Shakespeare's family

by C. C. Stopes

[320] Registers of St. James's, Clerkenwell, Harl. Publ.

[321] Account of the Treasurer of the Chamber, 1572, et seq.

[322] "Archæologia," vol. xiii., appendix, p. 403.

[323] Notes and Queries, Seventh Series, ii. 247.

[324] Registers of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.

[325] Churchwarden's Accounts, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.

[326] Bishop of London's Licenses, Harl. Soc. Publ.

[327] Registers of the Church of St. Bride's.

[328] Registers of the Church of St. Bride's.

[329] Among the expenses of the Royal Household are entered: 1621—"To John Shakespeare for one gilt bit for the sadle aforesayd £3 13s. 6d. To John Shakespeare for fourteen bittes, guilt silvered and chased, at £5 10s. a peice. For one payre of bosses, richly enamelled, 52s. 6d., £73 12s. 6d. For 7 bittes for the sadles aforesayd at 52s. 6d. each, £18 7s. 6d."—"Early Illustrations of Shakespeare," published by the Shakespeare Society.