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FRONTISPIECE
SHAKESPEARE DOCUMENTS
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
1 B
HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM THE LIBRARY OF GEORGE RICHARD ELINN
Sep 10. 1926
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.
NO.
LIST OF CONTENTS
I Baptismal register of Joan Shakespeare
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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.
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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
15 Abstract of Bill of Complaint brought by John
Shakespeare against John Lambert.
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16 Title, Dedication and Address of Henry
Chettle's "Kind-Harts Dream"
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17 Entry of "Venus and Adonis " at Stationers'
Hall"
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18 Title-page and Dedication of "Venus and
Adonis "
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
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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"
30 Draft of a Grant of Arms to John Shakespeare 18
31 Title-page of "Venus and Adonis," third
32 Foot of a fine levied in the purchase of New
Place from William Underhill
33 Entry of" Richard II." at Stationers' Hall 23
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”.
39 Extract from a letter from Abraham Sturley
to Richard Quiney
40 Entry of "Henry IV." at Stationers' Hall