A Play at the Blackfriars.................................... 299 | Thomas Greene...... CHAPTER VIII.-DID SHAKSPERE VISIT SCOTLAND? Edinburgh in the Seventeenth Century.............. 419 Glamis Castle......................................................... 458 Aberdeen............................................. 460 Berwick............................................................ 463 Alnwick Castle.................................................................................. CHAPTER IX.-LABOURS AND REWARDS. Hall of the Middle Temple................................. 465 Interior of the Temple Church.......................... 467 Autograph of William Combe................. ....................................................... 468 Fac-simile of Conveyance................................... 468 Harefield...................................................... 470 Funeral of Queen Elizabeth......................................... 472 William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke...... 474 Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery................................................ 475 Wolsey's Hall, Hampton Court............................ 476 William Shakspert A Biography. BOOK I. " CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY. On the 22nd of August, 1485, there was a battle fought for the crown of Eng land, a short battle ending in a decisive victory. In that field a crowned king, "manfully fighting in the middle of his enemies, was slain and brought to his death;" and a politic adventurer put on the crown, which the immediate descendants of his house wore for nearly a century and a quarter. The battlefield was Bosworth. When the earl had thus obtained victory and slain his mortal enemy, he kneeled down and rendered to Almighty God his hearty thanks, with devout and godly orisons. Which prayer finished, he, replenished with incomparable gladness, ascended up to the top of a little mountain, where he not only praised and lauded his valiant soldiers, but also gave unto them his hearty thanks, with promise of condign recompense for their fidelity and valiant facts."* Two months afterwards the Earl of Richmond was Hall's Chronicle. |