Shakespeare on the Record: Researching an Early Modern Life

265 Pages·2019·14.169 MB·English

by  Hannah Leah Crummé

Shakespeare on the
Record
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Shakespeare on
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Researching an Early
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Edited by
Hannah Leah Crummé
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THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE
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CONTENTS
List of illustrations vii
Notes on contributors xii
Acknowledgements xv
List of abbreviations xvii
Introduction: ‘All saws of books, all forms, all pressures
past’ 1
Hannah Leah Crummé and Lucy Munro
1 Neighbours’ petition against the Blackfriars playhouse,
November 1596 23
Alan H. Nelson
2 Shakespeare’s coat of arms: The surviving manuscripts in
context 33
Heather Wolfe
3 The Quiney papers 77
Lena Cowen Orlin
4 Shakespeare indentures and chirographs 109
Alan H. Nelson
5 The course of the seals: An elaborate process of procedures
and checks 115
Adrian Ailes
6 Shakespeare and the playing companies 131
Lucy Munro
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7 Shakespeare at court: Audit Offi ce records 143
W. R. Streitberger
8 Shakespeare and the Replingham agreement 165
Robert Bearman
9 An archival and material reading of Shakespeare’s will 179
Katy Mair
10 The Blackfriars deed and the dawning golden age of
accessible documents 199
Eric M. Johnson
Notes 207
Bibliography 237
Index 243
ILLUSTRATIONS
0.1 London, T NA E 179/146/354. Shakespeare listed as a tax
defaulter on a payment of fi ve shillings. 15 November 1597. 7
0.2 London, T NA E 179/146/354. Shakespeare listed as a tax
defaulter on payment of fi ve shillings. 15 November 1597. 7
0.3 London, T NA STAC 5/A12/35. Alleyn against Burbage,
regarding Shoreditch and Bankside, moving a theatre,
possibly the Globe. 11–13
0.4(v) London, TNA CP 25/2/237/44/45 EliziMich (15v). Foot
of fi ne by which Hercules Underhill conveyed New Place
to William Shakespeare. 1602. 15
0.4 London, TNA CP 25/2/237/44/45 EliziMich (15). Foot of
fi ne by which Hercules Underhill conveyed New Place to
William Shakespeare. 1602. 16
0.5 London, TNA REQ 4/1/4/1 (1a). Shakespeare’s deposition
in Bellott v. Mountjoy. 1612. 18
0.6 London, T NA C54/2184 m. 45. Enrolment of a bargain
and sale conveying a property (Walker to Shakespeare).
10 March 1613. 20
1.1 London, T NA SP 12/260, f. 176. Petition to the Privy
Council against a playhouse in Blackfriars, November
1596. Created in approximately 1633. 25
1.2 London, T NA SP 16/205, f. 38. Petition to the Privy
Council against the playhouse in Blackfriars, 21 January
1618/19. Created in approximately 1633. 26
1.3 London, T NA SP 16/205, f. 34. Petition to William
[Laud?], Archbishop of Canterbury, against the playhouse
in Blackfriars. Created in approximately 1633. 27
2.1 London, College of Arms, Record Shakespeare Draft Grant
of Arms 1 (formerly M S Vincent 157, no. 23). William Dethick,
Garter King of Arms. First draft of grant of arms to John
Shakespeare, 20 October 1596. 34
2.2 London, College of Arms, Record Shakespeare Draft Grant
of Arms 2 (formerly M S Vincent 157, no. 24). William Dethick,
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Garter King of Arms. Second draft of grant of arms to John
Shakespeare, 20 October 1596. 35
2.3 London, College of Arms, Record Shakespeare Draft Grant
of Arms 3 (formerly M S R21, no. 347). William Dethick,
Garter King of Arms. Autograph draft of confi rmation of
arms to John Shakespeare, 1599. 36
2.4 Oxford, Queen’s College, M S 137, folio 54. Copy of William
Dethick’s grant of arms to John Shakespeare in ‘Grant of
arms to various families from 33 Elizabeth to 8 Car I
inclusive chiefl y by Sir William Dethick Garter King of Arms’,
seventeenth century. 40
2.5 London, College of Arms, Record M S R21, fol. 285 recto.
Ralph Brooke, York Herald. Autograph list of 25 coats of
arms granted by William Dethick, in trick. 44
2.6 Washington, DC , Folger MS V.a.156, front endleaf (detail).
Ralph Brooke, York Herald, compiler. Autograph list of
arms granted by William Dethick on front endleaf of Coats
of arms granted by William Dethick as York herald and
Garter king of arms, compiled ca. 1595–ca. 1600. 45
2.7 Oxford, M S Ashmole 846, fol. 50r. William Dethick, Garter
King of Arms, and William Camden, Clarenceaux King of
Arms. William Dethick’s autograph copy of Garter and
Clarenceaux’s reply to the York Herald, including the
Shakespeare coat of arms in trick, 1602. 48
2.8 London, College of Arms, Record W Z fol. 276 verso (detail).
William Dethick, Garter King of Arms, and William Camden,
Clarenceaux King of Arms. Fair copy of Garter and Clarenceaux’s
reply to the York Herald, including the Shakespeare coat of arms
in trick, with autograph corrections by William Dethick, 1602. 49
2.9 Washington, DC , Folger MS V.a.350, page 28 (detail).
‘Shakespeare the player’ in A note of some coats and
crests lately come to my hands given by William Dethick
when he was York herald , Peter Le Neve’s ca. 1700 copy
of the ca. 1600 original. 52
2.10 London, College of Arms, Record M S Dethick’s Grants X,
folio 28 recto. ‘Shakespeare the player’ in A Noate of some
few Coates and Creasts lately come to my hands. Geuen by
Willm Dethick, when he was York Herald and sithence he
hath executed the Offi ce of Garter King of Armes , copy
owned by John Lucas, 1642. 53
2.11 Oxford, Bodleian Library, M S Rylands c. 44, p. 82.
‘Shakespeare the player’ in Collections of grants of arms,
seventeenth century, the arms in trick and emblazoned. 54
ILLUSTRATIONS ix
2.12 Washington, DC , Folger MS V.b.92, folio 73 recto (detail).
‘Shakespeare the player’ in Scrapbook of heraldic and
genealogical items of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
collected ca. 1700. 55
2.13 Boston, Harold Bowditch Collection, Mss 1180, R. Stanton
Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical
Society, page 66 (detail). Shakespeare’s coat of arms in William
Smith, T he Book of Coates and Creasts. Promptuarium
Armorum . Begonne the 28 of May 1602. P[er] W[illia]m
Smith, Rougedragon . 64–5
2.14 London, British Library, Harley M S 5807, folio 82 recto
(detail). Shakespeare’s coat of arms in contemporary
copy of William Smith, T he Book of Coates and
Creasts. Promptuarium Armorum . Begonne the
28 of May 1602. P[er] W[illia]m Smith, Rougedragon ,
1602–before 1618. 66
2.15 London, British Library, Harley M S 6140, folio 46 verso
(detail). Shakespeare’s coat of arms, with falcon’s wings
addorsed and inverted, in P edegrees quartering Crests &
grants of Arms p[er] Segar etc. , ca. 1614–ca. 1705. 67
2.16 London, British Library, Harley M S 5807, folio 174 recto
(detail). Shakespeare’s coat of arms, with falcon’s wings
addorsed and inverted, in an armorial bound after T he
Book of Coates and Creasts. Promptuarium Armorum .
Begonne the 28 of May 1602. P[er] W[illia]m Smith,
Rougedragon . 68
2.17 London, British Library, Add M S 19,522, folio 91 recto
(detail). Shakespeare’s coat of arms on a page devoted to
‘Lances’ in Ordinary of Arms, ca. seventeenth century. 70
2.18 London, College of Arms, William Smith’s alphabet
(unpaginated) (detail). Shakespeare’s arms described in
shorthand blazon in an Alphabet of Arms ‘pe r Will ia m
Smith Rouge dragon 20 Iuly 1604’. 71
2.19 London, College of Arms, Alphabet of Arms in blazon
(unpaginated). Shakespeare’s arms described in shorthand
blazon in an Alphabet of Arms in blazon, ca. early seventeenth
century. 72
2.20 Washington, DC , Folger MS V.a.163, folio 89 verso.
Shakespeare’s arms in trick and in blazon in A list of
gentlemen and their coats of arms and crests , ca. 1677. 73
3.1 Stratford-u pon-Avon, SCLA ER 27/4. Letter from Richard
Quiney to William Shakespeare, dated 25 October 1598. 78