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 12 8. VIII. FEB. 12, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 127 Elizabeth after her mother's sister, Elizabeth Scarlet, and Mary after Mary Shakespeare. "Two more children were born at Snitterfield, Edward and Sarah. Edward was baptized -at the Church on July 30, 1562, Sarah on ApriJ 23, 1565. Edward (or Edmund: the flames are interchangeable) probably had his uncle Edmund Lambert for godfather. These children were all first cousins of William Shakespeare, and of special interest to him PS living in his father's and grandfather's old home. There is evidence of friendship be- tween the John Shakespeares and the Webbes. Unfortunately we have not Richard .Shakespeare's will. We might have learned from it something of the relationship, if any, between himself and a family of Shakespeares connected with Snitterfield and Clifford Chambers, and a younger and more in- teresting family of Shakespeares at Warwick. It might have shed light on the kinship between the testator and the family of Greene alias Shakespeare of Warwick and Stratford, and on the personality of the Joan Shakespeare who died and was buried .at Snitlorfield on Jan. 5, 1596. EDGAR I. FRIPP. (To be continued.) GLASS PAINTERS OF YORK. I. THE CHAMBER FAMILY. JOH. DK LA CHAUMBRE, glasyer ('Freemen of York' Surtees Soc.). " John Chamber the elder " mentioned in Thomas Benefeld r Byngf eld's will (Reg. Test D. and C. Ebor., i. 212). One of two brothers both named John who each had a son called Richard. Free 1400, Wife, Joan. In his will he twice refers to the other Chamber as " John Chamber my brother." His workmen evi- dently were Robert Wakefield (free, 1400; d. 1414), Matthew Petty (died 1478), and John Newsom the elder (free, 1418), and probably Robert Hudson. He was closely connected in some way, whether as a partner, friendly rival, or what, does not appear, with Thomas Byngf eld (free, 1400 ; died 1422) as Robert Wakefield directs that his will made Jan. 20, 1414, proved Feb. 16 (Reg. Test. D. and C. Ebor., i. 172) shall be carried out "by the sight, counsel, and advice of John Chambre my master and Thomas Byngf eld." Byngf eld who died in 1422 also made "John Chambre the elder, glasyer " his executor (Reg. Test. D. and C. Ebor., i. 212). Chamber's son, Richard, was evidently still a child, for his father in his will says : "The residue of all my goods 1 give & bequeath to Joan my wife & Richard my son. And I will that Joan my wife shall have all the goods belonging to Richard my son in her own hand tor the relief and helping of him." It would seem that the son was an invalid as further provision is made "if t he ? said Richard my son shall depart this life for masses for the repose of the souls of both father and son. Chamber was doing work for the Dean and Chapter between the years 1421 and 1433. He made his will on Monday next before the feast of the Ascension, 1437. Proved May 15 of the same year [Reg. Test. D. and C. Ebor., i. 243d J. To Matthew Petty he bequeathed 3s. 4rf. ; to John Newsom, 2s., and to Robert Hudson, 20d. The latter was evidently identical with the Robert Hudson, glasyer, working for John Chamber the younger in 1450, into whose service he evidently went on the death of John Chamber the elder in 1437, at which time he was probably an apprentice. Hudson was free in 1453 so that there must have been some delay in his taking up his freedom and a master glass- painter in 1463-4 when new ordinances were granted to the craft. Chamber bequeathed "To the fabric of the Cathedral Church of Blessed Peter of York 6s. 8c?.," and to his brother John a similar amount, Executrix, his wife Joan ; and Sir Robert Flete, Rector of Lastingham, and his brother John co- adjutors with her. Witnesses, his brother John ; John Newsom (free 1418. His son John was free in 1442 and his grandson Thomas, in 1470. All three were glass- painters), and Matthew Petty (d. 1478). Chamber was buried in St. Helen's Church in S to negate. Joh. Chambre, junior, glasier (' Freemen of York' Surtees Soc.) Brother of John Chamber the elder. Free 1414. Wife Matilda. Workmen, William Inglish, (free 1450, died 1480), Robert Hudson (free 1453), and Thomas Coverham (free 1448). He was evidently brother-in-law of, and possibly in partnership with, Matthew Petty to whom he bequeathed 3s. 4c?., for in his will he mentions " Gillot Pety my sister," to whom he left a similar sum. Sons, Richard and Fr. William Wencelay, a monk. He made his will Mar. 16, 1450. There is no date of probate, but Chamber died before the end cf the month of March, 1451, as appears from the date of the probate of the will of John Witton, his apprentice, who had named him
 * t the time of his father's death in 1437