[297] Manning and Bray's "Surrey," vol. ii.
[298] "Misc. Gen. et Herald.," Second Series, vol. ii. Register of Toddington, co. Beds.
[299] See "The Shakespeares of Essex." by Augustus Charles Veley, Registrar of the Archdeaconry of Essex, Essex Archæological Society's Magazine, vol. iii., p. 70, 1865.
[300] See my article in the Athenæum, April 23, 1892, entitled "Pre-Shakespearean London Shakespeares."
[301] 40 Chayney.
[302] Auditors' Patent Books, vol. vi., 1538-1553. Thomas Shakespeare, formerly minister of Colebray, in the parish of St. Mildred's, in the ward of Bread Street, London, on September 1, 2 Ed. VI., received a patent for 100 shillings per annum. There is no absolute proof, but every probability, that this is the same Sir Thomas Schaftespeyr mentioned in the will of Joan Jons of Bristol, and other Bristol Wills. See the abstract contained in the "Great Orphan Book," and Book of Wills in Council House at Bristol, 1886, by the Rev. J. P. Wadley, Rector of Naunton Beauchamp.
[303] Admin. Vicar-General's Books, No. 268, 1574-1583.
[304] Lay Subsidies, Essex, 111/575.
[305] Lay Subsidies, Essex, Rochford, 112/602, 112/634, 112/642.
[306] Subsidy Rolls, Chelmsford, Essex, 112/707, do. 112/708.