[340] Foster's "Alumni Oxonienses."
[341] Bishop of London's Mar. Lic., Harl. Publ.
[342] Somerset House, 248, Aston.
[343] Notes and Queries, Third Series, vii. 175.
[344] "Book of Apprentices," 1666-1736, f. 756
[345] His son stated that he was seventy-seven at the time of his death, in 1689, but his marriage certificate makes him younger. "Publications and Marriages, 1654: John Shakespear, of Ratcliffe Highway, ropemaker, aged thirty-five, and Martha Seeley, of Wapping Wall, mayde, nineteen years. Married before John Waterton, Esquire, on ye 14th June. Richard Mathews, Robert Connolly, witnesses" (French, 547). He might have been a son of John, son of Thomas of Snitterfield, b. 1582.
[346] Notes and Queries Second Series, x. 188, 402; Third Series, vii. 498.
[347] State Papers, Dom. Ser., 1656-57, Commonwealth, cliii., Nos. 55, 56.
[348] "Misc. Gen. et Herald.," Second Series, v., 371, and Merchant Tailors' "Book of Apprentices."
[349] Bishop of London's Marriage Licenses, Harl. Publ.