SHAKESPEARE
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A CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF EXTANT
EVIDENCE RELATING TO THE

LIFE AND WORKS OF

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

COLLATED AND CHRONOLOGICALLY

ARRANGED BY

D. H. LAMBERT, B.A.

SOLICITOR; FORMERLY MEMBER OF THE "NEW SHAKSPERE SOCIETY;" AND
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY

LONDON

GEORGE BELL AND SONS

1904

NO.

LIST OF CONTENTS

I Baptismal register of Joan Shakespeare

2 Baptismal register of Margaret Shakespeare.

3 Baptismal register of William Shakespeare

4 Baptismal register of Gilbert Shakespeare

5 Baptismal register of Joan Shakespeare

6 Baptismal register of Anna Shakespeare

7 Baptismal register of Richard Shakespeare

8 Fine levied on the purchase of two houses in

Henley Street .

9 Fine levied when an Estate at Aston Cantlowe

was mortgaged to Edmund Lambert

10 Baptismal register of Edmund Shakespeare

II Extract from the Diocesan register, Worcester

12 Marriage Bond from the Diocesan register,

Worcester . .

13 Baptismal register of Susannah Shakespeare

14 Baptismal register of Harriet and Judith

Shakespeare

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16 Title, Dedication and Address of Henry

Chettle's "Kind-Harts Dream"

17 Entry of "Venus and Adonis" at Stationers'

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15 Abstract of Bill of Complaint brought by John
Shakespeare against John Lambert.

18 Title-page and Dedication of "Venus and

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19 Entry of "Titus Andronicus" at Stationers'

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20 Entry of "Henry VI." at Stationers' Hall

21 Entry of "Lucrece" at Stationers' Hall

22 Entry of assignment of copyright of "Venus

and Adonis" at Stationers' Hall. .

23 Title-page of "Venus and Adonis," second

edition

24 Title-page and Dedication of "Lucrece "
25 Manuscript Accounts of the Treasurer of the
Chamber to Queen Elizabeth.

26 Extract from Edmund Spenser's "Colin
Clouts come home again"

27 Entry of assignment of copyright of "Venus
and Adonis" at Stationers' Hall.

28 Burial register of Hamnet Shakespeare

29 Title, Dedication and Address of Robert

Green's "Groatsworth of Wit"

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30 Draft of a Grant of Arms to John Shakespeare 18

31 Title-page of "Venus and Adonis," third

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32 Foot of a fine levied in the purchase of New

Place from William Underhill

33 Entry of " Richard II.” at Stationers' Hall

34 Entry of "Richard III." at Stationers' Hall.

35 Papers in a Chancery suit respecting an estate

at Wilmcote

36 Title-page of "Romeo and Juliet".

37 Title-page of "Richard II."

38 Title-page of "Richard III.”.

39 Extract from a letter from Abraham Sturley

to Richard Quiney

40 Entry of "Henry IV." at Stationers' Hall