 
 3. Views or plans of London that were 
 
 issued before the great fire of 1666, 
 especially any which include the 
 Southwark theatres. 
 
 4. Original sketches of objects at Stratford- 
 
 on-Avon and its neighbourhood, as 
 well as old deeds and MSS. relating 
 to those localities. 
 
 5. Any MSS. on Shakespearean subjects 
 
 by the late Edmond Malone, who died 
 in 1812. 
 
 6. Manuscript plays written before the year 
 
 1660. 
 
 7. Autograph letters or MSS., written before 
 
 the year 1840, which refer in any way 
 to the life (not the works) of Shake- 
 speare. 
 
 N 
 
 The London auctions are well looked after by myself for every- 
 thing of the kind, but I very rarely see a country sale-catalogue, 
 and should you be able to make me an offer of anything that 
 comes under one or more of the above seven headings, it will 
 be thankfully received, immediate payment following its 
 acceptance. 
 
 J. O. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS. 
 
 Hollingbury Copse, Brighton, 
 fitly, 1887. 
 
 Harrison and Sons, Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, St. Martin's Lane.
 
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