N. B. The Stratford Registers unfortunately commence only

in 1558, which is 20 years after the period of their in-
stitution.

They are defective from 1641 to 1645, and from March to
Nov. 1663.

The sirnames (and especially of the Shaksperes) are here
spelt according to the Registers themselves, at the period
of baptism or other first entry, and if varied upon mar-
riage or burial, the variations are shewn.
And Note that the Registers seem to have been kept neatly
and by one person, (Mr. Richard Bifield, the officiating mi-
nister) from their commencement till 1600, but to have
been kept afterwards in a very slovenly manner, and by per-
sons very illiterate. (see Mr. R. Wheler's statement in the
Gentleman's Magazine for Sept. 1816, p. 204, supported
by evident bad orthography, confusions of Latin and
English, and some strange omissions of Christian names in
the Registers.)

Henry Shakspere, of Hampton
Lucy, see Malone's Shakspere,
vol. I. part 1. p. 172, n..

LETTICE, (his JAMES, bapt.
dau.) bapt. there in 1585,
there in and buried
1582.
there in 1589.

MARY ARDEN, daughterand coheiress of Robert Arden, of Willin Cote, esq. (see extract from a book in Heralds' Coll. marked "Vincent 157 or 178," No. 23, printed in the Europ. Mag. vol. LXX. p. 223.)

Thomas Shakspere, of Warwick, Yeoman, bargainee, by deed enrolled in Chancery, of Tachbroke, alias Bishop Tachbroke, in Warwickshire, (about four or five miles from Warwick, on the left of the road by Gaydon Inn to Banbury) of 44th Eliz. (1601), Madone's Shakspere, vol. I. part 1. p. 172. n. *.

A SHAKSPERIAN PEDIGREE,

Originally framed from the Extracts from the Stratford-upon-Avon Registers, and other
Statements in Malone's edition of Shakspere of 1790; but corrected and extended from
information received from the Rev. James Davenport, D. D. vicar of Stratford, and
Mr. Robert Bell Wheler, of Stratford, and from information otherwise collected by
Φιλαρχαιοτητες,

SHAKSPERE, said to have rendered services to-
King Henry VII. and to have had a grant of lands
and tenements for it; (see the grant of arms to
John his great-grandson of 1599, as printed in the
European Magazine, vol. LXX. p. 226.)

mar

JOHN

These descents are at present involved in complete obscurity, but the wife of the grandson is stated by Mr.R.Wheler to have been a daughter of Alexander Webbe, of Bearley, near Stratford. See Gent. Magazine for Sept. 1816, p. 207.

SHAKSPERE, Inferred by the grant of Arms of 1599, to have inherited his of Stratford-upon- great grandfather's real estate. By Rowe (in 1709) called Avon, Gentleman. dealer in wool," which is not improbable, being the staple commodity of the kingdom, (but query?) Summoned as a juryman of Stratford, Feb. 23, 1557-8. Chamberlain of Stratford, 1563 (April 16th) and 1564. High Bailiff 1569; grant of arms then exemplified, though not now to be found (see Vincent, 157 or 178, No. 23). The right to the grant questioned temp. Eliz. (see MSS. in Heralds' College, W. Z. p. 276, and Europ. Mag. vol. LXX. p. 226.) There said to have been a justice of peace at Stratford, and to have been able to maintain the Arden estate. Excused taxation as an alderman, Nov. 19, 1579. Superseded as alderman Sept.6, 1586. Confirmations of the grant of arms to him, as a gentleman, drawn in 1596, (38th Eliz.) and proofs entered into; wherein it is said he possessed "lands and tenements," and was "of good wealth and substance, 500li,;" see Vincent, ut supra, and ib. No. 24, and Europ. Mag. LXX. pp. 223 and 225. Confirmation further exemplified 42d Eliz. (1599) impaled with Arden's, of Willin Cote, Warwickshire, (now Wilnecote, near Tamworth, in one instance mis-spelt Wellingcote) see book in Heralds' College, marked R 21, (olim G 13) p. 349, and Europ. Mag. vol. LXX. p. 226. buried at Stratford, Sept. 8, 1601, as "MR. JOHAN'ES SHAKSPEARE," being the FIRST INSTANCE on the Register oF THAT MODE OF SPELLING the name.

Mary, Lichardson, alive in 1806.

יז

"Katheren, filha Shakspear and Anne Hartte," bap. at Stratford, July 19, 1703. "Thomas, the sonne of Shakesper Hartt," bapt. at Stratford, June 15, 1711.

"Thomas, Sarah Mum

filius of

George
Hart," bap.
at Strat-

ford, marr.

Feb. 20,

ford, June 24, 1698.

1728-9, by banns, bur. at Stratford, Aug. 6, 1754.

"Thomas, son of George= Hart, jun. bapt. at Stratford, May 9, 1729, who, Malone says, was living at Stratford, in 1788, vol. I. p. I. p. 180, n. 5. 1788

Alice

Ricketts, of

.....

bur. at Strat

ford,

1729

June

21,

aged

59; died May 23,

1792.

Jorg, filius of Jorg.and Marey Hart," bapt. at Stratford, Nov. 29, 1700, (jun.) and bur. there, July 8, 1778.

William Hart, bapt. at Stratford, July 9, 1731, and bur. there April 28, 1745. Sarah Hart, bapt. at Stratford, Sept. 29, 1733. Mr. Wheler states she married Joseph M'Laughlin, a taylor of Stratford, but no issue, see Gent. Mag. ut supra.

George Hart, at Stratford, 23, 1735.

bapt.

Fillis Hart,

Nov.

Mary Hart,bapt. at Stratford, Jan. 13, 1737-8, and buried there, July 30, 1794. Ann Hart, bapt. at Stratford, Sept. 29, 1740, and bur. there Feb. 5, 1760.

Thomas Hart, bapt.—Mary, daughter of Chomas

at Stratford, Aug. 10, 1764, died at Woolwich, in Feb. 1800 (a butcher).

near

Kite, of Clifford Stratford, and Ann (Spiers) his wife, married Sept. 15, 1791, died Dec. 8, 1793, aged 26, buried at Clifford.

Nanny Hart, bapt. at Stratford, Jan. 16, 1767. Jane Hart, bapt. at Stratford, April 23, 1783.