"Thomas Shaxper, vitler, for breaking assize of ale and beer, 4d."
"1634, Richard Shaxper, for encroaching on common, 2d."
"1647, fine of admittance to land, Thomas Shaxper, 6/8."
"Exchequer lay subsidies," Thomas in 1595, 1598, 1599, "assessed on goods valued £4,8/."
"Lay subsidies 1668," Thomas, "assessed on land, 30/ and 4/."
In 1674 John Shakespeare, in the name of the other tenants of Rowington, was empowered to bring an action against enclosures.
A grant of a fee of 20/ a year by will of Humphrey Shakespeare, 1794, was payable out of premises in Kingswood.
This cottage was the subject of a lawsuit in which Jane Lord and John Slye v. Humphrey Shakespeare and one Culcup were at variance. Humphrey had a 200 years' lease, and left it to the poor of the parish.
Shakespeares from the Register of Rowington.
"1616, Mar. 16. Baptisms: Thomas Shaxspere, son of William Shaxspire."