In acknowledging the assistance received in the course of my work I have, in particular, to thank Mr. J. H. Hooper, M.A., Registrar of the diocese of Worcester, for access to the valuable and well-arranged muniments in his charge. I am also under obligations to Mr. Richard Savage of Shakespeare's Birthplace and Mr. W. Salt Brassington, F.S.A., of the Memorial Library, Stratford-upon-Avon, for kind replies to queries upon local matters, and to Mr. Francis H. Butler, M.A., for reading the proofs with me.

CHELTENHAM,

January 1905.