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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

87.

"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.

159

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

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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.

305

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

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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

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HAMLET, ii. 202-266

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

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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

368

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

His

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

VOL. II.

Monarcho, i. 263

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.

69

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
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