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LONDON, OCTOBER 16, JSW.

CONTENTS. No. 131.

ISOTES : Among the Shakespeare Archives, 301 Notes on Dorothy Oshorne's Letters, 304 Irish Family History: Fanning of Dublin. 306-An English Army List of 1740, 308 The Crystal Palace Biz xar Robin Hood Biblio- graphyWilliam Watson Columbus and the Chosea People, 309.

QUERIES : Seton Merrtman's 'Last Hope ' -The Original War Office Thurlow Family The "Goose Club" Hudibras Redivivus Kpisc^pal Churches -Chamberlain Feckenham Forest Records : Prince Rupert's Ring : John Ruf : German Customs, 310-Morlow Ben Jonson's 'Timber' John Robinson. Sheriff of Hull" Hurdlings"

Coats of Arms of Gloucestershire Author Wanted

Thackeray Query Floor Covsrings of the Tudor Epoch Poisoned King of France, 3114 Parallel Crusaders from Sussex The Rev. John Boultbee The Mint. Liss Sand Picture Heacock or Hilcock Name Cumberland Pedigree Wanted Neopurgensis, 312.

UEPLIES : Rolls of Lords-Lieutenants, Staffordshire. 312 Etymology of "Liverpool," 313 Joseph Porter of Ytort- lake An Eiglish Arm* List of 1740 Pomonkey. 314 Wideawake Hats -The Lights of London Etymology of "Sajene"and "Arschine*' President John Richardson Herbert of Nevis, 315 Harvey de Leon London Street "Grottoes." 316 Fathers of the Ho-ise of Commons Romney Marsh Columbaria Ecclesiastical Dress in Russian Church Mrs. Walton, 317 Charles Lamb's Pedigree Amber The " 'Unable Commons" : " Revenue" Stature of Pepys Beatster Cullidge-euded " You bet your bottom dollar "Authors of Quotations Wanted, 318.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'The Household Account Book of Sarah Fell of Swarthmoor Hall' 'Notes on Exater Cathedral.' Notices to Correspondents.

AMONG THE SHAKESPEARE ARCHIVES.

THE HOME OF SHAKESPEARE'S GRANDFATHER.

HALF-WAY from Warwick to Stratford a road to the right leads to Snitter field, a village beautiful with trees and hedges, , fine old church and timber-buildings not greatly altered since Richard Shakespeare the poet's grandfather, occupied Master Robert Ar den's farm " abutting itself against the High Street." The street was probably the road from Warwick, known also as Warwick Way and Warwick Lane. Close by was Dawkins' Hedge, and within the parish or near it were places we hear of in contemporary deeds and in some cases may still identify Burman and Red Hill on the right of the road to Luscombe, Grisold or Bush Field, the Wold, Wall Fields, the Park Pit, Coplowes ("next Parsons' other-*

wise Burgess Hedge, which shoots down into the way after Luscombe Hedge "), Lammas Close, Aston Meadow, Errymarsh Meadow, Brooke Field and Northbrooke, the Hill Field ("where the windmill standeth "), Gallow Hill Field, Brunt Hill or the New Leasowes, Rowley Field ("over-run with conies "), and the Common Leas ("between Hollow Meadow and Ingon Gate, shooting up by Stratford Way Pit to Broad Meadow").

The lord of the manor in the earlier period of Richard Shakespeare's tenancy was the Prior of Warwick, but after the dissolution of the Priory the lordship passed, on Aug. 29, 1545, to Sir Richard Morrison, a protege of Cromwell and a Protestant, enriched by grants of monastic lands in Worcestershire and Warwickshire, married to a daughter of Lord Hussey and resident in Warwick. Within a year Morrison sold the manor to John Hales, the Clerk of the Hanaper, a great man in Coventry and an ultra Protestant. Freeholders paying suit to the lord besides Robert Arden were Thomas Robins of Northbrooke, Richard Grant (whose son Edward married the daughter and heiress of Thomas Robins and became master of Northbrooke), John Pardy, Richard Meads, John Tombes, John Walker, William Perks, Thomas Harding, Edward Waterson and the Palmers (John the lord's " tithing-man," decenarius, Roger the " chaplain," Adam and Thomas). William Bott, agent to Squire Clopton of Clopton, near Stratford, lived at the Wold Farm. Margery Lynscombe lived in a house near the Lammas Close. Fellow - tenants with Richard Shakespeare under Master Robert Arden were Hugh Porter and Richard Henley. They occupied adjoining holdings

Master Robert Arden was son of Thomas Arden of Wilmecote, and probably grandson of Sir Walter Arden of Park Hall in War- wickshire and great grandson of Sir Robert Arden of the same, who fought for the Yorkists, spent much of his substance on their behalf, and was beheaded in 1452. Lands at Snitterfield purchased by Master Thomas Arden were invested by him in 1501 for the benefit of his son Robert in the hands of trustees, one of whom, second on the list and next to Sir Robert Throgmorton, was Thomas Trussell of Billesley. Robert Arden was then young, and Thomas Trussell may have been his uncle, his mother's brother. When Robert Arden had grown to manhood he added to his Snitterfield