6. Slopes, Southampton, 206.
7. For which see above, p. 58.
8. Kerrigan, The Sonnets; and, A Lover’s Complaint, 376.
9. de Grazia, ‘The Scandal of Shakespeare’s Sonnets’, 104–7, 135–41.
10. Wood, In Search of Shakespeare, 87.
11. e.g. Middleton Murry, Shakespeare, 32, 41–3.
12. ‘Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen’, in Ralegh, Poems, 104.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
1. Black, Judith Shakespeare, passim.
2. Duncan-Jones, Ungentle Shakespeare, 268.
3. NA, Requests 1/28, Affidavit; Eccles, Shakespeare in Warwickshire, 109.
4. NA, Requests 2/431.
5. Holy Trinity Register, 7 November 1595.
6. e.g. ‘a maid of Thomas Wotton’s’, ‘John Lane’s maid’, M&A, iv, 14; ‘Mr Underbill’s maid’, M&A, iii, 116; ‘Elizabeth, Mr Quiney’s maid’, M&A, iii, 134.
7. SBTRO, ER 27/11.
8. G. K. Hunter, Introduction to the Arden edition of As You Like It (1983), xxix
9. Deloney, Thomas of Reading, 136.
10. Brinkworth, Shakespeare and the Bawdy Court, 151.
11. ibid., 153.
12. ibid., 156–7.
13. Thirsk, ‘The Farming Regions of England’, 556.
14. Eccles, Shakespeare in Warwickshire, 107, and n. SBTRO, BRU 15/5/116, 127, 139.
15. SBTRO, BRT 3/1/67.
16. SBTRO, BRU 2/2, 202.
17. Ackroyd, Shakespeare, 431.
18. Brinkworth, Shakespeare and the Bawdy Court, 141; Act Book, Kent County Archives Office, Sackville MS U269 Q22.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
1. SBTRO, BRU 15/1/4 (came before parliament in 1614, April and June, failed).
2. Thomson, Shakespeare’s Professional Career, 190.
3. John Aubrey, ‘Mr William Shakespear’, Bodleian Library MS Arch.F.c.37; facs. Schoenbaum, Documentary Life, Fig. 57, facing p. 59.
4. Ackroyd, Shakespeare, 477.
5. BL, MS Harley 4064, f. 189.
6. Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, 44.
7. Charmont to Lamira in Massinger, The Parliament of Love, IV. v.
8. Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 303–34.
9. Fripp, Shakespeare, 813. Smith was often in the Court of Record between 1606 and 1609, mainly suing defaulting clients for payment (SBTRO, BRU 12/7/3, 71, 103, 127, 180, 195; BRU 12/8/272).
10. Rowse, Shakespeare the Man, 450.
11. Rowe, ‘Some Account of the Life &c of Mr. William Shakespeare’, in Rowe, Works of Shakespeare, i, xxxv.
12. VCH: Warwickshire, iii, 237.
13. SBTRO, BRU 15/2/2, 95.
14. SBTRO, BRU 15/2/2, 220.
15. Rowe, ‘Some Account of the Life &c of Mr. William Shakespeare’, in Rowe, Works of Shakespeare, i, xxxv–xxxvi.
16. Prestwich, Cranfield, 69–70, 78, 401–8.
17. SBTRO, BRU 15/7/10.
18. SBTRO, BRU 15/1/94.
19. Eccles, Shakespeare in Warwickshire, 135.
20. ibid., 135–6.
21. ibid., 136.
22. NA, Prob. 11/126.
23. SBTRO, BRU ER 27/3.
24. SBTRO, BRU 15/13/26a–9: Petition of Bailiff and Burgesses to the Lord Chief Justice and Privy Council; SBTRO, BRU 15/13/5, draft in Thomas Greene’s hand, also 8, 9, 11, 18.
25. SBTRO, BRU 15/1/107.
26. SBTRO, BRU 15/5/18,15/13/13; BRU 2/1–5, B. 274–9, B. 281–4, B. 307, 310, 323–4, 358, 367, 369, 380.
27. SBTRO, BRU 15/5/162.
28. SBTRO, BRU 15/7/2, 3.
29. SBTRO, BRU 15/5/156.
30. pace Manning, Village Revolts, 92.
31. ibid., 69.
32. Lambarde, Eirenarcha, or of the Office of Justice of the Peace, 169–70.
33. NA, STAC 8/16/14, Sir Henry Hobart, Attorney-General v. John Chaundeler.
34. SBTRO, BRU 15/5/155–6.
35. SBTRO, BRU 15/8/2, 182, 15/8/175.
36. SBTRO, BRU 15/7/23.
37. SBTRO, BRU 15/7/8–9; also 15/7/21, 15/8/1275, 15/7/28.
38. SBTRO, BRU 15/7/24, 27.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
1. Tusser, An hundreth points of good husbandrie lately maried unto a hundreth good points of Huswifry, ‘The good huswifely physicke’.
2. Folger Shakespeare Library MS V. a. 292, f. 150, facs. Schoenbaum, Documentary Life, 242.
3. The best discussion of this is Ian Donaldson’s ‘Jonson and tother youth’ in his Jonson’s Magic Houses, 6–25.
4. Duncan-Jones, Ungentle Shakespeare, 258.
5. ibid., 263.
6. Wood, In Search of Shakespeare, 336.
7. Duncan-Jones, Ungentle Shakespeare, 266.
8. ibid., 206.
9. Dekker and Webster, Northward Ho, IV. iii. 77–8, in Dramatic Words of Thomas Dekker, ii, 459.
10. Barrough, Method of Physick, 369.
11. Duncan-Jones, Ungentle Shakespeare, 222.
12. Pinks, History of Clerkenwell, 338, 695.
13. Fripp, Shakespeare, 346.
14. Thomson, Shakespeare’s Professional Career, 70.
15. Barrough, Method of Physick, 361–2.
16. Gough, History of Myddle, 255.
17. The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey, 723–4.
18. ibid., 724.
19. Newton, An Herbalfor the Bible, 120. The use of ’hebenus’ as a generic term should dissipate the extraordinary confusion evinced by annotators of Hamlet, I. v. 62.
20. Barrough, Method of Physick, 362.
21. ibid., 363.
22. ibid., 366.
23. Clowes, A Short and Profitable Treatise touching the cure of the disease called Morbus Gallicus by Unctions, Sig. Dlr.
24. Barrough, Method of Physick, 381, 382–3.
25. Markham, The English Housewife, 50–1.
26. Simon Forman, ‘Geomantica’, Bodleian MS Ashmole 354, f. 222v, 250.
27. SBTRO, ER 27/5.
28. Stratford-upon-Avon Inventories, i, 160–6.
29. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 99–101; Fripp, Shakespeare’s Stratford, 37; Fripp, Shakespeare, 620, 792–3.
30. Lane, John Hall, 177.
31. SBTRO, BRU 12/7/63, 12/8/286.
32. Barrough, Method of Physick, 362.
33. SBTRO, BRU 15/4/190.
34. SBTRO, BRU 12/6/205; cf. BRU 12/7/221, 223, 341, 365.
35. Prestwich, Cranfield.
36. Schoenbaum, Documentary Life, 213.
37. The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey, 256.
38. ibid.
39. ibid., 280–1.
40. The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady, 13.
41. The Comedy of Errors, V. i. 99–100.
42. Turner, Herbal, f. 46.
43. [Cooke], How to chuse a good wife from a bad, Sig. [Llv].
44. Turner, Herbal, f. 35v.
45. ibid., f. 36.
46. ibid., f. 77v.
47. Henry V, II. iii. 12–25.
48. Duncan-Jones, Ungentle Shakespeare, 270–1.
49. Brinkworth, Shakespeare and the Bawdy Court, 143.
50. Fripp, Shakespeare, 825.
51. ibid., 829.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
1. BL, MS Lansdowne 721, f. 2.
2. Smith, The Commonwealth of England and the Maner of Gouernment thereof.
3. NA, Principal Probate Registry, Selected Wills, Prob. ¼.
4. Schoenbaum, Documentary Life, 192.
5. Greenblatt, Will in the World, 145.
6. Knight, The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare, ii, 192; Schoenbaum, Documentary Life, 248; Wood, In Search of Shakespeare, 338.
7. Stone, Family, Sex and Marriage, 195–6.
8. Bum, Ecclesiastical Law, ii, 38; cf. Brodsky, 126–7.
9. Greenblatt, Will in the World, 146.
10. Malone, Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays, i, 657.
11. NA, Prob. 11/64/31, facs. Fig. 60, Schoenba
um, facing p. 66; transcript Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines (7th edn 1887), ii, 195–6 etc.
12. [Evelyn], Mundus Muliebris, Preface.
13. Fripp, Shakespeare, 827.
14. Fowler, ‘The Earl of Bedford’s “Best Bed” ’, 80.
15. M&A, iv, 61–2.
16. Ralegh, Remains, 86.
17. Erickson, Women and Property, 65.
18. The Autobiography of Mrs Alice Thornton of East Newton Co. York, 247.
19. Erickson, Women and Property, 67.
CHAPTER TWENTY
1. SBTRO, BRU 15/1/108.
2. SBTRO, BRU 15/7/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 16, 175.
3. Fripp, Shakespeare, 833–4.
4. SBTRO, BRU 15/7/125.
5. SBTRO, BRU 15/1/126–7.
6. SBTRO, BRU 2/1–5 B. 336.
7. Erikson, Women and Property, 187.
8. SBTRO, BRU 8/9/18, 22; 15/12/119.
9. Fildes, Breasts, Bottles and Babies, 83–5.
10. SBTRO, BRU 15/13/15.
11. SBTRO, BRU 15/12/116.
12. SBTRO, BRU 15/13, 42.
13. Eccles, Shakespeare in Warwickshire, 135; SBTRO DR 37/83/52–4, 60.
14. SBTRO, BRU 2/1–5, B. 349.
15. SBTRO, BRU 15/13/81.
16. SBTRO, BRU 2/1–5, B. 372.
17. The libels were produced in evidence in a Star Chamber suit brought by the attorney general on Wilson’s behalf: NA, STAC 8/26/10, January 1621.
18. SBTRO, ER 1/1/97.
19. M&A, iii, 131, 135.
20. SBTRO, BRU 4/1/1602.
21. SBTRO, BRU 2/2, 324.
22. Holderness, ‘Widows in Pre-Industrial Societies’, 435–6.
23. Stratford-upon-Avon Inventories, i, 321.
24. ibid., 326.
25. ibid., 337.
26. SBTRO, BRU 17/3 and 4/1; M&A, iv, 126.
27. Worcestershire Record Office, 008.7 1618/174b.
28. Stratford-upon-Avon Inventories, i, 23–4.
29. ibid., 59–60; Worcestershire Record Office, 008.7 1585/13c.
30. ibid., 95–6; Worcestershire Record Office, 008.7 1588/95.
31. ibid., 96–7; Worcestershire Record Office, 008.7 1588/76.
32. SBTRO, BRU 15/1/24.
33. SBTRO, BRU 15/1/46.
34. M&A, v, 76.
35. Worcestershire Record Office, 008.7 1614/55.
36. Worcestershire Record Office, 008.7 1614/77.
37. Stratford-upon-Avon Inventories, i, 303; SBTRO, BRU 8/10/13.
38. NA, Prob. 11/101/54.
39. SBTRO, BRU 2/2, 202, 298.
40. SBTRO, BRT 13/1/69.
41. Warwickshire Record Office, BB 711/2663; SBTRO, BRU 15/3/23.
42. SBTRO, BRT 3/1/18.
43. SBTRO, BRU 15/12/71, 93.
44. Schoenbaum, Documentary Life, 250.
45. Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson D. 377, f. 90, William Hall to Edward Thwaites, [1694].
46. Schoenbaum, Documentary Life, 251.
47. Cressy, Birth, Marriage and Death, 463.
48. BL, MS Lansdowne 213, f. 332v.
49. The Life, Diary and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale, 99.
50. See, for example, Theime-Becker, Allgemeine Kunstlerlexikon, ‘Gerard Johnson’.
51. Fripp, Shakespeare, 849.
52. Price, ‘Reconsidering Shakespeare’s Monument’, Fig. 3a.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
1. Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage, 14.
2. Salkeld, ‘Literary Traces’, 379–85.
3. Schoenbaum, Documentary Life, 227.
4. Herendeen, ‘A New Way to Pay Old Debts’, 41 and n.
5. Fripp, Shakespeare, 455.
6. Schoenbaum, Documentary Life, 223, 248, 250.
7. Charlton Hinman, Introduction to the Norton Facsimile of The First Folio of Shakespeare (London, Paul Hamlyn, 1968), x.
8. Greg, The Shakespeare First Folio, 2–3.
9. DNB.
10. See above, p. 20.
11. There is another John Hemmings who was married at much the same time at St Clement Dane’s. It may be he who served an apprenticeship in the Grocers’ Company and became a freeman of the city.
12. Drayton, Poems, i, 51–6.
13. Cartwright, Comedies, Tragicomedies, 273.
14. Fripp, Shakespeare, 852.
15. West, The Shakespeare First Folio, vol. i: An Account of the First Folio based on its Sales and Prices, 6.
16. ibid., 4.
17. Quoted in ibid., ‘Foreword’, v.
18. Prynne, Histrio-mastix, ‘To the Gentle Reader’.
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