In the unsatisfactory inquiries relating to Shakespeare's ancestors I have exhausted all that I can find concerning his father's family; but so much remains to be said concerning his mother's family, that in consideration of the old proverb, "like mother, like son," it has seemed to me worth incorporating into this volume some account of the Ardens.
FOOTNOTES:
[312] Churchwardens' Accounts of Thurston Amere and William Combes, from June 8, 1538, to May 8, 1540, 48th week, 1st year.
[313] Notes and Queries, Seventh Series, vii. 483, June 22, 1889. Compare Third Series, iii. 318; Third Series, viii. 418; Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers in New England," ii. 528; John Timbs' "Curiosities of London," ed. 1855, p. 238, and ed. 1867, p. 297; "Annals of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate," 221, 322.
[314] Subsidy Rolls, London, Ward of Billingsgate and others, 39 Eliz., 146/369, P.R.O.
[315] Marriage Licenses, Faculty Office, Harl. Publ.
[316] Bishop of London's Marriage Licenses, Harl. Publ.
[317] Register, St. James's, Clerkenwell.
[318] Registers of Christ Church, Newgate Street, Harl. Soc. Publ.
[319] He died 1598, and was at one time connected with the Theatre as shareholder. Notes and Queries, Seventh Series, vii. 188.