[x] For an account of its history see p. 295.
[xi] See pp. 309 and 311.
[1a] Camden, Remaines, ed. 1605, p. III; Verstegan, Restitution, 1605.
[1b] Plac. Cor. 7 Edw. I, Kanc.; cf. Notes and Queries, 1st ser. xi.122.
[1c] Cf. the Register of the Guild of St. Anne at Knowle, ed. Bickley, 1894.
[2] See p. 189.
[3a] Cf. Times, October 14, 1895; Notes and Queries, 8th ser. viii. 501; articles by Mrs. Stopes in Genealogical Magazine, 1897.
[3b] Cf. Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, 1887, ii. 207.
[3c] The purchasing power of money was then eight times what it is now, and this and other sums mentioned should be multiplied by eight in comparing them with modern currency (see p. 197 n). The letters of administration in regard to Richard Shakespeare’s estate are in the district registry of the Probate Court at Worcester, and were printed in full by Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps in his Shakespeare’s Tours (privately issued 1887), pp. 44-5. They do not appear in any edition of Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps’s Outlines. Certified extracts appeared in Notes and Queries, 8th ser. xii. 463-4.
[6] French, Genealogica Shakespeareana, pp. 458 seq.; cf. p. 191 infra.