them all fuch rings as was their late father's, and which are by me kept by themselves apart in a little cafket.

Item, I do make, name, ordain and appoint my faid well beloved wife, Elizabeth Cundall, the full and fole executrix of this my last will and testament, requiring and charging her, as the will anfwer the contrary before Almighty God at the dreadful day of judgment, that the will truely and faithfully perform the fame, in and by all things according to my true intent and meaning; and I do earnestly defire my very loving friends, John Heminge, gentleman, Cuthbert Burbage, gentleman, my fon-in-law Herbert Finch, and Peter Saunderfon, grocer, to be my overfeers, and to be aiding and affifting unto my faid executrix in the due execution and performance of this my laft will and teftament. And I give and bequeath to every of my faid four overfeers the fum of five pounds apiece to buy each of them a piece of plate.

Item, I give, devife, and bequeath, unto my faid fon William Cundall, all the clear yearly rents and profits which shall arife and come from the time of my decease, of and by my leafes and terms of years, of all my meffuages, houfes, and places, fituate in the Blackfriars London, and at the Bankfide in the county of Surry, until such time as that the full fum of three hundred pounds by thofe rents and profits may be raised for a stock for my faid fon William, if he fhall fo long live.

Item, for as much as I have by this my will dealt very bountifully with my well beloved wife Elizabeth Cundall, confidering my eftate, I do give and bequeath unto my fon Henry Cundall for his maintenance, either at the university or elsewhere, one

? He was probably bound apprentice to Peter Saunderfon, grocer.

annuity or yearly fum of thirty pounds of lawful money of England, to be paid unto my faid fon Henry Cundall, or his affigns, during all the term of the natural life of the faid Elizabeth my wife, if my faid fon Henry Cundall fhall fo long live, at the four most ufual feaft-days or terms in the year, that is to say, at the feafts of the birth of our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Annunciation of the bleffed Virgin Mary, Nativity of Saint John Baptift, and St. Michael the Archangel; or within the space of twenty and eight days next enfuing after every of the fame feaft-days, by even and equal portions: the first payment thereof to begin and to be made at fuch of the faid feaft-days as fhall firft and next happen after the day of my decease, or within the fpace of twenty and eight days next enfuing after the fame feaft-day.

Item, I give and bequeath unto widow Martin and widow Gimber, to each of them refpectively, for and during all the terms of their natural lives feverally, if my leafes and terms of years of and in my houses in Aldermanbury in London fhall fo long continue unexpired, one annuity or yearly fum of twenty fhillings apiece, of lawful money of England, to be paid unto them feverally, by even portions quarterly, at the feaft-days above mentioned, or within the fpace of twenty and eight days next enfuing after every of the fame feaftdays; the first payment of them feverally to begin and to be made at fuch of the faid feafts as fhall first and next happen after my decease or within the space of twenty and eight days next enfuing after the fame feast.

Item, I give, devife, and bequeath, unto the poor people of the parish of Fulham in the county of Middlesex, where I now dwell, the fum of five pounds, to be paid to master Doctor Clewett, and

mafter Edmond Powell of Fulham, gentleman, and by them to be diftributed.

Item, I give, devife, and bequeath unto my faid well beloved wife Elizabeth Cundall, and to my faid well beloved daughter Elizabeth Finch, all my household ftuff, bedding, linen, brafs, and pewter, whatsoever, remaining and being as well at my house in Fulham aforefaid, as alfo in my house in Aldermanbury in London; to be equally divided between them part and part alike. And for the more equal dealing in that behalf, I will, appoint, and requeft my faid overfeers, or the greater number of them, to make divifion thereof, and then my wife to have the preferment of the choice.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my coufin Frances Gurney, alias Hulfe, my aunt's daughter, the fum of five pounds, and I give unto the daughter of the faid Frances the like fum of five pounds.

Item, I give, devife and bequeath unto fuch and fo many of the daughters of my coufin Gilder, late of New Buckenham in the county of Norfolk, deceased, as shall be living at the time of my decease, the fum of five pounds apiece.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my old fervant Elizabeth Wheaton, a mourning gown and forty fhillings in money, and that place or priviledge which the now exercifeth and enjoyeth in the houses of the Black fryers, London, and the Globe on the Bankfide, for and during all the term of her natural life, if my eftate fhall fo long continue in the premifes; and I give unto the daughter of the faid Elizabeth Wheaton the fum of five pounds, to be paid unto the faid Elizabeth Wheaton, for the ufe of her faid daughter, within the fpace of one year next after my decease. And I do hereby will, appoint and declare, that an acquittance under

the hand and feal of the faid Elizabeth Wheaton, upon the receipt of the faid legacy of five pounds, for the use of her faid daughter, fhall be, and fhall be deemed, adjudged, conftrued, and taken to be, both in law and in equity, unto my now executrix a fufficient release and discharge for and concerning the payment of the fame.

Item, I give, devife, and bequeath, all the rest and refidue of my goods, chattels, leafes, money, debts, and perfonal eftate, whatsoever, and wherefoever, (after my debts fhall be paid and my funeral charges and all other charges about the execution of this my will firft paid and difcharged) unto my faid well beloved wife, Elizabeth Cundall.

Item, My will and mind is, and I do hereby defire and appoint, that all fuch legacies, gifts and bequefts as I have by this my will given, devifed or bequeathed unto any perfon or perfons, for payment whereof no certain time is hereby before limited or appointed, fhall be well and truly paid by my executrix within the space of one year next after my decease. Finally, I do hereby revoke, countermand, and make void, all former wills, teftaments, codicils, executors, legacies, and bequefts, whatsoever, by me at any time heretofore named, made, given, or appointed; willing and minding that thefe prefents only fhall ftand and be taken for my laft will and teftament, and none other. In witness whereof I the faid Henry Cundall, the teftator, to this my prefent laft will and teftament, being written on nine fheets of paper, with my name fubfcribed to every sheet, have fet my feal, the thirteenth day of December, in the third year of the reign of our fovereign lord Charles, by the grace of God king of England,

Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.

HENRY CUNDALL.

Signed, fealed, pronounced and declared, by the faid Henry Cundall, the teftator, as his last will and teftament, on the day and year above written, in the presence of us whofe names are here under

written:

Robert Yonge.

Hum. Dyson, Notary Publique.

And of me Ro. Dickens, fervant unto the faid Notary.

Probatum fuit teftamentum fuprafcriptum apud Lond. coram magiftro Richardo Zouche, legum doctore, Surrogato, 24° die Februarii, 1627, juramento Elizabethe Cundall, reli&tæ dicti defuncti et executr. cui, &c. de bene, &c. jurat.

WILLIAM SLY

was joined with Shakspeare, &c. in the licence granted in 1603.-He is introduced, perfonally, in the induction to Marfton's Malecontent, 1604, and from his there using an affected phrafe of Ofrick's in Hamlet, we may collect that he performed that part. He died before the year 1612.*

RICHARD COWLEY

appears to have been an actor of a low clafs, having performed the part of Verges in Much Ado about Nothing. He lived in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and had two fons baptized there;

* Heywood's Apology for Actors.