NOTES.

[21] He should have said Much Ado About Nothing.

[213] As these pages go to press a singularly full confirmation of these remarks appears in one of the September 1912 issues of the Birmingham Post: “Evesham District Council have decided to build sixty cottages at Broadway under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, and the Local Government Board have sanctioned the borrowing of £10,000.” Thus, a number of brand-new dwellings are to be built, to rehouse those villagers whose ancient homes have been taken from them. It is a curious sidelight upon the spread of culture.

[272a] Draw closer.

[272b] Took prisoners.

[272c] They took.

[272d] If it might be done.

[272e] They would not agree to the King’s terms.

[272f] They would not abide by their wishes.

[272g] Then excommunicated them.

[272i] More.

[272j] Counsel.

INDEX

Abbot’s Norton, [200]

— Salford, [199]

Alcester, [2], [231]

Alderminster, [188]

Andoversford, [216]

Arden, Family of, [9], [232]–235

—, Forest of, [2], [7], [129]

—, Mary, [9], [232]

—, Robert, [9]

Ardens Grafton, [156]

Aston Cantlow, [9], [235]

Atherstone-upon-Stour, [187]

Avon, river, [2], [3], [45]–48, [78], [190], [210], [219], [240], [262], [205], [260]

Baddesley Clinton, [7]

Balsall, Thomas, [77], [98]

Banbury, [2], [18]

Barton, [147], [199]

Beauchamp Family, the, [247]–253, [255], [267]

Bicester, [18], [20]

Bidford, [58], [137], [147]–153, [195]

Billesley, [12], [232]

Binton, [47], [147], [195]

Brailes, [191]

Broadway, [212]–215

Broom, [163]

Campden Wonder, the, [183]–185

Charlecote, [17], [47], [114]–126

Charles the Second, [143]–146

Chipping Campden, [173]–185

Cleeve Common, [218]

— Priors, [199]

Clifford Chambers, [10], [68], [166]–109

Clopton, Family of, [28], [72], [81]–83, [230]

—, House, [83], [230]

—, Lower, [173]

—, Sir Hugh, [40], [63], [82]

—, Upper, [173]

Combe, John, [78], [98]

—, William, [134]

Compton Wynyates, [191]–194

Cotswolds, the, [215]

Coventry, [280]–290

Dancing Marston (or Long Marston), [141]–146

Dingles, the, [133]–135

Dorsington, [147]

Dudley, Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, [253], [275]

—, Robert, Earl of Leicester, [16], [241]–243, [252], [273]–275

Ettington, [2], [186], [188]–190

Evesham, [137], [200]–210

Exhall, [158]

Feldon, the, [2], [164], [191]

Frog Mill, [216]

Gastrell, Rev. Francis, [73]

Gaveston, Piers, [256]–259

Greet, [216], [217]

Grendon Underwood, [18]–21

Gretton, [216], [217]

Grevel, William. [176]–178, [180]

—, or Greville, Family, the, [178], [245], [250], [254], [264]

Guy of Warwick, [255], [266]

Guy’s Cliff, [266]

Hall, Dr. John, [48], [72], [93], [97]

Harrington, [200]

Hartshorn, [216]

Hathaway, Family of, [12]–15

—, Anne, [7], [12]–15, [101]–113

Henley-in-Arden, [2], [8], [235], [237]

Hicks, Sir Baptist, Viscount Campden, [178], [180]

Hillborough, [147], [152]–154

John of Stratford, [75]–77

Kenilworth, [268]–280

Leek Wootton, [267]

Long Marston, [141]–146, [169]

Lower Clopton, [173]

Lucy Family, the, [47], [114]–126

—, Sir Thomas (“Justice Shallow”), [17], [114]–119, [124]

Luddington, [12], [47], [68], [147], [195]

Marlcliff, [199]

Marston Sicca (or Long Marston), [141]–146

Mickleton, [173]

Newbold-on-Stour, [188], [190]

Oxford, [18]

Pebworth, [139]–141

Preston Bagot, [237]

Preston-upon-Stour, [187]

Quiney, Richard, [28]–30, [33], [58]

—, Thomas, [33], [39]

Quinton, [169], [173], [234]

Ralph of Stratford, [75], [77]

Robert of Stratford, [75]

Rowington, [237]

Salford, Abbot’s, [199]

—, Prior’s, [199]

Shakespeare, Family of, [6]–11

—, Edmund, [59]

—, Gilbert, [10], [58], [59]

—, Hamnet, [22], [26]

—, Henry, [240]

—, Isabel, [7]

—, Joan, [10], [52], [59]

—, John, [5], [8]–11, [15]–17, [22], [26], [51], [59], [166]

—, Judith, [33], [39]

—, Richard, [7], [10], [59]

—, Susanna, [48], [52], [93], [97]

—, Thomas, [7], [237]

—, William, [5]–7; birth, [9]; marriage, [11]–15; goes to London, [16]–21; success in London, as actor, dramatist and theatrical manager, [23]–26; his return to Stratford-on-Avon, [27]–30; purchases New Place, [38]; he retires, [31]–33; death, [33]; scene of his school-days, [67]–70; his residence, New Place, [70]–74; the Bacon fanatics and Shakespeare, [85]–91, [94]; Shakespeare’s grave and monument, [89]–95; Shakespeare, poacher and deer-stealer, [114]–119; Shakespeare the countryman, [127]–135

— Farm, Grendon Underwood, [20]

— Hall, Rowington, [7], [236], [237]

Shipston-on-Stour, [180], [190]

Shirley, Evelyn Philip, [188]–190

Shottery, [12], [15], [101]–113

Snitterfield, [7], [8], [9], [11], [49], [238]–240

Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of, [17], [30]

Stinchcombe Hill, [217]

Stratford-on-Avon, [1]–5, [8]–11, [26]–100

—, American Memorial Fountain, [43]

—, Bridge Street, [39]

—, Chapel, [63], [75]

—, Clopton Bridge, [3], [40], [45], [164]

—, Grammar School, [5], [15], [67]–70

—, Guild, the, [4], [60]–67

—, Harvard House, [37], [41]–43

—, Holy Trinity Church, [13], [26], [75]–100

—, Mason Croft, [60]

—, Memorial Theatre, [44]

—, Mop Fair, [37]

—, Nash’s House, [39], [72], [73], [74]

—, New Place, [28], [31]–33, [70]–74, [84], [101]

—, Old Stratford, [3], [48], [72]

—, Red Horse Hotel, [40], [43]

—, Rother Street, [3], [43], [101]

—, Shakespeare Hotel, [34], [43]

—, Shakespeare’s Birth-place, [49]–59, [110], [231]

Sudeley, [216], [217]

Sunrising Hill, [2], [18], [186]

Temple Grafton, [12], [13], [154]–156

Tewkesbury, [216], [219]–229

Tomes, John, [143]–146

Upper Clopton, [173]

Warwick, [240], [265]

—, Beauchamp Chapel, [248], [253]

—, Castle, [254]–265

—, Earls of, [247], [249]–265

—, Leicester’s Hospital, [241]–245

—, St. Mary’s Church, [245]–253

—, Westgate, [240]

Welcombe, [98], [133]–135, [235], [238]

Welford, [147], [195]–197

Weston-on-Avon, [147], [197]

Whitchurch, [188]

Whittington, [216]

Wilmcote, [9], [232]–235

Winchcombe, [215]

Wincot, [169], [234]

Wixford, [160]

Woncot, [217]

Woodmancote, [217]

Wooland, the, [2]

Wootton Wawen, [235]

Wriothesley, Henry, Earl of Southampton, [17], [30]