authorizing the marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne Whatley of Temple Grafton. (2) 1582, Nov. 28. A deed was filed in the registry of the Bishop of Worcester in which two husbandmen of Stratford went bond that no impediment "by reason of precontract" existed in the way of the marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway of Shottery. (3) 1583, May 26. Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare, was baptized. (4) 1585, Feb. 2. Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare were baptized. (5) 1589. William Shakespeare's name was mentioned in a bill of complaint brought by John Shakespeare against John Lambert of Stratford respecting an estate at Wilmecote, near Stratford. (6) 1594-5, March. William Kempe, William Shakespeare, and Richard Burbage were paid in all twenty pounds as members of the Lord Chamberlain's company, which had acted before the Queen. (7) Before 1595. Anne Shakespeare borrowed forty shillings from Thomas Withington. Unpaid in 1601. (8) 1595. William Shakespeare was held liable for a subsidy assessed in St. Helen's Bishopsgate. (9) 1596. Memorandum by Alleyn to the ef¬ fect that Shakespeare was lodging near the bear garden in Southwark (?). (10) 1596, Aug. 11. Hamnet Shakespeare was buried in Stratford. (11) 1596, October. William Shakespeare was returned as a defaulter for a tax in St. Helen's. (12) 1597. Again taxed in St. Helen's. (13) 1597, May 4. William Shakespeare bought New Place in Stratford for sixty pounds. A fine was levied at the same time. (14) 1597-8, Feb. 4. William Shakespeare was on record as a householder in Chapel Street, Stratford, and as the owner of ten quarters of corn. (15) 1598, October. William Shakespeare was again taxed in St. Helen's. (16) 1598. Acted in Ben Jonson's "Every Man in his Humor." (17) 1598. Bought stone to repair his house in Stratford (?). 1597-8, Jan. 24. ford, in a letter to (18) Abraham Sturley of Strathis brother-in-law, Richard Quiney, in London, wrote: "This one special rememberance from our father's motion. It seemeth by him that our countryman, Mr. Shakespeare is willing to disburse some money upon some odd yardland or other at Shottery or near about us; he thinketh it a very fit pattern to move him in the matter of our tithes. By the instructions you can give him thereof, and by the friends he can make therefor, we think it a fair mark for him to shoot at and would do us much good." (19) 1598, Oct. 25. Richard Quiney wrote to William Shakespeare, his "loving good friend and countryman": "Loving countryman, I am bold of you, as of a friend, craving your help with xxx ll upon Mr. Bushell's and my security, or Mr. Mytton's with me. Mr. Rosswell is not come to London as yet, and I have especial cause. You shall friend me much in helping me out of all the debts I owe in London, I thank God, and much quiet my mind, which would not be indebted. I am now towards the Court, in hope of answer for the dispatch of my business. You shall neither lose credit nor money by me, the Lord willing; and now but persuade yourself so, as I hope, and you shall not need to fear, but, with all hearty thankfulness, I will hold my time, and content your friend, and if we bargain farther, you shall be the pay-master yourself. My time bids me hasten to an end, and so I commit this your care and hope of your help. I fear I shall not be back this night from the Court. Haste. The Lord be with you and with us all, Amen! From the Bell in Carter Lane, the 25th October, 1598. "Yours in all kindness, "RYC. QUINEY." (This has been deemed worth printing in full, as it is the only known extant letter addressed to William Shakespeare.) (20) 1598, Nov. 4. Abraham Sturley in Stratford, writing to Richard Quiney in London, said he hoped that "our countryman, Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us money, which I will like of, as I shall hear when, and where, and how." (21) 1598, 1599 (?). Adrian Quiney, writing from Stratford to his son Richard Quiney, at the Bell in Carter Lane, said, "If you bargain with Wm. Sha... or receive money therefore, bring your money home that you may; and see how knit stockings be sold." (22) 1599 (?). William Shakespeare's name appeared in an heraldic manuscript book as one who had received arms under false pretences. (23) 1600, March. William Shakespeare recovered in London a debt of seven pounds from John Clayton. (24) Before 1602. Stratford. (25) 1602, May 1. Planted a fruit orchard in William Shakespeare bought a hundred and seven acres, more or less, of arable land in Old Stratford for three hundred and twenty pounds. (26) 1602, Sept. 28. William Shakespeare bought a cottage and garden in Chapel Lane. (27) 1603, May. William Shakespeare was listed with some of the actors of Lord Chamberlain's company who were licensed by the King. (28) 1603. William Shakespeare acted in Ben Jonson's "Sejanus." (29) 1603-4, March 15. William Shakespeare and eight other actors walked in a procession from the Tower to Westminster. (30) 1604. William Shakespeare sued Phillip Rogers for malt worth nearly two pounds, and for a loan. (31) 1604. William Shakespeare was listed as holding a cottage and garden at Stratford. (32) 1605. Augustine Phillips, an actor, died, leaving to his "fellow" William Shakespeare a thirty-shilling piece of gold. (33) 1605, July 24. William Shakespeare bought, for four hundred and forty pounds, a moiety of the tithes of Stratford, Old Stratford, Welcombe, and Bishopton. (34) 1605. Shakespeare's name as a trained soldier was recorded in the certificate of the muster-roll for Rowington, in the county of Warwick. (35) 1606, August. William Shakespeare was listed in a survey of Stratford as owner of a copyhold estate. (36) 1607, June 5. Susanna Shakespeare married John Hall at Stratford. (37) 1607, Dec. 31. Edmund Shakespeare, actor, was buried in Southwark. (38) 1608, Sept. 9. Mary Shakespeare was buried in Stratford. (39) 1608, Oct. 16. William Shakespeare stood godfather at Stratford to the son of William Walker. (40) 1608-9. William Shakespeare was at law in Stratford with John Addenbroke for the recovery of a debt. (41) 1610. Shakespeare's estate (bought from the Combes) was fined. (42) 1611. Shakespeare's name appears in some |