Cavendish, Sir Charles, anecdote of, i. 55
Chaldee plural form used by Shake- speare, i. 316
Chalmers, George, his opinion on the origin of The Tempest, i. 149, 157 Chamber of Meditation, Jesuits', ii. 13 Chancery suit of the Shakespeares, i. 30 Chapman, verses signed J. M. S.
claimed for him, i. 7
Charles the First, King, his declaration of August 12, 1642, i. 263 Chaucer, Shakespeare's reading in, i. 312. The Coke's Tale of Gamelyn, i. 334
Chetwood, his statements, i. 283 City Chronicles, ii. 30
"Clear Stones," i. 409
Clopton of Stratford, family of, i. 84. ii. 338
Cobham, Sir John Oldcastle, Lord, ii. 39
Cobham, Lord, descent of the title, ii. 44 Coke, Sir Edward, his treatment of Raleigh, i. 407
Coleridge, his notions of the chrono- logical order, i. 361. A criticism of his on a passage in Comus, ii. 71 Collier, J. P., contends for the ortho- graphy of Shakespeare, i. 8. Pro- duces papers relating to Shakespeare from Lord Ellesmere's papers, their genuineness inquired into, i. 67. His opinions respecting The Tem- pest, 135, 139, 156, 164. Judg- ment on his edition, ii. 10. His evidence that Othello was acted in 1602 examined, ii. 275
Collins, his origin of The Tempest, i. 167 Cologne, English actors performing there, ii. 231
Colours indicative of particular states of mind, i. 405, 418 Combe, family of, i. 87-90
Mr. Thomas, a legatee of
Shakespeare, i. 85.
John, the Usurer, i. Shakespeare's verses on, 88
COMEDY OF ERRORS, i. 225
"Concolinel," conjecture concerning, 268
Conjugal tenderness beautifully depic- ted by Shakespeare, ii. 295 Cooke, Alexander, manuscript of his ii. 60
Cooke, James, publishes Dr. Hall's book of cases i. 94. His account of
his interview with Mrs. Susanna Hall, i. 98
CORIOLANUS, ii. 117
Cornelius, John, a priest, sees the ghost of Lord Stourton, ii. 210. An Ex- orcist, ii. 268.
Cornwallis, Sir William, his Essays, i. 145
Corser, Rev. Mr. possesses the Tri- narchodia, ii. 43
Corvina stone, i. 280
Cotswold games, i. 200, 204
Coventry, first appearance of the name of Shakespeare in that city, i 8. ii. 305. Mayor of, arrests Prince Hen- ry, ii. 30
Court, performance of Plays at, i. 126, 148
"Cow," singular use of the word, i. 306 Crosby Hall, Shakespeare a near neigh- bour of, i. 76
Crowing of the cock at midnight in winter, ii. 215
Crulle, Dr. said to be author of The Antiquities of Westminster Abbey, ii. 309
Cultivated minds excel the uncultivated even at their own weapons, ii. 59 Cunningham, Mr. his remarks on the date of The Tempest, i. 147 Curles, The, i. 374 CYMBELINE, ii. 294, 301 Cypress, what, i. 407
Dagon, the same form as Caliban, i. 183 Dance of Death, ii. 18
Danes, their drunkenness, ii. 220 Daniel, George, a poet of the 17th cen- tury, ii. 307 Daniel, Samuel, will and other bio- graphical notices, i. 277. Called "sweet swan of Avon," ii. 306 Danish soldiers, epitaph on two, i. 340. Perform a play in England, ii. 251 Danish theatre, dumb show the prac- tice. ii. 251
Darrel, his exorcisms, i. 380
Davenant's alterations of Macbeth, ii.
Death, customs at, ii. 67 Dee, Dr. John, i. 385.
Deer-stealing, how regarded, i. 55 "Delighted Spirit," in Measure for Measure, i. 223
Denison, Sir Thomas, desires to be buried at the feet of Sir William Gascoigne, ii. 33
Derby, Shakespeares early settled there, i. 9.
"Despair and die," ii. 94
Dethick, Sir William, grants arms to John Shakespeare, i, 23, 26 Dorset, Charles Earl of, remarkable manuscript of his, i. 262 Douce, Francis, said to have hit on the identity of the island of The Tempest and Lampedusa, i. 159. Corrected, ii. 343
Dover Cliff, the incident there, ii. 273 Dover, Captain, and the Cotswold games, i. 204
Drake, Dr. not an original investigator on Shakespeare, ii. 275 Drawsword, a surname, i. 3 Drayton, Michael, arms granted to
him, i. 23. Frequent visitor of Strat- ford, i. 84. A patient of Dr. Hall, i. 95. Passage in his Barons' Wars, illustrated, ii. 174. Eclogues, ii. 353 Dreams made visible, ii 94, Shake- speare's frequent allusion to them, ii. 239
Drowned in the Avon, a William Shakespeare, i. 4. Walter Bagot, ii.
Drum of the Players, i. 364 Ducat, Venetian, i. 324. ii. 350 Duelling, Shakespeare's ridicule of i. 408
Dumb Shows, ii. 249
Dyce, his happy restoration of a pas- sage in Henry the Eighth, ii. 97
Earthquake in Romeo and Juliet, ii. 120 Edmund, why this name given to a character in King Lear, i. 390 Eastcheap, scene of some riotous pro- ceedings of the sons of King Henry the Fourth, ii. 30 Egerton papers relating to Shakespeare, their genuineness inquired into, i. 76 ii. 278
Eleanor, Queen, statue of, by whom cast, i. 125. ii. 352. Ellesmere, Lord, Letter purporting to be addressed to him by the Earl of Southampton, its genuineness in- quired into, i. 72
Elizabeth, Queen, her fondness for theatrical performances, i. 203. Her death, i. 369. ii. 100 Elisions, remarkable, in Shakespeare, i. 188
Epicures, the English, ii. 198
Fairy Mythology, i. 285
Falstaff, Sir John, the character, ii. 40. Families of men pre-eminently great
soon become extinct, i. 105 Farmer who hanged himself on the ex- pectation of plenty, ii. 188 Farmer, Dr. Richard, his conjecture respecting Love Labours Won, i.
132. His Essay on the learning examined, ii. 313
Fastolph, George, his monument in the church of St. Helen, Bishopsgate, i. 80
Ferrara, earthquake which destroyed, ii. 121
Fifteen Oos, in the Salisbury Primer, ii. 263
Fifth of November Play, the Winter's Tale probably a, i. 414 Fires at Stratford, i. 109 Fitzherbert's Book of Husbandry, er- roneous attribution of it to an author, ii. 226 Fletcher, Giles, author of The Rising to the Crown of Richard the Third, ii. 77 Fletcher, Phineas, ii. 77 Fliford, John Shakespeare rector there, i. 9.
Florio, John, his arms, i. 23. His translation of Montaigne, i. 145. In the pay of Lord Southampton, i. 146. Supposed to be the original Holofernes, i. 261. Account of him, i. 273, 281
Florio, Michael Angelo, i. 273 Flowers, how appropriated to men's ages, i. 419. Artifice to produce di. versity of colour, i. 421
Forman, Dr. Simon, his notes of plays seen by him, i. 413 Fox, the martyrologist, i. 54 France, transactions of Navarre and, i. 256
Frobisher the voyager related to Gas- coigne the poet, i. 353
Fulham, the residence of Florio, i. 279 Fulwood, family of, i. 42, 103
Gadshill, suitable scene for the robbery, ii. 49
Garden of Belmont, i. 310
Garrick, a visitor at Abington, i. 116 Gascoigne, George, biographical parti- culars of, i. 352
Gascoign, Richard, his misreading of the judge's monumental inscription, and its effects, ii. 36 Gascoign, Sir William, the chief Jus- tice of the King's Bench, commits Prince Henry to prison, ii. 33. Time of his death, &c. ii. 35 Genealogical researches, how valuable, i. 24
Germany, English actors performing there, ii. 231
Gilbert, Mrs. Elizabeth, her puri- tanism, i. 114
Golding's Ovid, book vii. often refer- red to by Shakespeare, ii. 162 Googe, Barnaby, his Songs and Son- nets, ii. 129
Grammatical Improprieties, supposed, i. 345. ii. 146 "Grand Jurors," ii. 49
Grange, true character of a, ii. 345 Graves dressed with flowers, ii. 300 Gray, his "Towers of Julius," ii. 21. His servile imitations, ii. 329 Green and Chettle's testimony about Shakespeare, i. 66
Greene, the schoolmaster at Stratford, his appreciation of Shakespeare's will, ii. 340
Green, Thomas, will of, i. 42
Grenvile, Mr. directs that he shall be
buried on the sea shore ii. 147 Grevile, a fatal accident in the family, ii. 265
Grevile, Lodowick, his horrid crime, ii. 188
Grimoald, Nicholas, author of a play called Troilus and Cressida, ii. 114. "Groan for Joan," i. 271 Gwinne, Matthew, the Il Candido of Florio, ii. 155
Hamlet as a Christian name, i. 52 Hampden, supposed descent of Shakes- peare from, i. 35. Bernards con- nected with them, i. 104
Hankford, story of the committal of Prince Henry attributed to him, ii. 32 Harewood, monument of Judge Gas- coign at, ii. 35
Harington, Sir James, enters Shrews- bury school, i. 152
Harington, Sir John, his favourite de- vice, ii. 272
Harmony of the spheres, i. 316. In the soul of man, i. 316. ii. 349 Harsnet, Archbishop, his Discovery of Darrel, i. 380. Biographical no- tice, his will, i. 390. His Declara- tion of Popish Impostures, ii. 267 Hart, family of, i. 45-47
Hartley, a "Conjuror," put to death, i. 385
Hart-royal proclaimed, ii. 290 Hathaway, family of, i. 48-51. ii. 335 Heavenly harmony, i. 316
Hebraistic character of much in The Tempest, i. 183
Hecate, queen of the witches, ii. 161 HENRY THE FOURTH, KING, Part the First, ii. 39-53
HENRY THE EIGHTH, KING, ii. 95— 109
Henry, Prince, his character, ii. 21—32 Henslow, Philip, abstract of his will, ii. 46
Herbert, Lord, the original of Bene- dick, i. 228. Curious history of him, 230. Connection of himself and his family with Florio, i. 274,280. His military ardour, ii. 56. Sin- gular coincidence in his death, ii. 339 Herbert, Lord, of Cherbury, a friend of Sir Thos. Lucy the younger, i. 62 Heretics, Shakespeare's testimony against severities, i. 417 Herne's Oak, i. 211 Hesperides, how used, ii. 317 Hill of Bearley, family of, i. 40 Histories, ii. 3
Hobby-horse, ii. 248 Hoberdidance, tale of, ii. 268 Hody, story of the committal of Prince Henry attributed to him, ii. 32 Holofernes, character of, i. 261 Holy Wars, ii. 48
"Honorificabilitudinitabus", i. 264 Hopwood, a Lancashire magistrate, i. 386
Howards, confusion of them, ii. 106 Howes, John, dedicates Sermons to Sir John Bernard, i. 112 Hundred Merry Tales, i. 247
James, Richard, his testimony respect- ing Oldcastle, ii. 41. Probably the J.M.S. author of lines on Shake- speare, ii. 310
James the First, King, his accession to the English Throne, ii. 101. custom of leaning on the shoulders of those he meant to honour, ii. 102. His visit to Oxford, ii. 154. Idsworth, in Hants, curiosities there, i. 194
Individuals introduced upon the stage, i. 229
Jews of Venice, their costume, i. 299,
307. Bond given to a Jew, i. 305 J.M.S. author of lines on Shakespeare, who? i. 7. ii. 310 Inconsistency attributed to Hamlet, ii. 237
Infection, moral, ii. 17
Ingannati, an Italian Play, i. 393 Inganni, Italian Plays so called, i. 367, 391
Insurances on lives of Travellers, i. 140 Intronati Academici, i. 393, 397 Investiture, ceremony of, intended to be represented in Macbeth, ii. 153 JOHN, KING, ii. 8 Johnson, Dr. his misapplication of "word" i. 264. His strange opinion about Holy Wars, ii. 48 Jonson, Ben, his verses on Shake- speare, i. 7. ii. 306. Visits Shake.. speare at Stratford, i. 84. Prologue to his Every Man in His Humour, i 136. Attacks Shakespeare again, i. 379 Jourdan, Sil. his account of the wreck of the Sea-Adventure, i. 149 Italian Plays, probably used by Eng- lish dramatists, i. 399 Italian poisoning, ii. 295 Italy, slight probability that Shake- speare may have visited, ii. 121
JULIUS CAESAR, ii. 149–151 Juvenal, MS. translation from, ii. 337
Kemp, the actor, i. 68, 70. time of his death, i. 71. ii. 340. Occurs in a song of the hobby-horse, ii. 248 Kett's rebellion ii. 71
Kingscott, Troilus and Allidey, ii. 114 Kingsmill, Constance, afterwards Lady Lucy, i. 61
Knight, Mr. his treatment of Steevens, ii. 280
Lacy, Henry, author of a Latin play on Richard the Third, ii. 77 Lady Bessy, song of, ii. 80 Lambard's Perambulation of Kent, ii. 129
Lambert, Edmund and John, their chancery-suit with the Shakespeares, i. 30 Lampedusa, island of, the probable scene of The Tempest, i. 158-164. By whom the suggestion was first made, ii. 343
Lark, its note, i. 419
LEAR, KING, ii. 267-274 Learning of Shakespeare, ii. 313 Leicester, Countess of, beautiful letter of, ii. 296
Leicester, Earl of, not alluded to in the
Mids. N. D. i. 292
Lewis, John, entertains the sons of King Henry the Fourth, ii. 27 Liberty of Conscience, effect of assert- ing a right to it, i. 268
Lime-tree in The Tempest, i. 177 Lion in the Tower, i. 322 Lodge, Thomas, notices of, i. 333 London, name of Shakespeare rare there, i. 9. Ordinance respecting players, of the corporation, i. 70 LOVE LABOURS LOST, i. 256-281 Love Labours Won, play so called, i. 130, 359
Lucy of Cherlecote, family of i. 53-
63, 205. Sir Thomas, the younger, his will, ii. 335 Lyrical pieces in the old plays, desire- ableness of acollection of them, i. 178
MACBETH, ii. 152-201
Malmsey butts, their capacity, ii. 87 Malone, great obligation under which all readers of Shakespeare lie to him, i. 14. His theory of the origin of The Tempest, i. 149. 157
Malvolio, character of, i. 381
Mandragora, ii. 285 Mandrake, ii. 67
Manningham and his Diary, i. 372-376 "Man's Life" in The Tempest, i. 166. ii. 344
Mansfield, Shakespeares early settled there, i. 9. ii. 312 Marchpane, what, ii. 135
Markham, Sir John, supposed by some to have been the chief justice who committed Prince Henry, ii. 32 Martlet, Shakespeare's exactness in his Natural History, ii. 175
Marlow, Shakespeare's tribute to, i. 337
Martyn, Benjamin, author of the de-
sign for a monument of Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey, ii. 309 Mason, his everlasting portals,” ii. 73 Map alluded to in Twelfth Night, i. 378
Master of the Revels, i. 263 May-Day sports, i. 284
Me," how used, ii. 51
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, i. 221— 224
Melton, John, conjecture concerning, ii. 352
MERCHANT OF VENICE, i. 299-330 Meres, his remarkable passage about Shakespeare, i. 129
Mermaid Taverns, several, ii. 47 "Mermaid on the Dolphin's back," i. 290
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i. 198 -220
Midnight-bell in King John, explained, ii. 9
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, i. 282 -298
Milan, the prime duchy of Europe, i. 187
Milton, his lines on Shakespeare, i. 7. His idea of the form of Dagon, i. 183. Possible recollections of the garden of Belmont, i. 310. His recollections of As you like it, i. 334. His verses on Shakespeare, i. 336. Anecdote of, i. 337. Passage in Comus illus- trated, ii. 69. His " ever-during gates," ii. 73. His allegory of Sin
and Death, ii. 82. His notion of
poetry, ii. 144. His morning, ii. 216. Obligations to Drayton, ii. 354 Molins, son-in-law of Florio, his arms, i. 23. ii. 313
Montaigne's Essays, read by Shake- speare, i. 143
Monument at Stratford to Shakespeare, i. 96. Verses hung on monuments,
i. 254. The monument at Verona, ii. 127, 140. His monument in Westminster Abbey, ii. 309
More, family of, at Grantham, i. 412 More, Father, history of the appear- ance of the ghost of Lord Stourton, ii. 209
More, George, a divine, concerned with Darrell in a case of exorcism, i. 387
Morning, how presented by Shake- speare and Milton, ii. 216 Mortimer, bad pun on the name, ii.
Morgan, Henry, a traveller, i. 141 Motto of Shakespeare, i. 25. ii. 313 "Mountain sire," ii. 61
Mountebanks, ii. 247
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, i. 227 -255
Muffett, his Health's Improvement, i. 142
Music, effect of, upon animals, i, 321 Mysteries, one proof of their great in-
fluence, ii. 245. One performed in 1688, ii. 251.
Nash, Anthony and John, legatees of Shakespeare, i. 85. The family, i. 101. The Thomas Nash, author of Quaternio, i. 102. ii. 341. Gawen, ii. 343
Natural History, Shakespeare's exact- ness in, ii. 175, 195
Navarre, Transactions between France and, i. 236
Necromancers' Books, inquired about, i. 181. Addiction to them of princes of the house of York, ii. 80. Netherlands, custom of drinking healths brought from thence, ii. 221 New years' gifts to the Queen, i. 217 Northern Lord, a ballad so called, i. 302
Northumberland, Countess of, proba- ble allusion to her case, ii. 50, 54 Nottingham, Earl of, scheme for mar- rying his niece to Lord Herbert, i, 232
Oldcastle, Sir John, ii. 39 Orsino, character of, i. 399, 401 2 B
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