[277] Admission Books, Staple Inn, vol. i., f. 58, and French, "Shakespeareana Genealogica," 542.

[278] From the Register of St. Gregory by St. Paul's, London.

[279] "Dict. Nat. Biography."

[280] Notes and Queries, Fifth Series, viii. 386.

[281] See p. 15.

[282] Proved November 4, 1643, by his relict Elizabeth.

[283] Notes and Queries, Third Series, viii. 124.

[284] "Catalogue of Oxford Graduates," Clarendon Press.

[285] Notes and Queries, Second Series, xii. 469.

[286] French, "Shakspeareana Genealogica."