∗ ‘Hunterian Reminiscences,‘ p. 30, by Parkinson, , Sherwood, , Gilbert, , and Piper, , London, 1833.Google Scholar

∗ Our poet Shakespeare has been confounded by his biographers with the son of “Johnes Shackspere (qui) nihil habet unde distr. potest levari” (according to the register of the Bailiff's Court at Stratford, 1585–61. We find that even so early as 1597 Shakespeare must have been in comfortable, if not in comparatively affluent circumstances. In that year he purchased New Place, iu Stratford, of William Underbill; but at what price we are not informed. In the following year (1598) he lent £30 to a fellow-townsman; and, at the same time, expressed his willingness to advance, upon adequate security, any sum of money the Corporation of Stratford might require. In 1602 he purchased 107 acres of land in the vicinity of New Place, for which be paid £320. In 1605 he gave £140 for a moiety of the great and small tithes of Stratford; and in 1613 he purchased a bouse in Blackfriars, London, for which he paid in part, the sum of £180, leaving a balance of £68, which was secured by a mortgage upon the property.Google Scholar