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"But call it worfhip, call it what you will, is it not a 
 right glorious thing, and fet of things, this that Shak- 
 fpeare has brought us ? For myfelf, I feel that there is 
 aftually a kind of facrednefs in the faft of fuch a man 
 being fent into this earth. Is he not an eye to us all ; a 
 
 blefTed heaven-fent Bringer of Light?" 
 
 " He lafts for-ever with us ; we cannot give-up our 
 Shakfpeare." 
 
 Thomas Carlyle, "On Heroes," pp. 103, 105. 
 
 'Hearing you praifed, I fay 'tis fo, "'tis true, 
 
 And to the mod of praife add fomething more ; 
 
 But that is in my thought, whofe love to you, 
 
 Though words come hmdmofl, holds his rank before. 
 
 Then others for the breath of words refpeft 
 
 Me for my dumb thoughts, fpeaking in effeft." 
 
 Shakefpeare's Sonnet LXXXV. 
 
:OtC 
 
 TO THE LARGE PAPER EDITION. 
 
 HE FIRST EDITION of " NOTES ON 
 SHAKESPEARE. AND MEMORIALS OF THE 
 URBAN CLUB," having been favourably 
 received, not only by the members of 
 the Urban Club, under \vhofe aufpices the 
 work was iflued, but by the general public, 
 I have been induced, by the repeated 
 felicitations of numerous applicants, to 
 iffue an EDITION, on LARGE paper. 
 In fo doing, I have availed myfelf of the 
 opportunity of revifing the matter through- 
 out the book, and of adding feveral occa- 
 iional poems by members of the Urban Club ; alfo many 
 details and references in connection with the u Notes on 
 Shakefpeare" for which I am indebted to Dr. C. M. 
 Ingleby, M.A. Further, I have reprinted, as Specimens 
 of bhakefpeare Fabrications, fome poems afcribed to 
 the Dramatift and Anne Hathaway. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH. 
 URBAN CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWEI.L, 
 Nov. io//&, 1876. 
 
reface 
 
 N the occafion of the Annual Shakefpearean 
 Feftival of the Urban Club, held in the 
 Old Hall of St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, 
 on the 24th of April lait, I had the honour 
 of prefenting to each gentleman a copy of 
 a fmall Pamphlet, entitled " Notes on 
 Shakefpeare" in commemoration of that 
 interefting event. It was a compilation of 
 a few of the beft known fafts and hypo- 
 thefes relating to the Life, Works, and 
 Times of the great Dramatifl. 
 
 The copies were limited to the company 
 then prefent eighty in number and the brochure is 
 now out of print. 
 
 In complying with the wifli of the members of the 
 Urban Club that I Ihould re-iiTue the " Notes on Shake- 
 fpeare" I have thoroughly recall and revifed the com- 
 pilation, and added a lift of the Spurious Plays once 
 attributed to Shakefpeare, and many particulars concern- 
 ing the Playhoufes in ufe during the Elizabethan Era. 
 
 The " Notes " are nothing more than gleanings from 
 many fources, ftrung together into a Chronological Order. 
 The items that are doubtful as FACTS are indicated, and 
 in every cafe I have given the fources whence 1 acquired 
 
my information. The talk I have undertaken has not 
 been one of eafe and lightnefs. Much labour has been 
 expended that cannot be made manifeft ; but the plea- 
 fure I have derived from a careful refearch into the Life 
 and Times of the great Drainatifl is beyond expreffion. 
 
 My warmed thanks are due to Mr. J. O. Halliwell- 
 Phillipps for much valuable affiftance and encouragement ; 
 alfo for the loan of his lafl great work, Illuftratiom of 
 the Life of Shakefpeare, Part the Fir/I, which has been 
 of invaluable aid to me. 
 
 I have added hereto a Hiftory of the Urban Club, 
 and an Appendix, containing a complete Collection of the 
 Circulars and Programmes I have from time to time 
 compiled in connexion with that Literary AfTociation, the 
 whole forming a contribution to the MEMORIALS OF THE 
 URBAN CLUB. 
 
 I am deeply indebted to MeiTrs. Hain Frifwell, Henry 
 Marflon, Jonas Levy, Horace Green, W. Sawyer, Charles 
 Braid, Effingham Wilfon, and Dr. J. E. Carpenter, for 
 many items of information regarding the early hiftory of 
 the Club; to Mr. E. L. Blanchard, for his kindnefs in 
 reading the proof-fheets, and to Sir Edmund Lechmere, 
 Bart, (the owner of St. John's Gate), for many of the 
 
 illuftrations ufed in this work. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH. 
 URBAN CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL, 
 
 July 8th, 1876. 
 
TNTERIOR VIEW OF THE ARCH, SHOWING THE C.IOINING. 
 
ntrodution. 
 
 "Hnent s< (Sate ana ctluftfie," 
 
 " Scholar This is a very big GATEWAY to fo fmall a houfe, 
 Mafter Builder ? 
 
 "Palladia All the fault of the HOUSE, Nicolas, for not being 
 larger; would that it were ! " 
 
 " Chronicles of Nirgends College" Tom. LVL, p. 38. 
 
 edited, 
 
 the quaint old Hall of St. John's Gate? 
 Clerkenwell, the Urban Club regularly 
 meets, confifting of gentlemen connefted 
 with Literature, Science, Art, and the 
 Drama. It was originally formed in January, 
 1858, and was named the Friday Knights, 
 in confequence of its members meeting on 
 Friday evenings ; but on the 1 5th of November 
 of that year the name was changed to that 
 of the Urban Club, in honour of Edward 
 Cave, who firft projefted the Gentleman s 
 Magazine (January, 1731), and printed, 
 and publifhed the fame at the old Gate, 
 
10 
 
 To hint only at the pad hiftory of this old edifice, 
 conjures up in the mind of the {Indent of England's land- 
 marks the deeds of prowefs and charity of the Chival- 
 rous Knights Hofpitallers, and the fubfequent downfall of 
 one of the mod powerful Orders of Chridendom. The 
 difpenfing of alms to the poor and weary at the Priory, 
 of which this building was the gate, and the kingly 
 
 St. John's Priory, after Hollar. 
 
 entertainment of invited and felf- invited gueds, for 
 indefinite periods, muft, I am fure, caufe no fmall amount 
 of regret for the times that have gone for ever. What 
 can compare with the following? "A fingle perfon 
 might, in drift law, claim food and lodging for three days 
 in a preceptory, which would be fupplied as befitted his 
 condition ; but that drift law was not likely to be very 
 clofely followed. It is more likely that the ' family ' 
 would do pretty much as they liked about gueds of a 
 
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 certain fort; not, perhaps, refufmg relief, but taking 
 care that it fhould not be fo given as to render a fecond 
 application very probable. They may poflibly have had 
 their equivalents for the crank and the {tone-heap. At 
 the open table of the liberif ententes ^ or garciones, a good 
 fellow might, and perhaps often did, make himfelf wel- 
 come, and no one would afk him how long he had ftaved, 
 or meant to flay."* 
 
 Knights Departing for the Holy Land. 
 
 The news from all parts were detailed by the travellers 
 thus entertained ; fo that the lavifhment of wealth in 
 holpitality was not an unprofitable virtue.j" 
 
 * The Knights Hofpitallers in England. Being the Report of 
 Prior Philip deThame to the Grand Mafter Elyan de Villanova. 
 Edited by the Rev. Lambert B. Larking, M.A., with an Hiftorical 
 Introduction by John Mitchell Kemble, M.A. 
 
 Camden Society Pub., 1857, p. xlvii. 
 
 f The Hi/Jory cf the Knights Hofpitallers of St. John of 
 Jerufalem, by Mons. L'Abbe de Vertot, 1770, Vol. I., Preface. 
 
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 To the antiquarian, one vifit to the Gate will be fure to 
 be quickly followed by others its ancient interiors, with 
 groined ceilings, capacious fireplaces, circular ftaircafe, 
 with the original folid oak newel, the extraordinary 
 thicknefs of the walls, the chair Jald to have been the 
 one ufed by Dr. Samuel Johnfon* the numerous and 
 
 The Chair called Dr. Johnfon 'i at St. John's Gate. 
 
 valuable prints of local topography, covering the walls 
 of the quaint Coffee-Rao??!, and the large Hall over 
 the gateway, render it one of the moft interefting 
 
 * For a hiftory of this innocent hoax on the part of the late 
 proprietor, Mr. B. Fofter, fee Pinks and Wood's Hi/lory of 
 Clerkenwell, page 245. 
 
 The curious in Tavern-lore will do well to take heed of the 
 warning conveyed in the verfes, fufpended over this Chair, before 
 refting the body that has become wearied by, it may be, a long 
 journey to this home of good-fellowfhip. Many are the wor- 
 ihippers who wander hither from all parts of the world, and to 
 fit in this Chair is confidered by them a duty, which not even the 
 
liURNING OF THK GATE. 
 
 "The rebels of Eflex and Kent 1381 [led by Wat Tyler], fet 
 fire on this houfe, caufing it to burn by the fpace of feven days together, 
 not differing any to quench it ; fince the which time the priors of that 
 houfe have new built both the church and houfes unto appertaining ; 
 which church was finifhed by Thomas Docwrey [or Dociura\ y late Lord 
 Prior there, about the year 1504, as appeareth by the infcription over 
 the gateway yet remaining." Vide Stow's " Sitrvay of London" 
 Thorns' edition, 1876, page 162. 
 
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 remnants of Old London. It was here Dr. Johnfon 
 fucceeded Guthrie in writing the Parliamentary Reports 
 for the Gentleman s Magazine, and the gifted Richard 
 Savage came to Edward Cave for literary employment. 
 David Garrick conftantly vifited the Hall over the Arch- 
 way, and, by the interceffion of his friend, Dr. Johnfon, 
 with Cave, was permitted to produce the farce of The 
 Mock Doftor; or, the Dumb Lady Cured, by Fielding, 
 which was founded upon Moliere's Malade Imaginaire* 
 Garrick fuftained the character of Gregory, and acquitted 
 himfelf fo well as to earn the applaufe of Cave and his 
 
 FINE OF THE BOTTLE will prevent from being carried out. The 
 Chair is thus an object of intereft, if not of hiftorical value. 
 
 THE CHAIR FORMERLY OCCUPIED 
 
 BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. 
 Here ponderous JOHNSON fat fome years, and ponder'd 
 
 Giant in bulk mighty in mental ftrength ; 
 While fimple GOLDSMITH filent fat, and wonder'd 
 
 At thoughts fo ftrong in words of fuch great length ! 
 
 Dream'ft thou, thou halting Traveller at this Gate, 
 
 That thou art fit to fill this famous Chair ? 
 Mount up to it, and thou- (halt learn too late 
 
 If not too foon what thy tranfgreflions are : 
 
 What pains await the Pilgrim to this Shrine, 
 
 That takes the Chair to which no duty calls 
 Him, thus exempt from blame, and fliame, and fine ; 
 But let him fland his ground, nor fly thefe walls, 
 When JOHNSON'S grumbling Ghoft growls underground 
 "Pardon the wretch profane that fends the bottle round" 
 
 C. WEBBE. 
 
 Old Jerufalem Tavern, St. John's Gate, 
 Sept., 1856. 
 
 * Nichols's Literary Anecdotes^ Vol. V., p. 13. 
 
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 friends. This was his firft appearance as an actor in 
 London (1737).* 
 
 Oliver Goldfmith, Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, Richard 
 Lauder (Milton's detractor^) ; Dr. Hawkefworth, author 
 of Belifarius ; Jedediah Buxton, the Calculating Prodigy; 
 and many others of the literati of that day, frequented 
 the Old Gate. But the valuable work of the late Mr. 
 Benjamin Fofter, on T e Hiftory of y e Priory and Gate of 
 St. John (Lond., 1851), has fo far exhaufted the pail 
 hiftory of the Gate, that it were but prefumption on my 
 part to attempt the mereft defcription of that which he 
 has fo ably accomplished, j- I will, therefore, fay a few 
 words upon the fubfequent hiftory of the Gate, in con- 
 nection with the Literary Aflbciation already referred to. 
 
 The Urban Club J was firft projected by Mr. Hain 
 Frifwell, and fupported by a goodly band of Actors, 
 Critics, Authors, and Artifts, comprifing: 
 
 * Garrick fubfequently acted at Goodmans Fields Theatre in 
 Oct., 1741, and appeared as Richard HI. This was his FIRST 
 PUBLIC appearance. Vide JefTe's London, and a very ufeful epitome 
 of Gar rick's performances in Reprefentative Aclors, by W. Clark 
 Ruflell, p. 107 etfcq. 
 
 | See alfo Pennant's Some Account of London, 5th ed., 1813, 
 p. 285, Pinks and Wood's Hiftory of Clerkeniuell , Charles Knight's 
 London, Vol. II., pp. 133-148, 1851, Walter Thornbury's Old 
 and New London, Vol. II., Chap, on Clerkenwell, The Camden 
 Mifcellany, Vol. IV., p. 15, and The Fourth Report Royal Com. on 
 Hlft. MSS., 1874, pp. 173, 184, 389, 463. 
 
 J I take this opportunity of correcting an error that the late 
 Mr. J. Timbs allowed to creep into his Account of London 
 Clubs. At page 397 of his Hijlory of Clubs and Club Life in 
 London, he speaks of the Urban Club in the PAST TENSE, which 
 every one converfant with the fubject muft know is an error. 
 
1 5 
 
 Atkins, T. D. C. Levy, Jonas , J. P. 
 
 Ball, Lewis Marfton, Henry 
 
 Belford, W. R. Ray, J. W. 
 
 Blanchard, E. L. Reynolds, Warwick 
 
 Coyne, J. Stirling (dec.) Robin fon, F. 
 Draper, E. Shinn, E. M. 
 
 Hale, W. P. (dec.) Spencer, Thomas 
 
 Hollingfhead, J. Sullivan, Barry 
 
 Izard, F. R. Wilfon, J. Crawford, 
 
 and a few others, who formed the foundation members. 
 In the following and fucceeding years the number in- 
 creafed to fuch an extent that the capacity of the old Hall 
 has many a time been forely taxed.* The following are 
 a few only of the prominent members (paft and prefent) 
 of the Club, in addition to thofe above mentioned : 
 Albery, James Bouchier, W. 
 
 Bacon, Charles Boys, W. 
 
 Baker, Dr. E. Braid, Charles 
 
 Banks, G. Linnasus Brough, R. (dec.) 
 
 Barringer, Dr. T. S. Bruton, J. (dec.) 
 
 Barringer, Dr. Wright Buchanan, Robert 
 Bennett, Dr. J. M. (dec.) Burton, Capt. R. F.,F.R.G.S. 
 Bennett, Dr. W. C. (H.M. Conful at Triefte.) 
 
 Bennett, Sir J., Kt. Butterfield, W. H. 
 
 BeiTemeres, J. D. Canton, Dr. E. 
 
 Billington, J. Carpenter, Dr. J. E. 
 
 Blanchard, Valentine Catling, T. 
 
 Blind, Dr. Karl Chefter, J. 
 
 Bouchette, A. Church, W. E. 
 
 * The number of members is now 150. 
 
i6 
 
 Conqueft, George 
 Crefwick, W. 
 Cruikfhank, George 
 Dean, Robert [F.R.G.S. 
 Dixon, William Hepworth, 
 Doran, Dr. John, F.S.A. 
 
 (Editor of Notes and Queries. ) 
 Fairchild, George E. 
 Farquharfon, R. 
 Farmer, W. (dec.} 
 Fernandez, James 
 Ferrand, Henry 
 Field, Captain J. P. 
 Fielding, W. J. (dec.) 
 Fleury, J. Viftor de 
 Fofter, B. (dec.) 
 Fofter, S. Lloyd 
 Fothergill, Rev. J., M.A., 
 Goode, J. J. [LL.B. 
 
 Gowing, R. (Editor of the 
 
 Gentleman's Magazine.) 
 Grady, R. 
 Graves, Henry 
 Green, Horace 
 Green, Reuben C. 
 Haliburton, R. G., M.A. 
 Hardwicke, Dr. W. 
 Heraud, J. A. 
 Hermann, Louis 
 Holyoake, W. R. 
 
 Horfley, C. 
 Howard, Branfon 
 Hunter, Dr. W. J. 
 Jacobs, Capt. M. H. 
 Jeffrey, B. J. 
 Johnfon, E. D. 
 Jones, W. 
 King, Donald W. 
 Knight, Jofeph 
 Lacey, Dr. J. 
 Lafcaridi, G. P. 
 Lechmere, Sir E., Bart., 
 
 M.P. 
 Ledger, Edward (Editor of 
 
 the Era.) 
 Leitner, Dr. G. W., M.A. 
 
 (of Lahore) 
 Leflie, Henry 
 Marfton, Weftland, LL.D. 
 Mills, W. F. 
 Morley, Profeffor J. 
 Mofeley, B. L. 
 Oxenford, John 
 Perring, George 
 Phene, Dr. J. S., F.S.A. 
 Ransford, E. (dec.) 
 Richards, Col. A. B.(dec.) 
 Kichardfon, Dr. B. W., 
 
 M.A., F.R.S. 
 Robertfon, James 
 
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 Rufliton, S. Vandenhoff, Henry 
 
 Sala, George Auguftus Ware, J. R. 
 
 Sampfon, Henry (Editor Watkins, Herbert 
 
 of Fun.) Wickens, S. 
 
 Sawyer, W., F.S.A. (Edi- Wigan, Horace 
 
 tor of Funny Folks.) Williams, J., F.C.S. 
 
 Simpfon, G. W., M.A., Williams, Howell W. 
 
 Sterry, J. Ailiby [F.S.A. Wilfon, Effingham 
 
 Stothard, R. Wills, W. G 
 
 Tomlins, F. Gueft (dec.) Wright, C , F.S.A. 
 
 Toole, J. L. Yates, Edmund 
 
 Torrens, W. T. M'C., M.P. Zerffi,Dr. G.G., F.R.S.L. 
 
 The Urban Club has proved itfelf faithful in its de- 
 votion to the Drama and its chief reprefentative, William 
 Shakefpeare. So early in its career as 1860, it com- 
 menced that worfliip at the fhrine of the Bard, when 
 the Feflival was prefided over on Monday, the 2, 3rd of 
 April, by Mr. Henry Marfton, the great Shakefpearean 
 aftor, who, I am happy to fay, is ftill an aftive member 
 of the Club. From that time until the prefent the Anni- 
 verfary has been regularly obferved, and prefided over 
 and affifted in, by fome of the leading reprefentatives of 
 the Drama, Stage, Prefs, and Scientific and General 
 Literature, comprifmg fuch familiar names as 
 
 Albery, James Dixon, W. Hepworth, 
 Blanchard, E. L. F.R.G.S. 
 
 Carpenter, Dr. J. E. Doran, Dr. J., F.S.A. 
 
 Coyne, J. Stirling Frifwell, Hain 
 
 Crefwick, W. Furnivall, F. J., M.A. 
 
Haliburton, R. G., M.A. Richardfon, Dr. B. W., 
 Heraud, J. A. M.A., F.R.S. 
 
 Levy, Jonas, J.P. Richards, Col. A. B. 
 
 Marfton, Henry Sala, George Auguftus 
 
 Marfton, Dr. Weftland Sawyer, W., F.S.A. 
 
 Morley, Profeflbr J. Tomlins, Frederick Guefl 
 
 Oxenford, J. Yates, Edmund 
 
 As many of my readers may wifh to form fome idea 
 of the productions the members of the Urban Club 
 have from time to time put forth, I have felefted the 
 following fongs and poems bearing upon the Club and 
 its annual celebrations. I could give many other fongs 
 and poems, but my fpace unfortunately will not permit. 
 
 to 
 
 BY AN " OLD URBANITE." 
 
 IGHTY upraifer of the heart of man ! 
 
 A ftream of thought and fancy clear he winds, 
 Through feeling, gaining maftery o'er all minds ; 
 Guiding and ruling as no other can. 
 
 Well may we deem that thou art God-infpired 
 Great Nature is the plaything of thy choice, 
 The Beautiful fpeaks in thine every voice, 
 
 The light of thy great mind the Globe has fired. 
 
 Our own dear Shakefpeare! Poet of the World! 
 We mould do all to ufe thee for our good, 
 Spread through all lands thy wondrous mental food, 
 Whofe power (hall ceafe not till Time's wing be furled. 
 Moft comprehenfive foul of any clime ; 
 Subjedor of the Univerfe and Time ! 
 
 EFHNGHAM WILSON. 
 From " Gathered Together ." Poems, 1860. 
 
DR. JOHNSON : A FAIRY TALE, 
 
 TOLD TO MT DAUGHTER ON NEW TEAR'S NIGHT. 
 
 ]!Y 
 
 ROBERT B. BROUGH. 
 
 Reprinted from the "Welcome Gueft" January 14, 1860, by the Urban C/nl>, in 
 appreciation of the Author, one of its Members. 
 
 ! a Chriftmas fairy rhyme 
 To the old familiar chime, 
 How that once upon a time 
 
 Dwelt a King, 
 Who with daughters fair was bleft, 
 Who was rich and all the reft 
 Nay, you ought not to requeft 
 Such a thing ! 
 
 For the Chriftmas farce is played, 
 And the Chriftmas bills arrayed 
 Stand impatient to be paid 
 
 At the door : 
 
 And that feventh year of thine, 
 Or that thirty-firft of mine, 
 That we knew as 'Fifty-nine, 
 
 Is no more ! 
 
 And my log of joy or grief 
 ("Letts's Diary," in brief) 
 Open ftands, with its new leaf 
 
 To be turned : 
 
 And the Chriftmas Lord Mifrule 
 Muft give over playing fool, 
 Leflbns new and hard at fchool 
 
 To get learn'd. 
 
 There ! reduce thofe flaring eyes 
 To their cuftomary fize 
 Do you think me over-wife, 
 
 Or an afs ? 
 
 If the latter, you are right, 
 For there's mirth a-blaze to-night, 
 And we need not of its light 
 
 Dim the glafs. 
 
 With fo much to hope from life ; 
 With that mother there, and wife 
 Who of late has gained a ftrife 
 
 Over Death ; 
 
 Looking happy, fair, and young; 
 Shining bright her guefts among; 
 She whofe flame of Being hung 
 
 On a breath ! 
 
 With fuch friends as now I fee ; 
 With a daughter fuch as thee 
 Sitting fondly on my knee 
 
 Love and Thought, 
 Heart and Intellect combined, 
 Fair and ftrong, in form as mind, 
 As to prove me not defigned 
 
 To be naught ! 
 
 And thole boys with noble heads 
 (Though they're gaping for their beds) 
 With the healthy whites and reds 
 
 Of their cheeks 
 Fruits from Fortune's garden wall 
 I ne'er hoped fhe would let fall 
 In my lap - though verfed in all 
 
 Of her freaks. 
 
 Many lips, I fee, have fmiled 
 At fuch language to a child, 
 Many tongues that language wild, 
 
 Doubtlefs call : 
 
 But my daughter does not laugh ; 
 She can winnow grain from chaff, 
 And can underftand me half, 
 
 If not all. 
 
 Well fhe knows, I mean to fay, 
 That this trying New Year's Day 
 Is a time to faft and pray, 
 
 And to toil ; 
 But has alfo underftood 
 'Tis a time Faith's neighbourhood 
 With the Wondrous and the Good 
 
 Not to fpoil. 
 
 And would have me tell a tale 
 
 How the Hero can prevail 
 
 O'er the Dragon's tooth and fcale, 
 
 And defy 
 
 Ev'ry wicked fairy pow'r 
 That would give us weed for flow'r 
 In the fpirit of the hour, 
 
 Let me try. 
 
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 I would have you, Mifs, to know, 
 In a time, fo long ago 
 That all clafTes, high or low, 
 
 Went about 
 
 In the funnieft of " figs " 
 Wearing cauliflower wigs, 
 Some with tails behind like pigs, 
 
 Some without ; 
 
 When each gentleman or lord, 
 Who the weapon could afford, 
 Was obliged to wear a fword, 
 
 To be fmart ; 
 When a lady, on her face, 
 Sticking-plaifter ufed to place, 
 As an ornament and grace. 
 
 (What a ftart !) 
 
 In this funny age of yore, 
 At whofe follies now we roar, 
 
 s unny 
 ofe follie 
 ( I have told you, Mifs, before, 
 
 'Twas long fince !) 
 Truth's and Wifdom's flag to wave, 
 The opprefled and weak to fave, 
 There was born a good and brave 
 Fairy Prince ! 
 
 And the fairies at his birth, 
 Who prefide o'er human worth, 
 Gave him gifts to vifit earth 
 
 Good and bad ; 
 An indomitable heart ; 
 With a confcience prone to ftart, 
 And at Evil's flighteft fmart 
 
 To go mad ; 
 
 A capacious fearching brain, 
 A contempt for worldly gain, 
 And a princely true difdain 
 
 For a lie ; 
 
 With a mighty love for all 
 Of God's creatures, great or fmall, 
 Whether fent on earth to crawl 
 
 Or to fly; 
 
 But they placed a cruel fpell 
 (Who fhall fay it was not well ? 
 For the fairies beft can tell 
 
 What is beft,) 
 On the Fairy Prince's fate, 
 That fhould make him pine and wait 
 For a chance of proving great, 
 
 By the teft. 
 
 They decreed that he fhould wear 
 The appearance of a bear, 
 \V ith a tendency to tear 
 
 And to growl ; 
 
 With the roughnefs of a hound, 
 And at times to be fpellbound, 
 In the fulkinefs profound 
 
 Of an owl. 
 
 While they pinched his giant frame 
 With more pains than I can name, 
 And a pride that nought could tame 
 
 Made him bear, 
 With a fcorn for lordly gifts, 
 Through innumerable fhifts 
 \\ here, of wintry want, the drifts 
 Blind the air ! 
 
 But the fpell was to be moved 
 
 When the Prince his work had proved, 
 
 And his claim to be beloved 
 
 Clearly fhown. 
 
 Shall 1 tell you how he wrought, 
 With what kind of arms he fought, 
 For the noble end he fought, 
 
 All alone ? 
 
 Of his gallant deeds, but few 
 I have time to tell to you, 
 But, attend to one or two 
 
 Three or four ; 
 
 He a humble dwelling flocked, 
 Where the pooreft fuff'rers flocked, 
 To affliftion never locked 
 
 Was the door. 
 
 An old dame - not over-kind 
 
 Or good-tempered merely blind ! 
 
 In his home could refuge find, 
 
 And refpeO ; 
 
 With a fimple negro clown, 
 And a druggift, broken down, 
 Whom he met in London town, 
 
 Sorely wrecked ! 
 
 Though he kept them all by work 
 Which the ftouteft now would fhirk, 
 On the wages of a clerk 
 
 Lefs than that ! 
 
 Ne'er the leaft complaining word 
 Was by thefe dependents heard ; 
 He could e'en refpeft a bird 
 
 Nay, a cat ! 
 
 He could fnatch from jail a friend, 
 And his only guinea lend ; 
 Glowing pages e'en he penned 
 
 For a thief 
 
 And a trickfter doomed to die: 
 Lines a monarch could not buy, 
 He could lavifh, tears to dry, 
 
 Shed by grief. 
 
 But the greateft of his deeds, 
 That his loving ftudent reads, 
 Over which the whole heart bleeds 
 
 Of mankind, 
 Is an at of courage grand 
 Which you fcarce can underftand. 
 Till the truths of life expand 
 
 Your young mind. 
 
21 
 
 Yet I'd have you know the fact 
 In its bearings all exacl, 
 That the greatnefs of the aft 
 
 You may grafp ; 
 
 When the leflbns, none may fpurn, 
 You have been compelled to learn, 
 And amid the grapes difcern 
 
 Where's the afp. 
 
 When this goodly man was old, 
 On a night fo wet and cold, 
 As towards his home he ftrolled, 
 
 He efpied, 
 
 In the bitter London ftreet 
 Li ing, drenched with rain and fleet, 
 A poor girl with naked feet. 
 
 Who had died 
 
 Of the cruel, cruel cold, 
 
 If this fage, fo worn and old, 
 
 Had by accident not drolled 
 
 Where (he lay. 
 
 He was torn by illnefs' wrack, 
 His old joints were fit to crack, 
 But he bore her on his back 
 
 Safe away. 
 
 Through the ftreets without a fear 
 You muft understand, my dear, 
 That the girl I fpeak of here 
 
 Was not good : 
 
 And, for reafons ftrange to you, 
 'Twas a daring deed to do, 
 B ringing confequences few 
 
 Had withftood. 
 
 But the .Doctor (fo he's named), 
 Ne'er by deed of mercy fhamed, 
 His true Chriftian heart proclaimed, 
 
 Scandal braved; 
 And his noble tafk performed, 
 While the bitter tempeft ftormed, 
 Till the girl was lodged and warmed, 
 
 Aye, and faved ! 
 
 Shall I tell you the reward 
 
 Of this Chriftian Greatheart's fword? 
 
 'Twas that fovereign and lord, 
 
 Sage and fool, 
 
 At his bearing checked their mirth 
 Grew to recognize his worth, 
 As a Prince upon the earth, 
 
 Fit to rale : 
 
 And beneath the bearifh fkin 
 
 Saw the lovely foul within. 
 
 And were proud to claim him kin 
 
 Aye, the beft ! 
 
 In their hearts they made him room, 
 And filed tears above the tomb 
 Where he waits the crack of doom 
 
 With the bleft. 
 
 Oh ! my little fairy girl, 
 
 Of my houfehold chain the pearl, 
 
 Of this gentle-hearted churl 
 
 Learn the life ! * 
 Learn, like him, to ftand the teft, 
 And the hufband (hall be bleft, 
 Born to clafp thee to his breaft 
 
 As a wife ! 
 
22 
 
 The Annual Dinner of the Club is held in November. 
 The following Legend <was Sung on the Evening of November 2 ist, 1862. 
 
 A LEGEND OF THE GATE. 
 
 WllITTKN BY IlAIN FlUSWKLL, F.SQ., 
 
 Founder of the Urban Club, 
 
 AND SUNO BY Mil. I'AOET, 
 At the Annual Dinner, November 2 1st, 1862. 
 
 In the good old days, when our land was young, 
 
 And this Parilh a wood full green, 
 From Paleftine, counting their beads as they 
 fung, 
 
 Some Prieflly Knights were seen : 
 Like two Cavaliers, in the novels of James, 
 
 Each mounted a (lalwart fteed ; 
 With lance and fword they had played fome 
 games, 
 
 In the Chriflian's time of need. 
 
 Now reding awhile in a weary (late, 
 They (laid on the file of St.John's Gate. 
 Led perhaps by the hand of Fate, 
 They reded where (lands old St.John's 
 Gate. 
 
 "Let us build us a caftle," the leader cried, 
 " On this fpot fo pleafant and green ; 
 " And here (hall our holy Order abide 
 " For many long years, I ween." 
 So they built and raifed a dwelling fair, 
 
 A caftle with moat and wall ; 
 And called their Soldier-priefb to prayer 
 In the vaft and echoing hall. 
 For many long years they lived in (late, 
 Keeping watch and ward in this old 
 
 Gate. 
 
 As years rolled on they kept their (late, 
 Thefe priuftly knights of the St John's 
 
 Gate 
 And one prior plotted ; the next prior fchemed, 
 
 As wily as priors could be, 
 Till blufT King Hal, - faith's defender deemed, 
 
 Cried " No prieftly Knights for me, 
 " To the Prior's houfe I have prior right, 
 
 " Nift frius, I fay as a King, 
 " Neither fifh nor flefli, both Pricft and Knight, 
 " That's not exaftly the thing." 
 
 So he finifhed the job without debate. 
 By bolting them out of the good old 
 
 Gate. 
 And the Prior and Brothers, in dole 
 
 fill (trait, 
 Marched chanting away from St. John's 
 
 Gate. 
 Next the old houfe fell into fad decay, 
 
 As one Lord or another lived here ; 
 Flail, chapel, and tower, all crumbled away, 
 
 'Till the brave old Gate stood bare. 
 And in place of the Monks came a Knight of 
 
 the Prefs, 
 
 With learning's magic lamp; 
 And the old stairs creaked, well they might, 
 
 I guefs, 
 'Neath the Doctor's heavy tramp. 
 
 Of efTay, and preface, and Commons' 
 
 debate. 
 
 They fet up the types in St. John's ( ; ;it < : 
 
 And the printers' lamp of nights fo late, 
 
 Shone out like a star at St.John's Gate. 
 
 Knight, Priest, DoAor, and Prefs are all gone, 
 
 But ftill jolly nights have wt-, 
 For we're merry and wife, and dull forrow we 
 
 fcorn, 
 
 When we meet 'neath this old roof tree; 
 If no lances of iron, we've pens of steel, 
 
 We can borrow the vifor of Art, 
 And our Knights of the Bu(kin can make us 
 
 feel 
 
 That each man but plays his part. 
 So while years pafs by we'll fit in ftatc, 
 And think o'er the paft at the brave 
 
 old Gate. 
 
 For many a year may it be our fate, 
 Our Ci.uu to (loin ilh, at St John's Gate. 
 
2 3 
 SONG, 
 
 WUITTKN UY JOHN OXKXFOlir*, ESQ., 
 
 For the occtifion of the Anni'verfary Dinner (in honour of 
 Shakefpeare s Birthday j held at 
 
 THE URBAN CLUB, ST. JOHN'S GATE, 
 APRIL I 3 n/, 1863. 
 
 THE MUSIC COMPOSED AND St'NG 1>Y MR. TIIOKP FEEDE. 
 
 This day was "Will of Stratford born, 
 
 And Britifh hearts will not forget 
 To celebrate the glorious morn 
 
 Of that bright fun which never fet. 
 Our land, fmce Shakefpeare firft drew breath, 
 
 Three hundred years has older grown, 
 But ere his name has neared its death, 
 
 Full thrice three thoufand will have flown. 
 
 From peace to war, from war to peace, 
 
 We've paft, feen monarch rife and fall, 
 Seen dynafties begin and ceafe, 
 
 Seen William's name endure through all. 
 As Vhen our mortal features change, 
 
 The mind remains a perfect whole, 
 So Shakefpeare, to corruption ftrange, 
 
 Lafts as old England's youthful foul. 
 
 Though narrow has our ifle become, 
 
 And Britons other fhores muft feek, 
 One link flill binds them to their home, 
 
 The tongue that Shakefpeare fpoke, they Ipeak. 
 They bid his verfe immortal ring, 
 
 Through every corner of the earth j 
 And back to recollection bring 
 
 The land that gave their Shakefpeare birth. 
 
A PART SONG, 
 
 WRITTEN BY HAIN FRISWELL, ESQ., 
 
 For the occafion of the Annmerfary Dinner 
 
 (in honour of Shakefpeare's Birthday J held at 
 
 THE URBAN CLUB, ST. JOHN'S GATE, 
 
 APRIL 237-4 1863. 
 
 THE MUSIC COMPOSED BY MR. W. WATSOX : 
 SUNG BY MESSRS. HOLMES, THOMAS, WATSON, AND PAGET. 
 
 Upon the Tomb of Shakefpeare let us lay 
 
 Our votive wreath, a tribute to his fame j 
 Take hence the cyprefs, but oh, bring the bay, 
 
 For Poet-Conqueror in the Ifthmian game. 
 Far hence be Melancholy, Grief, or Gloom ; 
 
 'Tis not for him we fhed the cryftal tear ; 
 Clad with grave Wifdom, let us near his tomb, 
 
 Or jocund fmiles, unto his mufe molt dear. 
 
 Dear is his fame to England, and his name 
 
 Shall hallowed be in ages yet unborn ; 
 His is the greateft glory, free from ftain 
 
 Of widowed wives, or orphans left forlorn. 
 High prieft of fong ; no flalwart captain he, 
 
 No plotting minifter, no Have of place ; 
 But calm above the throng, he fmiles to fee 
 
 The Mufes' ftudents lift their fong of Peace . 
 
 Let "gorgeous Tragedy come fweeping by," 
 
 To teach how Hero died, or Monarch fell ; 
 Or rofy Comedy with fparkling eye, 
 
 Or Paftoral Mufe : each {hall his glory tell. 
 With joyous ode, or " native wood-note wild," 
 
 Make the hills echo with a mufic fhrill : 
 Ring out the name of Nature's favourite child, 
 
 Sweet Shakefpeare : England's darling, our fweet Will ! 
 Sweet Will ! Sweet Will. 
 
 Our Shakefpeare ! England's glory, our fweet Will. 
 
2 5 
 SONGS. 
 
 KY DR. J. E. CARPENTER, 
 
 From "SHAKESPEARE ; an Ode for theTercentenary of Sbakefpearc s 
 
 Birthday, and recited by the A uthor at the Banquet of the 
 
 Urban Club, 2 "^rd April, 1864." 
 
 Preftdent, Dr. Weftland Marfton. Vice-Prefident, J. Crawford Wilfon, l-fij 
 
 * 
 DUET. 
 
 DOWN BY THE AVON'S FLOWING STREAM. 
 
 JVLuJic />!/ Stephen Glover. 
 Down by the Avon's flowing ftream, | " I know a bank," faid the Fairy Queen, 
 
 There came a Bard, in his youth, to dream ; 
 
 Loved by the gentle fairies long, 
 
 They weaved around him the Ipell of fong. 
 
 With vifions bright 
 
 They charmed his fight, 
 
 In legends old 
 
 Their loves they told. 
 'Tvvas thus lie dreamed his youth away, 
 
 And wove his magic fpell, 
 And now in SHAKESPEARE'S tuneful lay 
 
 The gentle fairies dwell; 
 And (till they love, when fades the beam, 
 Down by the Avon's flowing ftream. 
 
 " Where oft he fleeps on the daified green : 
 " / knoiv a bank" fung the Bard of old, 
 When to our wonder his dream he told. 
 
 Since that fweet time, 
 
 In his fweet rhyme, 
 
 In fairies bright 
 
 We take delight, 
 And ftill we while the hours away. 
 
 'Neath SHAKKSPEARE'S magic Ipell, 
 And with him love the paths to ft ray 
 
 Where gentle fairies dwell ; 
 For ftill they rove, when fades the beam, 
 Down by the Avon's flowing ftream. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 THE BIRTHPLACE, THE HOME, AND THE GRAVE OF THE BAliD. 
 
 All hail to the fhrine, for the fpot muft be holy 
 
 That cradled in infancy genius and worth ; 
 Oh ! what though the roof may be humble and lowly, 
 
 It fhelter'd the gem that Ihone proudeft on earth. 
 'Tis not 'mid the gay halls of riches and fplendour 
 
 The home of true genius alone can be found, 
 But in dwellings like thofe, where our homage we render, 
 With heaven above them, and nature around. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Then hail to the fhrine, be it hallowed, for never 
 
 Shall we, who fweet Shakefpeare have learnt to regard, 
 Forget the dear fcene where the Avon runs ever 
 
 The birthplace the home - and the grave of the bard. 
 
 That nation can ne'er be debafed or degraded, 
 
 Whofe people ftill cherifh, with feelings of pride, 
 The fpots that the halo of Genius pervaded 
 
 The home where it dwelt, the place where it died. 
 Then perifh the flave who with rude hands would fever 
 
 The relics of him who made language divine ; 
 May they ftand like his fame, which endureth for ever, 
 That millions unborn may ftill vifit the fhrine. 
 
 CHORUM. 
 Then hail to the fhrine, be it hallowed, for never 
 
 [Shall we, who fweet Shakefpeare have learnt to regard, 
 Forget the dear fcene where the Avon runs ever 
 
 The birthplace the home and the grave of the bard. 
 
 E 
 
SONNET 
 
 BY THE LATE COL. ALFRED BATE RICHARDS, 
 Written for the Anniverfary Dinner, April 23, 1 866, 
 
 AND RECITED BY DR. JOHN DORAN, F.S.A. 
 (Afterwards publiflied in the Religlo Animx by Col. A. B. RICHARDS.) 
 
 HIS PRAYSE. 1664. 
 
 Fayre Wifdome's Bridegroome, married to her yong, 
 That dry'd the inke, wherewith he wrote, with fand 
 Shedde from the houre-glafle of admiring Time. 
 His birth alone had ftamp'd the nation great 
 Where he was nurtur'd \ for indeed he was 
 Humanitie's bright efTence. None e'er liv'd 
 Compeere to him, or will ; for he made all 
 His owne, that is. Eche moneth he lay within 
 His mother's wombe, a feverall Mufe did beare 
 Her fweeteft com panic ; thus was he fram'd 
 To fuch nice fympathyes ; and on the daie 
 He firft did ftretche his dimpling finger tow'rd 
 Earth's waving flow'res, Apollo left his throne 
 To vifit him and kifle his fmiling brow 
 In feale of promife. That yere laurells bloom'd 
 Before their time in this our Britain's ifle. 
 
 Colonel Alfred Bate Richards died on the 12th of June, 1876, 
 aged 57 years, and was interred, by his fpecial requeft, befide the 
 remains of his bofom friend and companion, Frederick Gueft Tomlins, 
 in Croydon Parifh Churchyard. At page 27,! have reprinted the beautiful 
 lines written by Colonel Richards in memory of his friend. They wei e 
 originally printed and circulated by my cfteemed friend Mr. EfEngham 
 Wilfon, to whom I am indebted for the following tribute to the worth 
 and character of Colonel Richards : 
 
 " Colonel Richards was a man of no common or every-day power, 
 poflefTed of no common or ordinary force, but one who, ' like a ftar 
 i' the darkeft night, fticks fiery off indeed.' His was a nature 
 towards which little children yearned, that women adored, and that men 
 admired, being indeed an altogether exceptional inftance of great mental 
 and phyfical ftrength, combined with fingular gentlenefs and tendernefs 
 at once bold and refolute, and confiderate and loving. As poet, as 
 dramatift, as a fearlefs and able journalift, as originator of great national 
 movements, and, above all, as a patriot, he has alike made his high and 
 enduring mark upon the time in which he lived." 
 
T O M L I N S. 
 
 Died Sept. 2 I, 1867, aged 63 years. 
 
 NE, who ne'er aged in fpirit to the laft ; 
 Though Winter's fined froftwork blanch'd his head, 
 His cheeks were Autumn rofes capt with fnow, 
 His age the Chriftmas of a happy child 
 In thought and afpect ; fraught with laughter clear, 
 Full of fweet mirth, quaint humour, fpai kling jeft. 
 In anger quick 'gainft Tyranny to Grief 
 And Poverty as tender as the touch 
 Of mother on her babe. 
 
 Whene'er he came 
 
 Into the place where thofe who knew him fat, 
 Mirth fhone, beneath the funfhine of his eyes, 
 In every eye around. When he came not, 
 'Twas like the fhadow of the made now fallen 
 On us who mifs him fo ; and mail for all 
 The fadden'd remnant of our years to come. 
 
 'Tis like a draught of rare Elixir fpilt, 
 
 AVhen we are met without him. Each fhall oft, 
 
 Forgetful, in too vivid memories, fcan 
 
 The form of every entering vifitant, 
 
 Saying, " 'Tis late, he comes not ! " Then the mill: 
 
 Shall from yon hufht and fylvan Churchyard fcene 
 
 Rife like a curtain, and with hollow tone 
 
 Death, fterneft Prompter of this worldly ftage, 
 
 The cue give back of truth. HE will ne'er cliide 
 
 In playful glee, or fmile on us again. 
 
 Friends! mourn not more than he would have us mourn, 
 
 Could he the limits of our grief prefcribe ; 
 
 Not as Immortals, but as mortals frail, 
 
 Left a few ftages on the felf-fame road 
 
 Whereon he travell'd, whom a little duft 
 
 Hides from us now. 
 
 Meanwhile we'll think he fits 
 
 At SHAKESPEARE'S feet, and cheerful bid " Good-night " 
 Unto that genial Spirit fhrined in joy 
 ?uch as, perchance, he dreamt of, times agone. 
 November, 1867. A. B. RICHARDS. 
 
BY EFFIXGHAM WILSON, ESQ. 
 
 COLONEL RICHARDS'S "CROMWELL." 
 
 ft, T laft our day of long and yearning queft, 
 
 Beholds a great ftage-aim moft nobly urged, 
 Thought from the foullefs darknefs hath emerged, 
 In which our drama all debafed did reft. 
 A lofty fpirit, dealing with the paft 
 
 The God-moved paft that wrought out England's good- 
 Has feized creatively its grandeft mood, 
 And bodied forth what Years fhall prove will laft. 
 " Cromwell, our chief of men" (faith Milton's rhyme), 
 Lifted this dear land into high renown, 
 Free Confcience bade our ifland glory crown, 
 And England left a broader Thought through Time ! 
 Garlyle firft Cromwell with full greatnefs graced 
 Genius that Portrait on the ftage has placed. 
 
 From "The South London Prefs." 
 
2 9 
 
 THE STORY OF SHAKESPEARE 
 
 WRITTEN AND READ BY 
 
 DR. B. W. RICHARDSON, MA., F.R.S., 
 For the occafion of the SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL, held at the 
 
 SJrfcau OTiul), 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL, 
 
 APRIL z$rJ, 1873. 
 E. L. BLANCHARD, ESQ., Prefident. "W. SAWYER, ESQ., Vicc-Prefident. 
 
 HEN our Shakefpeare was born, in the Sun was a ftorm 
 
 And the blaft of the tempeft was lodg'd in his bread ; 
 But the fire enkindled was tempered to form 
 
 By the ftrange HUMAN HEART ! So 'twas that he 
 knew beft. 
 
 ii. 
 ET his fcholars grow old, and beneath the rich ftore 
 
 Of the learning they've gathered fink down to their reft; 
 We, iimpler than they, trace his magical lore 
 
 To the ftrange HUMAN HEART! It was that he 
 knew beft. 
 
 in. 
 
 |f ROM Nature, wherever he met her, he ftole 
 
 Some fecret fhe never before had confeft. 
 Her treafures were his; but the tell-tale of Soul, 
 
 The ftrange HUMAN HEART! It was that he 
 knew beft. 
 
 IV. 
 
 ROM the earth to the Heaven, in radiance of flame, 
 He wandered and wondered, like one of the bleft ; 
 But the place where he refted, to leave us his name, 
 
 Was the ftrange HUMAN HEART ! For 'twas that 
 he knew beft. 
 
|HE true worfhip of the genius of the "Sweet Swan 
 of Avon/' as "rare Ben Jonfon " fo lovingly 
 addreffed the great Dramatift, is thus carried out by the 
 members of this literary brotherhood, and De CXuincy and 
 Wafhington Irving, could they revifit the land where 
 William Shakefpeare lived, and the fpots in Stratford- 
 upon-Avon and London that have become hallowed by 
 aiTociation with his name and movements, would, I 
 am fure, write one more delightful effay on his fweetnefs, 
 and recount once more the never-fading traditions that 
 have grown around the name of the Bard, and lent the 
 charm of the myrtle and the fragrance of the rofe, to the 
 noble growth that is the delight of all men to behold. 
 
 The annual homage paid by the Urban Club would 
 afTuredly come in for their encomiums, and to thofe who 
 have had the privilege and honour of being prefent at 
 thefe celebrations, this ftatement is no mere aiTertion. 
 The eloquent fpeeches, or better, eflays, on the Immortal 
 Memory of Shakefpeare, the. claffical difquifitions on the 
 ancient and modern drama, the anecdotal autobiography 
 of the prefident for the time being, are events never to 
 be forgotten. The high-toned intellects who mufter in 
 great force on thefe occailons, and indeed at the ordinary 
 meetings, have made this Club one of the foremofi 
 literary affociations of England. 
 
3 1 
 
 Its fortnightly " Literary and Scientific At Homes," 
 that were commenced in the beginning of laft year, have 
 now become an additional feature, and the gatherings 
 thus brought together, of minds of various bents and 
 lympathies, may be bed evidenced by a perufal of the 
 circulars and programmes in the Appendix, which I have 
 from time to time compiled and circulated among the 
 members of the Club.* 
 
 In bygone days, under the regime of the late hoft, 
 Mr. B. Fofter, and continued upon his deceafe by his 
 fon-in-law, Mr. Samuel Wickens, it was the annual 
 cuftom to hold "Ye Bore's Head Fejie,'' to which were 
 invited the members of the Urban Club, and other 
 friends of the genial hod. 
 
 For thofe who have never taken part in nor witnefTed 
 the quaint ceremonies attending this old cuftom, I here 
 reproduce a fliort account of the laft Boar's Head Feaft, 
 held in the Hall of St. John's Gate, the fubftance of 
 which I communicated to Notes and Queries (5th Series, 
 Vol. II, p. 507): 
 
 THE BOAR'S HEAD FEAST AT ST. JOHN'S GATE, 
 CLERKENWELL. 
 
 LTHOUGH the Boar's Head is ftill ferved up at 
 Queen's College, Oxford, I do not think it can be 
 more enjoyable than the Chriftmas cuftom ufed to be at 
 Clerkenwell, with the Hall ftrewn with ruflies, the gigantic 
 
 : To prevent reiteration, I muft refer my readers to the 
 circulars in the Appendix for items of information connected with 
 the Hiftory of the Gate during the lyth and l8th centuries. 
 
3 2 
 
 yule-log drawn in by the ions of the hoft (the late 
 proprietor), with the accompanying announcement, by 
 bugles, and the bringing in of the Boar's Head, the 
 ' cook dreffed all in white ' fmging the good old carol 
 (printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1521), copies of which 
 being in the hands of the guefts, who joined in the 
 chorus, rendering the whole fcene fo pleafant as never 
 to be forgotten.* 
 
 The loving cup was never omitted, and of courfe 
 waflail was duly brought in, " |3 Hortje of J$lgsrule"t 
 doing his duty " paffing well." 
 
 The following is an exaft copy of the Carol : 
 "(ZTaroll at JJE fcrgngpgt m gt Port's 
 
 " ' Caput aprt btfrro, 
 
 lcbbrtts laubrs Jlomino.' 
 
 " Cjrc bow's jjwb in Ijanbe bringe |, 
 W&iib garlcns gag an^r rostmarit ; 
 | prag jjou all sjmgc mcrrilie, 
 
 ^ui tstis hi conbibio. 
 
 " lje bow's Ijccb | unbcrstaub, 
 |s iljc tljtfc st rbjru iit tljis laube ; 
 foljcitbcr it bt fonbc, 
 
 cum cautico. 
 
 ^c glabbc lorbcs, botlj mou anb Icssr, 
 Jfor iljis Ijatlj orbcgnfb our sttfcoavbc, 
 Co rljtw gcu all ibis C Ijrjistmassc, 
 Ije bore's bctb faitb mustarbe." 
 
 * Hone gives fome interefling fafts relating to this Carol in 
 his Ancient Myjteries, 1823, p. IO2. 
 
 f Vide my account of " Ye Lorde of Myfrule," in The 
 Antiquary, 1873, ^^- ^-J P- 53- 
 
33 
 
 0ars 
 
 Carol 
 
 The Music formerly sung at St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell 
 
 when the Boar's Head was brought in. 
 The follows ^rds of the Carol trt'tb*, a^oU, U5ed on CHRISTMAS 
 tn tee Hall of QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD * 
 
 BASS. 
 SOLO. 
 
 PIANO. 
 
 \ 
 
 i. The Boar's Head in hand bear I, Be-deck'd with 
 
 22' 
 
 * =S *=?^=E'- 
 ^^3r- 
 
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 ^^ an ^ r ^_^-J7, And I pray you, my mas- ters 
 
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 in con - -vi . 
 
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 * Vide Dr. Rimbault's " Old English Carolj," page 36. 
 
TREBLE. 
 
 ALTO. 
 
 TENOR. 
 
 (8ve lower.) 
 
 BASS. 
 
 PIANO. 
 
 i 
 
 34 
 
 THE BOAR'S HEAD CAROL Continued. 
 
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 Ca put A-pri de - fe - ro, Reddens laudes Do - mi - no. 
 
 
 
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 Ca-put -d-pri de - fe - ro, Reddens laudes Do - mi - wo. 
 
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 Ca-put A-pri de - fe - ro, Reddens laudes Do - mi - no. 
 
 
 and Verse. Solo. 
 
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 The Boar's Head, as I un - der - stand, Is the brav - est 
 
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 dihh in all the land ; When thus be-deck'd with a 
 
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THE BOAR'S HEAD CAROL. _,,/,,<//. 
 
 Repeat Chorus. 
 
 gar. land, Let us r-W". * 
 
 3rd Verse. Solo, 
 fe* 
 
 Our Stew - ard hath pro - vi - ded this/ tn T^ 
 
 the KING of Bliss, Which on this day to be 
 
 - gt - nen - st A - tri - o 
 
36 
 
 The Punch Bowl, once the property of Garrick, but 
 now belonging to the Urban Club,* was always well 
 ufed on this occafion. 
 
 Subjoined is a correft copy of the quaint invitation the 
 late hoft and his predeceflbr ufed to iflue : 
 
 " We'll pafTe aboute y e lovynge cuppe, 
 
 And fend y e waffaile rounde ; 
 With myrthe and fonges of chyvalrie, 
 Thefe goodlie Halles (hall founde." 
 
 "Samuel Wickens, y e Grande Mayefher of y e Priorye 
 of Sainte !of)n, Greetinge welle hys ryghte truftye and 
 welle beloved friends, herebye fummon them to hys coun- 
 cille to be holden in y e Create Halle of y e Priorye afore- 
 faide, on y e Ninthe daye of lanuarie, Anno Domini One 
 thoufande eighte hundrede and feventie-three, to adju- 
 dycate on y e qualitie of hys viandes ; that is to faye, 
 roafte beefe and plumbe puddynge, and with a cordial le 
 greetinge in y e SSEnssaile 33oule and y e 
 
 * Pui chafed at the Strawberry Hill fale, and preferred to the Urban 
 Club by W. R. Belford, Efq., the after. 
 
37 
 
 perpetuate to all tyme and to tyme oute of mynde a 
 ryghte goodlye and laftynge fellowfhippe. Y e 33oart's 
 p^eate will be broughte into y Halle, and y e Chante 
 will be fange, at Six of the Cloke, at which tyme y e 
 Feafte will begine." * 
 
 In the fmall fpace at my difposal, I have given an 
 incoherent account of a few of the reminifcences of one 
 whofe love of relics of antiquity feems to carry him away 
 into the dreary iilfta of the pad, whilfl the events of to- 
 day rufh by with the force of Niagara, carrying and 
 fweeping away the few idols that ferve to charm by their 
 quaintnefs, and infpire with awe by the leffons they 
 filently teach of the frailty of human handiwork. 
 
 I truft, therefore, my readers will pardon me, and 
 think me not prefumptuous, in having taken them into 
 my confidence, and told the oft-told ftory of St. John's 
 Gate and the Urban Club. 
 
 JOHN JEREMIAH. 
 
 This ftiort account of the St. John's Gate Boar's Head Feaft 
 has been reproduced in Briti/fj Popular Cuftoms^ Prefent and 
 Pa/}, by the Rev. T. F. Thifelton Dyer, M.A., London, 1876, 
 
 P- 473- 
 
 Note. This was the laft Boar's Head Feast given at St. 
 John's Gate. The firft took place in 1855. It is to be hoped 
 that the worthy owner, Sir E. Lechmere, Bart , will revive this 
 very appropriate and ancient cuftom. 
 
otes on Shakefpeare. 
 
 glover, 
 
 ILLIAM SHAKESPEARE was born at 
 Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickihire, in 
 1564, the fixth year of Elizabeth. " The 
 date of Birth is not known, but was BEFORE 
 the i$rd April" (H.)* His baptifm is 
 recorded on the 26th April. From the 
 cuftom of baptizing children when three 
 days old, the 23rd April has been ajfwned 
 as his birthday.f His father was JOHN 
 SHAKESPEARE, who, according to the often 
 unreliable Aubrey, was a butcher ;| but is 
 now generally believed to have been a 
 from an account difcovered by Mai one, dating 
 
 : The notes with (H.) prefixed have been very kindly 
 furniftied by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Efq. 
 
 f W. Watkis Lloyd's " Life of Shakefpeare," in Singer's 
 Shakefpcare, Vol. I., p. 1 8. 
 
 Memoir of Shakefpeare (Aldine Edition, Shakefpeare' s Sonnets}, 
 by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, pp. l-2 3 and at p. 12, quoting from 
 Aubrey's Minutes of Lives. 
 
39 
 
 that he was fued before John Burbage, Bailiff of Strat- 
 ford, for 8 as a glover (June 17, 1555). 
 
 In 1556 he was one of the jury of the Court Leet at 
 Stratford. 
 
 1565. Elefted an alderman, when his fon William 
 was in his fecond year. 
 
 From Michaelmas, 1568, to Michaelmas, 1569, he 
 ferved as high bailiff. 
 
 Sept. 5, 1571. Elefted chief alderman. 
 
 1597. Is ftyled in a deed Johannes Shake/pear e 
 u Jeo?nan" in the fifteenth year of the poet. 
 
 So much regarding the public pofition held by Mafter 
 John Shakefpeare. 
 
 1557. He married Mary, the youngefl of at leafl four 
 daughters of Robert Arden, or Arderne, of Wilmecote, in 
 the Parifh of Aflon Cantlowe, Warwickfhire. Her 
 marriage portion was a fmall eftate in fee in that parifh, 
 called Afhbyes ; 6 135. 4d., and an interefl in fome 
 property in Snitterfield. 
 
 Iffue of marriage : four fons and four daughters, in 
 the following order : 
 
 Joan, Margaret, William, Gilbert, another Joan, Anne, 
 Richard, and Edmund. The elder Joan and Margaret 
 died in infancy, before the birth of William ; Anne died 
 in her eighth year. Of Gilbert, very little that is certain 
 is known. An anecdote refers to his living " to a good 
 old age."* The fecond Joan married William Hart, a 
 hatter, in Stratford, and died in 1646. All that is 
 
 * Vide Dyce's Memoir, quoting Oldys. 
 
40 
 
 known of Richard is that he was buried in 1612-13. 
 Edmund became an aftor at the Globe Theatre, and was 
 interred in the church of St. Saviour's, Southwark, 
 on the 3ist December, 1607. 
 
 William Shakefpeare \sfuppofed to have received his 
 education at the Free School of Stratford. Of the age 
 at which he was fent, or how long he remained there, 
 nothing is known.* Little can be {aid, beyond mere con- 
 jecture, about the youth of the poet, until 1582, -f when, 
 
 * Dyce, loc. tit., p. 7. The controverfy on the learning of 
 the Dramatift will be found very ably fet forth in An EJay on 
 the Learning of Shakefpeare, addrejjed to Jofeph Cradock, Efq., 2nd ed., 
 by Richard Farmer, B.D., Cambridge, 1768. And on the 
 question of " What did Shakefpeare learn at fchool ?" see The Athe- 
 n<tum } Oct. 7, 1876, p. 464, wherein is given, by Mr. F. J. 
 Furnivall, a letter from the Rev J. H. Lupton, of St. Paul's 
 Schools, containing a lift of the probable fchool books that were 
 used at fuch a fchool at Stratford. He fays, " I think you 
 would be fafe in concluding that, at fuch a fchool at Stratford, 
 about 1570, there would be taught I. An 'ABC book.' 
 
 2. 'A Catechifm in Englifh and Latin,' probably No well's. 
 
 3. ' The Authorized Latin Grammar,' i.e., Lilly's. 4. Some easy 
 Latin construing book, fuch as Erafmuf's Colloquies. Corderiuf's 
 Colloquies, or ' Baptifta Mantuanus." 1 " Mr. Furnivall adds, " I sup- 
 pofe we may add writing, arithmetic, and mufic to his lift of 
 ftudies. The book, fometimes fet down as a Shakfpere fchool- 
 book, Chriftopher Ocland's ' Anglorum Pralia ' and ' De Pacatiflimo 
 AngTiaJlatu imperante Elizabetha compendiofa NarratioJ was not printed 
 tiii 1581, . ... by which time Shakfpere had probably left 
 fchool." 
 
 f " Marriage exact date not known, but was fliortly after 
 the 28th November, 25th Eliz., 1582." (HU 
 
4> 
 
 at the age of eighteen and a half years, he married ANNE 
 HATHAWAY, fuppofed to have been at that time feven to 
 eight years his fenior. She was the daughter of Richard 
 Hathaway, of Shottery, in the parifh of Stratford. 
 
 May 26th, 1583. Their firft child, Sufannah, was 
 baptized.* 
 
 Feb. 2nd, 1584-5. Baptifm of their twin children, 
 Hamnet and Judith. 
 
 From this date nothing is known of William Shake- 
 fpeare's life until 1592, when he is alluded to, as fome infer, 
 by Robert Greene, the dramatift, in a pamphlet entitled 
 Groatfworth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance 
 (printed in 1596), as follows: "Yes, trufh them not: 
 for there is an vpftart Crow beautified with our feathers, 
 that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, lup- 
 pofes he is as well able to bumbafh out a blank verfe as 
 the befh of you : and being an abfolute lohannes fac 
 totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-fcene in a 
 countrie."f "As Robert Greene died on Sept. 2nd or 
 3rd, 1592, we may fafely refer the manufcript to the 
 fummer or autumn of that year." J The poet's age at 
 this time was thus twenty-four and a half years. This 
 is the moji valuable of the fuppofed contemporary allufions. 
 
 * On the early birth of Sufannah, see The Academy, Oct. 14, 
 1876 ; and on ShakfperSs PoJJlble Troth-Plight, by F. J. 
 Furnivall. 
 
 f Sbaltfpere Alluftan-Books, Part I., ed. by C. M. Ingleby, M. A., 
 LL.D. (New Shak. Soc. Pub.), 1874, P- xxx - 
 
 | Introduction to Shakfpere Alliifton-Books, Part I., pp. ii., iii. 
 
 Incorrectly given by Dyce, loc. cit., p. xxxiiL, and Singer's 
 Shakt/pearei'Vol. L, p. xxxii. 
 
 G 
 
42 
 
 There are numerous direft and indirect contemporary 
 allufions to Shakefpeare which are referred to at foot * 
 
 * The following is a Lift of the Principal Works in which 
 occur direEt and indirect contemporary allufions to Shakefpeare : 
 
 Kind-Hart's Dream?, by H. C. (Henrie Chettle). Suppofcd allujion. 
 
 1592. 
 Englandes Mourning Garment, by Henrie Chettle Sitppofed alhtficm 
 
 1603. 
 A Mournefull Dlttle, entituled Elizabeth's Loffe, together 'with A Welcome 
 
 for King James. DireEt allujion by name. 1603. 
 
 /. C.'s \2th Epigram, from Epigrames, ferved out in 52 fever all Di/bes 
 
 for every man to tajl 'without furfeting : Printed by G. Elde. (No 
 
 date, but mud have been about 1604-1622.) DirecJ allujion by name. 
 
 Gabriel Harvey s Third Letter, from FOVRE LETTERS and certaine 
 
 Sonnets: 1592. DirecJ allufion. NOT by name. 
 Palladis Tamia: Wifs Treafury, by Francis Meres, 1598. Ten dired 
 
 allufions by name, and mention of his plays. 
 Colin Clout's Come Home Againe, by Edmund Spenfer, 1595. Suppofed 
 
 allujion to Shakefpeare under the name of AETION. 
 Willobie His Avifa. 1594. DireEt allujion by name, and mention of 
 
 Rape of Lucrece. 
 Epicedium, by W. Har, 1594 (conjeSured, by Sir William Harbert). 
 
 Allujion to Lucrece. 
 
 Legend of Matilda, by Michael Drayton, 1594. Allujion to Lucrece. 
 Polimanteia, by W. C. (William Clarke), 1595. DirecJ allujion by 
 
 name, and mention of Lucrece. 
 
 Epigrammes in the Oldejl Cut and Neiuejl Fajhion, by John Weever. 
 22nd Epigram: "Ad Gulielmum Shakefpeare" 1595. Alfo allufions 
 to Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Romeo, and Richard. 
 Exce llencie of the Engli/h Tongue, by R. C. (Richard Carew), of Anthony, 
 
 Efq., to W.C., about 1595-1596.* DirecJ allufion by name. 
 Month's Mind of a Melancholy Lover, by R. T. (Robert Tofte, 1598.) 
 
 Mentioning performance of Love's Labour Lojt. 
 
 A Remembrance of Some Englifh Poets, from Poems in Divers Humors, 
 attributed to Richard Barnfeild, i 598. DirecJ allufion by name, and 
 mention of Venus and Lucrece. 
 * Inferted in Camden's Remains Concerning Britain, pp. 42-51. REPRINT, 1870. 
 
43 
 
 f 'Firft appearance in London' date not known." (H). 
 
 " The precife time at which Shakefpeare commenced 
 his profeffional career in London is not known, but it 
 mufl be affigned to fome period after May, 1583, and 
 before the year 1592." * 
 
 The deerfhilking incident and his embroilment with 
 Sir Thomas Lucy cannot be direftly proved to have 
 taken place. 
 
 Scourge of Villanie, by John Marfton, 1 598. Satyres X. and VII. 
 
 Containing a parody of a line from Richard III., and mention of 
 
 Romeo and Juliet. 
 
 Ratfeys Ghojl,\ 1606. General allufion to " certaine players." 
 The Reti)rne from Pernaflvs, or The Scourge of Simony, 16064 (-d^fd 
 
 in 1602.) DireEl allufion by name. 
 Dedication to the White Devil, by John Webfter, 1 6 1 2 . Direct allufion 
 
 by name. 
 Rub and a Great Cajl, by Thomas Freeman, 1614. Direft allujion by 
 
 name, and mention of Venus and Adonis and Lucrece. 
 The Ghojt of Richard ///., by C. B., 1614. Allujion to Shakefpeare, 
 
 but NOT by name. 
 Scourge of Folly, by John Davies, 1611. Contains lines "To our Englijlo 
 
 Terence, Mr. Will Shakefpeare." 
 Microcofmos, by John Davies, 1603. General allufion to players. 
 
 For the Reprints and Analyfis of moft of the above-mentioned 
 Allufions, fee the Shakfpere Allufwn-Books, Part I., edited by C. M. 
 Ingleby, M.A., LL.D. (for the New Shakfpere Society), 1874, and 
 Shakefpeare s Centurie of Prayfe, London, 1874, by Dr. C. M. Ingleby, 
 M.A., for very valuable information on Shakefpearean anthology. 
 
 * Illuftrations of the Life of Shakefpeare, J. O. Halliwell, F.R.S., 
 Part the Firft, p. I. 
 
 t The full title of the chapter, wherein the allufion occurs, in this Traft, is as 
 follows : "A Pretty Prancke puffed by Retjey upon certaine Players that he met by chance 
 in an Inne. ivho denied their oivne Lord and Maijler, and ufed another Nobleman 's Name." 
 
 J Vide Dyce's Introduftion to Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder (Camden Society's 
 Publications), p. xi. 
 
44 
 
 "According to the mod reliable authorities, Shake- 
 fpeare held at firfl a fubordinate pofition in the theatre. 
 A perfon named Dowdall, who vifited the Church of the 
 Holy Trinity, Stratford-on-Avon, early in the year 1693, 
 gives the following interefling notice of the traditional 
 belief then current in the poet's native county, relpeft- 
 ing this incident in his life : ' The clarke that fliow'd 
 me this church is above eighty years old ; he fays that 
 this Shakefpear was formerly in this town bound ap- 
 prentice to a butcher, but that he run from his mafter 
 to London, and there was received into the play-houfe 
 as a ferviture, and by this meanes had an oppertunity to 
 be what he afterwards prov'd.' " * 
 
 "Although the parifh clerk alluded to by Dowdall 
 was not fo old as is here reprefented, William Caflle, 
 who was then clerk and fexton (Stratford Vef try-book), 
 having been born in the year 1621 (Stratford Regifter), 
 there can be no hefitation whatever in receiving his 
 narrative as the truthful report of a tradition accepted 
 in the neighbourhood at the time at which it was 
 recorded." -J- 
 
 Shakefpeare is faid to have been firfl employed as 
 a prompter's attendant, or call-boy.^. But this is only 
 traditional. 
 
 The flory of Shakefpeare having held horfes at the 
 door of the theatre, gains fome colouring from the ?.p- 
 
 * Illuftrat'wm of the Life of Shakefpeare, J. O. Halliwell, F.R.S., 
 Part the Fir ft, p. I. 
 
 f Ibid., loc. cit. 
 
 * Malone's Supplement to Shakefpeare' s Plays, ed. 1780, p. 67. 
 
45 
 
 parently correct verfion given in the Monthly Magazine 
 for 1818, which is quoted by Mr. Halliwell in his very 
 valuable work, Illujirations of the Life of Shakefpeare, 
 Part the Firft, p. 7. 
 
 After giving the flory as told by Jordan in a manu- 
 fcript written about the year 1783, which, by the way, 
 is very meagre, he fays : 
 
 " There is another and much fnnpler verfion of the 
 anecdote recorded in the Monthly Magazine in 1818, on 
 the authority of an inhabitant of Stratford- on- Avon, who 
 was one of the defcendants from the poet's fifter. It is 
 given in the following words : ' Mr. J. M. Smith faid 
 he had often heard his mother (late that Shakefpeare 
 owed his rife in life and his introduction to the theatre 
 to his accidentally holding the horfe of a gentleman at 
 the door of the theatre on his firft arriving in London ; 
 his appearance led to inquiry and fubfequent patronage.' 
 Monthly Magazine, February, 1818, repeated in Mon- 
 crieffes Guide, ed. 1822, p. 227; ed. 1824, p. 25." 
 
 "The mother of J. M. Smith was, according to a 
 pedigree compiled by Wheler, Mary Hart, who had 
 married one William Smith. This Mary was, on the 
 fame authority, daughter of the George Hart who mar- 
 ried Sarah Mumford in the year 1729. She was fifth in 
 defcent from Joan Shakefpeare, fifter of Shakefpeare. 
 
 "Verfions of any tradition, however, refpefting the 
 great dramatifl which cannot be traced beyond the chief 
 era of the commencement of Shakefpearean deceptions, 
 the Stratford Jubilee of 1769, iliould be received with 
 the utmoft caution, efpecially if emanating from War- 
 
46 
 
 wickfhire. The narratives of Jordan and Smith mud be 
 regarded as evidences which are at lead of a queilionable 
 character." * 
 
 1593. Publication of Venus and Adonis. 
 
 1594. Publication of Rape of Lucrece, both dedicated 
 to Henry Wriothefley, Earl of Southampton, who at one 
 time gave Shakefpeare .1000 to complete a purchafe 
 "he had a mind to," fuppofed to have been in connexion 
 with the building of the Globe Theatre, at Bankfide, by 
 Richard Burbage. But this is mere conjecture. 
 
 1594. In December of this year Shakefpeare, as a 
 leading member of the Lord Chamberlain's Company, 
 acted in two plays before Queen Elizabeth, which appears 
 from a memorandum difcovered by Mr. Halliwell in the 
 Accounts of the Treafurer of the Chamber. (Vide llluftra- 
 tions, p. 31.) 
 
 The Blackfriars Theatre was built in 1596, as is 
 iliown by the conveyance of the old houfe from Sir 
 William More to James Burbage, dated 4th February, 
 1596. In the Lord Chamberlain MS., printed in the 
 Appendix to Halliwell's Illuftrations of the Life of Shake- 
 fpeare, occurs the following paflage, in the Petition of 
 Burbages in 1635: "Now for the Blackfriers, that is 
 our inheritance ; our father purchafed it at extrearne rates, 
 
 * The reader will find an anecdote of Shakefpeare which is 
 curious from the boldnefs of its relator aflerting its authenticity. 
 It occurs in The Fa/hionable Tell-Tale, dedicated by Permiffion to 
 David Garrick, Efq., Second Edition, 1778, pp. 41-43. The 
 ftory is nothing lefs than a pure fabrication. 
 
47 
 
 and made it into a playhoufe with great charge and 
 troble." (p. 90.) 
 
 In 1596, Shakefpeare is faid to have refided near 
 the Bear Garden, in Southwark, and at a later period 
 (1612-13) had a houfe in Blackfriars, " abutting upon a 
 flreete leading doune to Pudle Wharfe, in the eaft part 
 right againft the Kinges Majefties Wardrobe."* 
 
 In this year (1596) Shakefpeare loft (in Auguft) his 
 only fon, Hamnet, in his eleventh year. 
 
 1597. At Eafter 'Term he bought the Great Houfe, 
 afterwards called New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, for 
 60, about equal to 300 at the prefent time. Mr. 
 Collier thinks this purchafe was made fomewhat LATER. 
 
 In 1598, Ben Jonfon's Every Man in his Humour was 
 firft afted by Shakefpeare and his company, known as the 
 " Lord Chamberlains Servants." 
 
 The Globe Theatre was erected in 1599 ; the materials 
 for its conftruftion having "been brought from Shore- 
 ditch to the Bankfide early in that year ; and there being 
 an allufion to the building itfelf in Shakefpeare's play of 
 Henry the Fifth, which is known to have been produced 
 at the Globe (fee Chorus to the Firft Aft), and at fome 
 time between April and September, 1599, during the 
 abfence of the Earl of Effex in Ireland, "f 
 
 * Malone's Inquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Papers, sV., 
 1796, pp. 119,215. " I believe," fays this writer, " that he never 
 refided in the Blackfriars at all." Halliwell's Life of Shakefpeare, 
 8vo edition, and J. P. Collier's Life of Alley n, pp. 90-92. 
 
 r Illuftrations of the Life of Shakefpeare, by J. O. Halliwell, F.R.S., 
 Part the Firft, p. 43. Merrie England in the Olden Time, by 
 George Daniel, 1841, p. III. 
 
48 
 
 In this year Shakefpeare became a partner in fome of the 
 profits of the Globe,* and afted in the plays here as well 
 as at the Blackfriars Theatre. The firft building known 
 as the Globe was ufed all the year round, but the fecond 
 building was only ufed in the fumrner, and the Blackfriars 
 in the winter. 
 
 1600, July. Died Sir Thomas Lucy. 
 
 1 60 1. Died John Shakefpeare, and on September 8th 
 was buried. 
 
 1603. At Chriftmas, Shakefpeare's Company (The 
 Lord Chamberlain's) performed fix plays before the King 
 and Prince at Hampton Court, and received 20 NOBLES 
 for each performance ( = 13 i6s. 8d.). 
 
 1607, June 6th. Marriage of Shakefpeare's eldeft 
 daughter, Sufannah, at the age of twenty-four, to John 
 Hall, gentleman, a phyfician at Stratford. 
 
 1608. Died Mrs. Shakefpeare (the poet's mother), 
 and on September 9th was buried. 
 
 " Shakefpeare retired to Stratford between September, 
 1609, and June, 161 1. Nothing nearer is known." (H.) 
 
 1613. Died, at Stratford, Shakefpeare's brother 
 Richard, in his fortieth year. In June the fame year, 
 deftruftion of the Globe Theatre by fire. Rebuilt at the 
 charge of King James, noblemen, and others. f 
 
 * The SucceJJton of Shakefpeare's Plays, by F. J. Furnivall, M.A., 
 1874, P- 3^> being the introduction to Prof. Gervinus's Commenta- 
 ries on Shakfpere, trans, by Mifs Bunnett. 
 
 f Vide Halliwell's Illuftrations, &c., Ft. I., p. 43, Singer's Shake- 
 peare, Vol. I., p. 78, Pinks and Wood's Hiflory of Clerkenivell, 
 p. 195. 
 
 The Shakefpearean Dramas known to have been a<fted at the 
 
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 1615-16, Feb. loth. Judith, the youngeft and only 
 other child and daughter of Shakefpeare, was married to 
 Thomas Quiney, a vintner and wine merchant of Stratford. 
 She died in 1662.* 
 
 1616, March 25th. Shakefpeare executed his will. 
 
 1616, April 23rd. Died William Shakefpeare. f 
 
 As regards the fpelling of the poet's name, Mr. 
 
 Globe before the fire in 1613 are: Romeo and Juliet; Richard 
 the Second ; King Lear; Troilus and Creflida ; Pericles; Othello; 
 Macbeth, and the Winter's Tale. Romeo and Juliet alfo pro- 
 duced at the Curtain Theatre in 1596. 
 
 Of the play of Richard H the following ftory is told : 
 " 1 604, Aug. 4. Speaking of Richard II., Lambard referred 
 to an attempt by an unkind gentleman, the moft adorned 
 creature that ever your Majestic made. The Queen faid this 
 tragedie was played 40 times in open ftreets and houfes." 
 Fourth Report Hijlorical MSS. Commiflion, 1874, P- 3- 
 
 * Singer, loc. cit., p. 84. 
 
 f The caufe of his death is fuppofed to have arifen from pig- 
 flies and other nuifances in the neighbourhood of New Place, 
 which gave him a fever. Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps fays : 
 
 " In all human probability the poet died from an attack of 
 typhoid fever , an ailment the treatment of which was then imper- 
 feftly underftood, * * * * 
 
 " The theory of his death by the typhoid fever is not incon- 
 fiftent with the tradition which records that the monumental 
 effigy in Stratford Church was taken from a cajl after death> for 
 that fever is often too rapid in its fatal progrefs to render the 
 countenance fo emaciated as to caufe a fenfible difference in its 
 form after dhTolution." Vide Halliwell's Hi/lory of New Place. 
 p. 28. 
 
 n 
 
5 
 
 Halliwell-Phillipps has fent the author the following 
 note : 
 
 "He fpells it SHAKE-SPEARE in his firft work. So do 
 his friends. He fometimes figned himself SHAKSPERE, 
 but fometimes alfo SHAKSPEARE, as I know by a tracing 
 of the will made in 1770, before it got damaged. In 
 Shakefpeare's time people figned their names in all manner 
 of ways. I have fpecimens of the fignatures of Julius 
 Shawe, Shakefpeare's friend, in EIGHT various fpellings ! " : 
 
 On the other hand, Mr. F. J. Furnivall, the Founder 
 and Director of the New Shakfpere Society, says : 
 
 "This fpelling of our great poet's name (Shakfpere) is 
 taken from the only unqueftionably genuine fignatures of 
 his that we pofTefs the three in his will, and the two in 
 his Straiford conveyance and mortgage, j- None of thefe 
 fignatures have an e after the , four have no a after 
 the firft e ; the fifth I read eere" J 
 
 * Some furnames "from that which they commonly carryed, 
 as Palmer, in regard that pilgrims carryed pa/me when they re- 
 turned from Hierufalem ; Long-fword, Broad-fpear, Fortefcue, 
 that is, Strong-fword ; and in fome fijch refpefts Break-fpeare, 
 Shake-fpeare, &c." Camden's Remains concerning Britain. Re- 
 print, 1870, pp. 136, 137. "The name is, in the poet's own 
 county, pronounced with firft a fhort, and in the regifter or 
 Stratford church uniformly entered SHAKSPERE." Remarks, 
 Critical and Illuftrative, on the Text and Notes of the Loft Edition 
 of Shakfpeare (anonymous), London, 1783, p. 2. 
 
 f See the facsimiles of the fignatures to the Will, p. 76 et feq. : 
 and A Photographic Reproduction of Shakfpeare's Will with Defcript'me 
 Letter-Prefs, by J. Hain Frifwell, 1864. 
 
 $ ProfpecJus of the New Shakfpere Society, p. 5, note I. 
 
5 1 
 
 fSarltest lE&ittons of S 
 
 The Firfl Folio, 1623, printed by Isaac laggard and 
 Edward Blount. 
 
 The Second Folio, 1632, printed by Thos. Cotes, for 
 Robert Allot. 
 
 The Third Folio, 1664, printed for P. C. Some copies 
 have on title-page " Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1663 " 
 
 The Fourth Folio, 1685, printed for H Herringman, 
 E. Brewjter, and R. Bentley. 
 
 Firft Octavo, 1709-10, edited by N. Rowe, to which 
 are added his Poems ^ with critical Remarks on the Plays, 
 &c., by Charles Gildon (7 vols.). 
 
 Firft Quarto, 1725, edited by Alexander Pope (6 vols.).* 
 
 * For a full lift of all the Editions and Commentators on Shake- 
 fpeare, fee the New Variorum Edition of Shakefpeare, by Horace Howard 
 Furnefs efpecially relating to the Plays, which that accomplifhed an- 
 notator has as yet publifhed Vols. I., II. (Philadelphia, 1873.) 
 
 Note. The Names of the Principal A3ors who formed the original 
 company, ac:ording to the Fir/I Folio : William Shakefpeare : Richard 
 Burbadge : John Hemmings : Aguftine Phillips: William Kempt:* 
 Thomas Poope : George Bryan : Henry Condell : William Slye : 
 Richard Cowly : John Lowine : Samuel Croffe : Alexander Cooke : 
 Samuel Gilburne: Robert Armin: William Oftler: Nathan Field: John 
 Underwood: Nicholas Tool ey: William Eccleftone : Jofeph Taylor: 
 Robert Benfield: Robert Goughe: Richard Robinfon : lohnShancke: 
 lohn Rice." Firft Folio, 1623, Reprint (Halliwell-Phillipps), 1876. 
 
 * For an account of this remarkable and renowned comic actor and author, fee 
 Kemp's Nine Dates Wonder Performed in a Daunce jram London to Nor-wick, firft 
 pub. in 1600. Edited with an Introduction by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, 1840. 
 (Camdcn Socy. Publication, Introduction, pp. v. xxvi.) 
 
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 THE STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS. 
 
 HE chronological arrangement in the foregoing 
 table is to a certain extent tentative, but it will 
 ferve a very ufeful purpofe in the ftudy of the growth 
 of the genius of Shakefpeare. On this fubject and on 
 the fyftem of metrical tefts now fo prevalent, Mr. J. O. 
 Halliwell-Phillipps fays: 
 
 "The literary hiflory of Shakefpeare cannot, of courfe, 
 be perfected until the order in which he compofed his 
 works has been afcertained, that unlefs the books of the 
 theatrical managers or licenfers of the time are difcovered 
 it is not likely that the exact chronological arrangement 
 will be determined. The dates of fome of his productions 
 reft on pofitive t.eftimony or diftinct allufions, and thefe 
 are (land-points of great value. In refpeft, however, to 
 the majority of them, the period of compofition has un- 
 fortunately been merely the fubject of refined and ufelefs 
 conjecture. Internal evidence of conftruction and ftyle, 
 obfcure contemporary references, and metrical or gram- 
 matical tefts, can very rarely in themfelves be relied upon 
 to eftablifh the year of authoriliip. Specific phafes of 
 ftyle or metre neceflarily had periods of commencement in 
 Shakefpeare's work, but fo long as the epochs are merely 
 
55 
 
 conjectural, no real progrefs is made in the inquiry. Nor, 
 as a rule, are the refults obtained from xfthetic criticifms, 
 which depend to fome extent upon the individual fenti- 
 ment of the critic, of much greater certainty. No 
 fufficient allowances appear to be made for the high 
 probability of the intermittent ufe of various flyles during 
 the long interval which elapfed after the era of compara- 
 tive immaturity had palled away, and in which, fo far 
 as conftructive and delineative power was concerned, there 
 was neither progrefs nor retrogreflion. Shakefpeare's, 
 genius arrived at maturity with much celerity, is perilous 
 to affert from any kind of internal evidence alone what he 
 could not have written at any particular fubfequent period 
 and flyle frequently varies not only with the fubject but 
 with the purpofe of authorfhip. It may be prefumed, for 
 inftance, that the diction and conftruction of a drama 
 written for performance at the Court might be eflentially 
 diffimilar from thofe of a play of the fame date compofed 
 for the ordinary ftage, where the audiences were of a 
 more promifcuous character, and the ufages and appliances 
 of the actors in many refpects of a different nature."* 
 
 Metrical tefls, then, are poffible quickfands to the 
 Shakefpearean ftudent, at leaft he will do well in con- 
 fidering the objections raifed in the paffage juft cited.f 
 
 * lllujtrations, &c. Pref., p. vii 
 
 f Vide, The Three Stages of Shakefpeare, by A. C. Swinburne, in 
 The Fortnightly Review, Jan. I, 1 876, and the difcuflion on Metrical 
 Tefts between that writer and Mr. F. J. Furnivall, in The Academy 
 of the same month (Jan. 8, pp. 34-35; Jan. 15, pp. 53-55; 
 Jan. 29, pp. 98-99). The Still Lion, by Dr. C. M. Ingleby, 
 pp. 1-13, 1874. 
 
56 
 
 The Firft Folio (1623) is confidered as the molt 
 authentic and complete edition of Shakefpeare's works. 
 
 The following account of the Plays contained therein 
 is fummarized from the Preface to the Reprint of the 
 Firft Folio, by Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps : 
 
 The Tempeft . . . . . . In this vol. is the Firft Edition. 
 
 Two Gentlemen of Verona . In this vol. is the Firft Edition. 
 Merry Wives of Wind/or . In this vol. is the Firft Edition 
 
 in its complete ftate. 
 
 Meafure for Meafure . . Firft Edition. 
 Comedy of Errors . . . .Firft Edition. 
 Much Ado about Nothing . Printed from a quarto, 1600, 
 
 with a few omiflions and 
 
 variations. 
 Love's Labours Loft. . . Printed from a quarto, 1598, 
 
 with a few alterations of 
 
 flight confequence. 
 Midfujnmer Night's Dream Printed from Roberta's Quarto 
 
 Edition, 1600. 
 The Merchant of Venice . Printed from Reyes's Quarto 
 
 Edition of 1 600, with many 
 
 variations and alterations. 
 
 As Ton Like It Firft Edition. 
 
 'The Taming of the Shrew . Firft Edition. 
 All's Well that Ends Well. Firft Edition. 
 
 Twelfth Night Firft Edition. 
 
 The Winters Tale . . . Firft Edition. 
 
 King John Firft Edition. 
 
 Richard the Second . . . Mainly from 410 edit., 1615. 
 Part of Henry IV. . Mainly from 4to edit., 1613. 
 
57 
 
 Henry the Fifth . . . 
 Firji Part of Henry VI. 
 Second Part of Henry VI. 
 Third Part of Henry VI. 
 
 Second Part of Henry IV. . " There was a quarto edition 
 
 ifliied in 1600, but the 
 editors of the Folio appear 
 to have ufed a manufcript 
 playhoufe tranfcript of the 
 comedy."* 
 Firft complete Edition. 
 
 Firft Edition. (Touched up only by 
 Firft Edition. [Shakefpeare] 
 
 Firft Edition. It is an alter- 
 ation of the "True Tra- 
 gedy of Richard Duke of 
 York, and the Death of 
 good King Henry the Sixth, 
 with the whole Contention 
 between the two Houfes, 
 Lancafter & York," 1595. 
 Edited from a playhoufe copy 
 
 of the quarto of 1602. 
 Firft Edition. 
 
 Printed from the quarto of 
 1609, with omiflions and 
 additions. 
 
 Coriolanus Firft Edition. 
 
 Titus Andronicus .... Edited from a playhoufe tran- 
 fcript. 
 
 On this play Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps remarks : 
 " It is nearly impoflible to believe that this drama could have 
 been written by Shakefpeare, and I rather incline to conjecture 
 
 Richard the Third 
 
 Henry the Eighth . 
 Troilus and CreJJida 
 
 * See an article on the Hijlorical Element in Shakefpeare s Faljlajf, 
 in The Fortnightly Review, by J. Gairdner, Mar. i, 1873, P 333- 
 
58 
 
 that the editors of the Firfl Folio inferted the older play on 
 the fubjecft, firfl printed in 1594, through either miflake or 
 ignorance, knowing that Shakefpeare had written a drama on the 
 fame theme, and finding no other verfions of it in their collection 
 of plays." 
 
 Another writer is of opinion that 
 " Our prefent play [Titus Andronicus] is not Shakefpeare's ; 
 it is built on the Marlowe blank-verfe fyftem which Shakefpeare, 
 in his early work, oppofed ; and did not belong to Shakefpeare's 
 Company till 1 600." Fleay, Shakefpeare Manual, p. 44. 
 Romeo and Juliet .... Edited from a playhoufe copy 
 
 of the quarto of 1609. 
 Timon of Athens .... Firfl Edition. 
 
 Julius Ctefar Firfl Edition. 
 
 Macbeth Firfl Edition. 
 
 Hamlet Edited from a playhoufe tran- 
 
 fcript. 
 King Lear Edited from a playhoufe tran- 
 
 fcript, certainly not from 
 
 the author's manufcript. 
 Othello Edited from a playhoufe tran- 
 
 fcript. 
 
 Antony and Cleopatra . . Firfl Edition. 
 Cymbeline Firfl Edition.* 
 
 * Vide Preface to the facsimile Reprint of the Firft Folio, 1623, 
 by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, F.R.S., pp. 8-1 1, 1876. 
 
 NOTE. For the beft account of the fources whence Shake- 
 fpeare derived the plots, etc., of his plays, fee the Shakefpeare 
 Library, 2nd edition, 1875, 6 volumes, being A ColleSion of 'Plays , 
 Romances, Novels, Poems, and Hi/lories employed by Shakefpeare in the 
 Compaction of his Works, tvith IntroduSions and Notes, by "W. C. 
 Hazlitt, and Shakefpeare Jeft-Books, 3 vols., 1864, by the fame 
 learned writer. 
 
59 
 
 in Stratforir 
 
 PyBvm, genlo Socratem, arte Maronem, 
 Terra tegit, popvhs mttret, Olympvs habet." 
 
 " Stay PafTenger, why goeft thou by fo fait ? 
 Read if thov canft, whom enviovs Death hath plaft, 
 With in this monvment SHAKSPEARE with whome 
 Qyick Natvre dide: whofe name doth deck y 8 Tombe 
 Far more then coft : sieh all y i He [SITH] hath writt 
 Leaves living art, bvt page, to serve his Witt." 
 
 Obiit Ano Do { 1616. 
 JEtatls 53. Die 23 Ap. 
 
 The above lines are infcribed upon the tablet under 
 Shakefpeare's Bud, in the chancel-north-wall of Stratford 
 Church. The date of the ere&ion of the monument is 
 not known, but was before 1623. "The buft was 
 originally painted in imitation of Nature," which was 
 renewed in 1748. Malone caufed it to be covered with 
 one or more coats of white paint in 1793,* which gave 
 rife to the following lines : 
 
 " Stranger, to whom this monument is fhown, 
 Invoke the Poet's curfe upon Malone, 
 Whofe meddling zeal his barbarous tafte difplays, 
 And daubs his tombftone as he mars his plays. "f 
 
 The colours on the buft are now reftored. 
 On the flat ftone covering the body are the following 
 lines, the authorfliip of which is not known : 
 
 " GOOD FREND FOR lESUS SAKE FORBEARE, 
 TO DIGG THE DVST ENCLOASED HEARE: 
 BLESTE BE Y MAN Y SPARES THES STONES, 
 AND CVRST BE HE Y MOVES MY BONES." 
 
 * Dyce's Memoir, p. lv., note 79. f Neil, loc. cit., p. 66. 
 
?Ii0t of 
 
 ONCE ATTRIBUTED TO SHAKESPEARE, BUT 
 NOW REJECTED AS SPURIOUS. 
 
 1 . The Hi/lory of the Life and Death of Lord Thomas 
 Cromwell. Printed 1602. 
 
 2. Locrine, Eldeft Son to King Brutus; 1 'he Lamentable 
 Tragedie of. Printed 1595. 
 
 3. London Prodigal. A Comedy. Printed 1605. 
 
 4. Sir John Oldcaftle, the good Lord Cobham, his 
 Hi/iory. Printed 1600. 
 
 5. Puritan; or, The Widow of Watling Street. A 
 Comedy. Printed 1670. 
 
 6. Tork/hire Tragedy, not fo New as Lamentable and 
 True. Printed 1608. 
 
 7. Birth of Merlin ; or, The Child has loft his Father. 
 A Tragic Comedy. Printed 1662. 
 
 8. John, King of England, his troublefome Reign; the 
 firft and fecond Part, with the Difcovery of King Richard 
 
 Coeur de Lyons Bafe Son (vulgarly named the Baftard 
 Fawconbridge], also 
 
 9. The Death of King John, at Swinftead Abbey. 
 Printed 1591 and again in 1611. (The play of King 
 John is founded on thefe two plays.) 
 
6i 
 
 10. The Arraignment of Paris. A Paftoral. Printed 
 
 1584- 
 
 11. King Edward the Third. Printed 1599. 
 
 12. Fair Em., the Millers Daughter of Manchefter, 
 with the Love of William the Conqueror. A Comedy. 
 Printed 1631. 
 
 13. Merry Devil of Edmonton. A Comedy. Printed 
 1608. 
 
 14. Mucedorta, the King's Son of Valencia, and Ama- 
 dine, the Kings Daughter of Arragon, with the Merrie 
 Conceits of Moufe. Printed 1598. 
 
 15. Arden of Fever/ham, his True and Lamentable 
 Tragedy, who was moji wickedly murdered by the means of 
 his di/JoyalWife; who, for the love Jhe bore to one Mofebie, 
 hired two defperate ruffins, Black Will and Shak-bag, 
 to kill him. Firft Publifhed 1592. Printed in Black 
 Letter, 1599. 
 
 The Plays numbered i to 9 are given as authentic 
 productions of the great Damatift by Gerard Langbaine, 
 in his Account of the Engli/h Dramatick Poets (Oxford, 
 1691), pp. 454-467. 
 
 With regard to play No. 10, Langbaine fays: "Befides 
 thefe plays, I know Mr. Kirkman afcribes another Paftoral 
 to him viz., The Arraignment of Paris ; but never having 
 feen it, I dare not determine whether it belongs to him 
 or no." (p. 467.) 
 
 Nos. i to 6 are repeated " by Shakefpeare " in A Corn- 
 pleat Catalogue of all the Plays that were ever yet Printed 
 in the Englijh Language. (Second Edition.) Printed for 
 W. Mears, 1726, pp. 43-44, and No. 7 is faid to be 
 
62 
 
 by " bkakejpear and Rowley" (p. 56), but without 
 reafon. 
 
 No. i o is by Peele and not Shakefpeare ; vide Barker's 
 Continuation of Egertons Theatrical Remembrancer, by 
 Walley Chamberlain Oulton, 1801, p. 139. 
 
 No. 1 1 . This play has given rife to a very pretty 
 controverfy. Langbaine (p. 530) thus fully defcribes it: 
 
 " Edward the Third, his Reign. A Hiflory fundry 
 times play'd about the City of London. 4to, imprinted 
 at London by Simon Stafford, for Cuthbert Burby, and 
 are to be fold at his ihop neere the Royall Exchange. 
 1599. The Plot is founded on Engliih Chronicles; fee 
 Walfmgham ; M. Weftminfter ; Fabian ; Pol. Virgil ; 
 Hollingfliead ; Stow ; Speed, &c. See befides, JEfchafius 
 Major, and a novel call'd The Countefs of Sali/bury, 
 oftavo, tranflated from the French." 
 
 Neither Langbaine, Mears, nor Barker fuggefts the 
 author's name of this play; but Capell, in his edition 
 of Shakefpeare's Works, 1768, fpeaks of Edward III. as 
 " a play thought to be writ by Shakefpeare."* 
 
 Of late years may be mentioned Mr. Samuel Neil, 
 who in his Shakefpere, a Critical Biography, 1861, fays 
 very emphatically that Shakefpeare was not the author, 
 (p. 90.) Mr. Collier maintained that this drama from 
 end to end is Shakefpeare's, and Mr. F. G. Fleay fays : 
 
 "This play confifts of two parts, one which forms the 
 main bulk of the play relates to the foreign wars of 
 King Edward ; the other, which contains a narrative of 
 
 * For a verfion of the text of this play, fee the handy volume 
 of Six Doubtful Plays, in the Tauchnitz Edition. 
 
63 
 
 an attempted feduftion of the Countefs of Salifbury by 
 the fame monarch. Thefe parts are diftinftly different in 
 general flyle and poetic power; fo much fo, that none 
 but the dulleft of profaic readers could fail to note the 
 difference ; they are alfo clearly feparated by metrical 
 charafteriftics of the moft pronounced kind. They are 
 equally diflinguifhed by the ufe ordifufe of fpecial words; 
 and the perfonages common to the two portions of the 
 play for example, the Black Prince have different 
 characters in thofe portions, and are unequally developed. 
 In my opinion, the epifode is by Shakefpeare ; the main 
 part of the play is not."* By whom the main part of 
 this play was written, Mr. Fleay does not even hint at 
 in the chapter juft quoted from, but in a preceding 
 chapter, "On the Annals of the Stage," he fays: ; 'In 
 1593 Shakefpeare and Lodge wrote Edward III.'-' J" 
 
 Thomas Lodge was "a doftor of Phifick in the Reign 
 of Queen Elizabeth," and devoted a portion of his time 
 to the writing of " Paftoral Songs, Odes, and Madri- 
 gals," and produced a few Dramas,^ which are fufficient 
 grounds for the aflumption that he afllfted Shakefpeare 
 in his alleged drama of Edward III., but this cannot 
 take us beyond conjecture. 
 
 Lafl year there appeared an extraordinary pamphlet, 
 in which it is attempted to be fliown that this play was 
 entirely written by Shakefpeare. This queftion cannot 
 be more fully entered upon here. The reader defirous 
 of invefligating the pros and cons is recommended to 
 
 * Shakefpeare Manual, by F. G. Fleay, M.A., 1876, p. 303. 
 f [bid., p. 301. J Langbaine, pp, 330-332 
 
6 4 
 
 examine the arguments contained in the various works 
 herein cited.* 
 
 No. 1 2 was afted by Lord Strange s Company before 
 1591, and was printed in quarto (London, 1631). Lang- 
 baine defcribes it as " pleafant Comedy fundry times 
 publickly afted in the Honourable City of London, by 
 the Right Honourable the Lord Strange his Servants. "j- 
 
 No. 13. The bookfeller, Kirkman, publifhed this play 
 and afcribed it to Shakefpeare, without any reafon. It 
 is entered in the books of the Stationers' Company under 
 1608, and has the initials T.B. fuffixed. It has alfo been 
 afcribed to Drayton, but with more reafon to Anthony, or 
 Tony Brewer, who lived in the reign of Charles the Firft^ 
 
 No. 14 was afted by his Highnefs's Servants at the 
 Globe, and before the King's Majefly at Whitehall on 
 Shrove Tuefday night. 
 
 Langbaine fays, " This play is faid by former catalogues 
 to have been writ by Shakefpear, and was, I prefume, 
 printed before this Edition " (quarto, i668). " Probably 
 written by Lodge."|| 
 
 Mears (Compleat Catalogue) fimply records this play as 
 
 * Shakefpeare' s King Edward the Third, abfurdly called, and 
 /candaloufly treated as a " Doubtful Play." An Indignation Pamphlet, 
 tsV., by Alexander Teetgen, London, 1875. See alfo the ex- 
 cellent work on The Doubtful Plays, edited by Charles Knight, 
 from the Piftorial Edition of the Dramatift's Works. 
 
 f Loc. cit., p. 53 * Ulrici's Shakfpeare's Dramatic Art, trans, 
 by L. Dora Schmitz, Vol. II., p. 370, 1876. 
 
 \ Winftanley's Lives of the Poets, p. 114. Barker's Continua- 
 tions, C5r., p. 250. Mears's Compleat Catalogue, p. 7. Neil's 
 Shakefpeare, a Critical Biography, p. 88 : and Fleay's Shakefpeare 
 Manual, p. 57. Loc. cit., p. 542. || Fleay, p. 57. 
 
65 
 
 a Comedy (p. 78) ; but Barker (Continuation] remarks that 
 this play is afcribed to Shakefpeare. In the Athenaeum for 
 May 2oth, 1876, Mr. J. Payne Collier boldly advances the 
 theory that the fcene in Mucedorus, commencing with : 
 
 " Sound Mufic. Enter the KING OF VALENCIA, ANSELMO, 
 
 RODERIGO, LORD BORACHIUS, with others. 
 " King Va. : Enough of mufic ! it but adds to torment," 
 and concluding with : 
 
 "For former dolours are in pleafure wrapt. 
 
 [Exeunt omnes^ 
 is by Shakefpeare. 
 
 His words are : 
 
 " This is all that is by Shakefpeare, and I contend that 
 it is all Shakefpeare's : it is fo different from the reft of 
 the performance, and fo fuperior, as well as fo much in 
 the manner of Shakefpeare, that I feel confident in attribut- 
 ing it to him, as the part of Mucedorus that he was, 
 on the fudden, called upon to contribute for the amufe- 
 ment of the new king." 
 
 ****** 
 
 "My pofition is, that Shakefpeare did really aid in 
 the production of Mucedorus^ as it was reprefented before 
 James the Firft, and that the fcene I have extrafted was the 
 very portion our great Dramatift almoft extemporaneoufly 
 contributed." (pp. 696-7. Ath., June 24, p. 86 1.) 
 
 Mr. F. G. Fleay has entered a ftrong proteft againfh 
 this aflertion, in the Athenaum for June 3, 1876, p. 766. 
 
 No. 15. This play was reprinted by Edward Jacob, 
 the hiftorian of Faverfham, as probably by Shakefpeare. 
 
 To this lift may be added the play entitled the Double 
 
66 
 
 Falfehood, or The Di/ireji Lovers, which was printed as 
 an original Shakefpearean Drama, by Lewis Theobald, in 
 1727.* 
 
 The celebrated Ireland Forgeries perplexed the world 
 in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The title 
 of Ireland's firfl production was " Mifcellaneous Papers 
 and Legal Inflruments under the Hand and Seal of 
 William Shakefpeare, including the Tragedy of King 
 Lear, and a fmall Fragment of Hamlet, from the Original 
 Manufcript," edited by Samuel Ireland, publifhed Dec. 
 1795, This was followed by the tragedy, afcribed to 
 Shakefpeare, of Kynge Vortygerne, or Vortigern and Row- 
 ena, written by W. H. Ireland, the fon of Samuel, and was 
 afted and damned at the DruryLane Theatre in 1796^ 
 
 * " But you want my opinion and from every mark of Style 
 and Manner, I make no doubt of afcribing it to Shirley." An 
 EJJay on the Learning of Shakefpeare, by Richard Farmer, B.D., 
 2nd edition, Cambridge, 1747, p. 29. 
 
 f Barker, loc. cit., p. 66. See alfo the Edition of the Spurious 
 Plays in the Second Volume of Malone's Supplement to Shakefpeare, 
 8vo, London, 1780 ; Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Shakefpeare 
 Papers, by Malone, 1796, wherein the Ireland Forgeries are fully 
 expofed, which was followed by "W. H. Ireland's Authentic Account, 
 1 796. and S. Ireland's Vindications, 1796; The ConfeJJion of William 
 Henry Ireland, 1805 ; The Shakefpeare Fabrications, or the MS. of the 
 Perkins Folio Jhoivn to be of Recent Origin, with an Appendix on the 
 Ireland Forgeries, by Dr. C. M. Ingleby, 1859. For an account 
 of the Collier Controverfy, see A Complete View of the Shakfpeare 
 Controverfy, by C. M. Ingleby, 1 86 1 ; A Review of the Prefent 
 Account of the Shakefpearean Controverfy, by T. Duffus Hardy, 
 1860, see An Inquiry into the Genuinenefs of the Manufcript Cor reel ions 
 in Cottier's Annotated Shakfpere, by N. G. S. A. Hamilton, 4 to, 
 London, 1860, in addition to Dr. Ingleby's work above cited. 
 
jfaftruatfon*. 
 
 The following interefting and rare Poems, afcribed to 
 Shakefpeare and Anna Hathaway, are cited as fpecimem of 
 the lefs known Shakefpeare Fabrications. They are given 
 in a work entitled U A Tour in Que ft of Genealogy, through 
 feveral parts of Wales, Somerfetfhire, and Wiltiliire, in 
 & Series of ULEttcrS to a Friend in Dublin ; Interfperfed 
 with a Defcription of STOURHEAD AND STONEHENGE; 
 together with Various Anecdotes, and Curious Fragments 
 from a Manufcript Collection afcribed to Shakejpeare." 
 By a BARRISTER. London, 1811. 
 
 The firft is thus mentioned (pp. 189, 190): u Out of a 
 Manufcript Collection of Pieces in 1'rofe and Verfe, faid 
 to be written by 'Shakefpeare to his Wife and others." 
 
 WITH A RINGE IN FORME OF A SERPENT, A GIFT TO HIS 
 BELOVYD ANNA, FROM W. S. 
 
 Withinn this goulden circlette's fpace, 
 Thie yvorie fingers form'd to clippc, 
 
 How manie tender vows have place, 
 Seal'd att the altaur on mie lippe. 
 
 Then as thie finger it fhall prefle, 
 
 O ! bee its magicke not confined, 
 And let this facred hoope noe leffe 
 
 Have force thie faithfull hart to binde. 
 
 Nor though the ferpent's forme it beare. 
 
 Embleme mie fond conceipt to fute, 
 Dred thou a foe in ambufhe theare 
 
 To tempt thee to forbidden frute. 
 
68 
 
 The frute that Hymen in our reche 
 
 By Heven's firft commaund hath placed, 
 
 Holy love, without a breche 
 
 Of anie law maie pluck and tafte : 
 
 Repeted tafte and yett the joye 
 Of fuch a tafte will neaver cloie, 
 So that cure appetits wee bringe 
 Withinn the cumpafs of this ringe. 
 
 Then follow two poems ASCRIBED to Anna Hathaway 
 (pp. 212, 233): 
 
 TO HER OWNE LOVYNGE WILLIE SHAKSPERE. 
 
 From mie throane in Willie's love, 
 Whileft moare than roialle ftate I proove, 
 Circledd proude withe mirtle crowne, 
 I onn Englaunde's queene looke downe. 
 
 And proude thie Anna welle maie bee, 
 For queenes themfelves mighte envie mee, 
 Whoo fcarfe in pallacis cann finde 
 Mie Willie's forme, withe Willie's mynde. 
 
 By formes forbidd to telle theire fmarte, 
 And of the canker eafe the harte, 
 Withe them, alas ! too ofte 'tis feene 
 The wooman fufferes for the queene. 
 
 But, oh ! withe us, moare bled than they, 
 Heere happie nature hathe her fwaye j 
 Wee looke, we love, and, voyde of ftiame, 
 As foone as kindledd owne the flame. 
 
 ANNA HATHEWAY. 
 
 Bye Avone's fyde. 
 
 TO THE BELOVED OF THE MUSES AND MEE. 
 
 Sweete fwanne of Avon, thou whoofe art 
 Can mould at will the human hart, 
 Can drawe from all who reade or heare, 
 The unrefifted fmile and teare : 
 
6 9 
 
 By thee a vyllege maiden found, 
 No eare had I for mefured founde ; 
 To drefle the fleefe that Willie wrought 
 Was all I knewe, was all I faught. 
 
 At thie lofte lure too quicke I flewe, 
 
 Enamored of thie fonge I grewe ; 
 
 The diftaffe foone was layd afide, 
 
 And all mie woork thie ftraynes fupply'd. 
 
 Thou gaveft at firft th' inchanting quill, 
 And everie kifs convay'd thie flcill ; 
 Unfelt, ye maides, ye cannot tell 
 The wondroufe force of fuche a fpell. 
 
 Nor marvell if thie breath transfufe 
 A charme repleate with everie mufe ; 
 They clufter rounde thie lippes, and thyne 
 Diftill theire fweetes improv'd on myne. 
 
 ANNA HATHEWAY. 
 
 The anonymous author of the above-mentioned book 
 communicates to a friend another poem, which he prefaces 
 by faying, "I fliall copy out a little poem of Shake- 
 fpeare's, which if it pleafes you half as much as it has 
 done me, you will thank me for inclofing." (pp. 249, 250). 
 
 TO THE PEERLESSE ANNA, THE MAGNETTE OF MIE 
 AFFECTION N KS. 
 
 Nott that mie native fieldes I leve, 
 
 Swelles in myne eie the fcaulding teare, 
 
 Or biddes with fighes mye bofom heave, 
 A wyfe man's countrie's everie wheare : 
 
 Nott that I thus am rudelye torne 
 Farre from the mufes' haunte I love, 
 
 With manlie mynde this might be borne, 
 
 Elfe where the mufe might friendlie proove : 
 
But, ah ! with thyne mie vitall threddc 
 
 So clofe is twyfted, that to parte 
 From thee, or e'er the bridal bedde 
 
 Was fcarfelie taftid, breakes mie harte. 
 
 Oh ! would the fatall fyfter's fteele 
 
 Be ftreched to cutt her worke inn twayne, 
 
 Wythelde whiche deftynes me to feele 
 That lyfe thus lenthen'd is butt payne. 
 
 But yett a whyle her fheares be ftayde, 
 
 For dicing I woold fayne reclyne 
 On Anna's breft, and theare be layde 
 
 Wheare Anna's dufte mote wedde withe myne. 
 
 Although the authorfhip of thefe poems is not known, 
 were it only for the fpelling, their fpurioufnefs as pro- 
 duftions by Shakefpeare and Ann Hathaway would be 
 beyond queftion. 
 
 The audacity of the anonymous author of the work 
 wherein thefe poems occur, does not end here, for he 
 treats his readers to other Shakefpeare Fabrications, 
 which are, however, too lengthy for reproduction ; they 
 confift of 4 Letter mfcribed "To Midrefs Judith Hatheway, 
 with mie Commendations," figned u WilliajnShakfpere,From 
 my Loginge at Ifelington, June 12 mo., 155 . ." (pp. 190- 
 J92). And at p. 200 are given "a few items from his 
 journal and a fample of his own [Shakefpeare's] Memoirs 
 by himfelf." Laftly, at page 234, we are treated to a 
 letter " To M after William Benfon, My much efteemed 
 Trend, and the Darlynge of the Mufes" figned "W. <S." 
 
The Curtain Company 1582* 
 
 The Worcefher's Company . . . . 1586 
 
 The Lord Strange's Men (formed alfo a 
 
 part of the Chamberlain Company) T 594 
 
 The Chamberlain's (King's^ Company . 1594-1619 
 The Prince's (Admiral's) Company . . 1598-1615 
 
 The Cynthia's Revels 1 f 1600 
 
 > (Chapel Children). < 
 ThePoetafter J v [ 1601 
 
 The Queen's Company 1609 
 
 The Revels (Children) Company . . . 1609-1613 
 The Servants of the Duke of York and 
 Rothfay (afterwards Charles I.) 
 
 Company 1610 
 
 The King's Company 1619-1642 
 
 The Fortune Company 1622 
 
 The Queen's Revels Company . . . . 1622-1639 
 The Phoenix (Lady Elizabeth's) Company . 1622 
 
 The Holland's Leaguer (Prince Charles II.) ^33 
 
 Shakefpeare afted in the Chamberlain's (King's) 
 Company. 
 
 * Vide Collier's Hijlory of Dramatic Literature and Annals of 
 the Stage ^ alfo the Variorum Shakfpeare, Old Shakefpeare Society's 
 Publications, Vols. I. and IV., and Shake/peare Manual, by F. G. 
 Fleay, p. 113. 
 
of tfce VrCnripai $iai>t)ou8*0 t 
 
 THAT WERE IN EXISTENCE FROM 
 1520 TO 1629.* 
 
 The Circus, called Paris Garden, earlieft Bankfide theatre, 
 a playhoufe, clrc. 1520, ufed for baiting. Plays 
 performed here temp. James I., when Henflowe 
 and Alleyn were leflees.-|- 
 
 St. Paul's Singing School. J 
 
 * Vide Prynne's Hiftrio Maflix (The Player's Scourge, or Aflor's 
 Tragtdie, 1633), p. 492. Malone's Shakefpeare, Vol. I., Part II., 
 p. 48. Percy's Reliques of Ancient Engli/Ji Poetry, 6th edition, 
 1824, Vol. I. ("Eflay on the Stage"), p. 263. 
 
 f Nafh, in Strange Newes, 1590, mentions performance of 
 puppets here. Dekker, in his Sattro-maftix , or the Vntnifllng of the 
 Humorous Poet, 1602, aflerts that Ben Jonfon once acled here. 
 According to Aggas's Map of London, circ. 1560, there were 
 two eftablifhments for circus peiformances lower down the bank. 
 " Now, to return to the weft bank, there be two bear gardens, 
 the old and the new places, wherein be kept bears, bulls, and 
 other beaffs to be baited: as alfo maflirTs in feveral kennels, 
 nouriflied to bait them. Thefe bears and other beafls are there 
 baked in plots of ground, fcaffolded about for beholders to 
 flaud aloof." Stow's Survey (Thoms's Edition), p. 151. 
 
 J Stephen Goflbn mentions in his Playes Confuted, 1582," 'Cupid 
 and Pfyche' plaid at Paules, and a greate many comedies more at 
 the Blackefriers and in every playe houfe in London." 
 
73 
 
 The Blackfriars, built 1596, upon part of the old Monas- 
 tery, in Playhoufe Yard.* Leafed byAlleyn in 1 6 1 8 ,-\ 
 
 The Globe, erected 1599, Bankfide, Southwark,J now 
 iite of Barclay's Brewery. 
 
 The Whitefriars, near Fleet Street, originally Hall of White- 
 friars Monaftery, outfide garden wall of Dorfet Houfe. 
 Fitted up in 1586. Taken down in i6i3. 
 
 The Hope, by river fide, in Southwark, Jonfon's Bartholo- 
 mew Fair performed here. 
 
 The Rofe, by river fide, in Southwark, built before 1597, 
 probably between 1584-85. Held by Henflowe. 
 Occupied fite of Rofe Alley, weft of Globe Alley. || 
 
 The Swan, by river fide, in Southwark. Moil weflerly. 
 In repute anterior to 1598.^" 
 
 The Fortune, in Golding (now Golden) Lane, Barbican. 
 Built by Henflowe and Alleyn, 1599-1600. Situated 
 on the eaft fide. Opened May, 1601. Burnt Dec. 
 9th, 1621, and rebuilt. Interior burnt 1649.** 
 
 The Red Bull Theatre, fituated in Woodbridge Street, 
 
 * Vide "Deed of Feoffment from Sir William More, of 
 Lofeley, co. Surrey, to James Burbage, 4 February, 1596, con- 
 veying to the latter that portion of a large houfe in the Black- 
 friars, which was afterwards converted by him into a Theatre." 
 Printed in Halliwell's Illu/lratlons, &c. t Appendix, pp. 108-112. 
 
 f Alleyrfs Diary at Dulwich College. 
 
 \ See map in Strype's ed. of Stow, 1720; Ulrici, 1. c. V.i. p.IO<5. 
 
 A Playhoufe was erected near the Whitefriars, in Saliibury 
 Court, in 1629. Vide Howes' Continuation of Stow. 
 
 || Jour. Brit. Archx. Affbc., 1859, Art: On Fac-Simi/es of Notice Bills 
 of the Rofe Theatre, by J. O. Halliwell, p. 290 ; Collier's Memoir of 
 Edward Alleyn, 1841, p. 189. 
 
 f The Harl Mi/eel, X. 198, ed. Park. ** Vide Alleyn 3 Diary. 
 
 L 
 
74 
 
 Clerkenwell, branching from Aylefbury Street. 
 
 Conjectured to have been originally an Inn Yard. 
 
 Ufed for performances in the reign of Elizabeth. 
 
 The King's Players, under Killigrew, acted here up 
 
 to their removal to Drury Lane, Women firft afted 
 
 on the Englifh flage here.* 
 The Crofs Keys, in Gracious or GraiTe Church (now 
 
 Gracechurch) Street.^ 
 The Bull, in BiLhopfgate Street. J 
 The Tuns. 
 The Theatre, on fite of Priory of St. John the Baptift, at 
 
 Holy well, near Curtain Road and Shoreditch. Built 
 
 1576. In 1598 the wood of this theatre removed 
 
 to Bankfide to enlarge the Globe. || 
 The Curtain, in Curtain Road.^[ 
 
 * Pinks and Wood's Hiftory of Clerkenwell, p. 191 ; Genefte's 
 Londw, Hiftory of the Stage, Vol. X., p. 101 ; Timbs' Curioftties of 
 p. 236. GofTon's Schools of Abufe, 1579, p. 40. (Arber's Rep.] 
 
 f Alluded to as " Theaters " fet up ' in the Inn Yards of the 
 Crofs Keyes and Bull in Grace and Bifhopfgate Street," by 
 Flecknoe : Short Dtfcourfe of the Engli/h Stage, 1664. Ib., Flecknoe. 
 
 %uery If " THE THREE TUNS," which flood before 1684 at 
 Holborn Bridge. See Lift of "Tokens ifTued by the tradefmen of 
 Holborn Bridge in the 1 7th century, in Pinks and Wood's 
 Hiftory of Clerkenwell , p. 382. 
 
 || Thorn's New Edition of Stotu's Survey, 1876, p. 158 ; 
 Collier's Annuls of the Stage, Vol. III., p. 263. This theatre is 
 mentioned in John Stockwood's Sermon at PauVs Crofs, 1578, 
 as the " gorgeous playing-place creeled in the fields." Mentioned 
 alfo in the Star Chamber Records, 1598. Gojfon, 1. c., p. 40. 
 
 ^[ Referred to by Stow in his Survey, ift edition, 1599, P- 349 > 
 Northbrook's Treatife againjl Diceing, Dancing, Vain Plays, or 
 Interludes, \ $7 "I \ Stubbs' Anatomic of Abufes, 1583; Sir Henry 
 
Newington Butts, Henflowe's Theatre. Built before the 
 Globe. Performances recorded from June, 1594, 
 by the Lord Admiral's men and the Lord Cham- 
 berlain's men.* 
 
 The Nurfery, in Barbican. 
 
 The Cockpit, or Phoenix Theatre, was oppofite the Caftle 
 Tavern, St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, occupied fite of Cock- 
 pit Alley, now Pitt Place. Built or re-built 1617.-}- 
 
 The Belle Sauvage, on Ludgate Hill. J 
 
 Ellis, Hiftory of Shoreditch, quotes entries of marriages, &c., of 
 players from the parifh books. Remains of this theatre were 
 ftanding about 1772. Vide, Maitland's Hiftory of London. 
 
 * Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, and Taming of the Shrew reported to 
 have been acted here. See Diary of Philip Henjloive, from 1 59 1 
 to 1609. Edited by J. P. Collier, Shakefpeare Society, 1845. 
 
 | Catudeift Annals, fub 1617, Martii 4, and Journal Brit. Archa. 
 A/o., Dec. 31, 1860, pp. 275-6, art. Eng. Stage by G. R. Wright. 
 
 \ For further particulars concerning the localities, &c., of 
 thefe and other playhoufes and inn yards where were reprefented 
 plays, &c., fee Gofson, I.e., p. 40, J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps's Illuftra- 
 tiom, &c., Part I., p. 42 et seq. ; Reed's Preface to Dod/Iey's Collection 
 of Old Plays; Hazlitt's Englifli Drama and Stage, l86p j Collier's 
 Brief Hiftory of the Englifh Drama and Stage, 1858 ; Pennant's Some 
 Account of London, 5th edit., 1813, pp. 50, 79, 215. 334 ; Collier's 
 Memoirs of Edward Alleyn, Founder of Dulivich College, 1841 ; Do- 
 ran's Their Majefties Servants; Ruflell's Repreftntative Aflors; Stow's 
 Survay of London (the several editions); G. R. Corner, On fome 
 Ancient Inns of Southiuark ; P. Cunningham's Handbook of London, 
 Pajl and Prefent; Flecknoe's Short Discourfe of the Englifti Stage, 
 1 664 ', Collier's Bibliographical Account of the Rareft Books in the 
 Englijb Language, 1865, Vol. II., pp. 25, 56. 381, 518; Charles 
 Knight's London, 1851, Vol. V., pp. 273 et feq. ; Profeflor J. A. 
 Ward's History of Dramatic Literature, 2 vols., 1875. 
 
hakefpeare's 
 
 FROM THE ORIGINAL IN THE OFFICE OF THE PREROGATIVE COURT OF 
 CANTERBURY. 
 
 Vicefimo quinto die Martll* Anno Regni Domini nojln Jacobl nunc Regis 
 Anglla, &c.,declmo quarto, et Scotia x/ix". Annoque Domini l6l6.f 
 
 N the name of God, Amen ! I William 
 Shackfpeare of Stratford upon Avon, in 
 the countie of Warr., gent, in perfeft 
 health and memorie, God be prayfed ! doe 
 make and ordayne this my laft will and 
 teftament in manner and forme followeing ; 
 that ys to faye, ffirfl I comend my foule into 
 the handes of God my Creator, hoping, and 
 affuredlie beleeving, through thonlie merites 
 of Jefus Chrifte my Saviour, to be made 
 partaker of lyfe everlaftinge, and my bodye 
 to the earth whereof yt ys made. Item, I 
 gyve and bequeath unto my daughter;}: 
 Judyth, one hundred and fyftie poundes of 
 
 * Originally written Januaril. 
 
 | The will is written on three meets of paper, fattened together at top. 
 Shakefpeare's name is figned at the bottom of the firft and fecond meet, 
 and his final fignature, " by me William Shakefpeare," is in the middle 
 of the third meet. Malone thinks the laft fignature was firft written, 
 and that the poet was very ill and weak when he figned, the handwriting 
 being very irregular and tremulous. The words in Italics are interlined. 
 
 J Originally fonne and daughter. 
 
77 
 
 lawfull Englifh money, to be paied unto her in manner 
 and forme followeing, that ys to faye, one hundred pounds 
 in dif charge of her marriage portion within one yeare after 
 my deceas, with confideracion after the rate of twoe 
 fhillinges in the pound for foe long time as the fame 
 fhalbe unpaied unto her after my deceas, and the fyftie 
 poundes refidewe thereof, upon her furrendring of or 
 gyving of fuch fufficient fecuritie as the overfeers of this 
 my will fhall like of, to furrender or graunte all her eftate 
 and right that fhall difcend or come unto her after my 
 deceas, or that fhe nowe hath, of in or to one copiehold 
 tenemente with thappurtenaunces, lyeing and being in 
 Stratford upon Avon aforefaied, in the faied county of 
 Warr., being parcell or holden of the mannour of Rowing- 
 ton, unto my daughter Sufanna Hall, and her heires for 
 ever. Item, I gyve and bequeath unto my faied daughter 
 Judith one hundred and fyftie pounds more, if fhee, or 
 anie ifTue of her bodie, be lyvinge at thend of three 
 yeares next enfueing the daie of the date of this my will, 
 during which tyme my executours are to paie her con- 
 fideracion from my deceas according to the rate aforefaid ; 
 and if fhe dye within the faied tearme without iffue 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 pounds to be fetl; fourth by my 
 executours during the life of my fitter Johane Harte, and 
 the ufe and proffitt thereof cominge, flialbe payed to my 
 faied fitter Jone, and after her deceas the faied I 11 , {hall 
 remaine amongft the children of my faied fitter equallie to 
 be devided amongtt them ; but if my faied daughter 
 Judith be lyving att thend of the faied three yeares, or 
 anie yflue of her bodye, then my will ys, and foe I devife 
 and bequeath the faied hundred and fyftie poundes to be 
 fett out by my executours and overfeers for the beft benefitt 
 
of her and her iiTue, and the flock not to be paied unto 
 her foe long as (he fhalbe marryed and covert baron ; but 
 my will ys, that flie (hall have the confideracion yearelie 
 paied unto her during her lief, and after her deceas, the 
 faied flock and confideracion to be paied to her children, 
 if flie have anie. and if not, to her executors or affignes, 
 flie lyving the faied terme after my deceas : Provided that 
 if fuch hufbond as flie {hall att thend of the faied three 
 yeares be marryed unto, or at anie [tyme] after, doe 
 sufficientlie aflure unto her, and thifTue of her bodie 
 Jandes awnfwereable to the porcion by this my will gyven 
 unto her, and to be adjudged foe by my executours and 
 overfeers, then my will ys, that the faid cl u . flialbe paied 
 to fuch hufbond as fhall make fuch aflurance, to his owne 
 ufe. Item, I gyve and bequeath unto my faied fifler Jone 
 xx 11 , and all my wearing apparell, to be paied and 
 delivered within one yeare after my deceas ; and I doe 
 will and devife unto her the houfe with thappurtenaunces 
 in Stratford, wherein {he dwelleth, for her natural lief, 
 under the yearlie rent of xij d> 
 
 Item, I gyve and bequeath unto her three fonnes, 
 William Harte, [Thomas*] Hart, and Michael Harte, 
 fyve poundes apeece. to be paied within one yeare after 
 my deceas. f Item, I gyve and bequeath unto the faied 
 
 * This Chriftian name is omitted in the original will. 
 
 f The following words were here at firft inferted, but afterwards 
 cancelled: "to be fett out for her within one yeare after my deceas by 
 my executours with thadvife and direccions of my overfeers, for her beft 
 profitt, until her marriage, and then with the increafe thereof to be paied 
 unto her." 
 
79 
 
 Elizabeth* Hall all my plate, except my brod Jilver and 
 gilt bole, that I now have att the date of this my will. 
 Item, I gyve and bequeath unto the poore of Stratford 
 aforefaied ten poundes ; to Mr. Thomas Combe my 
 fword ; to Thomas RufTell, efquier, fyve pounds ; and to 
 Francis Collins of the borough of Warr. in the countie of 
 Warr. gentleman, thirteene poundes fixe fhillinges and 
 eightpence, to be paied within one yeare after my deceas. 
 Item, I gyve and bequeath to Hamlett-\ Sadler xxvi 3 viij d , 
 to buy him a ringe ; to William Raynoldes, gent. 
 xxvi s viij d , to buy him a ringe ; to my godfon William 
 Walker, xx s in gold; to Anthonye Nafhe, gent. 
 xxvi s viij d ; and to Mr. John Name, xxvi 3 viij d ; and to my 
 fellowes, John Hemynges, Richard Burbage, and Henry 
 Cundell, xxvi 3 viij d apeece, to buy them ringes. Item, I 
 give, will, bequeath, and devife, unto my daughter 
 Sufanna Hall, for belter enabling of her to performe this 
 my will, and towardes the performam thereof, all that 
 capital mefluage or tenement, with thappurtenaunces, in 
 Stratford aforefaid, called The New Place, wherein I 
 nowe dwell, and two mefluages or tenements, with 
 thappurtenaunces, fcituat, lyeing, and being in Henley- 
 ftreete, within the borough of Stratford aforefaied ; and 
 all my barnes, (tables, orchardes, gardens, landes, tene- 
 mentes, and hereditamentes whatfoever, fcituat, lyeing, 
 and being, or to be had, receyved, perceyved, or taken, 
 within the townes, hamletes, villages, fieldes, and groundes 
 of Stratford upon Avon, Old Stratford, Bufhopton, and 
 Welcombe, or in anie of them, in the faid countie of 
 Warr. And alfoe all that mefluage or tenemente, with 
 thappurtenaunces, wherein one John Robinfon dwelleth, 
 
 * 
 
 This fentence was originally only her. 
 -f- Inftead of Hamlett Sadler, Mr. Richard Tyler thelder was firft 
 written. 
 
8o 
 
 fcituat, lyeing, and being in the Blackfriers in London 
 nere the Wardrobe ; and all other my landes, tenementes, 
 and hereditamentes whatfoever : To have and to hold all 
 and fmguler the faied premhTes, with their appurte- 
 naunces, unto the faied Sufanna Hall, for and during the 
 terme of her naturall lief; and after her deceas to the 
 firft fonne of her bodie lawfullie yffuing ; and to the 
 heires males of the bodie of the faid firft fonne lawfully 
 yiTueing ; and for defalt of fuch iffue, to the fecond 
 fonne of her bodie lawfullie iiTueing, and to the heires 
 males of the bodie of the faid fecond fonne lawfully 
 yffueing ; and for defalt of fuch heires, to the third fonne 
 of the bodie of the faied Sufanna lawfullie yffueing, and 
 to the heires males of the bodie of the faied third fonne 
 lawfullie yffueing ; and for defalt of fuch iffue, the fame 
 foe to be and remaine to the ffourth, ffyfth, fixte, and 
 feaventh fonnes of her body, lawfullie iffueing one after 
 another, and to the heires males of the bodies of the faid 
 
 ffourth, ffyfth, fixte, and seaventh fonnes lawfullie yffueing, 
 in fuch manner as yt is before lymitted to be and remaine 
 to the firft, fecond, and third fonns of her bodie, and to 
 theire heires males ; and for defalt of fuch iffue, the faied 
 premiffes to be and remaine to my fayed neece Hall, and 
 the heires males of her bodie lawfullie yffueing ; and for 
 defalt of fuch iffue, to my daughter Judith, and the heires 
 males of her bodie lawfullie yffueing ; and for defalt of 
 fuch iffue, to the right heires of me the faied William 
 Shackfpeare for ever. Item, I gyve unto my wief my fecond 
 beft bed, with the furniture. Item, I gyve and bequeath 
 to my faied daughter Judith my broad filver gilt bole. All 
 the reft of my goodes, chattel, leases, plate, jewels, and 
 
houfehold ftuffe whatfoever, after my dettes and legacies 
 paied, and my funerall expences difcharged, I give, devife, 
 and bequeath to my fonne-in-lawe, John Hall, gent, and 
 my daughter Sufanna his \vief, whom I ordaine and make 
 executors of this my laft will and teftament. And I doe 
 entreat and appoint the faled Thomas RufTell, efquier, and 
 Frauncis Collins, gent, to be overfeers hereof, and doe 
 revoke all former wills, and publifhe this to be my laft 
 will and teftament. In witnefs whereof I have hereunto 
 put my band* the daie and yeare firfl above written. 
 
 Witnefs to the publyjhing hereof, 
 Fra. Collyns, 
 Julius Shaw, 
 John Robinfon, 
 Hamnet Sadler, 
 Robert Whatcott. 
 
 Probatum coram Magiftro Willielmo Byrde, Legum Doffore 
 Comifs., &c., xxjj.' lo ~die menfis yunii, Anno Domini, 
 1616; juramento Johannis Hall unius executorum. 
 & f., cut de bene, &c., jurat, refervat. poteftate, *&c., 
 Sufannx Hall, alteri executor um, sfr., eum venerit, 
 , petitur, (Inv. ex.") 
 
 * Scale was originally written. 
 
 M 
 
of fanning* attfr OTontrrll 
 
 TO THE FIRST FOLIO EDITION, 
 
 PUBLISHED IN 1623. 
 
 TO THE MOST NOBLE AND INCOMPARABLE PAIRE OF BRETHREN, 
 
 agaUltam <2Batlc of ^cmbrofcr, tit. 
 
 LORD CtlAMBERLAlNE TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, AND 
 
 $&t'Kp arh of JMontgomerp, etc. 
 
 GENTLEMAN OF HIS MAJESTIES BED-CHAMBER. 
 
 BOTH KNIGHTS OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, 
 AND OUR SINGULAR GOOD LORDS. 
 
 RIGHT HONOURABLE, 
 
 JHILST we fludie to be thankful in our particular, 
 for the many fauors we haue receiued from your 
 L.L. we are falne vpon the ill fortune, to mingle 
 two the mod diuerfe things that can bee, feare, and rafh- 
 nefle; raflmeffe in the enterprize, and feare of the fuccefle. 
 For, when we vatew the places your H. H. fuftaine, we 
 cannot but know their dignity greater, then to defcend to 
 the reading of thefe trifles : and while we name them 
 trifles, we haue depriu'd ourfelues of the defence of our 
 Dedication. But, fmce your L. L. haue beene pleas'd to 
 think thefe trifles fomething, heeretofore ; and haue 
 profequuted both them, and their Author liuing, with fo 
 much fauour : we hope that (they out-liuing him, and he 
 not hailing the fate, common with fome, to be exequutor 
 to his owne writings) you will vfe the like indulgence 
 toward them, you haue done vnto their parent. There 
 is a great difference, whether any Booke choofe his 
 Patrones, or finde them This hath done both. For, fo 
 
much were your L. L. likings of the seuerall parts, when 
 they were afted, as before they were published, the 
 Volume afked to be yours. We haue but collected them, 
 and done an office to the dead, to procure his Orphanes, 
 Guardians ; without ambition either of felfe-profit, or 
 fame : onely to keepe the memory of fo worthy a Friend, 
 & Fellow aliue, as was our SHAKESPEARE, by humble 
 offer of his playes, to your mod noble patronage. 
 Wherein, as we hauejuftly obferued, no man to come 
 neere your L. L. but with a kind of religious addreffe ; it 
 hath bin the height of our care, who are the Prefenters, 
 to make the prefent worthy of your H. H. by the perfec- 
 tion. But, there we muft alfo craue our abilities to be con- 
 fidered, my Lords. We cannot go beyond our owne powers. 
 Country hands reach foorth milke, creame, fruites, or 
 what they haue : and many Nation (we haue heard) that 
 had not gummes & incenfe, obtained their requefls with a 
 leauened Cake. It was no fault to approch their Gods, 
 by what meanes they could : And the molt, though 
 meaneft, of things are made more precious, when they 
 are dedicated to Temples. In that name, therefore, we 
 mod humbly confecrate to your H. H. thefe remaines of 
 your feruant SHAKESPEARE, that what delight is in them, 
 may be euer your L. L. the reputation his, & the faults 
 ours, if any be committed, by a payre fo carefull to fliew 
 their gratitude both to the liuing and the dead, as is 
 Your Lordiliippes mod bounden, 
 
 IOHN HEMINGE. 
 HENRY CONDELL. 
 
TO THE FIRST FOLIO EDITION PUBLISHED IN 1623. 
 
 TO THE GREAT VARIETY OF READERS, 
 
 ROM the mod able, to him that can but fpell : 
 There you are number 'd. We had rather you 
 were weighd. Efpecially, when the fate of all 
 Bookes depends vpon your capacities : and not of your 
 heads alone, but of your purfes. Well ! it is now publique, 
 & you wil (land for your priuiledges wee know : to 
 read, and cenfure. Do fo, but buy it firfl. That doth 
 beft commend a Booke, the Stationer faies. Then, how 
 odde foever your braines be, or your wifedomes, make 
 your licence the fame, and fpare not. ludge your fixe- 
 pen'orth, your (hillings worth, your flue {hillings worth at 
 a time, or higher, fo you rife to the juft rates, and wel- 
 come. But, what euer you do, Buy. Cenfure will not 
 driue a Trade, or make the lacke go. And though you 
 be a Magiftrate of wit, and fit on the Stage at Black- 
 Friers, or the Cock-pit, to arraigne Playes dailie, know, 
 thefe Playes haue had their triall alreadie, and flood out 
 all Appeales ; and do now come forth quitted rather 
 by a Decree of Court, then any purchas'd Letters of 
 commendation. 
 
 It had bene a thing, we confeffe, worthie to have bene 
 wiflied, that the Author himfelfe had lived to haue fet 
 
5 
 
 forth, and ouerfeen his owne writings ; But fince it hath 
 bin ordain'd otherwife, and he by death departed from that 
 right, we pray you, doe not envie his Friends, the office of 
 their care, and paine, to haue colle&ed & publifh'd them; 
 and fo to have publifh'd them, as where (before) you were 
 abus'd with diuerfe ftolne, and furreptitious copies, 
 maimed and deformed by the frauds and ftealthes of in- 
 jurious importers, that expos'd them : euen thofe are now 
 offer'd to your view cur'd, and perfect of their limbes and 
 all the reft, abfolute in their numbers, as he conceived 
 the : Who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a 
 mod gentle expreffer of it. His mind and hand went 
 together : and what he thought, he vttered with that 
 eafineffe, that we have fcarfe receiued from him a blot in 
 his papers. But it is not our prouince, who onely gather 
 his woiks, and giue them you, to praife him. It is yours 
 that reade him. And there we hope, to your diuers 
 capacities, you will finde enough, both to draw, and hold 
 you : for his wit can no more lie hid, then it could be 
 loft. Reade him, therefore ; and againe, and againe : 
 And if then you doe not like him, surely you are in 
 fome manifeft danger, not to vnderftand him. And fo we 
 leaue you to other of his Friends, whom if you need, can 
 bee your guides ; if you neede them not, you can leade 
 your felves, and others. And fuel) readers we wiih him. 
 
 JOHN HEMINGE, 
 HENRIE CONDELL. 
 
COMMENDATORY VERSES FROM THE FOLIO OF 1623. 
 
 ; TO THE MEMORY OF MYBELOUEDTHE AVTHOK 
 
 Mr. IKKiUtam !wfeespcare : 
 
 AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT VS." 
 
 JO draw no enuy (Sbakefpeare) on thy name, 
 Am I thus ample to thy Booke, and Fame : 
 'While I confeffe thy writings to be fuch, 
 
 As neither Man nor Mufe can praife too much. 
 'Tis true, and all mens fuffrage. But thefe wayes 
 
 Were not the paths I meant unto thy praife : 
 For feelieft Ignorance on thefe may light, 
 
 Which, when it founds at bed, but eccho's right ; 
 Or blinde Affeftion, which doth ne're aduance 
 
 The truth, but gropes, and vrgeth all by chance ; 
 Or crafty Malice might pretend this praife, 
 
 And thinke to ruine, where it feem'd to raife. 
 Thefe are, as fome infamous Baud, or Whore 
 
 Should praife a Matron. What could hurt her more ? 
 But thou art proofe againfl them, and indeed 
 
 Above th' ill fortune of them, or the need. 
 I, therefore, will begin. Soul of the Age ! 
 
 The applaufe ! delight ! the wonder of our Stage ! 
 My Sbakefpeare, rife ; I will not lodge thee by 
 
 ~Chaucer, or Spenfer, or bid Beaumont lye 
 
7 
 
 A little further, to make thee a roome :* 
 
 Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe, 
 And art aliue ftill, while thy Booke doth hue, 
 
 And we have wits to read, and praife to giue. 
 That I not mixe thee fo, my braine excufes ; 
 
 I meane with great, but difproportion'd Mufes : 
 For, if I thought my Judgement were of yeeres, 
 
 I fhould commit thee furely with thy peeres, 
 And tell, how farre thou didft our Lily out-fliine, 
 
 Or fporting Kid, or Marlowes mighty line. 
 And though thou hadft fmall Latine and leffe Greeke, 
 
 From thence to honour thee, I will not feeke 
 For names ; but call forth thundring JE.fchilus } 
 
 Euripides, and Sophocles to vs, 
 Paccuuius, Accius, him of Cordoua dead, 
 
 To life againe, to heare thy Bulkin tread, 
 And fliake a Stage : Or when thy Sockes were on, 
 
 Leaue thee alone, for the comparifon 
 Of all, that infolent Greece, or haughtie Rome 
 
 Sent forth, or fince did from their afhes come. 
 Triumph, my Eritaine, thou haft one to fhowe, 
 
 To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. 
 He was not of an age, but for all time ! 
 
 And all the Mufes ftill were in their prime, 
 When like Apollo, he came forth to warme 
 
 Our eares, or like a Mercury to charme ! 
 
 * This refers to fome lines by William Bafle, circa 1622, beginning: 
 " Renowned Spenfer lie a thought more nigh 
 To learned Beaumont, and rare Beaumont ly 
 A little nearer Chaucer, to make rome 
 For Shakefpeare in your threfold, fourfold tombe." 
 It does not appear that they were printed before 1633, when they were 
 given among Donnes's Poems, printed in quarto in that year. They 
 are alfo to be found in the edition of Francis Beaumont's Poems given 
 by the printer Blacklock, in 1653, 8vo. See alfo, Shakefpeare' s Cetiturie 
 of Prayfe, by Dr. C. M. Ingleby, 1874, p. 90. 
 
88 
 
 Nature her felfe was proud of his defignes, 
 
 And ioy'd to weare the drefling of his lines ! 
 Which were fo richly fpun, and wouen fo fit, 
 
 As, fmce, ihe will vouchfafe no other Wit. 
 The merry Greeke, tart Art/top banes, 
 
 Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not pleafe ; 
 But antiquated, and deferted lye 
 
 As they were not of Natures family. 
 Yet muft I not giue Nature all : Thy Art, 
 
 My gentle Shakefpeare, muft enioy a part. 
 For though the Poets matter, Nature be, 
 
 His Art doth giue the fafhion. And, that he, 
 Who cafts to write a liuing line, muft fweat, 
 
 (fuch as thine are) and ftrike the fecond heat 
 Vpon the Mufes anuile ; turne the fame, 
 
 (And himfelfe with it), that he thinkes to frame ; 
 Or for the lawrell, he may gaine a fcorne, 
 
 For a good Poet's made, as well as borne. 
 And fuch wert thou. Look how the fathers face 
 
 Liues in his iflue, euen fo, the race 
 Of Shakefpeares minde, and manners brightly Ihines 
 
 In his well torned, and true-filed lines : 
 In each of which, he feemes to ftiake a Lance, 
 
 As brandifti't at the eyes of Ignorance. 
 Sweet Swan of Auon ! what a fight it were, 
 
 To fee thee in our waters yet appeare, 
 And make thofe flights vpon the bankes of Thames, 
 
 That fo did take Eliza, and our lames ! 
 But ftay, I fee thee in the Hemifphere 
 
 Aduanc'd, and made a Conftellation there ! 
 Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage, 
 
 Or influence, chide, or cheere the drooping Stage ; 
 Which, fince thy flight fro hence, hath mourn'd like night, 
 
 And defpaires day, but for thy Volumes light. 
 
 BEN JONSON. 
 
ppendix. 
 
 OF THE 
 
 URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, 
 
 CLERKEN WELL : 
 
 BEING A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF 
 
 anD Circulars 
 
 SINCE THE FIRST ISSUED ON APRIL 24ra, 187-5, 
 TO JULY 7TH, 1876 
 
 BY 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, 
 
 Hon. Secretary of the Urban Club, St. Johns Gate, Clerkenii-ell ; 
 Member of the Anthropological Inftitute of Great Britain and Ireland. 
 
 LONDON. 
 
 1877. 
 
9 1 
 
 URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELI, 
 
 THE 
 
 " In honour of whose Birth these triumphs are." 
 
 Pericles, act 2, s. 2. 
 
 " To keep our Great Saint George's Feast withal." 
 
 Henry VI., 1st part, act 1, s. 1. 
 
 FRIDAY, APRJL 2^, 1875- 
 
 T. S. BARRINGER, Hon. Treasurer. 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
9 2 
 
 GRACE -"For these and all thy mercies," 
 
 Laudi Spirituals, A.D, 1545. 
 
 I. 
 
 THE QUEEN. 
 
 " God save her !" Henry VIII., act 5, s. 4. 
 
 " Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out: 
 Worthy the owner, and the owner it." 
 
 Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, s. 5. 
 
 " The mother to a hopeful prince." Winter's Tale, act 3, s. 2. 
 " To thee I'll faithful prove." Love's Labours Lost, act 4, s. 2. 
 
 II. 
 
 THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES, 
 
 THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH, AND 
 
 THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE 
 
 ROYAL FAMILY. 
 
 " God bless thee." Twelfth Night, act 1, s. 5. 
 "Hourly joys be still upon you!" Tempest, act 4, s. 1. 
 
 " ... Her voice was ever soft, 
 Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman." 
 
 King Lear, act 5, s. 3. 
 
 III. 
 
 THE ARMY, NAVY, AND AUXILIARY FORCES. 
 
 Respondents: MAJOR-GENERAL MILL1NGTOX SYNGE, R.E. 
 COL. G. CRUIKSHANK. CAPT. J. P. FIELD, Hble.A.C. 
 
 " Stand, stand, and fight ! " Cymbeline, act 5, s. 2. 
 "Advance our waving colours." Henry VI., 1st part, act 1, s. 6. 
 
 " Then to the seas, my boys." Tempest, act 2, s. 2. 
 " Arm, fight, and conquer for England's sake." Rich. III., act 5, s. 3. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Clje Immortal gfamori) of 
 
 BY THE CHAIRMAN. 
 
 " To me, fair friend, you never can be old." Sonnet civ., v. 1. 
 
 "Hearing you prais'd, I say 'tis so, 'tis true, 
 And to the most of praise, add something more." 
 
 Sonnet LXXXV., v. 9-10. 
 
 " Ring bells aloud, burn bonfires clear and bright !" 
 
 Henry VI., 2nd part, act 5, s. 1. 
 
 "Be eternized in all age to come." Henry VI., 2nd part, act 5, s. 3 
 
93 
 
 v. 
 FINE ARTS. 
 
 Proposed by HENRY GRAVES, Esq. Respondent : G. CRUIKSHANK, Esq. 
 "Look here upon this picture." Samlet, act 3, s. 4. 
 
 " Painting is welcome. 
 The painting is almost the natural man." 
 
 Timon of Athens, act 1, s. 1. 
 
 "It tutors nature; artificial strife 
 Lives in these touches, livelier than life." 
 
 Timon of Athens, act 1, s. 1. 
 
 " More fertile fresh than all the field to see." 
 
 Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, s. 2. 
 " If music be the food of love, play on, 
 Give me excess of it." Twelfth Night, act 1, s..2. 
 
 VI. 
 SCIENCE AND LITERATURE. 
 
 Proposed by SIR JOHN BENNETT, Kt. 
 
 Respondents: DR. B. W.RICHARDSON, M.A., F.R.S. 
 
 JONAS LEVY, Esq., J.P. DR. BADENOCH. DR. G. W. LEITNER (of Lahore.; 
 
 " It is the mind that makes the body rich." 
 
 Taming of the Shrew, act 4, s. 3. 
 
 " True as tnith's simplicity, 
 And simpler than the infancy of truth." 
 
 Troilus and Cressida, act 3, s. 2. 
 
 " Which now shows all the beauty of the sun." 
 
 Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, s. 1. 
 
 "Had you such leisure 
 
 To gaze upon the secrets of the deep ? " Richard III., act 1, s. 4. 
 
 "Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio." 
 
 Love's Labours Lost, act 1, s. 2. 
 
 VII. 
 THE DRAMA AND THE STAGE. 
 
 Proposed by JAMES ALBERT, Esq. 
 Respondents: BRONSON HOWARD, Esq. H. LESLIE, Esq. 
 
 "My Lord, I will warrant you we will play our part." 
 
 Tammy of the Shreiv, act 1, s. 1. 
 
 "I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; 
 A stage where every man must play a part." 
 
 Merchant of Venice, act 1, s. 1. 
 
 VIII. 
 THE CHAIRMAN. 
 
 Proposed by the VICE-CHAIRMAN. 
 " Good sir, you're kindly welcome." Cymbeline, act 1, s. 6. 
 
94 
 
 IX. 
 
 PRESENTATION OF TESTIMONIAL TO 
 Dr. J. M. BENNETT (late Honorary Secretary). 
 
 " Keep it safe for our remembrance." King John, act 4, s. 1. 
 
 X. 
 
 WELCOME TO SIR EDMUND LECHMERE, Bart., 
 As the Owner of ye Sainte lohn's Gate. 
 
 Proposed by the CHAIRMAN. 
 
 "He hath deserved worthily of his country." 
 
 Coriolanus, act 2, s. 2._ 
 
 XI. 
 THE OFFICERS OF THE CLUB. 
 
 Proposed by JAMES KOBERTSON, Esq. 
 Respondents: DR. T. S. BARRINGER, M.R.C.S. J. JEREMIAH, Esq. 
 
 "How green you are, and fresh in this old world!" 
 
 King John, act 3, s. 4. 
 
 XII. 
 
 THE VISITORS. 
 
 Proposed by \V. H. BUTTERFIELD, Esq. 
 Respondent: SIR C. STIRLING, Bart. 
 
 "He that is thy friend indeed, 
 He will help thee at thy need." Passionate Pilgrim, 18 
 
 "To his good friends thus wide I'll ope' my arms." 
 
 Hamlet, act 4, s. 5. 
 
 XIII. 
 THE VICE-CHAIRMAN. 
 
 Proposed by G. HORSLEY, Esq. 
 
 "Speak, what trade art thou? 
 Why, sir, a CABPENTEE." Julius Ccesar, act 1, s. 1. 
 
 " Go on, go on, thou canst not speak too much." 
 
 Winter's Tale, act 3, s. 2. 
 
 "ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, still the fine's the crown, 
 Whate'er the course, the end is the renown." 
 
 All's Well that Ends Well, act 4, s. 4. 
 
 The Music under the Direction of DONALD W. KING, Esq. 
 
 " Here will we sit, and let the sound of music 
 Creep in our ears ; soft stillness and the night 
 Become the touches of sweet harmony." 
 
 Merchant of Venice, act 5, s. 1. 
 
 "A thousand times good night." Romeo and Juliet, act 2, s. 2. 
 
95 
 
 ^bs^SffiSrlS 
 
 URBAN CLUB, 
 
 f-HUlMiJra 
 
 b^SSi UBg*y-^?f 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLEEKENWELL. 
 
 -M-0-H 
 
 May IQtJt, 1875. 
 
 The favour of your company is requested on Friday Eveniny 
 next, the l&h inst., at 9 o'clock precisely, to an 
 
 AT HOME. 
 ALBEP^Y, Esq., CHAIRMAN, 
 
 " With gilded staffe, and crossed scavffe, the MAY Lorde here I stande." 
 Beaumont & Fletcher's " The Knight of the Burning Pestle," 1611. 
 
 " It is the Bomaunce of the Bose, 
 
 In which alle the art of love I close. 
 * * * * -x- 
 
 Hard is the hert that loveth nought 
 
 In MAY, whan al this mirth is wrought." 
 
 Chaucer's " Bomaunt of the Ease," v. 39-40, v. 85-86. 
 The PUNCH on this occasion will be made in accordance with 
 
 " e J^nciente (plasgow Beceipte." 
 " Mhisheye miscetuj| aqua, dulci miscetui] acetuw, 
 ^iat ex tali tetletje nobile ^funche." 
 
 And to be in keeping, l^e (pai|l|iche Bowie will be used. 
 
 " You may talk of bryske claret, synge prayses of sherrie, 
 Speke wel of olde hock, mum, cydre, and perrie, 
 
 Butt yOU MUST DBINKE PUNCHE IF YOU MEAN TO BEE MERRIE." 
 
 The Pedlar's Pack, p. 233. 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
9 6 
 
 URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLEEKENWELL. 
 
 May 24M, 1875. 
 
 T/te favour of your company is requested on Friday Evening 
 next, the 28th inst., to the 
 
 MONTHLY RE.- UN ION, 
 
 The Chair will be taken at Nine o'clock precisely. 
 
 " {f>ho' r to my loss, I'm no a laird, 
 By birth, my title's fair 
 
 ^o bend wi' ye and spend wi' ye 
 
 $n evening, and guffaw, 
 
 It merit and spirit 
 
 Be found without a flaw." 
 
 To the Wliin-Bush Club, The Sill of Allan Eamsay, 1761. 
 
 The iisual monthly business of tlie Election of Members irill 
 precede the pleasures of the evening ; Visitors will therefore kindly 
 oblige by retiring to the Armoury, during the Ballot. 
 
 Members are reminded that the next AT HOME of the Club 
 ixj.mlfor Friday Evening, and \\thproximo. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
97 
 
 URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLEEKENWELL. 
 
 June 5th, 1875. 
 
 The. HONORARY SECRETARY will esteem the favour 
 of your company on Friday Evening next, the llth instant, to a 
 
 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC 
 
 AT HOME, 
 
 When he will (by request) take the Chair at Nine o'clock precisely. 
 
 " The bonny month of June is crowned, 
 
 With the sweet scarlet Rose ; 
 The groves and meadows all around, 
 
 With lovely pleasure flows." 
 
 J. H. Dixon's Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs, 
 (Percy Society, 1849, page 189.) 
 
 " Item : 3for &ose garjlondis and Moodrove 
 garlondis on $t. Barnebe's Daye, 
 
 [Jane 11] xjd." 
 Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Mary-at-Hill, 17 and 19 Ed. IV 
 
 ^o whom it may concern the " Miraculous Walnut 
 
 will bud for t th on the ^feast of $t. Barnabas, the Hth lune. 
 
 Collinson's History of Somersetshire, ii. 265. 
 
 [P.T.O. 
 
 
9 8 
 
 <!. 
 
 FEOGKAMM3E. 
 
 Cbe djitccn. 
 
 he Queen's most faithful subjects we, 
 
 Xn's service atje not dull, 
 
 e dijinh, to show oui| loyalty.'' 
 
 Tlios. Shadwell, 1670. 
 
 1. Jf. gurt0n, SLp. C0twral (Trieste), Jfll-C"). 
 
 Proposed by the CHAIRMAN. 
 
 " 'Tis true, perswaded that there was rich Ore, 
 I boldly Launch'd, and would new Worlds explore ; 
 Deep Mines I saw, and hidden Wealth to lie, 
 In Rocky Entrails, and in Sierras high. 
 ***** 
 
 And urg'd my fortune on.*' 
 
 J. Evelyn's Address to Creech, 1682. 
 
 literature nntr Scteita. 
 
 Proposed by MONCURE D. CONWAY, Ess., M.A. 
 Responded to by Prof. LEONE LEVI, F.S.S. 
 
 " $y minde to me a Hingdome is, 
 $uch pei|fect joy therein I finde." 
 
 Old Ballad, 16th Century. 
 
 "'^is piety to view the whole, 
 search all t?latui|e with a quiet soul." 
 
 Creech's Lucretius, Bk. V., p. 177, 3rd ed., 1683. 
 
 Proposed by DR. G. W. LEITNER, M.A. (of Lal.ore). 
 
 Responded to by SIR EDMUND LECHMKRE, BART., 
 
 And His HIGHNESS PRINCE JOKUNDAR KHAN (of Cabul). 
 
 41 .$tand ! who goes thetje ? 
 iSge charge you, appeatt." 
 
 Endymion, JohnLyly, 1591. 
 
 Cjre Chairman, 
 
 Proposedby DR. J. E. CARPENTER. 
 
 " What I have done thro' lack of wit, 
 
 I never, never can recall ; 
 I hope ye're a' my friends as yet ; 
 
 GOOD NIGHT, and joy be with you all! " 
 
 Armstrong's Good Night, 1600. 
 
 The Music by Messrs. FABQUHARSON, 
 DONALD W. KING, A. BOUCHETTE, and Dr. SEMPLE. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Sccrrtdri/. 
 
99 
 
 URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLEBKESTWELL. 
 
 June 21 tit, 1S75 
 
 The favour of your company is requested on Friday EC 
 next, the 25th instant, to the 
 
 .ONTHLY RE- UNION, 
 
 WHEN 
 
 ivill take the Chair at Nine o'clock precisely. 
 
 The occasion being ^)* 2-B110t J^ri)UU}) 01 J) c 
 
 you arc expected to be in your place and chaunt the 
 Of glimmer,* as follows: 
 
 " ^umer L is i cumen, 
 >hude sing cuccu : 
 
 (;' ( roweth sed, and bloweth med, 
 
 |n itobtrn 
 Summer is coming, 
 
 spijingeth the wde nu. 
 
 cuccu, cuccu. 
 
 bleteth aftei| lomb, 
 ,outh afteij calve cu ; 
 Bulluc stet|teth, 
 Buck ver t teth : 
 
 e sing, cuccu : 
 
 sings thu cuccu : 
 l^e swik thou neuetj nu." 
 
 Harl; M5S.,978,/.6. 
 
 * " This is the most antient English Song that appears in our manuscripts, 
 with the musical notes annexed. The music of that species of composition 
 which is called Canon in the Unison, and is supposed to be of the fifteenth 
 century." Warton's His. Eng. Poet., 1st ed., 1778, vol. 2. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
 Loud sing Cuckoo ! 
 
 Groweth seed, and bloweth mead, 
 
 And springeth the wood now. 
 
 Ewe bleateth after lamb, 
 
 Loweth cow after calf, 
 
 Bullock starteth, 
 
 Buck verteth (or goes to harbour), 
 
 Merrie sing Cuckoo ! 
 
 Well singest thou, Cuckoo, 
 
 Nor cease to sing now." 
 
IOO 
 
 URBAN CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLEEKENWELL. 
 
 July 21th, 1875. 
 
 The favour of your company is requested on Friday Eoeni 
 nt'.ct, the 3Qth instant, at Ninz o'clock precisely, ichen 
 
 CHARLES MORSLEY, 
 
 will take the Chair. 
 
 " Tie wish your fame may be as amply known. 
 M$ he desires, who speaks himself your own." 
 
 Westminster Drolleries, 1672, part 2, p. ii. 
 
 The Ceremonies cj the Evening will be conducted with a due 
 regard to the " Season of the, Year," for 
 
 " n tyme of hervest merry it is ynouz, 
 fferes and Apples hongeth on bouz, 
 ^he hayward bloweth his home, 
 In everych felde ripe is come, 
 ^he grapes hongen on the vyne, 
 $wete is trewe love and fyne." 
 
 By Gawen Douglas, 1513. 
 Vfarton's "Hist. Eng. Poetry," 1st edition, vol. 2, p. 284. 
 
 The Business to precede the Ceremonies will consist of the 
 El'dion of Members, and the consideration of the Motion made at 
 tlie last Monthly Meeting, of forming a Club Portrait Album of 
 Hi c. Members. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
IOI 
 
 URBAN CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL. 
 
 August '23rd, 1875. 
 
 The favour of your company is solicited on Friday Evening 
 next, the 27th instant, at Nine o'clock precisely, when, after the 
 Election of Members, 
 
 '" 
 
 
 
 Co 
 
 ill be held, and 
 
 S, S, -RACCA, Esq., 
 
 duly Installed as " ||e J&ttttCje 0f g 
 
 (The Feast, being moveable, has been fixed for this Evening 
 [the 27th], to Beanefit the Pulse.) 
 
 " t (ftetjemonies accotjdynge to $ntiente &ituale." 
 
 Bourne's Antiq : vulg : chap. XVII. 
 
 " Kynge of y* Beane must bee yc $}ynstt|elle." 
 
 Vide Strutt's Sports & Past : enlarged ed., 1855; p. 344. 
 
 St. gartljolcrmtfo's gau (24tlj) 
 
 11- HI also be "moved to next Friday Evening," for jieaseful reasons, 
 as well as the various " Apostolycke " customs of " y e Fayre" 
 " !$)h ! we might see as happy days as evei] we did then." 
 
 " Pedlar's Pack," p. 436. 
 
 ^he smoaH that does so high ascend, 
 $hows you man's life must have an end ; 
 
 ^he vapours gone, 
 
 pt^an's life is done. 
 
 of this, and take to Bacca.'' 
 
 Slightly modernized, from Tom Durfey's 
 
 " Pills to Purge Melancholy," 1719, vol. Hi. 
 
 night nigheth fast, yts time to be gone." 
 
 Spenser's " Shepheard's Calendar, August," verse 198. 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
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 URBAN CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL. 
 
 September 20tt, 1875. 
 
 The favour of your company will be esteemed on Friday 
 Evening next, the 24:th instant, at Nine o'clock precisely, to the 
 
 MONTHLY RE- UNION. 
 
 Sinnml |Utsj)t0it, (Esq., foill jjrtsibjc. 
 
 The Business will consist of the ^Election of Jflnnbcrs, 
 in accordance with the Rules. 
 
 " Happy we, who have such wholesome laws, 
 Which without pleading can decide a cause ; 
 To this good law, recourse we had at last, 
 That throws off wrath and makes our friendship fast, 
 In which the legislators laid a plot, 
 To end all controversy by a vote." 
 
 " The Gentleman's Qualifications." 
 By Allan Ramsay, 1741, "Poems," vol. I. (1st ed.) p. 192. 
 
 toljom $ mag tontcnu: 
 
 ijyghte Moqshippfulle i$ayesteij shall atte l^ine of y c 
 cloche, begun u e woijhe sette out io\\ him, afteif y e t^adityons of 
 t) e (fJlub, without lette ot| hyndi|ance as or^ayned. 
 
 gi|ante youtj lotfdshippe joye and healthe, 
 dayes and ijowthe of qeal wealthe, 
 to y e &andc of (^ayhes heav'n send y e , 
 fi^ae ctjosse accydents deffende y e ." 
 
 Allan Ramsay's "Poems," vol. I., 1721, p. 177. 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
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 URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL 
 
 October 9th, 1875. 
 
 The favour uf you r company is requested on Friday Evening 
 
 f, tlii> 15th instant, at 8.30 o'clock precisely, to a 
 
 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC 
 
 AT HOME, 
 1r, |* (&. Cixrpcnto in ilje Cjrair. 
 
 " Recite Apollo's Praise, till Night draws on, 
 The Ditty still unfinish'd ; and the Day 
 Unequal to the Godhead's Attributes, 
 Various, and Matter Copious of your Songs." 
 
 " The Second Hymn of Callimachus," 
 By Matthew Prior, 1st ed., page 304, 1718. 
 
 the evening 
 
 c^ccllente .glantlitie at || e 
 
 be per^oijmed with 4ue qegaijd to the " Unities," and " J e !tfat|te$ 
 dulie enacted by y e tjl^banes." 
 
 ill be " e Vice." 
 " Long may he reign, that is so far above 
 All Vice, all passion, but excess in love." 
 
 Waller's Addition to Beaumont < Fletcher's 
 " Maid's Tragedy." 
 
 rp.jp.o. 
 
104 
 
 URBAN CLUB, 
 
 In consequence of our worthy Brother Urban, 
 
 |i. Jf. 
 
 ciiKj shortly to leave England, you are especially requested to I? 
 in your place to give him a Farewell, after "y e mamiere of y e 
 JJnglysche ^ustome." 
 
 " I will come, to part from thee no more ; 
 A moment now Farewell." 
 
 " Farewell, be sure you keep your word." 
 
 " fke Desert Island," by A. Murphy, 
 
 Act 3, s. 1, 1792. 
 
 " Now, I would speak the last Farewel, but cannot ; 
 It would be still Farewel, a thousand Times ; 
 And multiply'd in Echoes still, Farewel. 
 I will not speak, but think a thousand thousand : 
 And be thou silent too." 
 
 Dryden's, " Don Sebastian." 
 
 in Bysshe's "Art of Eng. Poetry," page 105, 1725. 
 
 N.B. Entrance to the Hall, by the West Door from St. John's Square. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
105 
 
 URBAN CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE CLEBKENWELL. 
 
 October 23rd, 1875. 
 
 Tin' faoour of your company will be esteemed on Friday 
 next, the 29//t instant, at 8.30 o'clock precisely, to a 
 
 LITERARY AND DRAMATIC AT HOME. 
 mrj> | 
 
 " Man is an actor, and the World the stage, 
 Where some do laugh, some weep, some sing, some rage." 
 Richard's " Messalina," in T. Hayward's "British Muse," 
 
 Vol. II., page 217, 1738. 
 
 After the Election of Members, " y e Mare-house in Parnassus 
 uril bee opened, and y e goodlie companie invyted to adjudycate 
 upon ye Glares." 
 
 See " Advts. from Parnassus," by Trajano Boccalini, 
 
 trans : by Henry Earl of Monmouth, page 1, 1656. 
 
 "Item, A.D. 1411: the Kynge Henry V. lyved at sent Jones Priorie." 
 " Chronicle of the Grey Friars " (Camden Soc. Pub.), p. 13. 
 
 ' lf e (f)lde $alle shall once more resownde with y e myrthe of y e 
 Dialers." 
 
 "' Item, Ye Mayester of ye Revells to conduct ye Rehearsalls and settinge 
 forthe of ye Playes for ye Amusement of ye Queene [Elizabeth] and her 
 courte, in ye Greate Halle of Ste. John's." 
 
 Landsdowne MSS. 136, folio 358. 
 
 The Ancient Observances of " ALLHALLOW EVEN "(October 31st) will 
 take place on this occasion, and"Nutt Crackynge," duly proceeded with as 
 heretofore : 
 
 " Wi' merry sangs, an' friendly cracks, 
 I wat they did na weary ; 
 An' unco' tales an' funny jokes, 
 Their sports were cheap an' cheery : 
 
 Fu' blythe that night." 
 
 " Halloween," by Eobt. Burns. 
 
 " Britons ! attend in acts like this proceed; 
 For Heav'n looks on, and sanctifies the Deed." 
 
 " The Shrubs df Parnassus," by J. CopyweU,p 152, 1760. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 \.B. Entrance by the West Door from St. John's Square. 
 
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io6 
 
 URBAN MH CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL. 
 
 November 8th, 1875. 
 
 The favour of your company will be -esteemed on Friday 
 Evenimj next, the 12th instant, at Nine o'clock, when will be held a 
 
 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC AT HOME, 
 
 Dr. C I. ftorringtr, 
 
 (Honorary Treasurer), in the Chair. 
 
 " Cou'd thou cum anes acquaint with Skill, 
 He kens quhat Humours does thee ill, 
 
 And how thy Cair contracks; 
 He knows the Ground of all thy Greife, 
 And recipies for thy Keleife, 
 
 All Medicines he makes. 
 
 The Man that will not quhen he may 
 He sail not quhen he wald." 
 " The Cherrie and the Slae," 
 
 Ramsay's " Evergreen," vol. II., p. 145, 1761. 
 
 ST. MARTIN'S DAY, (lour, nth, i|)lde $tile,") will be 
 kept on the 12th inst, according to y e <(< ew $tile/' and y e $olemu 
 Jfeste wil bee obseruedc as y e (povournere shal commande. 
 
 " It is the day of Martilmasse, 
 Cuppes of ale should freelie passe, 
 What though Wynter has begunne 
 To push downe the Summer sunne 
 To our fire we can betake 
 And enjoy the cracklynge brake 
 Never heeding Wynter's face 
 On the day of Martilmasse," 
 
 Old Ballad, " Martilmasse Day." 
 "Where I am now, as restless to remain 
 Against my will, full pleased with my pain." 
 
 Eai I of Surrey's Poems, p. 68. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 N.B. Entrance by the West door from St. John's Square. 
 
107 
 
 URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL. 
 
 November 20th, 1875. 
 
 The favour of i/our company will be esteemed on Friday 
 Eveninfj next, the 2Qtk instant, at Nine o'clock, when mil be held 
 
 A LITERARY AT HOME. 
 
 liatnjsras ICnntriin, feq., 
 
 " Wil bee Inductyde to ye Chaire with due Solemnitie." After the Election 
 of Members : 
 
 "Ye Arystotelyane Mysterie of ye 'Egge and Chyckene, or Whyche was 
 Firste,' wil bee ye Entertainmeute. Ye yolke of ye Plaie wilbee borne by ye 
 Mayestere, who wil Pulle yt' throughe as of olde." 
 
 Item: A.D. 1390, Julie 18th 20th ye Paryshe Clerkes played " Ye Creation 
 (jf ye Worlde," atte ye Skinner's Welle, near Clerkeiiwelle Greene. 
 
 Hone's, "Ancient Mysteries," p. 206, 1823. 
 
 Item: _ Novre. 23rd and 25th ye Gloryous Festes of S.S. Clemente and 
 Catherine. 
 
 Vide Plott's Hist. Staffordshire, p. 430. 
 
 And La Matte's Essay on Poetry and Painting, 1730, p. 120. 
 
 At the conclusion of the Proceedings the rare old "Homeric Poem " of 
 
 "HOME, SWEET HOME," 
 
 will be sung by the Chorus. 
 
 "Now Jhesu Lord, Heuyn Kynge, 
 He graunt vs alle his Blessynge 
 And gife vs alle gode endinge, 
 That made vs on the mulde." 
 
 " The Avouynge of King Arthur," in " Three Early English 
 
 Metrical Romances," by J. Eobson. (Camden Society's Pub.) 
 
 Canto LXXH.,p. 93. 
 
 p.S. The Committee have postponed the ANNUAL DINNER until 
 Friday, the 10th of December, 1875, at 6.30 p.m., when Sir JOHN BENNETT 
 will preside. The Notices will be issued in due course, and all applications 
 for the Tickets must be promptly made. 
 
 " That's sure, Sir; let me crave your name, I pray you, Sir." 
 
 Sen Jonson's "Poetaster," act 4, s. 3. 
 
 N.B. Entrance to ye Halle, by the Wfst door in St. John's Square. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
109 
 
 URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLEEKENWELL. 
 
 (FOUNDED, JANUARY, 1858.) 
 
 Item: January, 1731. The Gentleman's Magazine first Published 
 here by EDWABD CAVE (SYLVANUS URBAN). 
 
 Item: July, 1736. The first Eeport of Parliamentary Debates, by 
 GUTHEIE, appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine. 
 
 Item: March, 1738. Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON'S first contribution to 
 The Gentleman's Magazine. 
 
 Item: Nov., 1740. Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON'S first Parliamentary Sum- 
 mary in The Gentleman's Magazine. 
 
 THE 
 
 JBinntr, 
 
 HELD ON 
 
 FI\IDAY, PECEJVLBEF^ 10, 1875, 
 
 ir 
 
 , It, Chirmim, 
 
 I ' f 
 
 ,, ftire-CjjatrmntL 
 
 T. S. BARRINGER, Hon. Treasurer. 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
I 10 
 
 GRACE. 
 
 For these and all Thy mercies given, 
 
 We bless and praise Thy name, O Lord. AMEN. 
 
 From the Laudi Spirit uali, A.D. 1545. 
 
 I. 
 THE QUEEN. 
 
 ," Your love ia destin'd to your Country's Peace." 
 . " To His Sacred Majesty," 
 
 verse 122, by John Dryden, 1661. 
 
 " Whose progeny God long preserve, 
 
 This kingdom for to sway, 
 And send all subjects loyal hearts, 
 
 Their Sovereign to obey." 
 
 "An excellent Song, made of the successors of King Edward IV." 
 Evans's Old Ballads, vol. 2, p. 151, 1778. 
 
 II. 
 
 THE PEINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES AND THE OTHER 
 MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY. 
 
 " For Edward tune your harps, ye nine; 
 
 Triumphant strike each living string, 
 For him, in ecstasy divine, 
 Your choral to Paeans sing." 
 
 " Ode on the Duke of York's Second Departure," 
 by William Falconer, 1702. 
 
 " To your own good and greatness, I protest 
 
 Myself, through rarefied, and turned all flame 
 In your affection." 
 
 Ben Jonson's "Fall of Sejanus," act 2. 
 
 III. 
 THE ARMY, NAVY, AND AUXILIARY FORCES. 
 
 Besponded to bv COLONEL CRUIKSHANK, 
 CAPTAIN G. W. CHALLIS, Hble. A.C. MAJOR PHILIPSON. 
 
 " In Liberty, Britannia rises fair 
 And bids invasion brave her, if it dare." 
 
 " Thou sacred isle, amidst thy ambient main, 
 Enjoy'st the sweets of Freedom all thy own ; 
 Peace, heav'nly Peace, adorns thy happy plain, 
 And war but serves to heighten thy renown." 
 
 " Ode in Praise of the British Nation'," 
 
 Gentleman's Magazine, 1742, p. 383. 
 
 " To see us so boldly advance, present fire ; 
 Our wives and our sweethearts will love and admire. 
 That Beauty loves Courage we need not be told, 
 Since Venus for Mars left her Vulcan of old." 
 
 "A Song," in "The Grand Magazine of Magazines," 1758. 
 
 Page 307. 
 
1 1 [ 
 
 IV. 
 
 to tfie Btfean 
 
 Proposed by the CHAIRMAN. 
 
 " If still your hearts can swell with glory, 
 
 These passions feel your Sires have known, 
 Can glow with deeds of ancient story, 
 Or beat with transport at your own, 
 Success is mine." 
 
 "My merits told, who dares contend with me?" 
 
 " The Theatrical Candidates" by David Garrick, 1775. 
 
 " Well, my good friends, I hope what you propose, 
 Will show your hearts are of an honest mould." 
 
 "Damon and Phillida," by Colley Gibber. 
 
 V. 
 
 FINE ARTS. 
 Proposed by J. R. WARE, Esq. Responded to by G. CRUIKSHANK, E,q. 
 
 "Rare Artizan, whose Pencil moves, 
 Not our Delights alone, but Loves; 
 From thy Shop of Beauty we 
 Slaves return, that enter'd free." 
 
 Waller to Van Dyke. 
 
 VI. 
 LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 
 
 Proposed by F. O. LUKE, Esq. Responded to by Dr. KARL BLIND. 
 Dr. B. W. RICHARDSON, M.A., F.R.S., Dr. G. G. ZERFFI, F.R.S.L. 
 
 "Like lightning, let his mighty verse 
 The bosom's inmost foldings pierce; 
 With native beauties win applause, 
 Beyond cold critics' studied laws," 
 
 " Ode to Fancy," by Rev. Joseph Warton, 
 
 in " The Union," page 26. Dublin, 1761. 
 
 " Learning is an addition beyond 
 Nobility of birth ; honour of blood, 
 Without the ornament of knowledge, is 
 But a glorious ignorance." 
 
 Shirley's " Lady of Pleasure." 
 
 " Man must not therefore rashly Science scorn, 
 But chuse, and read with care." 
 
 Lord Brooke on " Hitman Learning." 
 
 VII. 
 THE DRAMA AND THE STAGE. 
 
 Proposed by Dr. W. C. BENNETT. 
 Responded to by JONAS LEVY, Esq., J.P. H. L. PARKER, Esq. (Boston, U.S.A.) 
 
 Item : 1572. Be it declared that " all Fencers, Bearewardes, Comon Players 
 in Enterl'udes and Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this 
 Realme or towards any other honorable Persinage of greater 
 Degree' to be 'Roges Vacabounds and Sturdye Beggers,' and c to 
 bee greovuslye whipped, and burnte through the gristle of the right 
 Bare with an hot Yron.' " Act passed by Parliament in 1572. 
 Vide, Introduction to " Stephen Gossan's School of Abuse." (1579.) 
 
 Arber's Reprint, 1868. 
 
I 12 
 
 Item. 1575. Dec. fith. "Ye Lorde Mayore and Corporations of London 
 expel Plaiers from ye Citie. Ye Plaiers therevpon build ye firste 
 Publicke Theatre without ye 'Liberties.'" 
 
 Order passed by the Common Council. 
 
 "Our date, how short soe'er, must us content: 
 When a good actor doth his part present." 
 
 Denham in " The British Muse" 
 
 by T. Hayward, vol. II., p. 168, 1738. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 THE CHAIRMAN. 
 Proposed by C. HORSLEY, Esq. 
 
 "A large man was he, with eyghen stepe, 
 A fairere burgeys is ther noon in Chepe, 
 Bold of his speche, and wys, and wel i taught, 
 And of manhede lakkede he right naught, 
 Eke therto he was right a mery man." 
 
 Chaucer's " Canterbury Tales," the "Prologue," v. 753-757. 
 
 IX. 
 THE OFFICEES OF THE CLUB. 
 
 Proposed by J. WILLIAMS, Esq., F.C.S. 
 
 Responded to hj Dr. T. S. BARRINGER, M.R C.S. JOHN JEREMIAH, E*q. 
 " "We've done our best, for your contents, to fit, 
 With new pains, this old Monument of wit." 
 Epilogue to " The Noble Gentleman," by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 
 X. 
 THE VISITORS. 
 
 Proposed by SIR JOHN BEXNETT, KT 
 Responded to by G. P. LASCARID1, Esq. Dr. GREAT REX. 
 
 " Health, wit, and joy, sauls large and free, 
 
 Be a' your fates sae God be wi' ye." 
 Allan Ramsay's "Epistle to Mr. James Arbuckle," Poems, vol. I., 1719. 
 
 XI. 
 
 THE VICE -CHAIRMAN. 
 Proposed by J. D. LOVERDO, Esq., F.R.S.L. 
 " Him you will find 
 
 " Warm in the glorious Interest you pursue, 
 And, in one Word, a Good Man and a True." 
 
 Prior's "Imitation of Horace." Bk. 1, Epistle IX. 
 
 The Music by JOHN KING, Esq., Prof. LEHMEYZE, 
 
 Dr. SEMPLE, and Members of the Club. 
 " Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, 
 Beyond the bliss of dreams. Be wise, and taste." 
 
 Milton's " Comus," v. 811-812. 
 
 " To all, to each, a fair Good Night, 
 And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light." 
 
 Sir W. Scott's " Marmion," canto VI. 
 
 " Fare now wele, my frend so dere, 
 My dwelleyng is no longer here 
 
 For sothe as Y the tell." 
 
 " Sir Amadace," Stanza 69. 
 in Weber's " Metrical Itomances," v. III., 1810. 
 
URBAN CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLEEKENWELL. 
 
 December 20th, 1875. 
 
 THE HONORARY SECRETARY will esteem the faconr of 
 your company on Friday Evening, the 3lst inst., to an 
 
 AT HOME, 
 
 when he will preside (by request) at 9 o'clock precisely. 
 
 As is customary at this Season of the Year, " y e olde institu- 
 cion of y e '&or<le of J%srewle wil bee revyvede with all y e ryghtes 
 and pryviledges as layde downe in y e 
 
 Statutes of Trin : Col : Cantab : 154C. 
 
 Item. A.D. 1551-2, iiij day of Jany. " The lorde of Crystmas of the kyuges 
 howse came thorrow London, and thorrow Scheppesyde, and soo to 
 the lorde mayers to denner." 
 
 Item. A.D. 1553, the iiij day of Jany. " Came the lorde of mysrewle of the 
 corte . . . un-to the crosse in Chepe and there made a procla- 
 macyon." 
 
 " Chronicle of the Grey Friars " (Camden Soc. Pub.), pp. 73 and 76. 
 
 Item. A.D. 1651, 1652, 1653, 1654, and 1656. " The observance of Christmas 
 prohibited in England by law." 
 
 "Evelyn's Diary" vol. I., p. 297, et seq. 
 
 Item. A.D. 1711. " A Yawning Match was held, for a prize of Cheshire 
 Cheese, at Christmas time." 
 
 Vide " Spectator," No. 179. 
 
 Y e Cercmonie of Bryngyngein of y e Yule Log to take place at 
 
 Nine of y e Cloke, and y e Log-Rythym recytede bi y e Com panic. 
 
 [P.T.O. 
 Q 
 
THE QUEEN. 
 " Venality and faction now 
 
 Are banished from the Nation, 
 We all are patriots, and avow 
 We hate dissimulation." 
 
 "A Touch on the Times." 
 " The Theatre of Fun," London, 1784. 
 
 Y e Gloryous and Ryghte Pleasante Greetynge of " Our NOBLE 
 SELVES," slial bee given by y e Lorde of Mysrewle, in 
 
 i$ is ther custom, and her gest 
 thei are at the ale or fest. 
 Ilh man that lovis qware him think, 
 $alle say 88$$$J&, and to him drink 
 $e that bidis salle say 
 f|$he tother salle say again 
 ^hat says ^tosseille drinhis of the cop, 
 &i$s-and his felaw he gives it up." 
 
 Robert de JJrunne, 1303. 
 
 " Much joy into this Hall 
 With us is entered in, 
 Our master first of all, 
 We hope will now begin 
 
 Of our Wassel." 
 Bitson's " Antient Songs," 1790, p. 304. 
 
 Y e Interhules wil consist of y e Merrie Carolls. 
 
 " Be glad, lordlings, be ye more and lesse, 
 I bryng you tydings of gladnesse, 
 As Gabryel me beryth wetnesse. 
 
 Hone's " Ancient Mysteries," p. 93, 1823. 
 
 filerm ty%timu anb K fapw prt 
 
 We'll make the hours run smooth away, 
 And laugh at lang syne." 
 
 Allan Ramsay's Poems, vol. I., p. 45, 1761. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretory. 
 
URBAN CLUB, 
 
 ^BBlBBBSgSi'^gil 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLEEKENWELL. 
 
 January 8tJt, 1876. 
 
 The favour of your company will be esteemed on Friday 
 Evening next, the \\.tli inst., at 9 o'clock precisely, to a Literary 
 and Scientific 
 
 AT HOME, 
 
 on which occasion 
 
 W. E. CHURCH, ESQ., WILL PRESIDE. 
 
 T quaynte ceremonies of twelfths lyghte (Jan. 6th) 
 
 Wil bee dulie performede by ye Wyse Men of ye Easte. 
 
 Vide " The Gentleman's Magazine," 1764, vol. xxxiv., p. 599. 
 
 " The Papistes do beleeve that these were Kings, and so them call, 
 And do affirme that of the same there were but three in all. 
 Here sundrie friends together come, and meet in companie, 
 And make a King amongst themselves by voyce or destinie." 
 
 " The Popish Kingdome," by Naogeorgus,/. 45. 
 
 T $nciente pastorate of " ye Boye-Byshope, or y e f hurche 
 $Jilytante 3?)epo$e4e." 
 
 In whyche ye Virtues wil bee impersonatede by ye Urbane Companie, and 
 
 wil enacte ye VICE in ye Eastwarde Positione. 
 
 " Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times." 
 
 Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," ed. 1845, p. 362. 
 
 Item." Ye fyrste Mondaye after Twelfthe-daye is Plow-Mondaye." 
 
 Vide Warton's " Hist. ofEng. Poetry," vol. 2, 1st ed., 1781, p. 307. 
 
 THE EPILOGUE. 
 
 " Our stage-play has a moral and, no doubt, 
 You all have sense enough to find it out." 
 
 Gay's " What D'ye Call It." 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
 Entrance at the West Door in St. John's Square. 
 
n6 
 
 URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL. 
 
 January 22nd, 1876. 
 
 The favour of your company is requested on Friday K 
 next, tf/e 28th inst., at 9 o'clock punctually, when will be held 
 
 * ^txmtalc JWettjwge, 
 
 Under y e Presydentshyppe of 
 
 W. II. I3UTTERFIELD, ESQ. 
 
 " You see we try all shapes, and shifts, and arts, 
 To tempt your favours and regain your hearts." 
 
 W. Congreve's Epilogue to " Oronoko," 1690. 
 
 The ANNUAL REPORT of the Committee will be read, and 
 the Election of Officers for the ensuing year proceeded with, at 
 9 o'clock, after which the Election of Members will take place. 
 
 " T Bille of y e tflaie." 
 
 Ye UEBANE CLUBBE NO MYSTEEIE, by ye Founderes. 
 " From thee alone such sugred friendship slydes, 
 As mortal wights can scarcely comprehend." 
 Gaecoigne and Kinwelmersh's " locasta," 1566, act ii., sc. ult. 
 Y^ DRAMATIS PERSONS by Her Majestie's Servauntes. 
 
 Item. Jan. 25th, St. Paul's Day. 
 
 "If the day of St. Paule be cleere, 
 Then shall betide an happie yeere." 
 
 " The Saying of Erra Pater to the Husbandman." 
 
 Ye Mayestere shal now Hallowe ye Lyghtes for Candlemasse daie (Feb. 2), 
 and performc ye other Ceremonies accordynge to ye anciente Lawes. 
 
 Vide " Bishop Banner's Injunctions," 1555. 
 
 Jan. 25th, 1759. EGBERT BURNS born. His Memory to be honoured by 
 the Company, and Toasted. 
 
 " The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor, 
 Is King o' men for a' that." 
 
 "For a' That and a' That," by Robert Burns. 
 
 " My joy is so excessive, I think the whole a dream; yet if this Company 
 is but pleased, my dream will last for ever." 
 
 " The Romance of an Hour," by Hugh Kelly, act ii., 1788. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
 Entrance to ye Halle by ye West Door. 
 
ii; 
 
 URBAN CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELT, 
 
 February 5th, 1876. 
 
 The favour of your company ^cill be esteemed on Friday 
 Evening next, th \\tli innf., at 9 o'clock precisely, to a Literary 
 and Scientific 
 
 AT HOME. 
 
 Wil presyde accordynge to y e Common La\ve. 
 
 " Al that he spak it was of heye prudence 
 And schort, and quyk, and ful of gret sentence. 
 Sownynge in moral manere was his speche, 
 And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche." 
 Chaucer's Prologue to " The Canterbury Tales," v. 303, 308. 
 
 Jfatte 
 
 Durynge y e evenyiige ther wil bee a revyval of V 6 tf)ia 
 nglysche ^ournamente, by y e Knyghtes of Ste. John (y e Urbane 
 lange). Y e tourney to commence atte X of y e Cloke. 
 
 Y e Worthie Maiester to act as y e Attourney and to be y e 
 Esquyre dulie robed and Armede Avith y e La we Canons. 
 
 KB. Y e Listes wil bee opened atte IX of y e Cloke, and 
 Entries Booked by y e Page, and y c Pageantrie wil proceede with due 
 solempnitie and precedence as before. 
 
 Item. A. D. 1390, 14th of Eichard II. Eoyal jousts and tournaments were 
 proclaimed to be done in Smithfield. 
 
 Vide " Stow's Svrvay of London "edit. 1603, p. 142. 
 
 " Some men deliteth beholding men to fight 
 Or goodly knightes in pleasaunt apparayle 
 Or sturdie souldiers in bright harnes and male." 
 
 Alexander Barclay's Eclogues, ii., 1570. 
 
1 1 
 
 " He that bear'th him best in the tournament 
 Shal be graunted the gree [prize] by the common consent." 
 
 " The Tournament of Tottenham" by Gilbert Pilkiiigton,pub. 1631. 
 
 Jjjtte f f comfoe. 
 
 Item 14the Febe. Ye Holie Feste of Saint Valentyue. 
 
 e (prande $a$fee of "Ttfalentync and l^rson," 
 
 Wil bee performed. 
 
 Vide ye Sailed of " Valentine and Ursine." 
 Percy's " Reliques of Ancient Poetry " vol. IV., ed. 1824. 
 
 Item 9th Feby., 1546-7. Progress of King Edward VI. from the City to 
 Westminster to his Coronation. At the Conduit in Cheap were persons 
 resembling VALENTINE and ORSON, one clothed with moss and ivy 
 leaves, holding a great club of yew tree, the other as a Knight, and 
 they pronounced speeches. The Conduit ran Wine and was richly 
 garnished. 
 
 Leland's Collectanea, vol. IV., p. 322. 
 
 " Now play the Satyre whoso list for me, 
 Valentine self, or some as chaste as hee." 
 
 Bishop Hall's Satires, IV., 1. 
 
 Wil plaie in this parte y e 
 
 " Then myght I lede my tyfe alwayes in play, 
 Which lyfe God sende me to myne endyng day." 
 
 Sir Thomas More's Stanza on " Childhoode," 1503. 
 
 " And then the reckning brought to quiet ende 
 A ioyfull state of better lyfe doth leiide." 
 
 Stephen Gossan's " School of Abuse," 1579, p. 77. Arber's Reprint. 
 
 " As wee began we now will leave, 
 And He take mine old cloake about mee." 
 
 Percy's " Beliques of Ancient Poetry," vol. I., p. 321, ed. 1824. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, OLEEKENWELL. 
 
 February 19th, 1876. 
 
 The favour of your company is requested on Friday Evening, 
 next, the 25th inst , at 9 o clock, punctually, at a Literary 
 
 AT HOME. 
 
 In ye Chiefe Chayre. 
 
 " How GBEEN and fresh you are in this old World ! " 
 
 Sh. " King John," act 3, sc. 4, v. 145. 
 
 The Election of Members will commence at 9 o'clock, and proceed 
 at 9.30 to the Eitual of the Evening viz., 
 
 14 
 
 nf ^ <tot* gentle uf % Sppg* 
 aitir f uteiA Jtsfc." 
 
 " 'Tis merry in Hall when beards wag all, 
 
 And Welcome merry Shrove-tide." 
 Sh. " King Henry IV.," 2nd Part, act 5, sc. 3, v. 37-38. 
 
 Item, Febe. 24the. Ye Feste of Ste. Matthias. Ye Plaie of "ye Election 
 of S. Matthias," performede at Chester, bv ye Fyshmongeres Guylde, 
 A.D. 1327. Harl. MSS. 2013. 
 
 Items, Febe. 28the. Collop Monday. Febe. 29the. Shrove Tuesday. 
 
 " Gent. Mag." 1790, p. 719. 
 " On Shrove Tuesday, whosoever doth plant or sow, it shall remain 
 
 always Green." " Book of Knowledge," 1703. 
 
 Item, the xxiij of Feb. 1556 was Shroft Sonday, and then was lepe yere. 
 ....... Thomas Creme [CranmerJ desgradyd of hys arche- 
 
 byshoppecheppe, and comytted for gret heryse." 
 
 " Chronicle of the Grey Friars," p. 96. 
 Here shal bee gyven A Farewelle to our Brethren : Branson Howard and 
 
 Henry Leslie. After whych : 
 Ye Coufessore shal tosse ye PAN-Caykes, for alle. 
 
 Vide " Gent. Mag." 1790, p. 256. 
 
 Item, A.D. 1664. David Salter gave 17s. per annum for ever, to provide Bread 
 and Herrings for the Poor, and 2s. for Kid Gloves for the Minister of 
 Famham Eoyal. Edward's " Old Eng. Customs," 1842, p. 9. 
 
 Ye Proceedynges to conclude wyth ye Burnynge of Palmes, LENTE for ye 
 occasyon, arid ye Ashes blessede for next Wednesdaye. 
 
 " New Helpe to Discourse," 1684, p. 319. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 %.* Members and Guests can only enter ly "ye \Veste Dcre " 
 
I 20 
 
 URBAN CLUB, 
 
 March Gth, 1876. 
 
 The favour of your company will be esteemed on Friday Evening 
 next, the lOth inst., at 9 o 'dock punctually, when ivill be held a 
 Literary 
 
 AT HOME. 
 
 Br. <. C. ZctfR, Jf .m.^ist.^., 
 
 Wil bee made y e Lortle Priore, bi vyrtue of hys Pryoritie. 
 
 " Then for the f abrick of my mind, 
 'Tis mair to mirth than grief inclin'd, 
 I rather choose to laugh at folly, 
 Than show dislike by melancholy." 
 
 Allan Ramsay's "Epistle to Mr. Arbuckle," 1719. 
 
 For thys occascion y e privyledge of Specyal exemptione from y* 
 Lenten ordynances of Gravitie and Fastinge has been graunted by 
 vyrtue of y e Indulgence of Urban y e firste. 
 
 Y e Chaptere is to bee opened atte nine of y e Cloke, Avhen y c 
 brethren and novyces must appere in y e places Assygned (y e latter 
 on probatione). 
 
 Ye Homilie of Ste. Gregorie (Feste daie Mar: 12the.) \vil bee reade by ye 
 Lorde Priore, as hys investede ryhte. 
 
 Vide Eng. Sax. Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory, 
 
 Trans, by Eliz. Elstob, 1709. 
 
 Ye Choristeres shal give ye Processyonale Hymne wyth ye olde Gregorian 
 Chaunte, led by ye Prsecentor of ye Priorye. 
 
 Fosbrook's " Monachism," vol. I, p. 159. 
 
 (A Novice of the Order of Benedictines,) 
 Will act by his Superior's request as " SUB-PRIORE." 
 
 " SUBSTITUTUS PBIORIS IBIDEM, SINE FACTO, PER ANNUM . . XXS." 
 
 Vide " Accounts of The Knights Hospitallers in England," 
 
 (Camden Socy. Pub.) p. 209. 
 And Yates's Antiquities of St. Edmund's Bury," 2nd edit. 1843, p. 81. 
 
 After Absolution, " Y* BENEDICTYONE," will be pronounced by 
 the Lorde Priore. 
 
 " Good Fortune attend each merry man's friend, 
 
 That doth but the best that he may; 
 Forgetting old wrongs, with carols and songs, 
 To drive the cold winter away." 
 
 Tom Durfey's "Pills to Purge Melancholy," vol. IV. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 Members and their Guests must enter by the " Weste Lore" only 
 
12 I 
 
 URBAN CLUB, 
 
 9HHE 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL. 
 
 r March 17th, 1876. 
 
 The favour of your company will be esteemed on Friday 
 E felting next, the 24^/i mst., at 9 o'clock punctually, at a Literary 
 and Dramatic 
 
 AT HOME. 
 
 W. HEPWOETH DIXON, ESQ., F.S.A., F.E.G.S., 
 
 Wil bee Installede as y c Presydente. 
 
 As y Brethren of thys antiente Fraternitie \vil meet in 
 $olemne Conclave, y l is specyallie enjoynede on al to observe 
 y e stricteste silence, unlesse provokede. 
 
 By Commaunde of y e Presydente y e (Curfew Belle ys to be 
 tollede atte nine of y e Cloke (to announce y e tyme), and suspendede 
 atte y e halfe-houre, when y e fyres and candles shal bee putte oute 
 (yf requirede). Brethren arrivynge late are to bee linede, y e Privy- 
 ledge of Appeale, howeuer, to bee allowede. 
 
 Vide " Observations on the Ancient Statutes," 
 
 by the Hon. Daines Harrington, p. 153. 
 
 Item, 1565. John Beddoes, of Presteign, conveyed premises to feoffees in 
 trust, for " payment to able persons to ring the Curfew Bell for ever." 
 Edwards' s " Collection of Old English Customs," p. 225. 
 
 Ended, y e followynge nierrie Gest shal bee suggestede in tones of 
 harmony ous accorde. (Y e Urban Score onelie too bee used.) 
 
 " The vertues of this ring if ye woll here 
 Are these, that if she (he) list it for to were, 
 Upon her (his) thomb or in her (his) purse it here, 
 There is no fowle that fleith undir heven 
 That she (hf ) ne shal wele understond his steven, (language) 
 And know his mening opinly and plain, 
 And answere him in his language againe." 
 
 Chaucer : " Squier's Tale," v. 166, et seq. 
 
 Y e Worshyppefulle Presydente wil bee assistede bi 
 
 R. G. HALIBURTON, ESQ., M.A., 
 
 As y e Vyce-Presydente. 
 
122 
 
 If-' $olemne (Conclave concludede, Brethren may now hold 
 pleasynge converse as ordaynede in y e Statutes of y e Ordere. 
 
 I. 
 
 Proposed by the PRESIDENT. 
 
 Here's a health to the Queen; gracious, mild, and engaging, 
 Accomplished in all that a woman should own ; 
 The cares of her country with softness assuaging, 
 Whose manners add splendour and grace to a throne." 
 
 " The Recruiting Sergeant" by Isaac Bickerstnff, s. 6. 
 
 II. 
 
 SSldcome to Br. Barl 23Imtr, 
 
 Recently elected an Honorary Member. 
 
 " In a word, 
 
 To me you are ever Welcome, as to a house 
 That is your own." 
 Philip Massinger : " A New Way to Pay Old Debts," act 2, s. 2. 
 
 LITERATURE AND THE DRAMA. 
 
 Proposed by the PRESIDENT. 
 Responded to by J. CORDY JKAFFERSON, Esq., and JAMES ALBERT, Esq. 
 
 "You have the letters Cadmus gave, 
 Think ye he meant them for a slave ? " 
 
 Byron: "Don Juan," canto iii., stanza 86, verse 10. 
 
 " Yet have I seen a beggar with his many, 
 Come at a Play House, all in for a penny." 
 
 Taylor, the Water Poet ; "Praise of Beggarie," p. 99. 
 
 III. 
 
 Jfartfodl to ta. . f^aliburton, lEsq., Jtt.0. 
 
 Proposed by the PRESIDENT. 
 
 " Fare thee well ! and if for ever, 
 Still for ever, fare thee well." 
 
 Byron: " Fare thee Well." 
 
 IV. 
 
 Proposed by Dr. B. \V". KICHARDSON, M.A., F.R.S. 
 
 " The place is dignified by the doer's deed." 
 
 Sh: "All's Well that Ends Well," act 2, . 3. 
 
I2 3 
 
 V. 
 
 Ftsftors. 
 
 Proposed by the PRESIDENT. 
 Responded to by R. FRANCILLON, Esq. 
 
 Welcome, gentlemen; Welcome, gentlemen." 
 
 Ben Jonson: "Bartholomew Fair," act 5, s. 4. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Proposed by JAMES ALBERY, Esq. Seconded by R. G. HAI.IBURTON, Esq., M A. 
 
 " And, for me and my fellows, I protest, 
 And you may believe me, we have done our best. 
 
 We will find out new ways for your delight, 
 And, to our power, ne'er fail to do you right." 
 
 Philip Massing er : "Believe as you List." 
 
 you List." Epilogue. 
 
 . "We, and all our might, 
 
 Rest at your service; Gentlemen, Good Night." 
 Fletcher and Shakespeare: " The Two Noble Kinsmen." Epilogue. 
 
 During the evening there will be Readings by Dr. J. E. CAEPENTEB and 
 GEORGE E. FAIKCHILD, Esq., and the Music by Prof. LEHMEYEK and Messrs. 
 DONALD W. KING, R. FARQUHAESON, and HOWEL W. WILLIAMS. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLEKKENWELL. 
 
 Animal 
 
 THE 
 
 BORN, APRIL, 1564. 
 
 DIED, APRIL, 1616. 
 
 " To keepe our great Saint George's Feast withall." 
 " The First Part of Henry the Sixt," Actus Primus, Sccena Prima, 
 
 line 154. 
 " In Celebration of this day with Shewes, 
 
 Pageants, and Sights of Honor." 
 " The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight," 
 
 Actus Quartus, Sccena Prima, 1. 10-11. 
 
 " Sweet Swan of Auon ! what a sight it were 
 
 To see thee in our waters yet appeare, 
 And make those nights vpon the bankes of Thames, 
 
 That so did take Eliza, and our lames ! 
 But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere 
 Aduanc'd, and made a Constellation there ! " 
 
 To the Memory of my beloued, The Avthor, 
 Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he hath left vs. By Ben lonson. 
 
 ON MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1876. 
 
 gr. 1. g0nm t 
 
 (^founder and Birector of the l^ew $hahspere Society.) 
 
 N.B. The whole of the quotations in this Programme have been 
 compiled SOLELY from the FIBST FOLIO EDITION or THE BARD'S 
 WORKS, 1623 ; and the references to Act, Scene, and Line, correspond 
 with the Edition by W. G. CLABK, and W. ALDIS WEIGHT, 1867, 
 known as the Globe Edition. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
126 
 
 ob 
 
 GRACE. 
 
 itfor these and all thy mercies. Laudi Spiritual}, A.D. 1545. 
 
 I. 
 
 " Neuer was Monarch better fear'd and lou'd 
 Than is your Maiesty : there's not, I thinke, a subiect 
 That sits in heart-greefe and vneasinesse 
 Vnder the sweete shade of your gouernment." 
 
 Henry V., act 2, s. 2, lines 25-28. 
 
 " Holy and Heauenly thoughts still counsell her, 
 She shall be lou'd and fear'd. Her owne shall blesse her : 
 Her Foes shake like a Field of beaten Corne, 
 ........ Good growes with her." 
 
 Henry VIII., act 5, s. 4. lines 34-37. 
 
 " God and his Angles guard your sacred Throne, 
 And make you lo'ng become it." 
 
 Henry V., act 1, s. 2, lines 8-9. 
 
 " . . . . . . . Naught shall make vs rue, 
 
 If England to it selfe do rest but true." 
 
 %.ing John, act, 5, s. 7, lines 117-118. 
 
 II. 
 
 ^prince anfc ^irtnccss of Males, antr tije otfjer 
 JWemfars of tfje <dogal ^amtlg. 
 
 "You English Princes all, I doe salute you." 
 
 Henry V., act 5, s. 2, line 22. 
 
 " Blesse him at home in peace." 
 
 All's Well that Ends Well, act 3, s, 4, line 10. 
 
 " . . . . His Princesse (say you) with him ? 
 Is the most peerelesse peece of Earth, I thinke, 
 That e're the Sunne shone bright on." 
 
 The Winter's Tale, act 5, s. 1, lines 95-98. 
 
 " Blisse and goodnesse on you." 
 
 Measure for Measure, act 3, s. 2, line 227. 
 
 III. 
 
 fy &rmg, Nabg, antJ &tmliarg Jpotas. 
 
 Responded toby Capt. M. H. JACOBS, Hble. A. C ,and W. H. BTJTTERFIELD, Esq. 
 
 " . . . . Valour is the Chief'est Vertue, 
 And most dignifies the hauer." 
 
 Coriolanus, act 2, s. 2, lines 88-89. 
 
 " Vpon them, Victorie sits on our helpes." (helms) 
 
 Richard III., act 5, s. 3, line 351. 
 
 "We are btit Warriors for the working day." 
 
 Henry V., act 4, s. 3, line 109. 
 
I2 7 
 
 IV. 
 
 Clje Smmnrtal ftlemnnj nf I 
 
 Proposed by the PRESIDENT, and supported by the VICE-PRESIDENT. 
 
 " for far behinde his worth 
 
 Comes all the praises that I now bestow." 
 
 Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, s. 4, lines 67-68. 
 " His life was gentle, and the Elements 
 So mixt in him, that nature might stand vp, 
 And say to all the world : This was a man." 
 
 Ivlivs Ccesar, act 5, s. 5, lines 73-75. 
 " I must loue you; and sue to know you better." 
 
 King Lear, act 1, s. 1, line 31. 
 The Commendatory Verses, by Ben Jonson, will here be read by 
 
 George E. Fairchild, Esq. 
 (From the First Folio, 1623.) 
 
 V. 
 
 Jme &rts. 
 
 Proposed by Dr. G. G. ZERFFI, F.R.S.L , F.R.Hist.S. 
 Responded to by G. CRUIKSHANK, Esq., and H. GRAVES, Esq. 
 " . . . . What haue you there, my Friend ? 
 A peece of Painting, which I do beseech 
 Your Lordship to accept." 
 
 Timon of Athens, act 1, s. 1, lines 155-156. 
 . " The Painter plaies the Spider, and hath wouen 
 A golden mesh t'intrap the hearts of men." 
 
 Merchant of Venice, act 3, s. 2, lines 121-122. 
 
 " then what I haue to do 
 
 Will want true colour." Hamlet, act 3, s. 4, lines 129-130. 
 
 " Come, Musicians, play. 
 
 A Hall, Hall, giue roome." 
 
 Romeo and Ivliet, act 1, s. 3, lines 24-25. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Science anb Utterature. 
 
 Proposed by R. G. HALI BURTON. E^q., M.A. 
 
 Responded to by MONCURE D. CONWAY. Esq., M.A., Dr. KARL BLIND, and 
 Dr. HYDE CLARKE, F.S.S. 
 
 " My bookes and instruments shall be my companie, 
 On them to looke, and practise by my selfe." 
 
 Taming of the Shrew, act 1, s. 1, lines 81-82. 
 " Ignorance is the curse of Grod; 
 Knowledge, the Wing wherewith we flye to heuen." 
 
 Henry VI., 2nd part, act 4, s. 7, lines 78-79. 
 
 "They say, miracles are past, and we haue our Philosophicall persons, 
 to make moderne and familiar, things supernaturall and causelesse." 
 
 All's Well that Ends Well, act 2, s. 3, lines 1-2. 
 "I pray you marre no more of my verses with reading them 
 ill-favouredly." As You Like It, act 3, s. 2, lines 278-279. 
 
 VII. 
 
 HLfyt Drama anb t&e &tage. 
 
 Proposed by H. SAMPSON, Esq Responded to by JONAS LEVY, Esq., J.P. 
 
 "When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer." 
 
 A Midsornmer Night's Dreame, act 4, s. 1, line 200. 
 "Bring vs to this sight, and you shall say 
 lie prox;e a busie actor in their play." 
 
 As You Like It, act 3, s. 4, linss 62-63. 
 
128 
 
 " Your Honor's Players, hearing your amendment, 
 Are come to play a pleasant Comodie." 
 
 The Ta-ning of the Shrew, Induction, 131-132. 
 " Good my Lord, will you see the players wel 
 bestow'd. Do ye heare, let them be well vs'd : for 
 they are the Abstracts and breefe Chronicles of the 
 time." Hamlet, act 2, s. 2, lines 545-548. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Proposed by Serjeant J. H. PARRY. 
 " Beshrew me, but you haue a quicke wit." 
 
 Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 1, s. 1, line 132. 
 "There's not a man I meete but doth salute me 
 As if I were their well acquainted friend." 
 
 The Comedie of Errors, act 4, s. 3, lines 1-2. 
 IX. 
 
 Officers antJ ODommtttte of tfje Club. 
 
 Proposed by C. HORSLEY, Esq. 
 Responded to bv J. JEREMIAH, E<q., Dr. T. S. 13ARRINGER, M.R.C.S., and 
 
 F. G. LAKE, Esq. 
 ' Leaue off to wonder why I drew you hither." 
 
 Henry VI., 3rd part, act 4, s. 5, line 2. 
 " He is well paid that is well satisfied." 
 
 Merchant of Venice, act 4, s. 1, line 415. 
 X. 
 
 3Ti)e Fisttors. 
 
 Proposed hy W. H. BUTTERFIELD, Esq. 
 Responded to liy Dr. FORBES WINSLOW. 
 " Hang out our Banners on the outward walls ; 
 
 The cry is still, They come." Macbeth, act 5, s. 5, lines 1-2. 
 " I would faine know what you haue to say." 
 
 Much Adoe about Nothing, act 3, s. 5, line 32. 
 
 XI. 
 
 Proposed by J. JEREMIAH, Esq. 
 ......... A worthy Gentleman, 
 
 Exceeding well read." Henry IV., 1st part, act 3, s. 1, lines 165-166. 
 " Here let vs breath, and haply institute 
 A course of Learning, and ingenious studies." 
 
 The Taming of the Shrew, act 1, s. 1, lines 8-9. 
 
 The Music by Prof. LEHMEYEE, Messrs. DONALD W. KING, 
 FAEQUHAESON, Prof. J. BOSENTHAL, Dr. SEMPLE, 
 
 and other Members of the Club. 
 " The man that hath no musicke in himselfe, 
 Nor is moued with concord of sweet sounds, 
 Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoyl'es, 
 
 Let no such man be trusted." 
 
 The Merchant of Venice, act 5, s. 1, lines 83-88. 
 " ...... This Entertainment 
 
 May a free face put on : deriue a Libertie 
 From heartinesse, from Bountie, fertile Bosome, 
 And well become the Agent : 't may, I graunt." 
 
 The Winter's Tale, act 1, s. 2, lines 111-114. 
 " But that's all one, our Play is done." 
 
 Twelfthe Night, act 5, s. 1, line 416. 
 "ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL." Act 4, s. 4, line 35. 
 
URBAN CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLEBKENWELL. 
 
 THE 
 
 Jftstibal, 
 
 MONDAY, APRIL 24TH, 1876. 
 
 . 35. IBoran, ;(?.&.&., 
 
 .-IF- 
 
 "Sir, I shal not be Slacke, in signe whereof, 
 Please ye we may contriue this afternoone, 
 
 And do as aduersaries do in law, 
 Striue mightily, but eate and drinke as friends." 
 The Taming of the Shrew," 1st Folio, 1623, act 1, s. 2, lines 275-9. 
 
 E itlle nf tf dDlk (Itighjsjje faxt. 
 
 Bels. 
 
 Boyale $almon and y 6 ^obste^e 
 ^oles. f^e4e Bels. 
 
 ^ e Eurbote. 
 Boaste Bowles. Boyled Bowles. Boyled 
 
 T ^nciente 5fJam and ^onge. 
 Bump $teahe ^uddynges and y e jollie 
 
 ie and 
 
 , et cc - et c 
 
 " Sirs bez knyghtly of contenaunce, and comfurthes your seluyne, 
 We kuowe noghte in this countrie of curious metez; 
 In thees barayne landez, bredes none other, 
 ffore-thy wythowttyne feynynge, enforce you the more 
 To feede yow with syche feble as ye be-fore fynde." 
 "MORTE ABTHUE," Early Eng. Text Socy., Reprint 1865, No. 8, p. 8, lines 222-6. 
 
 
URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL. 
 
 May 9th, 1876. 
 
 The favour of your company will be esteemed on Friday 
 Evening next, the 12th inst., at 8. 45 punctually, at a 
 
 W. SAWYEB, ESQ., F.S.A., 
 
 Our ryghte worthie Brother, wil bee raisede to y e Maiestershippe. 
 
 Y e Mounte must take plaice atte nine of y e Cloke, before y e 
 Starte, and each Brother of y e Hunte is orderede to brynge hys own 
 whippe. Y e goodlie Tale of y e Brushe of y e ^14e ilfoxe " wil 
 bee tolde atte y e finishe by y e Stable Companyons of y e Clubbe. 
 
 Item. " The King's fox-hunter and his two lads were allowed each 2d. a day 
 
 hunting wages, and a halfpenny for the keep of each fox." 
 " The Wardrobe Account of the 28th Tear of King Edward the First." 
 
 page xliv. 
 
 Item. " The lands and chatels of Tomas de Haverhull, seized by the King 
 [9th of John] for three hareskins, and a harrier being found in his house." 
 " The History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of England," 
 By Thomas Madox, 2nd edit., 1769, vol. 1, p. 489, note K. 
 
 Aftej y e Exhaltacion, and y e harte huntynge concludede, y e 
 pleasynge and tyme honourede Ceremonie of " Maie Welcomynye" 
 wil be dulie performede bi y e " Kynge of if Maie" crownede wyth 
 y e garlondis. 
 
 " And, as the blissful sone of cherarchy, 
 The f owlis sung throw comfort of the licht ; 
 The burddis did with oppin voices cry, 
 ' luvaris, fo away thow dully nicht, 
 ' And welcum day that comfortis every wicht. 
 ' Hail May, hail Flora, hail Aurora schene, 
 ' Hail princes Nature, hail Venus luvis quene.' " 
 (1470.) William Dunbar's " Thistle and Hose," stanza IX. 
 
 s 
 
132 
 DR. J. E. CARPENTER 
 
 "Wil bee y c Assistante-Maiester. 
 
 "If ye 
 
 -- Welcome this you'l grace our Poet's art, 
 A/id give him courage for a SECOND part." 
 
 (1(340) J. Shirley's " Saint Patrick for Ireland," Prologue. 
 
 Y e Favourite Studie when completede, y e followinge shall 
 bey c 
 
 THE QUEEX. 
 
 " =$11 subjects faithfully pr t ay tkuj theii} queene, 
 
 the queene may i|ule wel, and they tijuly obey ; 
 $men. (pod gtjaunt that so it may bee." 
 
 "Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides, 1559 1597, Collected." 
 Lilly's Reprint, 1867, page 250. 
 
 PRESENTATION OF A TESTIMONIAL TO 
 
 $r. i. . granger, fate Jan. treasurer. 
 
 " Well is me, I have thy grace, 
 Of the to have thys thyng ! 
 If ever I have grace of the, 
 That any love betweene us be, 
 This may be a TOKENYNG." 
 (dr. 1430.) Thomas Chestre's " Erie of Tholouse," 
 
 (Metrical Romance) MSS. Harl. 978 112, folio 1, 154. 
 
 " Nay, abide a while, thogh ye were alle my Kyrine." 
 
 Chaucer's " The Court of Love," line 952. 
 
 Y e Musickal Interludes of y e Antiente Authors wil intervene, 
 after y c Homilie from y e Doctore. 
 
 May 25the. " Ye ryghte gloryous Feste of Ste. URBAN. Ye Image of our 
 Patron Ste. is to bee draggede to ye Eivere, if on thys daie ye weathere 
 bee foule." 
 
 Vide " SchenMus on Images," chap. XIII. 
 
 2J.B.--A Specyal Dispensacione has been grauntede for thys 
 occasyon, y e Holie Image of Ste. Urban wil not bee movedc, 
 weathere or noe. 
 
 Y e Proceedynges to conclude wyth y e sweete Love Song of 
 
 "AULD LANG SYNE." 
 " Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 
 
 And never brought to min', 
 Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 
 And days o' lang syne." 
 
 By Bobert Burns. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
1 33 
 
 URBAN 
 
 CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL. 
 
 May '2'2nd, 187G. 
 
 The favour of your company will be esteemed on Friday 
 Evening next, the 26tk inst., at Nine o'clock, punctually, at a 
 Literary 
 
 AT HOME, 
 
 When our liyghte Worthie and Trustie Brother 
 
 J, a. $ftevanb> <&&%., 
 
 \Yil bee Investede as y e Lorde High Counsailler. 
 
 " Whose Learned Fancy never was at rest, 
 But always labouring yet labour'd least: 
 His Wit's Immortal, and shall Honor have, 
 While there's or Slavish Lord, or Royal Slave." 
 (1636.) Address to William Carthwright, by John Leiyh. 
 
 Preparatorie to y e Ceremonies, y e Anciente Directione, as 
 hereuntoe descrybed is orderede by y" Chaptere to bee attendede 
 to: 
 
 " Ye Windowes of ye Sanctuarie did typifie Divine Illuminatione, whych 
 must not bee darkenede wyth ye impurer Mire of terrestriale Cares, ye Duste 
 of Vayn Glorie, ye Mists of Umbrages of Sorrow, nor wyth ye Smoakie 
 Exhalationes of Anger." 
 
 " A Brief Historical Discourse of the Origin and Growth of Heraldry." 
 
 By Thomas Philipot, 1672, page 8. 
 
 N.B. It is wrytten in ye Kalendere yt ye Birthe-daie of ye Venerable 
 Beda bee obseruede [May 27th], Brethren are herebie enjoynede to invoke 
 hys Blessynge in theire Orisons. 
 
 " Beda." (Church Historians series.) 
 
 Ed. by Bev. J. Stevenson, 1853, p. iii. 
 
 Durynge y e Considerations of y e grave and importante Cases 
 of y e Votaries, and enrollments of Novyces, Straungers on Suffer- 
 ance wil bee conductede wyth due Solernpnitie to ye Armourie, 
 and consolede by y e Knyghte in Attendauiice, and solelie Shriven. 
 Thei are to enter y e Oratorie ffor y e Oration atte halfe-paste-nine- 
 of-y e Cloke, wearynge theire Armes. 
 
 " It seems to me . . that you are in some brown Study." 
 " Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit." 
 
 By John Lyly, 1579,2?. 80. Arber's Reprint. 
 
J 34 
 
 Butterfieltr 
 
 Has been appoyntede as y e Squyer. 
 
 Item. " Euery oon of the Knightes and Squyers mencyoned on both sides of 
 
 this lefe may haue on chaplain xj. other servauntes, and viij. horses." 
 " Rutland Papers." Illustrative of the Courts and Times of 
 
 Henry VII. and Henry VIII. Ed. by W. Jerdan, F.S.A. 
 
 (Camden Soc. Pub.) 1842, jj. 33. 
 
 MATE 29TH, 
 
 " Let celebrated wits with laurels crown'd, 
 
 And wreaths of bays, boast their triumphant brows ; 
 I will esteem myself far more renown'd 
 In being honoured with these oaken boughs." 
 
 " Carolina, or Loyal Poems." By T. Shipman, 1683, p. 53. 
 
 V e $neiente mode of Investiture bi y e i&tjaunehe of a ^i;ee, 
 uril bee caijinjede oute. Btjethqen at;e to ptjesente theij} Jfalmes to 
 (ftounsaillej}, who wil conveie tj e livev[ie of seisin. 
 
 Vide Observations on Some Ancient Methods of Conveyance in England. 
 By Henry Ellis, F.S.A. , Archceologia, vol. XVII., p. 318. 
 
 " I sew you as Curtesy doth me binde 
 To tell this which shall be begonne 
 In order as may come best in minde 
 I am a PALMEB, as yee se." 
 (1546.) " Merry Interlude of a Palmer, a Pardoner, 
 
 a Potycary, and a Pedlar." By John Heywood. 
 
 Hys Lordshyppe shal giv y e Greetynge to y e Xovyces and 
 Straungeres on Sufferance. (Y e Philosophic of y c Unconditipnede 
 interdictede.) 
 
 Ye Gleemen are now to entertayne ye Assemblage, wyth ye recytale of ye 
 Deeds of ye Ordere, as in daies of Olde. 
 
 Vide "Anglo-Saxon Poem of Beowulf ." 
 
 Trans, by B. Thorpe, 1875, canto XVI. 
 
 T ^)athe of Allegiance taken, to hys Lordshyppe, and 
 Fealtie attestede, y e Mead Cuppe ys to bee passede ; ye Mynstrelles 
 and Harperes gyvynge y e 
 
 MEAD SONGE. 
 
 " He in the paths of fame, if Heaven so will 
 Myriads of feasts shall give with honour still. 
 Elphinian knight of mead ! Thou'lt yet be free, 
 And Heaven will grant thee life, and liberty." 
 " The Mead Song." By Taliessin. Translated. 
 
 Vide " Stephens' Literature of the Kymry," 1849, p. 191, 
 
 and Skene's Four Ancient Books of Wales, vol. I., p. 4. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Secretary. 
 
'35 
 
 URBAN CLUB. 
 
 ST. lOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELLE. 
 
 June 13the, 18?6. 
 are Iterebie requestede to attende 
 
 Courte eete, 
 
 to bee holden on Fridaie, y e 16the Ins te - atte NINE of y 
 CI.OKE, after-noon. 
 
 Wil bee moued to y e Barony bi rotatione. 
 
 " Erles and barons, byshops plenerly 
 Knyghtes, lordes of toanes, and alle com to his crie." 
 (1303.) Robert Hannyng, known as Robert de Brunne, p. 279. 
 
 Ye Vassals of ye Baron must as hitherto performe y e antiente 
 custome of WAPENTAKE, or swearynge Fealtie bi theire Armes, 
 as layde doune. 
 
 Vide Hampson's " Origines Patricia," p. 118. 
 
 All Playnts to bee lodged in y e Armourie, and it is 
 orderede y* Vassals and Villeins wythouten y e Mannors and y e 
 Common Appurtenances of thys Priorie, bee put in Misencordia 
 atte a MarJce, (y e Noble Fyne, not being Tender cannot be 
 passede.) In any case y e Amerciaments shal not exceede 
 xxj Markes per Vassal or Villein. 
 
 N.B. Ye GREAT OR PIPE UOLL; Magnus Rotulus; wyth y e 
 Rent, cannot bee exhibitede atte thys View of Frank Pledge. 
 
 Item. " In the tenth year of K. llenry III, William Briewerr came 
 into the King's Court before the King and his great Men, and 
 there granted to Joscelin, Bishop of Bathe and Wells, the 
 Advowson of the Church of Melverton in Freak almoigne ; 
 and by his Gloves, gave the Bishop seisin of the said Advowson." 
 " History and Antiquities of the Exchequer, 1 ' 
 
 by Thomas Madox, 1749, vol. I, pp. 114-115. 
 
 Item. " Courts Leet kept upon the Manor of Barnesbury, the 
 Prebenda of Iseldon, &c " 
 
 Vide 'Perambulation of Islington,' by T. E. Tomlins, 1858, pp. 90, et. seq. 
 
 Bi Commaund of y e Baron y e retainers and others are to 
 obserue y e antiente Lawe anent ye Places Appropryatede in 
 y e Halle as followethe : 
 
i 3 6 
 
 " The edling's place is on the opposite side of the fire . . . 
 and on the other side of the edling, the chief of song of the 
 country, after him there is no privileged place for any one in 
 the Hall." 
 
 (A.D. 928.) Cyvreithiau Hwyel Dda," 
 
 The Laws of Howell the Good, 
 
 Councils and Eccl : Documents relat : 0. Brit : 
 
 Haddan and Stubbs, 1869, p. 225, vol. I. 
 
 Y e Conrte Leete, completed: 
 
 OTfwletf 35rat&, ^saupre, 
 
 "Ye SAIUAUNT OF Ye MYNSTRALUS, wil do Scrvyce in recitynge 
 hys Adventures in farre countries, wyth harpynge and syngyne." 
 
 " Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry 1778, vol. 2, p. 134. 
 
 " It was common for the Minstrels to DANCE, as well as to 
 harp and sing." 
 
 Percy's Reliques of Anc. Poetry, 
 
 " Essay on the Ancient Minstrels," Notes 1823, vol. I, p. 93. 
 
 Y e Joculatores are to rendere y e s d - Antura as vndur 
 y n ANOLICE, gleefullie. 
 
 " Many tymes, by nightes and dayes, 
 He hadd solace of notes and layes. 
 
 Thirefore gode men, ye shall lere, 
 When ye any gleeman here." 
 
 (1303.) De Brunne's Metrical Version, 
 
 of Bishop Grosthead's Manuel de Pecke. 
 
 Item " Paid in rewarde unto the Lorde Russell's Minstralls, XB." 
 "Household Account of the Princess Elizabeth, 1551-2," 
 
 (Camden Jdiscell. vol 2,) ed. by Viscount Strangford, 
 
 (Cam. Soc. Pub.) 1853, p. 38. 
 
 JUNE i5th e - e Jrste 0f Carps CJristi. 
 
 Ye grande Pageaunt, as ys customarie, of Apostles, Giantes, 
 &c., wil leeve ye Halle, after ye arryval of ye devyll of ye Plaie 
 of Corpus Christi. 
 
 " Vide Brand's Popular Antiquities," vol. I, p. 296, ed. 1849 
 
 JUNE 15 the. $$i. Situs's 
 
 Y e Daunce prohibitede. 
 
 Y Maiester of y e Re veils, atte y e conclusyon of y e 
 afore-mencyoned bussinesse, slial greete y e comlie suburban 
 Brethren in y e antyente mannere, and y e chyldrene of y e Kevells, 
 syngyne in a pleasaunt chaunte, y e followynge ryghte goodlie 
 lynes, whych wil bee, 
 
 A BLESSYNGE. 
 
 " Jhesu Lorde cure hevyn kynge, 
 Graunt us alle thi dere blessynge, 
 And bylde us in thy bowere." 
 
 l'l,e Thornton Romances. " The Romance of Sir Eglamour of Artois.'' 
 Edited by J. 0. Halliwell, F.R.S., 1864, (Cam. Soc. Pub.) p. 121. 
 
 JEREMIAH, Hon. Seo 
 
URBAN CLUB. 
 
 ST. lOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELLE. 
 
 June 30tli G , 
 flliose to quliom yt may Goncerne. 
 
 On ye evenynge of Fridaie next y e 7tll e ' f Julie, 
 atte KINK of ye Cloke, 
 
 T e Lotide Constable, 
 
 Scrnas Hefcp, CEsaupr* ; IM&, 
 
 Wil bee in Attendaunce atte y e 
 
 Courte of CJnbalw, 
 
 As declarede and dufinede bi ye 8 & 13 Kichard 2, stat. 1, 
 chap. 2 & 5. 
 
 Y e Heralds of thys Fraternitio must appeare wyth theire 
 Insignia, as KYNGS ATTE ARMS and PURSUIVANTS (non 
 sinister.) Y e followynge have been nominatede: 
 
 KYNGS ATTE ARMS. Dr. T. S. Barringer ; Henry Sampson, 
 Esq.; and K. Gowing, Esq. (Garter, Clarencieux, and 
 Norry, pro. tern.) 
 
 Y e PURSUIVANTS. Y e Brethren herbie Sumraonede. 
 Y e duties are to : 
 
 Marshalle y e Solempnities of ye Courte. 
 
 Vide Wood's " Institute of the Laws of England." 
 
 Land: 1745, 7th cd., pp. 494-495. 
 
 Brethren wyth Pedigrees and Coates are directede to 
 recorde y e same in y e Statute Book. Y e Heralds to em- 
 blazon them or: wyth y e dexter Bend, argent: lyons 
 rampant, gules. Thys wil bee y e grande atchievemente, 
 Y e Minors wil bee blazonede, vert ; augmentede and impaleds 
 wythtmten abatemente. Y e quarterynge of s d - Minors wil 
 bee chargede and Barred, non pretence. Creste, a larke 
 passant; Snpportcres, dexter, Monk, Benedictine, lachrymose; 
 sinister, Paterfamilias, defiante. 
 
 Legende, in a ribbone azure; " LE BON TEMPS VIENDRA." 
 
mn, @sauj>re, 
 
 Wil assist as y e Earle Marshalle. 
 
 Item : Ye FEES and PERQUISITES of ye Office of Constable, as 
 accustomede. To ye Earle Marshalle shal bee grauntede, A 
 Palfrey, wyth yts saddle. 
 
 Vide. " Collections relative to Claims at the Coronations 
 
 of several of the Kings of England." Lond: 1820, pp. 5-6. 
 
 Y e Marshallynge and Emblazonynge attendede to y e Lorde 
 Constable must bee greetede bi all. 
 
 " He ne'er wants a friend, for he ne'er makes a foe, 
 He's first to help poortith, and first to soothe woe ; 
 While his bearing's so manly, his looks are so gay, 
 Ye wad think that thro' life he had laugh'd a' the way ; 
 He seeks nae for crime, an' few fauts can he find, 
 For he fain wad think weel o' the hail o' mankind." 
 
 Ballantine's, " The Gaberlunzie's Wallet," pp. 72-73. 
 
 IUNE 29the. e gotfblu J n>t* xif S-S- i tfw $ gaul 
 
 N.B. Y e fyres formerlie lyghted on the eve of thys feste, 
 wil not bee requyrede, as few 'i7Z, bee colde. 
 
 ye VYSYTORS. 
 
 " 'twas a goodly matter then 
 To see your sword and buckler men ! 
 They would lye heere, and here and there, 
 But I would meete them, euery where." 
 (Circ : 1590 J Kemps " Nine Daies Wonder," p. 14. 
 
 fcn: Cmtfaklar|)0tt t 
 
 " Down with all weapons now ! 'tis music time, 
 So it be purchas'd at an easy rate. 
 Some have receiv'd the knocks, some giv'n the hits, 
 And all concludes in love; there's happy wits" 
 (1657J Fletcher's " Wit at Several Weapons," Act 5, last lines. 
 
 [JSxeunt Cranes.] 
 
 Bi OBDERE. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH, Hon. Sec. 
 
Supplement. 
 
 THE NATIONAL THEATRE 
 PROJECT. 
 
 'HE following documents have been very 
 kindly contributed, as forming materials for 
 a hiftory of the projeft of a NATIONAL 
 THEATRE for the reprefentation of the 
 works of Shakefpeare and the Higher 
 Dramatifts, and the foundation of a School 
 for A&ors. For thefe my befl thanks are 
 due to MefTrs. HENRY GRAVES, CHARLES 
 LOWNDES, the Secretary of the Shakefpeare 
 Memorial, EFFINGHAM W. WILSON, and 
 E. L. BLANCHARD. 
 
 J. JEREMIAH. 
 
 URBAN CLUB, 
 
 ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL, 
 April 2 $rd, 1877. 
 
A 
 
 ational lllheatre. 
 
 From the Morning Advertifer, Dec. 18, 1874. 
 " HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE. 
 
 WE recently affigned the chief credit of propofmg a 
 National Theatre to the late Lord Lytton. Doubtlefs 
 it was a matter in which he took much intereft. Many 
 others have taken the fubjecl: up, and notably amongft 
 them Mr. Tom Taylor. We do not fomehow much 
 fancy the idea of a National Theatre under his fuper- 
 viiion and guidance, any more than we fhould under the 
 fpecial patronage of Mr. Boucicault. But Mr. Tom 
 Taylor did take up the fubjeft very vehemently fome 
 ten years ago, and his advocacy drew forth the following 
 flatement, which was then, we remember, fent round to 
 various journals, many of which publifhed it, from Mr. 
 Effingham W. Wilfon, the well-known publifher of the 
 Royal Exchange. Tt is worthy of reproduction, now 
 that the fubjeft has cropped up again, as (howing how 
 many years it has occupied the attention of men of mark 
 in literature. To Mr. Wilfon certainly belongs the credit 
 
142 
 
 of being firft in the field, and the letters addreiTed to him 
 by the late Lord Lytton, Charles Dickens, Charles 
 Kemble, and others, are extremely interefling : 
 
 STATEMENT SENT TO THE DIFFERENT JOURNALS. 
 
 To the Editor. 
 
 SIR, The document read by Mr. Tom Taylor, at the laft 
 meeting of the Shakefpeare Committee, figned by himfelf, Mr. 
 Theodore Martin, and Mr. Shirley Brooks, appears to me to be 
 but a reiteration of a plan propofed by me years since, when a 
 very young man. I cannot, therefore, refift again placing before 
 the public the plan in queftion. 
 
 The propofition was originally made in 1848, and difcufled 
 in two pamphlets, written by me, entitled "A Houfe for Shake- 
 fpere: a Propofition for the Confideration of the Nation.'' 
 The firft pamphlet (a reprint from an article in " Hood's 
 Magazine ") was publifhed by Mr. Hurft, of King William 
 Street, Strand ; and the fecond, fix months afterwards, by Mr. 
 Mitchell, of Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 
 
 The plan was warmly and cordially approved by many of 
 those moft eminent in Literature and Art, from fome of whofe 
 communications I extract the following opinions : 
 
 THE RIGHT HON. LORD LYTTON. " I thank you much for 
 your able and interefting pamphlet. I think it would indeed be 
 a moft defirable object to obtain a theatre ftriftly appropriated 
 to the Higher Drama. Your exertions cannot but do good." 
 
 CHARLES DICKENS. " That fuch a theatre as you defcribe 
 would be but worthy of this nation, and would not ftand low 
 upon the lift of its inftruftors, I have no kind of doubt. I wifh 
 I could cherifh a ftronger faith than I have in the probability of 
 its eftabiifliment on a rational footing within fifty years." 
 
 WILLIAM HOWITT. " I think yours is a grand plan for a 
 ' Houfe for Shakefpeare,' and what ought to be carried out." 
 
 DR. WESTLAXD MARSTON. " I cordially fympathize with its 
 fpirit and its purpofe, and truft that an objeft fo defirable, and 
 
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 at the fame time fo feafible, will be retained in the minds of 
 thofe who have the power to realize it." 
 
 DR. CHARLES MACKAY. " I cordially approve of your fug- 
 geftion, and entirely concur in the reafoning by which you 
 fupport it." 
 
 SHERIDAN KNOWLES. " I have perufed your paper. I 
 admire the argument, and wifh that it may be turned to 
 account." 
 
 CHARLES KEMBLE. " I read it with great pleafure ; and, at 
 the conclufion, heaved a figh that fo much enthufiafm fhould be 
 doomed to difappointment." 
 
 R. H. HORNE. " Such a proportion ought to come to fome- 
 thing, and will." 
 
 JOHN A. HERAUD. " I do feel an intereft in your ' propofi- 
 tion,' and mould be glad to be a labourer in fuch a work." 
 
 WM. B. MAC CABE. " I have read, with much intereft, your 
 Effay, ' A Houfe for Shakefpeare.' I think the proportion con- 
 tained in it excellent." 
 
 MARY COWDEN CLARKE." Allow me to offer you my beft 
 wifhes for the fuccefs of your propofal." 
 
 ELIZA COOKE. <! I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your 
 moft interefting and nobly directed papers, and be fure I am 
 too ardent a worfhipper of our ' Immortal Bard ' not to 
 thoroughly appreciate your effort. May it tend to awaken a juft 
 and elevated fenfe of our true glory in many an Englifh heart, 
 and may all honour be given to you for helping the caufe." 
 
 My pamphlets were favourably reviewed, and notices 
 appeared in the following publications, as well as many others : 
 "The Weftminfter and Foreign Quarterly Review," "The 
 Literary Gazette," " Douglas Jerrold's Weekly News," " The 
 Morning Herald," "The Sunday Times," "The Court 
 Journal/' " The Advertifer," " The Sun," " The Atlas," and 
 " The New York Literary World." They were iffued at the 
 time when means were being taken to fecure to the nation, by 
 
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 purchafe, the houfe in which Shakefpeare was born. The times 
 were then, however, fo thoroughly " out of joint," that the 
 plan was necefTarily temporarily abandoned. 
 
 PROPOSITION FOR A NATIONAL THEATRE 
 MADE IN 1848. 
 
 1 . That the Committee formed for the purpofe of preferving 
 to the nation the houfe in which our "Poet of all time" had 
 birth, having fatisfactorily effected that object, mould not 
 diflblve. 
 
 2. That, it being generally acknowledged that the human 
 mind receives moft quickly, and retains mod durably, impref- 
 fions made by dramatic reprefentations, the importance and 
 expediency are fuggefted of purchafmg by national subfcription,* 
 on the part of and for the people, fome theatre wherein the 
 works of Shakefpeare, the " world's greateft moral teacher," 
 may be conftantly performed. 
 
 3. That the faid theatre fhould be open at fuch reafonable 
 charges as fhall be within the reach of all. 
 
 4. That the moft able manager and beft working company 
 ftiould be engaged, and conftantly retained ; and that only one 
 five-act drama fhould be performed in the courfe of one evening. 
 
 5. That the Government for the time being, or any other 
 body of men agreed upon, mould hold the faid theatre in truft 
 for the nation, appointing a committee for the management of 
 the fame. 
 
 6. That the faid National Theatre fhould be made to act as a 
 great and true dramatic fchool, at which alike the poet and the 
 performer, the creator and the embodier (in the higheft walks of 
 the dramatic and hiftrionic arts), mould receive their diplomas, 
 living genius and talent being fo foftered and fuftained. 
 
 * A quarter of a century ago, the poffibility of obtaining a State fubfidy for 
 any Art purpole was not even to be thought of. 
 
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 My idea arofe thus: The then " Shakefpeare Committee," 
 in 1848, having completed the good work of purchafmg for the 
 nation Shakefpeare's Houfe, my hope was that they might be 
 induced not to ftop there, but to continue their endeavours to 
 fecure to us " A Houie for Shakefpeare,'' as the beft and trueft, 
 as the only adequate and appropriate monument. As Byron 
 has it 
 
 " A (hrine for Shakefpeare worthy him." 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 EFFINGHAM WILLIAM WILSON. 
 II, ROYAL EXCHANGE, 
 
 Jan. 19, 1864. 
 
From the Glafgow News, Feb. 22, 1877. 
 
 HE pro] eft of eftablifhing a " NATIONAL " 
 THEATRE in the metropolis is again attrafting 
 earneil attention in circles beft likely to give fubftantial 
 fupport and found vitality to the movement. When 
 Mr. Chatterton's leafe of Drury Lane expires, it is 
 not likely, with the increafed rental required, and the 
 extra expenditure that would be demanded to lay down 
 a new ftage and provide an entirely new roof, that he 
 would feel inclined to extend his refponfibilities. It is 
 impoffible that any fpeculator will venture to occupy his 
 pofition, as in about twenty years more the whole 
 building will fall into the hands of the Duke of Bedford, 
 and by that time the fpace will manifeftly be wanted for 
 the enlargement of Covent Garden Market. " Old 
 Drury " may be, therefore, unlefs fome quite unforefeen 
 event changes the conditions, regarded as blotted out, in 
 a comparatively fhort period, from the lift of our metro- 
 politan eftablifhments. This is, therefore, looked upon 
 as the proper time for erecting an edifice, duly provided 
 with all modern improvements, which fhall be worthy to 
 perpetuate on fome more convenient fpot the hiftrionic 
 traditions of the older "National" Theatre. It is pro- 
 pofed to give the new building the name of " The 
 Shakefpeare," and to identify it exclufively with the 
 
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 higher form of theatrical reprefentations It is, however, 
 rather a revival than a new idea. The late Lord Lytton, 
 and more recently Mr. Tom Taylor and Mr. George 
 Godwin, have actively beftirred themfelves in the effort to 
 fecurely fix on a firm bafis the project for raifing a theatre 
 worthy the dramatic poet whofe works would be there 
 illuftrated ; but the credit of the original notion is un- 
 deniably due to Mr. Effingham William Wilfon, of the 
 Royal Exchange, who, as long ago as 1848, propounded 
 a noble fcheme for paying the befl tribute to the memory 
 of England's great dramatift at the time when Shake- 
 fpeare's houfe was bought, chiefly by the aid of the funds 
 derived from the memorable benefit at Co vent Garden 
 Theatre. Mr. Effingham William Wilfon then propofed 
 that the committee formed for the purpofe of preferving 
 to the nation the houfe in which our " poet of all time" 
 had birth, fhould not diffolve, having fatisfaftorily effefted 
 that objeft, but confider the importance and expediency 
 of purchafing by national fubfcription fome theatre, 
 wherein the works of " the world's greateft moral teacher" 
 might be conflantly performed. Mr. Effingham William 
 Wilfon recommended that the faid theatre fhould be 
 open at fuch reafonable charges as fliould be within the 
 reach of all, and that the moil able manager and bed 
 working company fliould be engaged and conftantly 
 retained, and that only one five-acl: drama fliould be 
 performed in the courfe of one evening. He further 
 propofed that the Government for the time being, or any 
 other body of men agreed upon, fliould hold the faid 
 theatre in truft for the nation, and that the faid National 
 
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 Theatre fliould be made to aft as a great and true 
 dramatic fchool, at which alike the poet and the performer 
 the creator and the embodier in the higher walks of 
 the drama and the hiftrionic arts fliould receive their 
 diplomas, living genius and talent being fo foflered and 
 fuftained. It is pleafant to believe that the idea enter- 
 tained nearly thirty years ago by the worthy inheritor 
 of a name identified with the earlieft publifher of high- 
 clafs periodical literature at a moderate price is clofely 
 within reach of fulfilment, and that already fubflantial 
 fupport has been offered in high quarters. At the 
 banquet to be given at Willis's Rooms, by the dramatic 
 profeffion to ex-Lord Mayor Cotton, about the middle of 
 next month, there will be probably fpecial reference made 
 to the new enterprife, and it is not unlikely that a 
 " Dramatic School," of which Mr. Phelps is faid to have 
 undertaken the direftion, will be connefted with the 
 great work foon to be taken vigoroufly in hand. 
 
 E. L. BLANCHARD. 
 
akefpeare Memorial, 
 
 STRATFORD-ON-AVON. 
 
 SHE accompanying Profpeftus fets forth briefly the 
 objefts of the AfTociation, and gives a lift of 
 fubfcribers up to the end of 1876, from which it will be 
 feen that a fufficient fum is fufcribed or guaranteed to 
 enable the Council to commence the firft portion of their 
 intended work. 
 
 A defign for the Memorial Building was felecled from 
 twenty-five fent in for competition. The architects, 
 Meffrs. Dodgfhun and Unfworth, are now engaged in 
 preparing the detailed defigns. In the meantime, the 
 foundations and bafement of the theatre are being pro- 
 ceeded with, and the firft ftone will be laid on the 23rd 
 of April next, by the Lord Lieutenant of Warwickfliire, 
 the Rt. Hon. Lord Leigh, Provincial Grand Mafter of 
 the County of Warwick, &c., and the ceremony will be 
 conducted with full Mafonic Honours. 
 
 The fum at prefent guaranteed will only fuflice for 
 completing the theatre fo far as to be available for ufe, 
 but without any of the ornamantal details, and a further 
 fum of 4000 is required to enable the Council to 
 
proceed with the library and pifture gallery ; if this 
 amount could be raifed at once the whole building could 
 be proceeded with, and by April 23, 1878, would be 
 ready for the inauguration with fpecial performances of 
 Shakefpeare's Plays, and a Loan Exhibition of Piftures of 
 Shakefperian interefh. 
 
 The ultimate objeft of the AfTociation is not to have a 
 theatre open throughout the year, but to have a building 
 available for occafional performances, and which may 
 hereafter form the nucleus of a School or Schools of 
 Acting / under experienced and qualified teachers. The 
 accounts publifhed in The Times of what has been done 
 in Meiningen, in Germany, a town about the fame fize 
 as Stratford, may ferve to indicate what this AfTociation 
 aims at ; but while there the work has been carried out 
 by the liberality of one accomplifhed Grand Duke, it is 
 propofed here to effect it through the aid of the many 
 who have derived profit and pleafure from the works of 
 Shakefpeare, and who are defirous of contributing fome- 
 thing to commemorate his memory, and to elevate the 
 profeffion whofe highefl aim muft be to reprefent his 
 works in an adequate and efficient manner. 
 
 Various projefts for this purpofe have been mooted, 
 but none ever attempted. This one may not be the befl, 
 but at any rate it is in progrefs. It has been commenced 
 from a fincere and ardent defire on the part of its pro- 
 moters to do fomething in our own time to honour the 
 memory of the world's greateft poet, and to leave a founda- 
 tion upon which future generations can amplify and 
 improve. 
 
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 In order to give a permanent character to the under- 
 taking, and to prevent any liability to fubfcribers beyond 
 the amount of their individual fubfcriptions, the Aflbcia- 
 tion was regiftered under the Company's Act, and the 
 freehold and other property is veiled in Governors, each 
 of whom fubfcribe at lead one hundred pounds. Each 
 governorfhip is permanent, and may be transferred by 
 deed or will. This enfures a perpetual body, who will 
 aft as truftees to the general body of fubfcribers. The 
 number of Governors is limited to 100. They number 
 at prefent 30, and an infpe&ion of the lift will fliow that 
 they are a guarantee that the management will be carried 
 on in a bufmefs-like and honourable manner. It is 
 earneftly hoped that at leaft twenty additional fubfcribers 
 of 100 will come forward, making up the number to 
 fifty: and it is fuggefted that Corporations, Guilds, or 
 Societies might appropriately fubfcribe and become 
 Governors, thus having, through their prefiding officer, a 
 permanent voice in the management of the Affociation. 
 
 Of courfe it is only anticipated that comparatively few 
 are at the fame time warmly interefted in the objects 
 aimed at by the AfTociation, and alfo able to fubfcribe 
 fo large a fum as 100, but it is confidently anticipated 
 that there are many thoufands willing to fubfcribe fmaller 
 amounts if they are fatisfied that their fubfcriptions will 
 be properly applied, and it is to fuch that the Council 
 have now to appeal. 
 
 Every fubfcription, however fmall, will be glady received 
 and acknowledged by the Secretary. Subfcriptions of 
 i and upwards will be inferted in the lifts publifhed 
 
from time to time, and in the permanent record to be 
 kept in the library of the AfTociation. 
 
 The firft 200 fubfcribers of ten guineas and upwards 
 will be entitled to receive a proof, and the firfl 700 fub- 
 fcribers of five guineas, an engraving of the celebrated 
 Gainfborough Portrait of Garrick, belonging to the 
 Corporation of Stratford, who have given penniilion to 
 have it engraved for the AiTociation. One hundred 
 proofs on India paper will be referved for Governors. 
 After the above number of impreflions have been taken, 
 the plate will be defaced, and depofited in the library of 
 the Aflbciation, thus enfuring that the engravings shall 
 pofTefs a permanent and increafing value. 
 
 The Council are defirous not to expend any of the 
 amount fubfcribed in advertifmg an expenfe which 
 often makes ferious inroads on the fums appearing in 
 fubfcription lifts. The amounts fubfcribed are immediately 
 inverted (until required), and the intereft is all that is 
 available for advertifmg; the Council, therefore, hope 
 that all who are willing to fubfcribe will do fo without 
 fpecial appeal, and that every one who may be acquainted 
 with and approve of the projeft will affift in making it 
 known to others. 
 
 Any one defirous of further particulars can have every 
 information on applying to the Secretary, C. Lowndes, 
 Efq., Stratford-on-Avon. 
 
 January, 1877. 
 
hakefpeare Memorial 
 
 THEATRE, 
 LIBRARY, AND PICTURE GALLERY. 
 
 The Right Hon. Lord Leigh, 
 Stoneleigh Abbey 
 
 *SirR.N.C. Hamilton, Bt.,K.C.B., 
 Avon Cliffe, Stratford-on-Avon 
 
 *J. J. Nason, Esq., Mayor of Strat- 
 ford-on-Avon 
 
 *Bird, R. M., Stratford-on-Avon 
 Booth, Edwin, Chicago, U.S.A. 
 Buckstone, J. B., Theatre Royal, 
 
 Haymarket, London 
 Burman, Mrs., Stratford-on-Avon 
 
 *Chatterton, F. B., Theatre Royal, 
 Drury Lane, London 
 
 Corporation, The, Stratford-on- 
 Avon 
 
 *Cox, Jas , Jun., Stratford-on-Avon 
 Flower, E.F., 35, Hyde Park 
 Gardens, London 
 
 *Flower, C. E., Avonbank, Strat- 
 ford-on-Avon 
 
 *Flower, Edgar, The Hill, Strat- 
 ford-on-Avon 
 
 *Graves, Henry, 6, Pall Mall, 
 London 
 
 *Gregg, D. S., The Firs, Strat- 
 ford-on-Avon 
 
 *Hobbes, R. H., Stratford-on- 
 Avon 
 
 Hodgson, Arthur, Clopton House, 
 Stratford-on-Avon 
 
 Hutchings, Thomas, Stratford-on- 
 Avon 
 *Hutchings, William, Clifford, 
 
 Stratford-on-Avon 
 *Morgan. John, Stratford-on-Avon 
 
 Paget, T. T., Humberftone, 
 Leicefter 
 
 Potts, T. P., Stratford-on-Avon 
 
 Philips, R. N., M.P., Welcombe, 
 
 Stratford-on-Avon 
 *Rathbone, P. H., Greenbank Cot- 
 tage, Liverpool 
 
 Slatter, Thomas, Stratford-on- 
 Avon 
 
 *Sothern, E. A., Theatre Royal, 
 Haymarket, London 
 
 Walker, Robt, Executors of the 
 late, Stratford-on-Avon 
 
 Webfter, B., Theatre Royal, 
 Adelphi, London 
 
 Wigan, Frederick, 15, South- 
 wark Street, London 
 
 Those marked * are Members of the Council for 1876. 
 
 Chairman of the Council C E. Flower, Efq. 
 Solicitors M^fTrs. Hobbes and Slatter. 
 
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 The object of the AfTociation is to erect a Memorial 
 Building upon afite on the banks of the Avon, which has 
 been given for that purpofe. 
 
 The furrounding ground will be laid out as gardens, 
 and the building will contain: 
 
 A fmall Theatre, in which to have occafional per- 
 formances of Shakefpeare's Plays, and which 
 will be available for Concerts, Lectures, &c. ; 
 
 A Library of Dramatic Literature ; 
 And a Gallery, to contain Pictures and Statuary 
 of Shakefpearean fubjects. 
 
 Any funds that may be fubfcribed beyond the amount 
 neceffary to complete and maintain the building and 
 garden, will be applied to the Annual Celebration of 
 Shakefpeare's Birthday, the advancement and improve- 
 ment of the Dramatic Art by the eftablifhment and 
 maintenance of a School of Acting, the delivery of 
 Lectures, the eftablifhment of Prizes for Effays, and the 
 relief and affiftance of poor and deferving members of the 
 theatrical profeffion, as fet forth in the certificated 
 Memorandum of AfTociation. 
 
 The property and management is vefted in Governors, 
 all of whom fubfcribe at leaft i oo. 
 
 It is eftimated that 10,000 will be required for 
 building the whole, but without any of the ftone carving 
 or decorative features which may be added at a future 
 time. The amount already fubfcribed and guaranteed, 
 6000, has enabled the Council to commence upon the 
 
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 Theatre. The foundations are being proceeded with, 
 and the firft flone will be laid on the 23rd of April 
 next. An additional fum of 4000 is required before 
 the Library and Pifture Gallery can be begun. 
 
 Subfcriptions can be paid to the -'Shakefpeare Memorial 
 Fund," OLD BANK, Stratford-upon-Avon, or to any 
 member of the Council. 
 
 A report of the meeting of the Governors, held on 
 April 24th, with any further information required, will 
 be forwarded on application to the Secretary. 
 
 CHARLES LOWNDES, 
 
 Secretary. 
 Sir afford-on- Avon, Jan., 1877. 
 
 ( To the above Date. ) 
 
 s. d. 
 
 The Right Hon. Lord Leigh, Stoneleigh Abbey, War- 
 wickshire . . . . . . . io5 o o 
 
 Sir R. N. C. Hamilton, Bart., Avon Cliffe, Stratford-on- 
 
 Avon. . . . . . . . 100 o o 
 
 J. J. Nason, Esq. (the Mayor of Stratford-on- Avon) .100 o o 
 
 Mr. R. M. Bird, Stratford-on- Avon. . . . 100 o o 
 
 James Cox, Jun., Esq., Stratford-on- Avon . . 100 o o 
 Mr. C. E. Flower, Avonbank, Stratford-on-Avon (and 
 
 site) ........ 1000 o o 
 
 Mr. Edgar Flower, The Hill, Stratford-on-Avon. .100 o o 
 
 Mr. Robert Gibbs, Stratford-on-Avon . . 20 o o 
 
 R. H. Hobbes, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon . . . 100 o o 
 
 E. F. Flower, Esq., 35, Hyde Park Gardens, London . 100 o o 
 
 Mrs. Burman, Avonfield, Stratford-on-Avon . . 100 o o 
 Henry Spicer, Esq., 11, York Street, Portman Square, 
 
 London . . . . . . .1000 
 
 Mr. Win. Hatchings, Clifford, Stratford-on-Avon . 100 o o 
 
s. d. 
 
 Thomas Slatter, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon . . . 100 o o 
 
 Mr. S. Moore, Stratford-on-Avon . . . 2 5 o o 
 Mr. E. Adams, Stratford-on-Avon . . . .2600 
 
 J. O. Phillipps, Esq., 11, Tregunter Road, West 
 
 Brompton, London . . . . . 62 10 o 
 
 Mr. John Morgan, Stratford-on-Avon . . . 100 o o 
 W. Stephenson, Esq. (Deputy-Major of Stratford-on- 
 Avon) . . . . . . 26 o o 
 
 Mr. H. Downing, Stratford-on-Avon . . 25 o o 
 Mr. M. C. Ashwin, Stratford-on-Avon . . 25 o o 
 Arthur Hodgson, Esq., Clopton House, Stratford-on- 
 Avon. . . . . . . . 100 o o 
 
 Mr. William Gibbs, Stratford-on-Avon . . 20 o o 
 S. Timmins, Esq., Elvetham Lodge, Birmingham . 10 10 o 
 Henry Graves, Esq., 6, Pall Mall, London . . 100 o o 
 R. N. Philips, Esq., M.P., Welcombe, Stratford-on- 
 Avon. . . . . . . . IOO O O 
 
 Wm. Creswick, Esq., 8, Bloomsbury Square, London . 5 5 o 
 
 Mr. Robert Walker, Stratford-on-Avon . . . 100 o o 
 F. B. Chatterton, Esq., Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 
 
 London . . . . . . . 100 o o 
 
 Benjamin Webster, Esq , Theatre Royal, Adelphi, 
 
 London . . . . . . . 100 o o 
 
 J. B. Buckstone, Esq., Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 
 
 London . . . . . . 100 o o 
 
 P. H. Rathbone, Esq., Greenbank Cottage, Liverpool .100 o o 
 
 John O'Connor, Esq., 47, Leicester Square, London . 5 5 o 
 
 E. A. Sothern, Esq., Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, i oo o o 
 
 T. H. Wilkinson, Esq., Waltham-le- Willows, Ixworth. 20 o o 
 
 D. S. Gregg, Esq., The Firs, Stratford-on-Avon . . 100 o o 
 
 Mr. W. Colbourne, Stratford-on-Avon . . . 20 o o 
 
 Mr. W. Pearce, Stratford-on-Avon . . . . 20 o o 
 
 Mr. T. H. Birch, Stratford-on-Avon . . .1000 
 
 Mr. T. Twamley, Stratford on-Avon . . 5 o o 
 
 Mr. Jos Lattimer, Stratford-on-Avon . . . 20 o o 
 
 Mr. F. V. Martin, Stratford-on-Avon . . 25 o o 
 
 Jas. Bowen May, Esq., 67, Russell Square, London . i i o 
 Mr. C. D. Pratt, Stratford-on-Avon . . .1000 
 
s. d. 
 
 Mr. H. Stilgoe, Stratford-on-Avon . . . 5 o o 
 
 J. E. H. G-reves, Esq , Stratford-on-Avon. . . 5 o o 
 
 Mr. J. H. Jagger, Stratford-on-Avon . . . 10 10 o 
 
 J. C. Warden, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon' . . 5 o o 
 
 Mr. John Butcher, Stratford-on-Avon . . .220 
 
 Mr W. G. Lyne, Stratford-on-Avon . . ..220 
 
 Mr. Richard Hawkes, Stratford-on-Avon . . 5 o o 
 
 Mr. John Greenway, Stratford-on-Avon . . . 3 1 2 6 
 
 Mr. J. J. Kemp, Stratford-on-Avon. . . 5 o o 
 
 Mr. Edward Gibbs, Stratford-on-Avon . . 25 o o 
 
 Mr. H. Samman, Stratford-on-Avon . , .1000 
 
 Mr. C. Justins, Stratford-on-Avon . . . 5 5 o 
 
 T. P. Potts, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon . . . 100 o o 
 
 Mr. C. F. Loggin, Stratford-on-Avon . . .1000 
 
 Anonymous . . . . . . 25 o o 
 
 The Corporation of Stratford-on-Avon . . . 100 o o 
 F. J. Furnivall, Esq., 3, St. George's Square, London . i i o 
 
 T. Hunt, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon . . . 20 o o 
 
 C. F. Fellows, Esq., Beeston Fields, Nottingham. . 220 
 
 Mr. Daniel Guy, Stratford-on-Avon . . .1000 
 
 Jas. Greenhalgh, Esq., 8, Acres Field, Bolton . . i i o 
 
 Rev. John Atkins, Stratford-on-Avon . . .220 
 
 Mr. S. Inns, Stratford-on-Avon . . . .1000 
 
 Mrs. Colfox, Bridport . . . . . .100 
 
 J. W. Josephs, Esq., 16, Queen's Square, London . i i o 
 
 Professor G. F. Armstrong, Queen's College, Cork . i i o 
 
 Rev. J. D. Collis, D.D., Vicar, Stratford-on-Avon 25 o o 
 
 Mr. C. Thomas, Stratford-on-Avon. . . . 20 o o 
 
 S. H. Hodgson, Esq., 45, Conduit Street, London . i i o 
 Mr. J. Court, Stratford-on-Avon . . . 5 5 o 
 Mr. C. Jackman, Stratford-on-Avon . . . i i o 
 Thomas Hiron, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon . . . 20 o o 
 Mr. J. Hillman, Paradise Street, Birmingham . 5 5 o 
 Mr. T. Hanson, New Street, Birmingham. . . 5 5 o 
 John Harris, Esq., 386, Mountain Street, Montreal 25 o o 
 James Bateman, Esq., 122, South Front Street, Phil- 
 adelphia . . . . . . .100 
 
 Mrs. Bateman, do., do. . i o o 
 
i 5 8 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Amount realized by performance, " As You Like It," at 
 
 Drury Lane, on April 23rd, 1875 . . . 173 4 11 
 
 Herr J. F. Barth, Lauf, near Nuremberg, Bavaria . 2100 
 
 Herr G. Weigmann, do., do. . 2100 
 
 Mrs. Lucy, Avonside, Stratford-on-Avon . . .6000 
 
 Balance from Tercentenary Festival, 1864 . . 177 2 5 
 
 Mr. John Moss and Friends, Stratford-on-Avon. . 3 3 o 
 
 Mr. Thos. Hutchings, Stratford-on-Avon . . . 100 o o 
 
 Mr. Sharman, Stratford-on-Avon . . . i i o 
 
 Mr. William Bennett, Stratford-on-Avon . . . i i o 
 
 Mrs. Page, Stratford-on-Avon . . . . 5 5 o 
 
 T. T. Paget, Esq., Humberstone, Leicester . . io5 o o 
 
 F. W. Cosens, Esq., 27, Queen's Gate, London . 5o o o 
 
 S. T. Wackrill, Esq. (Mayor of Leamington) . . 3 3 o 
 
 Mr. Wm. Galley, Leamington . . . i i o 
 
 The Directors of the Old Bank, Stratford-on-Avon . 25 o o 
 
 Mr. C. E. Martin, Stratford-on-Avon . . .220 
 
 F. Wigan, Esq., 15, Southwark Street, London . . 100 o o 
 Elliott Galer, Esq., Theatre Royal, Leicester . . 10 10 o 
 Messrs. Cattley, Gridley, and Co., 9, Duke Street, 
 
 London Bridge, London . . . . 25 o o 
 T. Watkins, Esq., 4, Clarence Terrace, Regent's Park, 
 
 London . . . . . . . 5 5 o 
 
 Mr. Wm. Eborall, Stratford-on-Avon . . . 2100 
 
 E. Richardson, Esq., Wallington, Carshalton . 5 o o 
 
 Mr. J. G. Krehl, 37, Coleman Street, London . . i i o 
 
 T. B. Hanham, Esq., Manston, Dorset . . . 5 o o 
 
 Dr. Sutton, 6, Campden Crescent, Dover . . i i o 
 
 Edwin Booth, Esq., Chicago, U.S.A. . . . 100 o o 
 
 G. H. Nelson, Esq. (Mayor of Warwick) . . 25 o o 
 John C. Bull, Esq., Leamington . . . 10 10 o 
 H. A. Thompson, Esq., Worship Street, Finsbury 
 
 Square, London . . . . . . i i o 
 
 Mr. C. J. Small, Paddington, London . . I i o 
 
 Mr. T. A. Wesley, 353, Wandsworth Road, London . i i o 
 
 Mr. W. Bailey, The Terrace, Oaken, Wolverhampton . 5 o o 
 
 Mr. James Oxley, Frome . . . . . 5 5 o 
 
 W. Middlemore, Esq., Elvetham Road, Birmingham . 5 5 o 
 
159 
 
 s. d. 
 
 A. Crovvdy, Esq., Billesley Hall . . . .220 
 
 Mr. T. W. Salmon, New Place, Stratford-on-Avon . i i o 
 
 J. S. Whittem, Esq., Walsgrave, Coventry . . 5 5 o 
 
 Dr. Agar, Henley-in-Arden . . . . . I i o 
 
 Dr. C. M. Ingleby, Valentines, Ilford . . 5 5 o 
 
 Mr. Jas. Vincent, Stratford-on-Avon ; . 5 o o 
 
 Miss Louise Chandler, Moulton, Boston, U.S.A. . i o o 
 
 Miss Jennie Vanzandt, Philadelphia, U.S.A. . . i o o 
 
 Mr. H. D. Bishop, Berchencliff House, Bath . . i i o 
 
 Mr. C. H. Curtis, City Bank Buildings, Greenock . i i o 
 
 Mr. Frederick Paine, Putney, London . . i i o 
 
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 (To the LARGE and SMALL PAPER Editions.) 
 
 THE GUILDHALL LIBRARY, LONDON. 
 THE SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL LIBRARY, BIRMINGHAM. 
 THE EDINBURGH SHAKSPERE SOCIETY. 
 THE NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE LITERARY AND PHILOSO- 
 PHICAL SOCIETY. 
 THE ATHENAEUM CLUB, PALL MALL, S.W. 
 
 Akroyd, Mrs., 2, St. Alban's Villas, HighgateRoad,N.W. 
 
 (2 copies.) 
 
 Albery, J., Efq., Savage Club, Strand, W.C. 
 Allen, E. G., Efq., 12. Taviftock Row, W.C. (6 copies.) 
 Ayres, E., Efq., 31, Hyde Park Place, W. (2 copies.) 
 Babington, A. G., Efq., Univerfities Club, Jerrayn 
 
 Street, S.W. 
 
 Bain, A. G., Efq., i, Haymarket, S.W. (3 copies.) 
 Baker, Dr. E., 36, Great Ormond Street, W.C. (2 copies.) 
 Barringer, Dr. T. S.,M.R.C.S., 17, Park Road, Holloway, 
 
 N. (2 copies.) 
 Barringer, Dr. Wright, Peckham Houfe, Peckham. 
 
 (4 copies.) 
 
162 
 
 Batten, J. B., Efq., 32, Great George Street, S.W. 
 
 (3 copies.) 
 
 Bidder, Mrs., Anna, 6, Cedars Road, Clapham. 
 Birch, W. de Gray, Efq., Britifh Mufeum, W.C. 
 Blanchard, E. L., Efq., 6, Adelphi Terrace, W.C. 
 
 (3 copies.) 
 
 Blind, Dr. Karl, 3, Winchefler Road, Swifs Cottage,N.W. 
 Booth, Lionel, Efq., i, Duchefs Street, Portland Place, W. 
 Bouchette, A., Efq., 18, Medina Road, Holloway, N. 
 Boys, W., Efq., 23, Leighton Road, Kentifh Town, N. 
 
 (2 copies.) 
 Braid, C., Efq., 13, Weftbourne Park Road, W. 
 
 (4 copies.) 
 
 Brown, R., Efq., Fair Lawn, Highgate, N. 
 Burbidge, J., Efq., 62, Moorgate Street, E.G. (2 copies.) 
 Burton, Captain R. F., F.R.G.S., H.M. Conful, Triefte. 
 Calderwood, J., Efq., New Crofs, S. 
 Carpenter, C. W., Efq., 19, Frithville Gardens, Shepherd's 
 
 Bufli, W. (3 copies.) 
 
 Carpenter, Dr. J. E., 20, Norland Square, Netting Hill, W. 
 Challis, Captain G. W., Mitre Court, Fleet Street, E.G. 
 Church, W. E., Efq., Dunn's Literary Inflitute, Newington 
 
 Caufeway, S.E. (5 copies ) 
 Clarke, Hyde, Efq., D.C.L., F.S.S., 32, St. George's 
 
 Square, S.W. (2 copies.) 
 
 Clayton, A., Efq., 1 7, BouverieSt., Fleet St.,E.C. (Copies.) 
 Conway, Moncure D., Efq., M.A., 2, Pembroke 
 
 Gardens, W. (4 copies.) 
 Corbett, E. K., Efq., Balliol College, Oxford. 
 Cofens, F. W., Efq., 27, Queen's Gate, S.W. (2 copies.) 
 Crefwick, W., Efq., 8. Bloomfbury Square, W.C. (2 
 
 copies.) 
 
163 
 
 Cruikfliank, George, Efq., 263, Hampftead Road, N.W. 
 Cullingford, W. H., Efq., 7, Phillimore Gardens, W. 
 
 (2 copies.) 
 
 Davies, D., Efq., 206, EfTex Road, N. 
 Dean, R., Efq., 313, Wandfworth Road, S.W. 
 Dixon, W. Hepworth, Efq., F.R.G.S.. 6, St. James's 
 
 Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W. (2 copies.) 
 Dopfon, J., Efq., 25, Patfliall Road, N.W. (2 copies.) 
 Doran, Dr. John, F.S.A., 37, Lanfdowne Road, W. 
 Druery, C. T., Efq., 100, Foulden Street, Weft Hackney, 
 
 N.W. 
 
 Duffy, T. P., Efq., Junior Garrick Club, Adelphi Ter- 
 race, W.C. (2 copies.) 
 
 Ellis, E., Efq., 41, Fitzroy Square, W. (2 copies.) 
 Elt, C. H., Efq., i, Noel Street, IQington, N. 
 Evans, J. H., Efq., Garrick Chambers, Garrick Street, 
 
 W.C. (3 copies.) 
 Fairchild, George E., Efq., Temple Club, Arundel Street, 
 
 W.C. (8 copies.) 
 Farjeon, B. L., Efq., 12, Buckingham Street, W.C. 
 
 (2 copies.) 
 
 Ferrand, Henry, Efq., Junior Garrick Club, W.C. 
 Field, Captain, J.P., Pelham Road, Wimbledon. 
 French, S., Efq., 89, Strand, W.C. (3 copies.) 
 Fofter, S. Lloyd, Efq., Calliper's Hall, Chipperfield, 
 
 Rickmanfworth, Herts. (7 copies.) 
 Fothergill, J. M., Efq., W. B. Lead Office, Newcaftle-on- 
 
 Tyne. 
 
 Furnefs, Horace Howard, Efq., Philadelphia, U.S.A. 
 Gavin, W. Alexander, Efq., 27, Nelfon Street, Edinburgh. 
 Gay, W. C., Efq., St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, E.C. 
 
 (2 copies.) 
 
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 Gladflone, Profeffor J. H., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., 
 
 17, Pembridge Square, W. (2 copies.) 
 Glover, Captain B., Sydenham Village, S.E. (2 copies.) 
 Gordon, R. M., Efq., 50, South Hill Park, Hampftead 
 
 Heath, N.W. 
 
 Gowing, R., Efq., 53, St. John's Park, Highgate Hill, N. 
 Grady,R.N., Efq., 3 1, Carlton Street, KentiQiTown,N.W. 
 Graves, Henry, Efq., 6, Pall Mall, S.W. (4 copies.) 
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 Green, Horace, Efq., Dane's Inn, W.C. (3 copies.) 
 Green, Reuben C., Efq., 6, John Street, Bedford Row, 
 
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 Griffith, W. Pettit, F.S.A., 16, Guilford Street, W.C. 
 Hales, J. W., Efq , i, Oppidans Road, Primrofe Hill, 
 
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 Harcourt, C., Efq., Secretary, Drury Lane Theatrical 
 
 Fund, 27, Great Queen Street, W.C. (2 copies.) 
 Hardwicke, W., Efq., M.D., Coroner's Office, Fulham 
 
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 Harper, J. B., Efq., n, Clephane Road, Effex Road, 
 
 Iflington, N. 
 
 Hart, Mifs, 33, Woburn Square, W.C. (2 copies.) 
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 Hilton, J. H., Efq., New Crofs, S.E. 
 Horfley, A., Efq., 34, Southwark Street, S.E. 
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 Howard, Bronfon, Efq., Lotus Club, New York, U.S.A. 
 
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 Jeremiah, J., Sen., 204, Effex Road, N. 
 Jeremiah, Mifs, The Vicarage, Aberdare. 
 Jeffop, Rev. A., D.D., School Houfe, Norwich. 
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 Temple. 
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 Mofely, B. L., Efq., 55, Taviflock Square, W.C. 
 
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 Norris, J. Parker, Efq , Philadelphia, U.S.A. 
 Ohlmann, Morris, Efq., 53, Bernard Street, Ruffell 
 
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 Overall, W. H., Efq., Library, Guildhall, London, E.G. 
 Paine, Cornelius, Efq., 9, Lewis Crefcent, Kemp Town, 
 
 Brighton. 
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