LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAM oiGO THE COLLECTION OF FRANK MARCHAM 1899 t-2 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS " Myselfe have scene his demeanor no lesse civill, than he exelent in the qualitie he professes ; besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightnes of dealing, which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writting, that aprooves his art." II. CHETTLE. " His life was gentle ; and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man." SHAKESPEARE S MONUMENT IN THE CHURCH OF STRATFORD-ON-AVON (From a photograph by Harold Baker) CARTAE SHAKESPEAREANAE SHAKESPEARE 'DOCUMENTS A CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF EXTANT EVIDENCE RELATING TO THE LIFE AND WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE COLLATED AND CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED BY D. H. LAMBERT, B.A. SOLICITOR J FORMERLY MEMBER OF THE " NEW SHAKSPERE SOCIETY ;" AND HONORARY MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS 1904 CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WH1TTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. LIST OF CONTENTS NO. PAGE 1 Baptismal register of Joan Shakespeare . . i 2 Baptismal register of Margaret Shakespeare . i 3 Baptismal register of William Shakespeare . i 4 Baptismal register of Gilbert Shakespeare . i 5 Baptismal register of Joan Shakespeare . . i 6 Baptismal register of Anna Shakespeare . . i 7 Baptismal register of Richard Shakespeare . i 8 Fine levied on the purchase of two houses in Henley Street i 9 Fine levied when an Estate at Aston Cantlowe was mortgaged to Edmund Lambert . . 2 10 Baptismal register of Edmund Shakespeare . 3 11 Extract from the Diocesan register, Worcester 3 12 Marriage Bond from the Diocesan register, Worcester 4 13 Baptismal register of Susannah Shakespeare 5 14 Baptismal register of Harriet and Judith Shakespeare 5 15 Abstract of Bill of Complaint brought by John Shakespeare against John Lambert ... 5 16 Title, Dedication and Address of Henry Chettle's " Kind-Harts Dream " . . . . 7 17 Entry of "Venus and Adonis " at Stationers' Hall" 10 18 Title-page and Dedication of " Venus and Adonis" 10 vi LIST OF CONTENTS NO. PAGE 19 Entry of "Titus Andronicus" at Stationers' Hall ii 20 Entry of " Henry VI." at Stationers' Hall . 1 1 21 Entry of " Lucrece " at Stationers' Hall . . 1 1 22 Entry of assignment of copyright of "Venus and Adonis " at Stationers' Hall . ... 12 23 Title-page of "Venus and Adonis," second edition .12 24 Title-page and Dedication of " Lucrece " ' . 12 25 Manuscript Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber to Queen Elizabeth 13 26 Extract from Edmund Spenser's "Colin Clouts come home again " 13 27 Entry of assignment of copyright of " Venus and Adonis " at Stationers' Hall . . . . 13 28 Burial register of Hamnet Shakespeare . . 14 29 Title, Dedication and Address of Robert Green's " Groatsworth of Wit " . . . . 14 30 Draft of a Grant of Arms to John Shakespeare 1 8 31 Title-page of "Venus and Adonis," third edition 22 32 Foot of a fine levied in the purchase of New Place from William Underbill . . . . 22 33 Entry of " Richard II." at Stationers' Hall . 23 34 Entry of " Richard III." at Stationers' Hall . 23 35 Papers in a Chancery suit respecting an estate at Wilmcote 23 36 Title-page of " Romeo and Juliet ". ... 26 37 Title-page of " Richard II." 26 38 Title-page of " Richard III." 26 39 Extract from a letter from Abraham Sturley to Richard Quiney 27 40 Entry of "Henry IV." at Stationers' Hall . 27 LIST OF CONTENTS vii NO." PAGE 41 Entry of "The Merchant of Venice" at Stationers' Hall 27 42 Extract from the Carlton Ride Record Office Subsidy Roll 28 43 Richard Quiney's letter to William Shakespeare 28 44 Extract from a letter of Abraham Sturley to Richard Quiney 29 45 Extract from Francis Meres' " Palladis Tamia" 29 46 Extract from Barnfield's " Encomium of Lady Pecunia" 30 47 Title-page of Ben Jonson's " Every one in his humour" 31 48 Title-page of " Lucrece," second edition . . 31 49 Title-page of " Richard II.," second edition . 31 50 Title-page of " Richard III.," second edition 31 51 Title-page of " Henry IV." 32 52 Title-page of " Love's Labour's Lost " . . . 32 53 A Return of the Quantities of Corn and Malt at Stratford-upon-Avon 32 54 Extract from John Weever's " Epigrams in the oldest cut and newest fashion " . . . 33 55 Confirmation of the Grant of Arms to John Shakespeare 34 56 Title-page of " Henry IV.," second edition . 36 57 Title-page of " The Passionate Pilgrim " . . 37 58 Title-page of "Romeo and Juliet," second edition 37 59 Entry of " As You Like It," " Henry V.," and " Much Ado about Nothing " at Stationers' Hall 37 60 Entry of " Henry V." at Stationers' Hall . . 37 61 Entry of " Much Ado about Nothing," and viii LIST OF CONTENTS NO. PAGE the second part of " Henry III." at Sta- tioner's Hall 38 62 Entry of " A Midsummer Night's Dream " at Stationers' Hall 38 63 Entry of "The Merchant of Venice" at Stationers' Hall 38 64 Title-page of "Venus and Adonis," fourth edition 38 65 Title-page of " Lucrece," third edition . . 38 66 Title-page of the third part of " Henry VI." . 38 67 Title-page of the second part of " Henry IV." 39 68 Title-page of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" 39 69 Title-page of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," second edition 39 70 Title-page of " The Merchant of Venice " . 40 71 Title-page of "The Merchant of Venice," second edition 40 72 Title-page of " Much Ado about Nothing " . 40 73 Title-page of " Titus Andronicus " .... 40 74 Title-page of " Henry V." 41 75 Burial register of John Shakespeare . . .41 76 Entry at Stationers' Hall of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," and of the assignment of the copyright of same 41 77 Extract from the Diary of John Manningham 42 78 Entry of the assignment of the copyright of the first and second parts of " Henry VI.," and of " Titus Andronicus " 42 79 Abstract of the conveyance of over 100 acres of land from William and John Combe to the Poet 42 80 Entry of " Hamlet " at Stationers' Hall . . 44 81 View of Frank pledge, being Surrender from LIST OF CONTENTS ix NO. PAGE Walter Getley to the Poet of premises in Chapel Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon ... 44 82 Title-page of " Venus and Adonis " ... 45 83 Title-page of " Richard III.," third edition . 45 84 Title-page of " Henry V.," second edition . 46 85 Title-page of " The Merry Wives of Windsor " 46 86 Entry of "Troilus and Cressida" at Stationers' Hall 46 87 Royal Warrant for a Patent authorizing the performance of the Theatrical Company to which Shakespeare belonged 47 88 The Patent last mentioned 47 89 Entry at Stationers' Hall of "Richard III.," Richard II.," and the first part of " Henry IV." 48 90 Extract from Ben Jonson's " Sejanus " . . 48 91 Title-page of " Hamlet " 49 92 Extract from "Epigrams served out in 52 several dishes for every man to taste with- out surfeiting," by I. C 49 93 Extract from " Daiphantus or the Passions of Love," by An. Sc 50 94 Title-page of " Hamlet," second edition . . 50 95 Title-page of the first part of " Henry IV.," third edition 51 96 Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. . 51 g6a Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James 1 54 97 Letter from Sir Walter Cope to Viscount Cranbourne 54 x LIST OF CONTENTS NO. PAGE 98 Extract from Camden's "Remains of a Greater Work concerning Britain : ' 55 99 Abstract of Conveyance to Shakespeare of a lease of a moiety of the tithes of Stratford- upon-Avon, Old Stratford, Welcombe and Bishopton 55 100 Certificate of the Muster Roll for Rowington, Warwick 57 101 Title-page of " Richard III.," fourth edition 58 102 Extracts from "The Return from Par- nassus" 58 103 Entry at Stationers' Hall of " Romeo and Juliet," "Love's Labour's Lost," and "The Taming of the Shrew " 59 104 Entry of " King Lear" at Stationers' Hall . 59 105 Entry at Stationers' Hall of " Hamlet," " Romeo and Juliet, " and " Love's Labour's Lost 59 106 Burial register of Edmund Shakespeare . . 59 107 Extract from " Mirrha, the mother of Adonis," by William Barksted .... 60 108 Title-page of " Lucrece," fourth edition . . 60 109 Entry of " Pericles," and of " Anthony and Cleopatra " at Stationers' Hall .... 60 no Burial register of " Mary Shakespeare " . . 60 in Title-page of "King Lear" 6r 112 Title-page of " King Lear," second edition . 61 113 Title-page of "Richard II.," third edition . 61 114 Title-page of " Richard II.," fourth edition 62 115 Title-page of " Henry IV.," fourth edition . 62 116 Title-page of " Henry V.," third edition . . 62 117 Entry of " Troilus and Cressida" at Sta- tioner's Hall 63 LIST OF CONTENTS xi NO. PAGE 118 Entry of Shakespeare's "Sonnets" at Stationers' Hall 63 1 19 Title-page of Shakespeare's " Sonnets " . . 63 120 Title-page of Shakespeare's " Sonnets," second edition 63 121 Title-page of " Romeo and Juliet," third edition 64 122 Title-page of " Troilus and Cressida " . . 64 123 Title-page of "Troilus and Cressida," second edition 64 124 Title-page of " Pericles " 64 125 Abstract of Draft Bill of Complaint respect- ing the tithes of Stratford-upon-Avon . . 65 126 Abstract of William Combe's answer thereto 66 127 Foot of a fine levied on the purchase of an estate by Shakespeare from William and John Combe 67 128 Extract from Dr. Simon Forman's diary . 68 129 Title-page of "Titus Andronicus," second edition 72 130 Title-page of " Hamlet," third edition . . 73 131 Title-page of " Pericles," second edition . 73 132 Title-page of "Hamlet" (no date) . . . 73 133 Extract from the " Book of the Revels " . 74 134 Extract from the Dedication to Webster's "White Devil" 74 135 Title-page of "The Passionate Pilgrim," second edition 75 136 Deed of Conveyance of a house in Black- friars, from Henry Walker to Shakespeare and Trustees 75 137 Mortgage Deed from Shakespeare to Henry Walker 77 xii LIST OF CONTENTS NO. TAGE 138 Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber to King James 1 78 139 Entry of " Lucrece " at Stationers' Hall . . 79 140 Articles of Agreement between Shakespeare and William Replingham relating to the tithes of Stratford-upon-A von . . . . 79 141 Extract from "The Excellency of the English Tongue," by R. C. of Anthony Esquire . 80 142 Extract from " Rub and a great Cast," by Thomas Freeman 81 143 Extract from " The Annales or General Chronicle of England," by John Stow . 82 144 Title-page of " Richard II.," fifth edition . 82 145 Shakespeare's Will 83 146 Burial register of William Shakespeare . . 88 147 Inscription on Shakespeare's monument in Stratford Church 88 148 Title-page of " Lucrece " 89 149 Entry of " Venus and Adonis " at Stationers' Hall 89 150 Abstract of Deed transferring the legal estate of the Blackfriars property in trust to follow the directions of Shakespeare's Will . . 89 151 Extract from the Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber 90 152 Title-page of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," second edition 91 153 Title-page of " Pericles," third edition . . 91 154 Entry of "The Merchant of Venice" at Stationers' Hall 91 155 Entry of the assignment of the copyright of " Venus and Adonis " 92 LIST OF CONTENTS xii NO. PAGE 156 From "The Scourge of Folly," by John Davies of Hereford 92 157 Entry of " Othello " at Stationers' Hall . . 92 158 Title-page of " Othello " 92 159 Burial register of Mrs. Shakespeare ... 93 160 Entry of the First Folio Edition of Shake- speare's " Comedies, Histories, and Tra- gedies " at Stationers' Hall 93 161 Title, etc., of the First Folio 93 Index 103 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS NO. PAGE 1. SHAKESPEARE'S MONUMENT IN THE CHURCH OF STRATFORD-ON-AVON Frontispiece 2. TITLE-PAGE OF VENUS AND ADONIS To face 10 3. TITLE-PAGE OF LUCRECE ... 12 4. FACSIMILE OF R. QUINEY'S LETTER To face 28 5. TITLE-PAGE OF HAMLET .... 49 6. TITLE-PAGE OF THE SONNETS I 66 7. DEDICATION OF THE SONNETS / 8. SHAKESPEARE'S SIGNATURE TO A DEED OF PURCHASE OF A HOUSE IN BLACK- FRIARS, i6ra To face 76 9. SHAKESPEARE'S SIGNATURE TO A DEED OF MORTGAGE, 1612 . . . . To face 76 10. TITLE-PAGE OF THE FIRST FOLIO . 92 n. PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE BY MARTIN DROESHOUT To face 98 PREFACE THE present little work does not aspire to any origin- ality, nor does the collector claim to include any (or scarcely any) documents not already comprised in other lists. But it occurred to him that it might be of use to have the principal documents gathered together in one book in a handy form. The labours of Malone, Knight, Dyce, Furnivall and others, not forgetting Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, have opened up so many sources of information that there does not seem much left in this direction for later com- pilers to investigate, various errors and inaccuracies having to a great extent been corrected. As some limit must be placed to so called "documentary evidence," I do not propose to go further back than Shakespeare's father, as we have no positive evidence at an earlier date. I may briefly state that by " documentary evid- ence relating to Shakespeare," I mean the chief legal or other documents in connection with his family and property and the productions of his genius. This evidence consists of: (i) The Stratford registers of births, marriages and deaths, and the inscriptions on the family tombstones. xvL PREFACE (ii) Contemporary notices of the poet, whether con- tained in poems, correspondence, or other- wise, (iii) The minutes and accounts of the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon. (iv) Legal documents. This embraces a somewhat wide area, but is, I think, sufficiently definite, including exemplifications of Court records, Royal Warrants, Fines, Conveyances, etc. (v) The entries of his plays and poems in the regis- ters of Stationers' Hall. (vi) The poet's Will and the dedications prefixed to his poems during his life as contained in his works, and the quarto and other editions of his dramas up to the publication of the First Folio in 1623. There are very few documents that are known to contain his handwriting, and there is only one letter extant that is addressed to him. It is of course impossible to state whether any further genuine " Shakespeare documents " may yet come to light. Owing to the numerous fabrications published by Payne Collier and others, any fresh manuscript has to undergo the most jealous scrutiny, though there are still numerous papers of the Elizabethan period at the London Writ and Record Office which have to be gone through, and which present a field of search for the industrious student of Shakespeare. Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps so thoroughly explored the Chamberlain's accounts and records of the Corporation of Stratford, that no fresh evidence can be expected in that quarter. Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, in his Life, has PREFACE xix gone very closely into the question of the pecuniary position of the poet's father, this being shown by re- ference to the registry of the Court of Record and the documents of the Corporation. Naturally the position of the father at different times would tend to show what education he was able to give his son ; and though the pecuniary difficulties in which John Shakespeare became involved Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps considers not to have been so great as has been made out, and his social status at one time to have been good among the yeoman class of the period of Queen Elizabeth, yet there seems little doubt that these embarrassments occurred when the poet was at school, in fact at about eleven years of age, and necessitated his father's with- drawing him from school to assist him in his own agri- cultural pursuits. At any rate, John Shakespeare came to reside at Stratford about 1551, and attained the highest honour the Corporation had to bestow, being elected Mayor or High Bailiff in 1568, entitling him to the prefix of Magister or Master. He was living in" Henley Street in 1552, in the house which tradition assigns as the poet's birthplace. The fact that John Shakespeare used a mark when signing his name on a legal document is not evidence that he could not write. The contrary is probable, because he was Chamberlain and kept the town accounts, heading them with the words "made by John Shakespere." In those days people who could write often used a mark instead of writing their name. The contemporary notices of Shakespeare fully prove that the world of his day was aware of and appreciated his genius. The apparent neglect of his works which xx PREFACE followed his death is, I think, easily accounted for. Soon after followed the Civil War between Charles I. and the Parliamentarians; then there was a period of sad decadence in the drama, when the writers for the stage of the day pandered to the lowest tastes, follow- ing the example of a licentious Court. Then came a second revolution, and the natural restlessness, so antagonistic to literary talent and dramatic growth, which prevailed until the succession to the throne of England was settled upon a firm basis, and men's minds were able to devote themselves to the arts of literary advancement. This was not the case until more than a hundred years after the death of our Poet. The documents, which are either fully or partially set out, have been collated with the originals or with facsimiles thereof either by myself or by those in whose possession or custody they are, and I gratefully acknow- ledge my obligations to Mr. W. S. Brassington of the Shakespeare Memorial, Stratford-upon-Avon, and to Mr. R. Savage, Librarian and Secretary to the Birth- place Trustees, who have most kindly and materially assisted me in this field. I am also indebted to Dr. Furnivall, formerly President of the " New Shakspere Society," for many valuable suggestions, and to the kindness of Mr. Marsden J. Perry, of Providence, Rock Island, U.S.A., who has collated Mr. Halliwell- Phillipp's copy of No. 147 of this collection with the original in his possession. The collection has been made during the intervals of professional work, and it is hoped that the documents are accurate copies, but no one knows better than a lawyer how easily errors PREFACE xxi creep in even after the most careful examination and collation, and the writer will be obliged to any one who may point out any that may exist. D. H. LAMBERT. May, 1904. SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS Stratford Registers. Baptisms: 1 1558, Septeber 15, Jone Shakspere daughter to John Shakspere. 2 1562, December 2, Margareta filia Johannis Shak- spere. 3 1564, April 26, Gulielmus filius Johannes Shak- spere. 4 1566, Oct. 13, Gilbertus filius Johannis Shakspere. 5 1569, April 15, Jone the daughter of John Shak- spere. 6 1571, Septcbr 28, Anna filia Magistri Shakspere. 7 1 5 73-4, March n, Richard sonne to M r John Shak- speer. 8 1575. Fine levied on the purchase of the two houses in Henley Street. The western being assigned by tradition as the birthplace, the B 2 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS eastern probably used by John Shakespeare as a woolshop, and later converted into an Inn, " The Swan and Maidenhead." {Pub lie Record Office^, Inter Johannem Shakespere, querentem et Edmun- dum Hall et Emmam uxorem ejus, deforciantes de duobus mesuagiis, duobus gardinis et duobus pomariis, cum pertinentiis, in Stretforde-super-Avon unde placi- tum conventionis summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem curia, scilicet, quod predicti Edmundus et Emma re- cognoverunt predicta tenementa cum pertinenciis esse jus ipsius Johannis ut ilia que idem Johannes habet de dono predictorum Edmundi et Emmae et ilia re- miserunt et quietum clamaverunt de ipsis Edmundo et Emma et heredibus suis predicto Johanni et heredibus suis imperpetuum et prseterea iidem Edmundus et Emma concesserunt pro se et heredibus ipsiu Emme quod ipsi warantizabunt prsedicto Johanni et heredibus suis praedicta tenementa cum pertinentiis contra pre- dictos Edmundum et Emmam et heredes ipsius Emme imperpetuum ; etprohac recognicioneremissionequieta- clamancia warantia fine et concordia idem Johannes dedit predictis Edmundo et Emme quadraginta libras sterlingorum. Term Mich: 17 Eliz: 9 1579. Note of a fine levied when an estate at Aston Cantlowe was mortgaged by Shake- speare's parents to Edmund Lambert. {Pub- lic Record Office.} Inter Edmundum Lambert querentem et Johannem Shakespere et Mariam, uxorem ejus, deforciantes, de duobus mesuagiis, duobus gardinis, quinquaginta acris SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 3 terre, duabus acris prati, quatuor acris pasture et com- munia pasture pro omnimodis averiis, cum pertinentiis in Awston Cawntlett; unde placitum conventionis sum. fuit inter eos &c. scilicet quod predicti Johannes et Maria recog. pred. tenementa et communia pasture cum pertinentiis esse jus ipsius Edmundi ut ilia que idem Edmundus habet de dono predicti Johannis et Marie; et ilia remis: et quietclam: de ipsis Johanne et Maria et haered. suis predicto Edmundo et haered. suis im- perpetuum. Et preterea iidem Johannes et Maria con- cess, pro se et haered: ipsius Marie quod ipsi warant. pred. Edmundo et hasred. suis pred. tenement, et communia past, cum pertinentiis contra pred: Joh: et Mar. &c. et pro hac recog: &c idem Edmundus dedit pred: Joh: et Mar: quadraginta libras sterlingorum. Pasch. 21 Eliz: Stratford Registers: 10 15795 April 4, Burial, Anne, daughter to M r John Shakspere. 1580, May 3, Baptism, Edmund sonne to M r John Shakspere. 11 Diocese of Worcester. Extract from the Epis- copal Register, 1570-1641. Dispensacones concesse a festo Anuciaconis bte Marie Virginis Anno dni 1579 prout sequntur. Anno dni 1582. # * * * * Novembris. * # * * * 27 die eiusdm mensis Itm eodem die/ sup a dco/ emanavit Licna inter W m Shaxpere et Anna Whateley de Temple Grafton. 4 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 12 1582, November 28. Marriage Bond from the Registry of the Diocese of Worcester. Noverint universi per pnesentes nos Fulconem San- dells de Stratford in comitatu Warwici agricolam et Johannem Rychardson ibidem agricolam, teneri et firmiter obligari Ricardo Cosin generoso et Roberto Warmstry notario publico in quadraginta libris bonae et legalis monetse Angliae solvend. eisdem Ricardo et . Roberto haered. execut. et assignat. suis ad quam quidem solucionem bene et fideliter faciend. obligamus nos et utrumque nostrum per se pro toto et in solid, haered. executor, et administrator, nostros firmiter per praesentes. sigillis nostris sigillat. Dat 28 die Novem. Anno regni dominae nostrae Eliz. Dei gratia Angliae Franc, at Hiberniae Reginae fidei defensor &c. 25. The condicion of this obligacion ys suche that if herafter there shall not appere any lawfull lett or im- pediment by reason of any precontract, consanguitie, affinitie or by any other lawfull meanes whatsoever, but that Willm Shagspere one thone partie and Anne Hathweyof Stratford in the dioces of Worcester, maiden, may lawfully solemnize matrimony together, and in the same afterwardes remaine and continew like man and wiffe according unto the lawes in that be- half provided; and moreover if there be not at this present time any action sute quarrell or demaund moved or depending before any judge ecclesiasticall or temporall for and concerning any such lawfull lett or impediment; and moreover if the said Willm do not proceed to solemnization of mariadg with the said Anne Hathwey without the consent of hir frindes And also if the said Willm do upon his owne proper costes and expenses defend and save harmles the right SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 5 reverend Father in God Lord John Bishop of Worcester and his offycers for licencing them the said Willm and Anne to be maried together with once asking of the bannes of matrimony betwene them and for all other causes which may ensue by reason or occasion therof that then the said obligacion to be void and of none effect or els to stand and abide in full force and vertue. L. S. R. H. L. S. (Signed by a cross and another mark.) Stratford Registers. Baptisms: 13 1583, May 26, Susanna daughter to William Shakspere. 14 1584, February, Hamnet and Judeth sonne and daughter to Willia Shakspere. 15 1589. Term Michs., 31 and 32 Eliz. : Abstract of a Bill of Complaint brought by the Poet's father against John Lambert in the Court of Queen's Bench respecting an Estate at VVilmecote near Stratford- on- A von. {Public Record Office. Coram Rege Rolls. Fo. 516. 1311.) Warwick. Memorandum that in Michaelmas term last at Westminster John Shakspere by his attorney preferred his bill against John Lambert son and heir of Edmund Lambert on the plea of trespass on the case; reciting that to the said Edmund Lambert in his life time on the 14 th November 1578 by an indenture of that date were conveyed by John Shakspere and Mary his wife a messuage or tenement a yard of land 6 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS and 4 acres of arable land with the appurtenances in Wilmecote in the County of Warwick to have and to hold the same to the said Edmund his heirs and as- signs for ever provided however that if the said John Shakspere his heirs exors admors or assigns should pay or cause to be paid to the said Edmund Lambert ^40 of lawful English money on the feast of Saint Michael 1580 the said indenture should be void, reciting that on the death of the said Edmund Lambert who had entered into possession and seisin of the premises the said premises descended to his son the said John who doubting of his right and title to the premises and know- ing that John Shakspere intended to sue for recovery of the premises promised in consideration of the said John and Mary and their son William assuring to him his right and title to the property to pay to the said John Shakspere ,20 by instalments as therein mentioned but though the said John and Mary and William had foreborne to sue for recovery of the land and were always ready to make such assurance the said John Lambert had not paid over the money as mentioned and the said John Shakspere had sustained loss and damage thereby, in respect of which the pre- sent action was brought. N.B. The above-proposed arrangement amount- ed to a sale of the equity of redemption of the property and conveyance to John Lambert in fee simple on payment of 20 in addition to the 40 the amount for which it had been mort- gaged to Edmund Lambert. The action seems to have been abandoned. The following are the opening paragraphs of the Bill : SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 7 Warr. Memorandum quod alias, scilicet termino Sancti Michaelis ultimo preterito, coram domina regina apud Westmonasterium venit Johannes Shackspere per Johannem Harborne, attornatum suum, et protulit hie in curiam dicte domine regine tune ibidem quandam billam suam versus Johannem Lambert filium et here- dem Edmundi Lamberte nuper de Barton Henmershe in comitatu predicto yoman in custodia marescalli . . . de placito transgressionis super casum: et sunt plegii de prosequendo, scilicet Johannes Doo et Ricardus Roo que quidem billa sequitur in hec verba Warr: Johannes Shackespere queritur de Johanne Lamberte filio et herede Edmundi Lamberte nuper de Barton Henmershe in comitatu predicto yoman. . . . 16 1592. Title, Dedication and Address of Henry Chettle's "Kind-Harts Dreame," in which the author regrets the part he took as editor of Green's " Groatsworth of Wit " (see No. 29), from his subsequent knowledge of Shakespeare as an author and as a man. (Date of entry at Stationers' Hall, 8 Dec. 1592.) KIND-HARTS DREAME. Conteining five Apparitions, with their Invectives against abuses raigntng. De- livered by several I ghosts unto him to be publisht, after Piers Penilesse Post had refused the carnage. Invita Invidia. by H. C. Imprinted at London for William Wright. To the Gentlemen Readers. It hath beene a custome, gentlemen (in my mind commendable) among former authors, (whose workes are no lesse beautified with 8 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS eloquente phrase than garnisht with excellent example) to begin an exordium to the readers of their time, much more convenient I take it, should the writers in these daies (wherein that gravitie of enditing by the elder exer- cised, is not observ'd, nor that modest decorum kept, which they continued) submit their labours to the favourable censures of their learned overseers. For see- ing nothing can be said that hath not been before said, the singularitie of some mens conceits (otherwayes ex- ellent well deserving) are no more to be soothed than the peremptorie posies of two very sufficient Trans- lators commended. To come in print is not to seeke praise, but to crave pardon ; I am urgd to the one, and bold to begge the other; he that offendes, being forst, is more excusable than the wilfull faultie; though both be guilty, there is difference in the guilt. To observe cus- tome, and avoid, as I may, cavill, opposing your favors against my feare, lie shew reason for my present writing and after proceed to sue for pardon. About three moneths since died M. Robert Greene, leaving many papers in sundry bookesellers hands, among other his Groatsworth of Wit, in which a letter, written to divers play-makers, is offensively by one or two of them taken ; and because on the dead they cannot be avenged, they wilfully forge in their conceites a living author; and after tossing it two and fro, no remedy, but it must light on me. How I have all the time of my conversing in printing hindred the bitter inveying against schollers, it hath been very well knowne ; and how in that I dealt, I can sufficiently proove. With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be. The other, 1 whome at that time I 1 I.e. , Shakespeare, SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 9 did not so much spare as since I wish I had, for that, as I have moderated the heate of living writers, and might have usde my owne discretion, especially in such a case, the author beeing dead, that I did not I am as sory as if the originall fault had beene my fault, because myselfe have scene his demeanor no lesse civill, than he exelent in the qualitie he professes ; besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightnes of dealing, which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writting, that aprooves his art. For the first, whose learning I reverence, and, at the perusing of Greenes booke, stroke out what then in conscience I thought he in some displeasure writ; or, had it beene true, yet to publish it was intollerable; him I would wish to use me no worse than I deserve. I had onely in the copy this share; it was il written, as sometimes Greenes hand was none of the best; licensd it must be ere it could bee printed, which could never be if it might not be read. To be breife, I writ it over; and, as neare as I could, followed the copy; onely in that letter I put something out, but in the whole booke not a worde in; for I protest it was all Greenes, not mine nor Maister Nashes, as some unjustly have affirmed. Neither was he the writer of an Epistle to the second part of Gerileon, though by the workemans error T. N. were set to the end; that I confesse to be mine, and repent it not. Thus, gentlemen, having noted the private causes that made me nominate myselfe in print; being as well to purge Master Nashe of that he did not, as to justifie what I did, and withall to confirm what M. Greene did ; I beseech yee accept the publike cause, which is both the desire of your delight and common benefite; io SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS for though the toye bee shadowed under the title of Kind-hearts Dreame, it discovers the false hearts of divers that wake to commit mischiefe. Had not the former reasons been, it had come forth without a father ; and then shuld I have had no cause to feare offending, or reason to sue for favour. Now am I in doubt of the one, though I hope of the other; which, if I obtaine, you shall bind me hereafter to bee silent till I can present you with something more acceptable. Henrie Chettle. 17 Entry at Stationers' Hall : 1593, xviij Aprilis. Richard Feild. Entred for his copie, under handes of the Archbisshop of Cant, and Mr. Warden Stirrop, a booke intuled Venus and Adonis. Assigned over to Mr. Harrison sen: 25 Junij, 1594. 18 1 593- Title-page and Dedication of " Venus and Adonis." VENUS AND ADONIS. Vilia miretur vulgus: mihi flavus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua. London Imprinted by Richard Field, and are to be sold at the signe of the White Greyhound in Paules Churchyard. 1593. [4*0.] To the Right Honorable Henrie Wriothesley, Earle of Southampton, and Baron of Titchfield. Right Honorable, I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolisht lines to your Lordship, nor how the world will censure mee for choosing so strong VENVS p AND ADONIS V. (lit miretu ' vulgut : mibifl*uu4 "jj&df.cf'} *^4 1 i' : "t - LONDON Imprinted by Richard Field , and are to be fold at the fignc of the white Greyhound in Paules Church-yard. TITLE-PAGE OF VENUS AND ADONIS SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS n a proppe to support so weake a burthen, onely if your Honour seeme but pleased, I account myselfe highlie praysed, and vow to take advantage of all idle houres, till I have honoured you with some graver labour. But if the first heyre of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sory it had so noble a god-father : and never after eare so barren a land, for feare it yeeld me still so bad a harvest, I leave it to your Honourable survey, and your Honour to your hearts content, which I wish may alwaies answere your owne wish, and the worlds hopefull expectation. Your Honors in all dutie, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Entries at Stationers' Hall : 1593-4, vj die Februarij. John Danter. Entred for his copye under thandes of bothe the wardens, a booke intituled a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus Andro- nicus. 1593-4, xij Marcij. Thomas Myllington. Entred for his copie, under the handes of bothe the wardens, a booke intituled the firste parte of the contention of the twoo famous houses of York and Lancaster, with the deathe of the good Duke Humfrey,and the banishe- ment and deathe of the duke of Suf : and the tragicall ende of the prowd Cardinall of Winchester, with the notable rebellion of Jack Cade and the duke of Yorkes first clayme unto the crowne. 1594, 9 May. Mr. Harrison sen: Entred for his copie, under thand of Mr. Cawood, warden, a booke intituled the Ravyshement of Lucrece. 12 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS I 594> 25 Junij. Mr. Harrison sen: Assigned over unto him from Richard Feild, in open court holden this day a book called Venus and Adonis, the which was before entred to Ric. Feild, 18 April 1593. 23 ! 594- Title-page of "Venus and Adonis." VENUS AND ADONIS. Vilia miretur vulgus: mihi flavus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua. London. Imprinted by Richard Field, and are to be sold at the signe of the white Greyhound in Paules Church-yard. [410.] 24 1594. Title-page and Dedication of " Lucrece." LUCRECE. London. Printed by Richard Field, for John Harrison, and are to be sold at the signe of the White Greyhound in Paules Churchyard, 1594. [4to.] To the Right Honourable Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, and Baron of Titchfield. The love I dedicate to your Lordship is without end; whereof this Pamphlet, without beginning is but a superfluous Moity. The warrant I have of your Honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours, what I have to doe is yours, being part in all I have, devoted yours. Were my worth L V C R E C E. LONDON. Printed by Richard Field, for lohn Harrifotyand are to be fold at the fignc of the v hite Greyhound inPaulesChuih yard. 1 5 P 4.. TITLE-PAGE OF LUCRECE SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 13 greater, my duety would shew greater, meantime, as it is, it is bound to your Lordship, to whom I wish long life, still lengthened with all happiness. Your Lordships in all duety, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 25 Manuscript accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber. {Public Record Office. Pipe Office Declared Accounts. 542. Fo. 207^.) 1594-5, March 15. To Willm Kempe, Willm Shakespeare & Richarde Burbage, servaunts to the Lord Chamberleyne, upon the Councelles warrant dated at Whitehall xv to . Marcij 1594 for twoe severall Comedies or enterludes shewed by them before her Majestic in Christmas tyme laste paste, viz : upon St. Stephens daye and Innocentes dayexiij li. vj. s. viij. d., and by waye of her Majesties rewarde vj. li. xiij. s. iiij. d. in all xx. li. 26 1595- December 27. Extract from Edmund Spenser's " Colin Clouts come home againe." And there, though last not least, is ^Etion; A gentler shepheard may no where be found; Whose' Muse, full of high thoughts invention, Doth like himselfe heroically sound. 27 Entry at Stationers' Hall. 1596, 25 Junij. William Leeke. Assigned over unto him for his copie from Mr. Harrison thelder, in full 14 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS court holden this day, by the said Mr. Harrisons Consent, a booke called Venus and Adonis. 28 Stratford Registers. Burial: 1596, August n, Hamnet films William Shakspere. 29 1596, September 2Oth. Title, Dedication and Address of Green's " Groats-worth of Wit." (Entered at Stationers' Hall.) GREENES GROATS-WORTH OF WITTE: BOUGHT WITH A MILLION OF REPENTAUNCE. Describing the follie of youth, the falsehoode of make-shift flatterers, the miserie of the negligent, and mischiefes of deceining Courtezans. Written before before [sic] his death and published at his dying request. Fczlicem fuisse in- faustum. London, Printed by Thomas Creede,for Richard Oliue, dwelling in long long [sic] Lane, and are there to be solde. 1596. To those Gentlemen, his Quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies, R. G. wisheth a better exercise, and wisdome to preuent his extremities. If wofull experience may moove you, gentlemen, to beware, or unheard of wretchednes intreate you to take heed, I doubt not but you will looke backe with sorrow on your time past, and endeavour with repent- ance to spend that which is to come. Wonder not, for with thee wH I first begin, thou famous gracer of tragedians, that Greene, who hath said with thee, like the foole in his heart, there is no God, should now give glorie unto Hisgreatnesse; for penitrating is His power, His hand lies heavie upon me, He hath spoken SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 15 unto me with a voice of thunder, and I have felt, He is a God that can punish enimies. Why should thy excellent wit, His gift, be so blinded, that thou shouldst give no glory to the giver? Is it pestilent Machivilian pollicie that thou hast studied? O punish follie! What are his rules but meere confused mockeries, able to extirpate in small time the generation of mankinde. For if sic volo, sic jubeo^ hold in those that are able to command; and if it be lawfull, fas et nefas, to doe anything that is beneficiall, onely tyrants should pos- sesse the earth; and they, striving to exceede in tyranny, should each to other bee a slaughter-man ; till the mightiest outliving all, one stroke were left for death, that in one age mans life should ende. The brother of this diabolicall atheisme is dead, and in his life had never the felicitie he aimed at; but as he began in craft, lived in feare, and ended in despaire. Quam inscrutabilia sunt Dei judiria ? This murderer of many brethren had his conscience seared like Caine; this betrayer of him that gave his life for him inherited the portion of Judas; this apostata perished as ill as Julian: and wilt thou, my friend, be his disciple? Looke unto me, by him perswaded to that libertie, and thou shalt finde it an infernall bondage. I knowe the least of my demerits merit this miserable death ; but wilfull striving against knowne truth exceedeth al the terrors of my soule. Defer not, with me, till this last point of ex- tremitie; for little knowest thou how in the end thou shalt be visited. With thee I joyne young Juvenall, that byting satyrist that lastlie with mee together writ a comedie. Sweete boy, might I advise thee, be advised, and get not many enemies by bitter words; inveigh against vaine men, i6 for thou canst do it, no man better, no man so wel; thou hast a libertie to reproove all, and name none; for one being spoken to, al are offended ; none being blamed, no man is injured/ Stop shallow water still running, it will rage; tread on a worme, and it will turne; then blame not scholler* vexed with sharpe lines, if they reprove thy too much libertie of reproofe. And thou, no lesse deserving then the other two, in some things rarer, in nothing inferiour ; driven (as myselfe) to extreame shifts; a little have I to say to thee ; and were it not an idolatrous oth, I would sweare by sweet S. George thou art unworthie better hap, sith thou dependest on so meane a stay. Base minded men al three of you, if by my miserie ye be not warned ; for unto none of you, like me, sought those burres to cleave; those puppits, I meane, that speake from our mouths, those anticks garnisht in our colours. Is it hot strange that I, to whom they al have beene be- holding, is it not like that you to whome they all have beene beholding, shall, were ye in that case that I am now, be both at once of them forsaken? Yes, trust them not; for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrie. O that I might in- treate your rare wits to be imployed in more profitable courses, and let those apes imitate your past excel- lence, and never more acquaint them with your admired inventions! I know the best husband of you all will never prove an usurer, and the kindest of them all wil never proove a kinde nurse; yet, whilst you may, seeke SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 17 you better maisters, for it is pittie men of such rare wits should be subject to the pleasures of such rude groomes. In this I might insert two more, that both have writ against these buckram gentlemen; but let their owne works serve to witnesse against their owne wickednesse, if they persever to maintaine any more such peasants. For other new commers, I leave them to the mercie of these painted monsters, who, I doubt not, will drive the best minded to despise them; for the rest, it skils not though they make a jeast at them. But now returne I againe to you three, knowing my miserie is to you no news ; and let me heartily intreate you to bee warned by my harmes. Delight not, as I have done, in irreligious oaths; for from the blasphemers house a curse shall not depart. Despise drunkennes, which wasteth the wit and making \sic\ men all equal unto beasts. Flie lust, as the deathsman of the soule, and defile not the temple of the Holy Ghost. Abhorre those epicures, whose loose life hath made religion lothsome to your eares; and when they sooth you with tearmes of maistership, remember Robert Greene, whome they have often so flattered, perishes now for want of comfort. Remember, gentlemen, your lives are like so many lighted tapers, that are with care delivered to all of you to maintaine; these with wind- puft wrath may be extinguisht, which drunkennes put out, which negligence let fall ; for mans time of itselfe is not so short, but it is more shortened by sin. The fire of my light is now at the last snuffe, and the want of wherewith to sustaine it; there is no substance left for life to feede on. Trust not then, I beseech' yee, to such weakestaies; for they are as changeable in minde c i8 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS as in many attires. Well, my hand is tired, and I am forst to leave where I would begin; for a whole booke cannot containe their wrongs which I am forst to knit up in some few lines of words. Desirous that you should live, though himself e be dying. Robert Greene. 30 1 596. The next document of importance is un- doubtedly the Grant of Arms for which John Shakespeare applied in 1596. This exists in the form of two Drafts at the Heralds' College made out by Dethick and was followed in 1 599 by a Draft of a Confirmation of the grant in somewhat similar terms allowing the Shake- speares to impale their arms with those of Arden. There is no evidence, but very strong presumption, that the arms were actually granted, for the Shakespeare family adopted the arms for which John Shakespeare had ap- plied. Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps is of opinion a probable conjecture that the application to the Heralds' College was made at the instance of the poet, as it is not likely that John Shake- speare in his then circumstances would have made such a move only a few years before his death. The following is the second draft. The interlineations are marked in italics, and the chief variations of the other draft are placed in brackets or indicated in footnotes. Draft of a Grant of Arms to John Shake- speare, 1596, MS. Vincent. Coll. Arm. 157 arts. 23, 24. SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 19 (The arms are placed at the top of this draft with the motto Non sans droict.) JV ^ J* FROM THE SECOND DRAFT OF THE GRANT AT THE COLLEGE OF ARMS. 1596. Shakespere. To all and singular noble and gentilmen of what estate or degre bearing Arms to whom these presentes 20 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS shall come, Willm Dethick Garter principall King of Arms sendeth greeting. Knowe yee that whereas by the authoritie and auncyent pryvelege [and custome] perteyning to my [said] office [of principall King of arms] from the Quenes most excellent Ma tle and by her high- nes most noble and verteious progenitors I am to take general notice and record and to make [publique] de- claration l and testemonie for all causes of Arms and matters of gentrie thoroughe out all her Ma tcs King- doms, dominions, principalites, isles and provinces, To thend that as manie gentilme by theyre auncyent names and families kyndrede and descente have and enjoy sonderie enssignes and cotes of Arms, so it is expedient unto all ages that some men for theyre valeant faith, magnanimite vertue, dignites, and de- serte, may use and beare suche tokens of honor and worthinesse, whereby theyr name and good fame may be the better knowen and divulged, and theyre children and posterite in all vertue to the service of theyre prince and contrie encouraged. We therefore being solicited and by credible report informed that John Shakespeare of Stratford upon Avon in the counte of Warwick . . . [whose parentes and late] zntecessors (grandfather) [were] for his [valeant and] faithefull and . . . [service advanced and rewarded by the most prudent] prince King Henry the seventh . . . [of famous memorie, sythence whiche tyme] they have continewed at those partes being of good reputation . . . [and credit; and that the] said John hath [having] maryed [Mary,] the daughter . . . [and one of the heyrs of Robert Arden of Wilmcote, in the said] counte Esquire 2 . . . [In con- 1 Demonstracion. 2 Gent. SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 21 sideration wherof,] and for the encouragement of his posterite, to whom auncyent custom of the lawes of Arms may descend ... I the said Garter . . . of Arms have assigned graunted and by these presentes con- firmed [this shield or cote of arms] viz: Gould on a bend sable a speare of the first, [the poynt] steeled, argent, 1 and for his creast or cognizance a faulcon his winges displayed argent standing on a wrethe of his coullors, supporting a speare gould steeled as aforesaid, sett upon a healmett with mantelles and tasselles as hath been accustomed and doth more playnely appear depicted in this margent. Signefieng hereby and by the authoritie of my office aforesaid ratifying that it shalbe lawfull for the said John Shakespeare gent, and for his children yssue and posterite at all times and places convenient to beare and to make shewe of and make demonstracion of the said blazon or atcheve- ment upon theyre shields targets or escucheons cotes of arms creasts cognizances penons guydons scales ringes signettes edefices buildings utensils lyveries tombes or monumentes or otherwyse [at all tymes] for all lawfull warrlyke factes or civile use or exercises, according to the lawes of Armes and customs that to gentlemen belongeth without lett or interruption of any [other] person or persons for use or bearinge the same. Yn witnesse and perpetual remembrance hereof I haue hereunto subscribed my name and fastened the scale of my office endorzed with the signett of my Arms. At the office of Arms London the xx.th day of October in the xxxviiith yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Quene 1 Proper. 22 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS of England, ffrance and Ireland. Defender of the Faithe &c. 1596. At the bottom of the second draft follows: This John hath a patierne therof under Clarence Cookes hand in paper xx years past. A Justice of peace, and was baylefe, officer, and cheffe of the towne of Stratford uppon Avon xv or xvj years past. That he hathe landes and tenementes of good wealth and substance, 500 li. That he mar[ried a daughter and heyre of Arden, a gent of worship]. 1 31 1 596. Title-page of " Venus and Adonis." VENUS AND ADONIS. Vilia miretur vulgus: mihi flavus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua. Imprinted at London by R. F. for John Harison. 1596. [i6mo.] 32 1597. Easter [Ap. 6] Foot of the fine levied on the purchase of New Place from William Un- derhill. (Public Record Office^ (ist Fine.) Inter Willielmum Shakespeare querentem et Williel- mum Underbill, generosum, deforciantem, de uno mesuagio, duobus horreis, et duobus gardinis cum pertinentiis in Stratford Super Avon unde placitum conventionis summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem curia 1 The words in brackets are now missing. SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 23 Scilicet quod predictusWillielmus Underbill recognovit predicta tenementa cum pertinentiis esse jus ipsius Willielmi Shakespeare ut ilia quae idem Willielmus habet de dono predict! Willielmi Underbill et ilia re- misit et quietumclamavit de se et hseredibus suis predicto Willielmo Shakespeare et haeredibus suis im- perpetuum ; et prseterea idem Willielmus Underbill concessit pro se et haeredibus suis quod ipsi warantiz- abunt predicto Willielmo Shakespeare et haeredibus suis predicta tenementa cum pertinentiis imperpetuum : et pro hac recognitione remissione quieta clamantia warantia fine et concordia idem Willielmus Shakespeare dedit predicto Willielmo Underbill sexaginta libras sterlingorum. (Pasch. 39 Eliz.) Entries at Stationers' Hall : 33 !597> 2 9 Augusti. Andrew Wise. Entred for his copie by appoyntment from M 1 ' Warden Man, The Tragedye of Richard the Second. 34 i597j 20 Octobr. Andrewe Wise. Entred for his copie, under thandes of M r Barlowe and M r Warden Man, The tragedie of Kinge Richard the Third, with the death of the Duke of Clarence. 35 i 597, November 24. Papers in a Chancery suit respecting an estate at Wilmecote, Michaelmas Term, 1598. (Public Record Office^) John and Mary Shakespeare complainants and John Lambert son of Edmund Lambert, the poet's maternal uncle, defendant. 24 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS The original Bill opens thus: To the righte honorable Sir Thomas Egerton knighte lorde keeper of the greate scale of Englande : In most humble wise complayninge sheweth unto your good lordshippe your dailye oratours John Shake- spere of Stratford upon Avon in the county of War- wicke and Mary his wief that whereas your saide oratours were lawfully seised in their demesne as of fee so in the righte of the saide Mary of and in one messuage and one yard land with thappurtenaunces lyinge and beinge in Wylmecote in the saide county: And they beinge thereof so seised for and in considera- tion of the some of fowerty pounds to them by one Edmunde Lamberte of Barton on the Heath in the said countie paide your saide oratours were contente that he the saide Edmunde Lamberte shoulde have and enjoye the same premises untill suche tyme as your sayde oratours did repaie unto him the saide some of fowertie pounds, &c. [It is not necessary to set out this Bill in extenso. It recites seisin in fee by the complainants of Wilmecote, the mortgage thereof for ^40 to Edmund Lambert, his entry into possession, and receipt of the rents and profits for three or four years; the tender to E. Lambert by the complainants of the said sum of ^40, and re- demption of the property, the refusal of E. Lambert to accept payment or reconvey the same except on pay- ment of other sums also due to him from them, the death of said E. Lambert and entry of John his son and heir, the like tender to John, and his refusal and wrongful retention of the title-deeds, and also his having made over certain interests in the said property to other 25 persons, so that the complainants cannot tell against whom to bring their action for recovery of the property, and the said J. Lambert is of great wealth and ability, with many friends and allies among the gentry and freeholders of the county, whereas the complainants are of small wealth and very few friends and alliance, and ending with the usual prayer for subpoena and answer, November 24, 1597. The Answer of John Lambert pleads that the com- plainants have already filed their bill heretofore which the defendant has already answered, but the com- plainants have not proceeded to hearing, admits the mortgage to his father Edmund Lambert by indenture dated i4th November, 1578, reciting the proviso for redemption and enfeoffment of Edmund, and levy ot a fine in favor of him sur cognizance de drcit as by the chirograph of the said fine did appear, and denying the tender or payment of the said ^40 on Michaelmas Day, 1580, reciting the death of his father and descent of the property to himself the son, and pleading gen- erally that by failure to repay the money the com- plainant is barred from re-obtaining possession of the property which had been leased by the complainants' own demise, but in consequence of its near expiry, and consequent greater value of the reversion the com- plainants, endeavour to get further monies out of the defendant, and that defendant is consequently entitled to enjoyment of the property, and denying that any deeds have wrongfully come to his hands, and praying for dismissal of the suit with costs against the com- plainant. 24th November, 1597. Replication of John and Mary Shakespeare to the said answer. 26 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS Alleging their bill to be good and sufficient in law and re-stating the tender and refusal of payments on the grounds before alleged, and the wrongful detention of the premises as aforesaid. (Endorsed Michaelmas Term, 40 and 4ist year of Eliz.)] The result of this suit is not known. 36 1 597- Title-page of " Romeo and Juliet" An excellent V = o = SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 77 &c.; and also all and singuler cellours sellers c. to the said house or tenement belonging &c. and the reversion etc. and also all rentes etc. and also all the state etc. To have and to hold etc. with the appurten- Habendum. ances unto the said W. Shakspeare W. Johnson J. Jackson and J. Hemmyng their heires and assignes for ever To thonlie and proper use etc. By Henry Walker with W m Shakspeare (only) his heirs & ass ns for free- dom from incumbrances except the chief rents to the lord of the fee. For Quiet Enjoyment. Covenants. For further assurance. Henry Walker Executed in the presence of 4 wit- nesses. (Counterpart of this Deed signed by W. Shakspere, W m Johnson and John Jackson in the presence of 4 witnesses.) 137 1612-13, March nth. Mortgage Deed from Wm. Shakespeare to the said Henry Walker. {Library of British Museum?) Begins: . This Indenture made the eleventh day of March in Parties. the yeares of the reigne of our sovereigne Lorde James by the grace of God etc. Between William Shakespeare of Stratford upon Avon in the countie of Warwick gentleman William Johnson citizen and vintener of London John Jackson and John Hemyng of London gentleman of thone partie and Henry Walker citizen and minstrell of London of thother partie Witnesseth that the said William Shakespeare W. Johnson J. Testatum. Jackson and J. Hemyng do demise grant and to farm 78 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS Parcels, let to the said H. Walker All that dwellinghouse or tenement with the appurtenances etc. (description as in the last mentioned document) with free entry etc. and also all and singular the cellars etc. Habendum. To have and to hold the said dwellinghouse or tenement etc. with the appurtenances unto the said Henry Walker his exdrs admns and assigns from the Lady Day following for 100 years thence next ensuing without impeachment of waste. Reddendum. Yielding and paying therefor a pepper corn rent to the said W. Shakespeare W. Johnson J. Jackson and J. Hemming their heirs and assigns. Proviso for payment of 60 to Henry Walker on the 2gth September next. Covenant by W. Shakespeare against incumbrances. Executed by said W. Sliakespeare W. Johnson and J. Jackson in the presence of 4 witnesses. 138 Accounts of Lord Stanhope of Harrington, Treasurer of the Chamber to James the First. (Bodleian Lib. MS. Raw I. A. 239.) 1613, May 20. Itiri paid to John Heminges vppon the cowncells warr* dated att Whitehall xx die Maii 1613 for prefentinge before the Princes highnes the La: Elizabeth and the Prince Pallatyne Elector fowerteene feverall playes viz . . . Much adoe abowte nothinge . . . The Tempeft . . . The Winters Tale, S r John ffalftafe, The Moore of Venice . . . Caefars Tragedye ... All w ch Playes weare played wthin the ty me of this Accompte, viz p (1 the some of iiij. (xx.) xiij.li. vjs. viij.d. Itm paid to the faid John Heminges vppon the lyke SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 79 warr* dated att Whitehall xx die Maij 1613 for pre- fentinge fixe feverall playes viz one playe called . . . And one other called Benidicte and Betteris all played wthin the tyme of this Accompte viz p d ffortie powndes And by waye of his Ma tis rewarde twentie powndes In all . . Ixli. 139 Entry at Stationers' Hall : 1613-4. Primo Martij, 1613. Roger Jackson. Entred for his coppies, by consent of M r John Harrison the eldest, and by Order of a Court, these 4 bookes followinge, viz; Mascalls first booke of Cattell; M r Denies sermon of repentance; Recordes Arithmeticke; Lucrece. 1614, Octr. 28th. Articles of Agreement between William Shakespeare and William Repling- ham relating to the Stratford tithes. (Facs. in Halliwett-Phillippj "Outlines of the Life oj Shakespeare" vol. ii. pp. 38-39, 8th ed.) Vicesimo octavo die Octobris Anno Dni. 1614. Articles of agreement indented made betweene Willm Shackespeare of Stretford in the County of Warwicke gent on the one partye and Willm Replingham of Greete Harborowe in the Countie of Warwicke gent on the other partie the daye and yeare abovesaid / Item the said Willm Replingham for him his heires executours and assignes doth covenante & agree to & with the said Willm Shackespeare his heires and as- signes that he the said Wittm Replingham his heires 8o SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS or assignes shall uppon reasonable request satisfie con- tent and make recompence unto him the said Wittm Shackespeare or his assignes for all such losse detri- ment and hinderance as he the said Wittm Shacke- speare his heires & assignes and one Thomas Greene gent shall or maye be thought in the viewe and judge- ment of foure indifferent persons to be indifferentlie elected by the said Wittm & Wittm and their heires and in default of the said Wittm Replingham by the said Wittm Shackespeare or his heires onely to survey and judge the same to sustayne or incurre for or in respecte of the increasinge of the yearlie value of the tythes they the said Willm Shackespeare and Thomas doe joyntlie or severallie hold and enjoy in the said fieldes or anie of them by reason of anie inclosure or decaye of tyllage there ment and intended by the said Willm Replingham and that the said Wittm Rep- lingham and his heires shall procure such sufficient securitie unto the said Wittm Shackespeare and his heires for the performance of theis covenauntes as shal bee devised by learned counsell In witnes whereof the parties abovesaid to theis presentes interchangeablie their handes and scales have put the daye and yeare first above wrytten. Sealed and delivered in the pre- sence of us Tho Lucas Jo Rogers Anthonie Nasshe Mich Olney. 141 1614. Extract from "The Excellencie of the English tongue by R. C. of Anthony, esquire," printed in Camden's " Remaines," ed. 1614, pp. 43, 44. Whatsoever grace any other language carrieth in verse or prose, in tropes or metaphors, in ecchoes and SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 81 agnbminations, they may all bee lively and exactly represented in ours. Will you have Platoes veine? reade Sir Thomas Smith. T,he lonicke. Sir Thomas Moore. Ciceroes? Ascham. Varro? Chaucer. De- mosthenes? Sir John Cheeke, who in his treatise to the Rebels, hath comprised all the figures of rhetorick. Will you read Virgil? Take the Earle of Surrey. Ca- tullus? Shakespheare, and Barlowes fragment. Ovid? Daniell. Lucan? Spencer. Martiall? Sir John Davies and others. Will you have all in all for prose and verse take the miracle of our age Sir Philip Sidney. 142 1614. Extract from the second part of a work entitled " Rubbe and a great Cast," Epigrams by Thomas Freeman, gent. 4to. Lond. 1614. To MASTER W. SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare, that nimble Mercury, thy braine, Lulls many hundred Argus-eyes asleepe, So fit for all thou fashionest thy vaine, At th' horse-foote fountaine thou hast drunk full deepe; Vertues or vices theame to thee all one is; Who loves chaste life, there's Lucrece for a Teacher; Who list read lust, there 's Venus and Adonis, True modell of a most lascivious leatcher. Besides in plaies thy wit windes like Meander: When needy new composers borrow more Thence Terence doth from Plautus or Menander. But to praise thee aright I want thy store; Then let thine owne works thine owne worth upraise, And help t' adorne thee with deserved Baies. G 82 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 143 1615. Extract from "The Annales or Generall Chronicle of England, begun first by maister John Stow, and after him continued and aug- mented, with matters forreyne and domestique, auncient and moderne, unto the ende of this present yeere 1614, by Edmond Howes, gen- tleman." Fol. Lond. 1615. P. 8n. Our moderne and present excellent poets, which worthely florish in their owne workes, and all of them in my owne knowledge, lived togeather in this Queenes raigne; according to their priorities, as neere as I could, I have orderly set downe, viz.: George Gascoigne, esquire; Thomas Church-yard Esquire; Sir Edward Dyer, Knight; Edmond Spencer, Esquire; Sir Philip Sidney, Knight; Sir John Harrington, Knight; Sir Thomas Challoner, Knight; Sir Frauncis Bacon, Knight; and Sir John Davie, Knight; Master John Lillie, gentleman ; Maister George Chapman, gentle- man; M. W. Warner, gentleman; M. Willi. Shake- speare, gentleman; Samuell Daniell, Esquire; Michaell Draiton, esquire of the bath .... 14.4 1615. Title-page of " King Richard II." THE TRAGEDIE OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND : with new additions of th Parliament- Sccane, and the de- posing of King Richard. As it hath been lately acted by Kinges Maiesties servants, at the Globe. By Wil- liam Shakc-speare. At London, Printed for Matthew Law, and are to be sold at his shop in Panics Church- yard, at the signe of the foxe, 1615. [410.] SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 83 1616, March 25. Shakespeare's Will. (In the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House, London?} VICESIMO quinto die [Jarjuarii] Martii, anno regni domini nostri Jacobi, nunc regis Angliae, &c., decimo quarto, et Scotiae xlix, annoque Domini 1616. T. WMI SHACKSPEARE. In the name of God, Amen! I William Shackspeare, of Stratford upon Avon in the countie of Warr., gent., in perfect health and memorie, God be praysed, doe make and ordayne this my last will and testament in manner and forme followeing, that ys to saye, ffirst, I comend my soule into the handes of God my Creator, hoping and assuredlie beleeving, through thonelie merites, of Jesus Christe my Saviour, to be made par- taker of lyfe everlastinge, and my bodye to the earth whereof yt ys made. Item, I gyve and bequeath unto my [sonne and] daughter Judyth one hundred and fyftie poundes of lawfull English money, to be paied unto her in the manner and forme foloweng, that ys to saye, one hundred poundes in discharge of her marriage portion within one yeare after my deceas, with consideracion after the rate of twoe shillinges in the pound for soe long tyme as the same shalbe unpaied unto her after my deceas, and the fyftie poundes residwe thereof upon her surrendring of, or gyving of such sufficient securitie as the overseers of this my will shall like of, to surrender or graunte all her estate and right that shall discend or come unto her after my deceas, 1 The words which have teen erased are put between brackets those which have been interlined are printed in italics. * 84 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS or that shee nowe hath, of, in, or to, one copiehold tenemente, with thappurtenaunces, lyeing and being in Stratford upon Avon aforesaied in the saied countye of Warr., being parcell or holden of the mannour of Rowington, unto my daughter Susanna Hall and her heires for ever. Item, I gyve and bequeath unto my saied daughter Judith one hundred and fyftie poundes more, if shee or anie issue of her bodie be lyvinge att thend of three yeares next ensueing the daie of the date of this my will, during which tyme my executours are to paie her consideracion from my deceas according to the rate aforesaied; and if she dye within the saied tearme without issue of her bodye, then my will ys, and I doe gyve and bequeath one hundred poundes thereof to my neece Elizabeth Hall, and the fiftie poundes to be sett fourth by my executours during the lief of my sister Johane Harte, and the use and proffitt thereof cominge shalbe payed to my saied sister Jone, and after her deceas the saied I. 1 ! shall remaine amongst the children of my saied sister, equallie to be divided amongst them ; but if my saied daughter Judith be ly ving att thend of the saied three yeares, or anie yssue of her bodye, then my will ys, and soe I devise and bequeath the saied hundred and fyftie poundes to be sett out by my executours and overseers for the best benefitt of her and her issue, and the stock not to be paied unto her soe long as she shalbe marryed and covert baron [by my executours and overseers]; but my will ys, that she shall have the consideracion yearelie paied unto her during her lief, and, after her deceas, the saied stocke and consideracion to bee paied to her children, if she have anie, and if not, to her executours or assignes, she lyving the saied terme after my deceas. SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 85 Provided that yf suche husbond as she shall att thend of the saied three years be marryed unto, or att anie after (sic), doe sufficientlie assure unto her and thissue of her bodie landes awnsvvereable to the porcion by this my will gyven unto her, and to be adjudged soe by my executours and overseers, then my will ys, that the said cl."- shalbe paied to such husbond as shall make such assurance, to his owne use. Item, I gyve and be- queath unto my saied sister Jone xx/'- and all my wear- ing apparrell, to be paied and delivered within one ytare after my deceas; and I doe will and devise unto her the house with thappurtenaunces in Stratford, wherein she dwelleth, for her naturall lief, under the yearlie rent of xij/ 1 Item, I gyve and bequeath unto her three sonnes, William Harte, Hart, and Michaell Harte, fyve pounds a peece, to be paied within one yeare after my deceas [to be sett out for her within one yeare after my deceas by my executours, with thadvise and direc- cions of my overseers, for her best profitt, untill her mariage, and then the same with the increase thereof to be paied unto her]. Item, I gyve and bequeath unto [her] the saied Elizabeth Hall, all my plate, except my brod silver and gilt bole, that I now have att the date of this my will. Item, I gyve and bequeath unto the poore of Stratford aforesaied tenn poundes; to Mr. Thomas Combe my sword ; to Thomas Russell esquier fyve poundes; and to Frauncis Collins, of the borough of Warr. in the countie of Warr. gentleman, thirteene poundes, sixe shillinges, and eight pence, to be paied within one yeare after my deceas. Item, I gyve and bequeath to [Mr. Richard Tyler thelder] Hamlett Sadler xxvj/ - viij. rf- to buy him a ringe; to William Raynoldes gent., xxvj. s viij. d ' to buy him a ringe; to 86 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS my godson William Walker xx* in gold ; to Anthonye Nashe gent., xxvj/' viij/ ; and to Mr. John Nashe xxvj/- viij. d - [in gold] ; and to my fellowes John Hem- ynges, Richard Burbage, and Henry Cundell, xxvj.* viij. d - a peece to buy them ringes. Item, I gyve, will, bequeath, and devise, unto my daughter Susanna Hall, for better enabling of her to performe this my will, and towards the performans thereof, all that capitall mes- suage or tenemente with thappurtenaunces, in Stratford aforesaid, called the New Place, wherein I nowe dwell, and two messuages or tenementes with thappurten- aunces, scituat, lyeing, and being in Henley streete, within the borough of Stratford aforesaied; and all my barnes, stables, orchardes, gardens, landes, tene- mentes, and hereditamentes, whatsoever, scituat, lye- ing, and being, or to be had, receyved, perceyved, or taken, within the townes, hamletes, villages, fieldes, and groundes, of Stratford upon Avon, Oldstratford, Bushopton, and Welcombe, or in anie of them in the saied countie of Warr. And alsoe all that messuage or tenemente with thappurtenaunces, wherein one John Robinson dwelleth, scituat, lyeing and being, in the Blackfriers in London, nere the Wardrobe; and all my other landes, tenementes, and hereditamentes whatso- ever, To have and to hold all and singuler the saied premisses, with theire appurtenaunces, unto the saied Susanna Hall, for and during the terme of her naturall lief, and after her deceas, to the first sonne of her bodie lawfullie yssueing, and to the heires males of the bodie of the saied first sonne lawfullie yssueinge; and for defalt of such issue, to the second sonne of her bodie, lawfullie issueinge, and to the heires males of SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 87 the bodie of the saied second sonne lawfullie yssueinge; and for defalt of such heires, to the third sonne of the bodie of the saied Susanna lawfullie yssueing, and of the heires males of the bodie of the saied third sonne lawfullie yssueing ; and for defalt of such issue, the same soe to be and remaine to the ffourth [sonne], ffyfth, sixte, and seaventh sonnes of her bodie lawfullie issueing, one after' another, and to the heires males of the bodies of the saied fourth, fifth, sixte, and seaventh sonnes lawfullie yssueing, in such manner as yt ys before lymitted to be and remaine to the first, second, and third sonns of her bodie, and to theire heires males ; and for defalt of such issue, the said premisses to be and remaine to my sayed neece Hall, and the heires males of her bodie lawfullie yssueinge"; and for defalt of such issue, to my daughter Judith, and the heires males of her bodie lawfullie issueinge; and for defalt of such issue, to the right heires of me the saied William Shackspeare for ever. Item, I gyve unto my wief my second best bed ivith the furniture. Item, I gyve and bequeath to my saied daughter Judith my broad silver gilt bole. All the rest of my goodes, chattel, leases, plate, jewels, and household stuffe whatsoever, after my dettes and legasies paied, and my funerall expenses dischardged, I give, devise, and bequeath to my sonne in lawe, John Hall gent., and my daughter Susanna, his wief, whom I ordaine and make execu- tours of this my last will and testament. And I doe intreat and appoint the saied Thomass Russell esquier and Frauncis Collins gent, to be overseers hereof, and doe revoke all former wills, and publishe this to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have 88 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS hereunto put my [seale] hand, the daie and yeare first abovewritten. By me WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. Witnes to the publyshing hereof, FRA : CoLLYNS, 1 JULYUS SHAWE, JOHN ROBINSON, HAMNET SADLER, ROBERT WHATTCOTT. Probatum coram magistro Willielmo Byrde, legum doctore comiss. &c. xxij d ' die mensis Junii anno Domini 1616, juramento Johannis Hall, unius exe- cutorum, &c. cui &c. de bene &c. jurat, reservat. potestate &c. Susannae Hall, alteri executorum &c. cum venerit petitur, &c. (Inv. ex.) 146 Stratford Registers. Burial: 1616, Aprill 25. Witt. Shakspeare gent. 147 The inscription on Shakespeare's monument in the church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-on- Avon. Judicio Pylium, genio Socratem, arte Maronem Terra tegit, populus maeret, Olympus habet. Stay, passenger, why goest thou by so fast? Read, if thou canst, whom envious death hath plast 1 Francis Collyns was the lawyer at Warwick who prepnred the will, of which the draft only was executed, no time being possible for an engrossed copy. D. H. L. SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 89 Within this monument: Shakespeare with whome Quick nature dide; whose name doth deck ys tombe Far more than cost; sith all yt he hath writt Leaves living art but page to serve his witt. Obiit ano. doi 1616. /Etatis 53. Die 23 Ap. 148 1616. Title-page of " Lucrece." THE RAPE OF LUCRECE. By M r William Shakespeare. Newly revised. London. Printed by T. S. for Roger Jackson, and are to be solde at his shop neere the Conduit in Fleet-street. 1616. [i6mo.] 149 Entry at Stationers' Hall: 1616-7, l6 Febr. 1616, Rr. 14. Mr. Barrett. Assigned over unto him by Mr. Leake and by order of a full Courte, Venus and Adonis. 1617-18, February 10. Abstract of Deed trans- ferring the Legal Estate of the Blackfriars property in trust to follow the directions of Shakespeare's Will. {Original in the possession of Mr. Mars den Perry, Rock Island, U.S.A.] John Jackson John Hemming of London gentle- Parties, men and William Johnson citizen and vintner of London of the one part and John Greene of Clements Inn Middlesex gent, and Mathew Morris of Stratford upon Avon Warr. gent, of the other part. The said J. Jackson, J. Hemming and W. Johnson Testatum. in performance of the confidence and trust reposed in 9 o SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS them by William Shakspere of Stratford deceased and to the intent that the lands tenements and heredits. therein mentioned may be conveyed according to the true intent and meaning of the last Will of W. Shake- speare hereby bargain sell etc. to John Greene and Mathew Morris their heirs and assigns for ever Parcels. All that (as in deed of io th March, 1612) Habendum. To have and to hold, etc. Unto said John Greene and Mathew Morris their heirs and assigns for ever Uses. To the use and behoof of Susannah Hall for her life and after her decease to the use of the first son of her body (and so on in tail male) and in default of such Remainder, issue to the use of Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Susan- nah, and her heirs male, and in default to the use of Judith Quiney wife of Thomas Quiney one other of the daughters of W. Shakespeare and her heirs male of her body and in default to the use of the right heirs of W. Shakespeare for ever. Covenants by John Jackson with J. Green and M. Morris against incumbrances Except in respect of a lease of the said premises made by W. Shakespeare, Jackson, Hemming and Johnson to John Robinson for a certain term of years unexpired. Similar covenant by John Heming against incum- brances except as aforesaid. Similar covenant by William Johnson. Signed and sealed by said Jo. Jackson John Hem- inges, W" Johnson in the presence of witnesses. 151 1618. Extract from the Accounts of theTreasurer of the Chamber. (Public Record Office, Audit Office Declared Accounts, 390, 55.) SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 91 1618, April 2o th . To John Heminges in the behalfe of himselfe and his fellowes the Kinges Mat ies Players etc. upon a warrant dated xx ni April 1618, for pre- senting twoe severall Playes before his Ma ty , on Easter Monday Tvvelfte night the play soe called, and on Easter Tuesday the Winter's Tale, xx li . 1619. Title page of " The Merry Wives of Wind- sor." A Most pleasant and excellent conceited COMEDY OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFFE AND THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. With the swaggering vaine of Ancient Pistoll, and Corporall Nym. Written by W. Shake- speare. Printed for Arthur Johnson. 1619. [410.] 1619. Title-page of " Pericles." The late and much admired P/ay, called PERICLES PRINCE OF TYRE. With the true Relation of the whole History, adventures, and fortunes of the saide Prince. Written by W. Shakespeare. Printed for T. P. 1619. [410.] Entries at Stationers' Hall: 1619. 8 Julij, 1619. Lau: Hayes. Entred for his copies, by consent of a full Court, theis two copies following, which were the copies of Thomas Haies, his fathers, viz 1 , a play called the Marchant of Venice, and the Ethiopian History. 92 SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS 155 1619-20. 8 Martij, 1619. John Parker. Assigned over unto him, with the consent of Mr Barrett and order of a full Court holden this day, all his right in Venus and Adonis. 156 1620. From "The Scourge of Folly" by John Davies of Hereford, Epig. \ 59. p. 76. To our English Terence Mr. Will: Shake-spear e. Some say (good Will which I in sport do sing) Had'st thou not plaid some kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst bin a companion for a King; And beene a King among the meaner sort. Some others raile; but, raile as they think fit, Thou hast no rayling, but, a raigning Wit: And honestly thou sow'st, which they do reape ; So, to increase their stocke which they do keepe. 157 Entry at Stationers' Hall : 1621. 6Octobris, 1621. Tho:Walkley. Entred for his copie, under the handes of Sir George Buck, and Mr. Swinhowe, Warden, The Tragedie of Othello the moore of Venice. 158 1622. Title-page of " Othello." THE TRAGCEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOORE OF VENICE. As it hath beene diverse times acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers, by his Maiesdes Servants. Written by William Shakespeare. London, Printed by N. O. for Thomas Walkky, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Eagle and Child, in Brittans Bursse. 1622. [ 4 to.] COMEDIES, HISTORIES, & TRAGEDIES. PuMiihsd according to &'ie TrucOriginall Copies. .^ 1) 5V ' V ? tinted by Ifaac laggard, and Ed. Blount. i 7^> 89. Jonson, Ben, " Every Man in his Humour," 31; " Seja- nus,"48,49; poem by, 97-99. "Julius Caesar," 78; entry at Sta. Hall, 93. Kemp, William, actor, 13, 31, 58, 101. " King Henry VI'.," Part III., title-page, 1600 [410], 38. " King Lear," entry at Sta. Hall, 59; title-page, 1608, 6l ; second edition, 6l. " King Richard III.," title- page, 1602, third edition, 45. Lambert, Edmund, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 23, 24, 25. Lambert, lohn, 5, 6, 7, 23, 24, 25- Lane, Richard, 65. La we, Matthew, 48, 51, 58, 62, 82. Leake, William, 13, 45. Linge, Mr., 59. " Love's Labour's Lost," title- page, 1598, 32; 53, 54; entry at Sta. Hall, 1606, 59; entry at Sta. Hall, 1607, 59. Lowin, John, actor, 49. Lucrece, Rape of, entry at Sta. Hall, II ; title-page and dedication, 1594, 12; title- page, 1598 [l8mo], second edition, 31 ; title-page, 1600 [24010], third edition, 38; 1607 [8vo], fourth edition, 60; title-page, i6i6[i6moj, 89; entry at Sta. Hall, 79. "Macbeth," 69 ; entry at Sia. Hall, 93. Manningham, John, 42. " Measure for Measure," 53 ; entry at Sta. Hall, 93. " Merchant of Venice," entry at Sta. Hall, 27, 38; title- page, 1600 [410], 40; second edition, 40; mentioned, 54; entry at Sta. Hall, 91. Meres, Francis, extract from " Palladis Tamia," 29. " Merry Wives of Windsor," entry at Sta. Hall, 41 ; title- page, 1602, 46; entry in Revels' book, 53 ; 1619, second edition, 91. " Midsummer Night's Dream, A," entry at Sta. Hall, 38; title-page, 1600, 39; second edition, 39. Millington, Thomas, II, 39, 41, 42. Moor of Venice, "Othello," 53, 78. Morris, Matthew, 89, 90. " Much Ado about Nothing," entry at Sta. Hall, 37, 38; title-page, 1600, 40 ; in ac- counts of Lord Stanhope, 78. Nashe, mentioned by H. Chettle, 9. Nashe, Anthony, 86. Nashe, John, 86. New Place, fine on the pur- chase of, 22 ; malt and corn held at, 33; mentioned in will, 86. I j " Othello, Moor of Venice," 53, 78; title-page, 1622,92; entry at Sta. Hall, 92. Parker, John, 92. "Passionate Pilgrim, The," 1599 [i6mo], 37; title-page, 1612 [i6mo], second edition, 75- I Pavier, Thomas, 37, 42. I " Pericles, "entry at Sta. Hall, 60; title-page, 1609, 65; title-page, 1611, second io6 INDEX edition, 73 ; title-page, 1619, third edition, 91. Philips, Augustine, actor, 31, 47, 49- Pope, Thomas, 31. Quiney, Richard, 27, 28, 29. Quiney, Judith, 90. Quiney, Thomas, 90. Raynolds, William, 85. Replingham, William, Articles of Agreement between Shakespeare and, 79, 80. Return of quantities of corn and malt held by William Shakespeare, 33. "Richard II.," entry at Sta. Hall, 23; title-page, 1597, 26; title-page, 1598, second edition, 31; entry at Sta. Hall, 48; title-page, 1608, third edition, 61 ; title-page, 1608, fourth edition, 62 ; title- page, 1615, fifth edition, 82. " Richard III.," entry at Sta. Hall, 23; title-page, 1597, 26, 27 ; title-page, 1598, second edition, 31, 32 ; entry at Sta. Hall, 48; title-page, 1605, fourth edition, 58. Roberts, James, 27, 44, 46. Robinson, John, 88. " Romeo and Juliet," title- page, 1597, 26; 1 599, second edition, 37; entry at Sta. Hall, 59; title-page, 1609, third edition, 64. Russell, Thomas, 85, 87, 88. Sadler, Hamlet, 85, 88. " Scourge of Folly," extract from, 92. " Sejanus," Ben Jonson's, Shakespeare an actor in, 49. Shakespeare, Anna, I. Shakespeare, Anne, burial, 3. Shakespeare, Edmund, 3, 59. Shakespeare, Gilbert, I, 43. Shakespeare, Hamnet, 5, 14. Shakespeare, Joan, I. Shakespeare, John, children of, I ; fine on the purchase of two houses, 2 ; Bill of Com- plaint by, against John Lam- bert, 5-7 grant of arms to, 18-22; chancery suit against John and Edmund Lambert by, 23-25 ; confirmation of arms, 34-36; burial, 41. Shakespeare, Judith, 5, 83, 84, 87. Shakespeare, Margareta, I. Shakespeare, Mary, 2, 3, 5, 23, 24, 25 ; burial, 60. Shakespeare, Mrs., registry of burial, 93. Shakespeare, Richard, i. Shakespeare, Susanna, 5. Shakespeare, William, birth, I ; extract from Register, 3 ; marriage bond, 4, 5 '> ar >d Chettle, 6 ; and the Earl of Southampton, 10, II, 12, 13 ; burial of his son, 14 ; purchase of New Place, 22, 23 ; Quiney's letter to, 28, 29 ; acts in ' ' Every Man in his Humour," 31 ; and John Weever's "Epigrams," 33; conveyance of land to, 42, 43 ; surrender of premises in Chapel Lane to, 44, 45 ; patent for theatrical perform- ances, by Shakespeare's com- pany, 47 ; an actor in Jon- son's "Sejanus," 48, 49; Accounts of the Revels men- tions, 51-54; conveyance of a moiety of tithes to, 55 '> a trained soldier, 57 ; and ' ' The Return from Parnassus," 58, 59 ; and the tithes of Strat- ford-upon-Avon, 65 ; pur- chase of an estate by, 67 ; sale of a house in Blackfriars INDEX 107 to, 75 mortgage deed from, 77; will, 83; burial, 88; inscription on monument in Holy Trinity Church, Strat- ford -on -Avon, 88; deed transferring the Blackfriars property in trust, 89. Shaw, Julius, 88. Sly, William, actor, 31, 47, 49. Smethwick, John, 59, 64, 73. Sonnets, entry at Sta. Hall, 63 ; title-page and dedica tion, 63 ; title-page, 1609 [410], second edition, 63. Southampton, Earl of, dedica- tion of "Venus and Adonis " to, 10. Spenser, Edmund, "Colin Clout'scomehomeagain," 13. Sturley, Abraham, letter to his brother-in-law, Richard Quiney, 27, 29. T. P. (bookseller), 62, 91. T. T. (T. Thorpe), signature to dedication of the "Sonnets," 6 3 . . " Taming of the Shrew," entry at Sta. Hall, 59. "Tempest, The," 74; men- tioned in accounts, 78 ; entry at Sta. Hall, 93. Thorpe, Thomas, 63. " Timon of Athens," entry at Sta. Hall, 93. "Titus Andronicus," entry at Sta. Hall, 11,42; title-page, 1600, 40; title-page, 1611, second edition, 72. "Troilus and Cressida," entry at Sta. Hall, 46, 63; title- page, 1609 [410], 64; second edition, 64. "Twelfth Night," 42, 91; entry at Sta. Hall, 93. " Two Gentlemen of Verona," entry at Sta. Hall, 93. 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