Excerpt: … and Thomas Shakespeare had a seat-place allotted him in 1739. Betty Shakespeare received poor money from 1747 till 1754. Some still exist in the adjoining parish of Newington Bagpath, and claim kindred with the poet. 269 Edward Shakespeare of Syresham, 1626-30; Thomas Shakespeare of Litchborough, 1610-41 (Northamptonshire and Rutland Wills, Index Library). 270 Notes and Queries, First Series, vii. 405 and 546. 271 A John Shakespeare of Finchhampstead, Berkshire, made his will in 1644. See Berkshire Wills. 272 Notes and Queries, First Series, vii. 405 and 546. 273 State Papers, Domestic Series, Jac. I., ix. 72. 274 Lay Subsidies, Leicester, Goodlaxton, 39 Elizabeth, Wigston Parva, 134/235 and 134/254. 275 Hist. Man. Com., vol. iii., Report 1872, p. 190. 276 Ancient Records of Leicester, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Society, 1855, and Notes and Queries, Third Series, v. 383. 277 Admission Books, Staple Inn, vol. i., f. 58, and French, “Shakespeareana Genealogica,” 542. 278 From the Register of St. Gregory by St. Paul’’s, London. 279 “Dict. Nat. Biography.” 280 Notes and Queries, Fifth Series, viii. 386. 281 See p. 15. 282 Proved November 4, 1643, by his relict Elizabeth. 283 Notes and Queries, Third Series, viii. 124. 284 “Catalogue of Oxford Graduates,” Clarendon Press. 285 Notes and Queries, Second Series, xii. 469. 286 French, “Shakspeareana Genealogica.” 287 Notes and Queries, Seventh Series, vi. 344. See “Liber Actorum,” Bodleian Library. 288 Somerset House, 88 Bruce, proved July 1, 1664. 289 The Hearth Tax for Isleworth, 1666, 252/32, notes “Ralph Shakespeare 2 hearths, Widow Shakespeare 1 hearth.” 290 Elizabeth Shakspere, of St. Werbergs, Derby, made her will 1558. Pegge’’s “Collection for the History of Derbyshire” contains a sheet of printed verses “on the death of the Rev. Mr. Shakespear” (Nichols’’s “Col. Top. and Gen.,” iii. 244). 291 Wills of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. 292 See Genealogical Magazine, January, 1898. 293 Notes and Queries,…
