FOOTNOTES:

[178] Gwillim's "Display of Heraldry," p. 315.

[179] Ibid., pp. 378, 420.

[180] Hathaway is also a name in the Beverston Registers (Notes and Queries, Fifth Series, xii., 101).

[181] French, "Shakespeareana Genealogicæ," p. 376.

[182] Will dated August 26, 1642, proved April 4, 1647. He also left rings to his uncle Nash and his aunt, his cousin Sadler and his wife, his cousin Richard Quiney and his wife his cousin Thomas Quiney and his wife.

[183] Stratford Burial Registers.

[184] The inscription would imply that she was born in 1556; but, as in her husband's case, it may be she was reckoned as sixty-seven very shortly after completing her sixty-sixth year, or even before she completed it, as was done in the case of Lady Joyce Lucy. We may note, at least, that Shakespeare, fifty-three in 1616, is only seven years younger than one reckoned sixty-seven in 1623.

[185] Henry Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings."