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Shakespeare of Stratford bought his interest in it, the lease still had thirty-one years to run, after which the property reverted to the corporation of Stratford.

The nature of the ‘moiety or one-half’ interest that Shakespeare bought from Huband seems usually to be misunderstood. It was not half the entire tithe property as originally leased by the ‘College’—an immensely large and miscellaneous set of holdings—but half of certain specified kinds of tithes in certain of the villages concerned. The other ‘moiety’ of this property belonged to the Combe family, but would pass in 1613 to Shakespeare’s cousin and legal adviser, Thomas Greene. These facts appear in the later document of 1609. See no. LI, p. 60.

Stratford Marriage Register.

1607 Junij 5  John Hall, gentleman, and Susanna Shaxspere.

. John Hall, a learned man and distinguished physician, died in 1685 and his widow in 1649. They resided in New Place after the poet’s death.

Entry of King Lear in the Stationers’ Register, November 26, 1607.

1607, 5 Regis 26 Nov. Na[thaniel] Butter, Jo[hn] Burby entered for their copy, under the hands of Sir George Buck, Knight, and the wardens, a book called Mr. William Shakespeare his history of King Lear, as