Shakespeare's environment

AUTHOR OF “SHAKESPEARE’S FAMILY,” “SHAKESPEARE’S WARWICKSHIRE CONTEMPORARIES,” “THE BACON SHAKESPEARE QUESTION ANSWERED,” “WILLIAM HUNNIS AND THE REVELS OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL,” “B...

He was _fortunate_ in his friends. London was then but a little city, after all; it could easily be crossed and compassed on foot; its inhabitants did not reach the sum total of...

There had been certain exchanges of the common lands between the farmers and the manor, but they were unsure in law. By this indenture it is covenanted that Bartholomew Hales an...

Robert Nichols of Lillington, aged 67 years, knew the plaintiff, the defendants, and the tenement, and “that it abuts itself against the High Street.” He had heard by credible r...

“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends.” Fortune turned in time. Shakespeare found work at the theatre, seems to have been liberally treated, though at first servitor or appre...

The Apologie of Thomas Moore, 6_d._ Palengenius Englishe, 4_d._ A Latine Grammar, 6_d._ Lʳ Evans, Dictionary, 3_d._ Mr. Latimer’s Sermons, 12_d._ D. Erasmus, Method Theologie, 3...

one William Rownde of Allesley, co. Warr., husbandman, standing bound to John Blythe jointly with Henry Shakespeare in the said sum of 6_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ for the said oxen, and...

23rd Dec., 1614. A Hall. Letters wrytten, one to Mr. Manneryng, another to Mr. Shakspeare, with almost all the Companyes hands to either: I alsoe wrytte of myself to my Cosen Sh...

In the course of the depositions, both sides agreed as to preliminary facts; both allowed John to have been the father’s favourite son; they differed as to the cause of Richard’...

I had reached this stage when I consulted Dr. Richard Garnett. He reminded me that the little red lions that held the railings on the outer front pavement of the British Museum...

Thereafter was “a new Society formed, for the Renovation and Restoration of Shakespeare’s Monument and Bust, and of the Chancel.” Mr. John Britton was Hon. Secretary, and sent o...

I have been able to find out nothing more about Bishop than what he himself relates. If really _born_ a subject of Elizabeth’s, as he states, he could not have been more than tw...

Finally, this theory pre-supposes that Thomas Thorpe, in 1609, would, upon the sole ground of two common initials, have taken the unwarrantable liberty of addressing in such fam...

In two ways, both painful to the poet, during the following year, while Sir Thomas Heneage’s illness absorbed the attention of the Countess of Southampton, his young friend’s na...

Chalmers’ “Biographies” and Wood’s “Athenæ Oxonienses” say that “Nicholas Brigham died in his prime in December, 1559, at Westminster, leaving some MSS.: (1) ‘De Venationibus Re...

Leicester’s servants played before the Queen on Innocent’s Day 1575, and again on the Sunday before Shrovetide. For the first time they were fully described in the warrants for...

[84] In the Nebraska University Studies, 1913, Professor Wallace states that _he told me_ of all these papers. He mistakes, or forgets. I had been engaged in this work for fifte...

The exact locality of early Piccadilly, the date of the first appearance of the name, and its derivation from a “collar,” a “gaming-house,” or a “hill-peak,” have been frequentl...

Item paid for a book of the names of all such persons as were buried within the Parish from Mydsommer day in Anno domini 1558 until Mydsommer day in the year 1559 delyvered to t...

“The perticulers of the seconde accompte of Spencer, Lord Compton, Master of the Wardrobe and the Robes to the High & Mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Wales,” etc.--(Exchequer Q...

The most noticeable peculiarity beyond its variety is the apparent setting on of salt and sweet together which is still a custom in Eastern feasts, and the making a second and a...

In 1542 appears: “Item for a pair of shews for Jane the Fole 6/.” In April 1543: “Item for three elles clothe to make Jane the Fole smocks 3/.” In July 1543: “Item payd for Jane...

For making of a straight bodied gown of chamblet for Thomasina, a woman dwarf, garded with velvet, laid on with lace of crimson and white silk ... a paire of sleves of Carnation...

One short magazine article cannot possibly deal with the subject exhaustively, therefore I only attempt to make a general protest against the Editor’s paper, and to illustrate a...

Whatever may be proved of foundations, I have always been convinced of the existence of voluntary secondary schools (_see_ “L.L.L.,” iv, 2), and here again Richard Mulcaster sup...

The wonder of the records of her learning is increased when we remember the frequent overtures of marriage that were laid before her, which must somewhat have occupied her thoug...

Henry, Lord Maltravers, only son of the Earl of Arundel, one of the few representatives left of the ancient nobility, excelled in all manner of good learning and languages, and...

The story of the attempted enclosures at Welcombe at the beginning of the seventeenth century has always been considered chiefly of interest because Shakespeare’s name was assoc...

As the generous proposals of the proprietors of the two greatest playhouses in this Kingdom were kindly accepted and encouraged, in relation to each of them acting a play for th...

Dudley, Sir Ambrose, 25, 255. Sir Andrew, 247, 249, 250, 251, 255, 256. Lord Guildford, 248. Henry, 166, 252, 255, 256. Jerome, 247, 248. John, Duke of Northumberland, 3, 247, 2...