The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 1

by E. K. Chambers

[982] Cohn, lxxxviii.

[983] A. Glaser, Geschichte des Theaters in Braunschweig, 13.

[984] Archiv für Litteratur-Geschichte, xv. 212, from diary of Martin Crusius at Tübingen in 1597: 'Es sind wol x Comoedianten hie gewesen: qui 5 aut 6 dies comoedias egerunt in domo frumentaria. Dicuntur Angli esse et miri artifices. Sunt illi quibus Dux noster 300 fl. donasse dicitur. Ego non spectaui. Quid ad hominem ista septuagenario maiorem? fuerunt illa dramata amatoria. Hodie Susannam egerunt. Ego sum scriptoribus Homericis occupatus.'

[985] Cohn, lxxx.

[986] C. F. Meyer in Sh.-Jahrbuch, xxxviii. 200.

[987] C. Harris in M. L. A. xxii. 446.

[988] Cohn, xcvi.

[989] App. C, No. xlviii.

[990] C. Severn, Diary of John Ward (c. 1661-3), 183, 'I have heard that Mʳ. Shakespeare ... in his elder days lived at Stratford: and supplied the stage with 2 plays every year, and for itt had an allowance so large, that hee spent att the rate of a 1,000l a year, as I have heard'; Aubrey, ii. 226, 'I thinke I have been told that he left 2 or 300 li per annum there and thereabout [i.e. at Stratford] to a sister'.

[991] Lee, 281; G. R. French, Shakespeareana Genealogica, 514; Herald and Genealogist, i. 492.