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CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
TO
THE BIOGRAPHY.
From Original Drawings by W. HARVEY; the Fac-similes and Autographs by F. W. FairuoLT.
BOOK I.
Page
1
Half-title to Book I. --Shakspere's Youthful Visions
CHAPTER 1.-ANCESTRY.
Ornamental Head-piece .....
3 Village of Wilmecote....................
Arms of John Shakspere .....................................
6
Church of Aston Cantlow ..............
9
12
CHAPTER II.-STRATFORD.
Clopton's Bridge.................................................... 13 | Fac-simile of autographs to Corporation Deed ....... 16
CHAPTER III. -THE REGISTER.
Ancient Pont, formerly in Stratford Church ........ 23 Stratford Church, east end, with charnel-house..... 28
Fac-simile of baptismal register of W. Shakspere... 24 John Shaks pere's House in Henley Street ............. 32
The Church Avenue ........
27
CHAPTER IV.-THE SCHOOL.
Inner Court of the Grammar School, Stratford ...... 34 Martyrdom of Thomas & Be ket, from an ancien
Interior of the Grammar School ...............
47 painting in the chapel of the Holy Cross............ 48
Chapelofthe Guild, and Grammar School, street front 47
Note on John Shakspere's Confession of Faith
50
85
CHAPTER VII.-KENILWORTH.
Chimney-piece in Gatehouse at Kenilworth
77 Earl of L icester.........
Queen Elizabeth .................................................
79 Ruins of Kenilworth in the 17th Century.
Gascoigne.............
82 Entrance to the Hall...................
The Merry Marriage-Kenilworth Gate................ 84
89
90
CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
CHAPTER VIII. - PAGEANTS.
Coventry Cross .... .......
Ancient Gate of Coventry, 1842.....
Coventry Churches and Pageants ...............
97
Note on the Coventry Pageants.....
103
93
104
CHAPTER IX.-HOME.
Stratford Church and Mill. From a drawing of Stratford Church-West End...........
** ...... 116
the beginning of the last century .............. 105
Chimney Corner of Kitchen in Henley Street ....... 120
The Fire-side. Kitchen of House in Henley Street 111
Note on the Stratford Registers .....
116
Note on the alleged Poverty of John Shakspere
.................. 118
Note on the School Life of William Shakspere.
............. 119
................ 144
CHAPTER X.-THE PLAYERS AT STRATFORD.
The Bailiff's Play
121
Thomas Sackville ....
Itinerant Players (R. W. Buss)
128
Note on Sidney's Defence of Poesy
145
CHAPTER XI.-LIVING IN THE PAST.
Guy's Cliff in the Seventeenth Century
146 Ancient Statue of Guy at Guy's Cliff .................. 155
Chapel at Guy's Cliff .........................................
147 St. Mary's Hall, court front ................................ 157
Tomb of King John at Worcester........................ 151 Warwick Castle, from the Island ......................... 158
Bridge at Evesham ........
Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick ..... ................ 160
Mill at Guy's Cliff ................
154
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CHAPTER XII.-YORK AND LANCASTER.
St. Mary's Hall, Interior........
St. Mary's Hall, street front...
Battle Field at Shrewsbury (G. F. Sargent).......... 165 Tewksbury.............
Entrance to Warwick Castle......
167
Leicester ................
Warwick from Lodge Hill .....................
............. 171
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CHAPTER XIII.-RUINS, NOT OF TIME.
Evesham. The Bell Tower
177 Old Houses, Evesham........
183
Evesham. Ancient Gateway.............
179 Bengeworth Church, seen through the Arch of the
Parish Churches, Evesham ............
Bell Tower
187
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CHAPTER XIV.-SOCIAL HOURS.
Welford Church....
188 | Charlcote House, from the Avon.......................... 212
Great Hillborough ............................................. 195 House in Charlcote Village,
................................. 213
Marl Cliffs, near Bidford
Charlcote House, from the Garden ........................ 219
Bidford ...........................................
............ 198
Fulbrooke ...................
Bid ford Crab-tree ..........
............ 201
Hampton Lucy Church
223
Bidford Grange.
204 Daisy Hill
Charlcote Church..
Ingon Hill..
228
Deer Barn, Fulbrooke..
Snitterfield.
230
Charlcote House, from the Avenue..................... 211 Map of the neighbourhood of Stratford
................ 232
Note on the Shaksperian Localities....
231
224
***... 205 ...... 209
246
CHAPTER XV.-SOLITARY HOURS.
Hampton Lucy. From Road near Alveston ......... 233 Spenser.........
Meadows near Welford
237 Below Charlcote......
Near Alveston .................
243 Near Alveston ........
Old Church of Hampton Lucy..
244 Near Ludington
A Peep at Charlcote.........................
245 The Mill, Welford .......................
Old Town, Avon ........................
245 The Marl Cliff.........
Note on the Scenery of the Avon
.... 250
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256
257
254
CHAPTER XVI. -A DAY AT WORCESTER.
Worcester .......................................................... 258 Nunnery at Salford............................................. 274
Shottery Cottage................
267 Pershore.................
275
Clifford Church ..........
269 Worcester Cathedral
276
Note on Christening Customs...
........................................................... 277
Note on Shakspere's Marriage Licence
277
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The Misfortunes of Arthur
330 Queen Elizabeth ..................................................... 333
Sir F. Bacon..................................................... 332 Sir Walter Raleigh ............................................ 335
Note on Hentzner's Account of the Court at Greenwich
337
CHAPTER V.-THE GLOBE.
The Globe Theatre
371 Seal and Autograph of Susanna Hall..................... 378
Entry in Parish Register of Stratford of the Burial Autograph of Judith Shakspere.......... ................ 378
of Hampet Shakspere..........
............ ....................... 377 Richard Burbage......
382
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CHAPTER VI.-WIT-COMBATS.
The Palcon Tavern....................................... 383
John Donne.......................................................... 397
Ben Jonson...................................................... 387
Michael Drayton......
.................................................... 399
John Taylor ......
389 Samuel Daniel ................................................... 400
George Chapman
393 John Lowin ........................................................ 407
John Fletcher....
395
Note on Marston's 'Malecontent'
407
CHAPTER VII.- EVIL DAYS.
409 Fac-simile of the Register of the Burial of John
413 Shakspere............
418
Essex House.........
Robert Cecil ............
Earl of Essex ............
416
456 457
CHAPTER VIII.-DID SHAKSPERE VISIT SCOTLAND?
Edinburgh in the Seventeenth Century.
419 Linlithgow..
Perth, and Vicinity...........
427
Stirling
Dunsinane....................................................... 430
Falkland...........
Glamis Castle.................
431
Aberdeen.................
James the Sixth of Scotland, and First of England 449 Berwick................... Carlisle .........
Alnwick Castle ........ Holyrood House.......
455
Note on the Queen of Elphen.................
458
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453
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CHAPTER IX.-LABOURS AND REWARDS.
Hall of the Middle Temple................................. 465 Tenement at Stratford
.................. 471
Interior of the Temple Church............................ 407
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth................................. 472
Autograph of William Combe....
468 William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke..................... 474
Ditto of John Combe........
468
Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery..
475
Fac-simile of Conveyance..
Wolsey's Hall, Hampton Court.....
476
Harefield..............
470 Banqueting House, Whitehall....
Note on the Patent to the Company acting at the Globe..........
......................... 480
477
CHAPTER X.--REST.
The Garden of New Place.......
481 Fac-simile of entry in Parish Register of the Mar-
Monument of Sir Thomas Lucy......
490 riage of John Hall and Susanna Shakspere......... 498
The College
493 Signature of Dr. Hall.......
499
Ancient Hall in the College....
494 House in the High Street, Stratford..................... 499
New Place, from a drawing in the margin of an Bishopton Chapel..
500
ancient Survey, made by order of Sir George Foot-bridge above the Mill.... ... ... ..................... 501
Carew ...........................
497 Stratford Church ...................................................
502
Note on the copy of a Letter signed H. S., preserved at Bridgewater House........................................... 504
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CHAPTER XI.-GLIMPSES OF LONDON.
The Bear Garden.......
Francis Beaumont....
519
Edward Alleyn.......
511 Philip Massinger.
520
William Drummond....
513 Nathaniel Field.....
521
William Alexander, Earl of Stirling.
514 Thomas Middleton ..............
522
Thomas Dekker.................
517
Note on the Conveyance to Shakspere in 1613 ...........
.................................. 523
...... 530
CHAPTER XII.-THE LAST BIRTHDAY.
Chancel of Stratford Church ............................... 524
Fac-simile of entry in Parish Register of the burial
Monument of John Combe.............................
of Anne Shakspere................
.................... 543
Leicester's Hospital, Warwick
532 Ditto of the burial of Susanna Hall...
543
Weston Church
532 Ditto of the burial of Judith Quiney
544
Fac-simile of entry in Parish Register of the Mar- Autograph of Eliza Barnard ...............
544 riage of Thomas Quiney and Judith Shakspere... 533 Autographs of Shakspere... ...... .................... 547 Signature of Thomas Quiney
533 Shakspere from Roubiliac's Monument................ 549
Monument at Stratford ....................................... 539 Shakspere's bust from the Monument at Stratford 551
Shakspere's Will .......
539
Note on some Points in Shakspere's Will.
542
Note on Autographs.........
545
Stratford Registers ......
Note on the Portraits of Shakspere........
Note on the Shak pere House and New Place ..........................................
552
......... 548 ............ 519