r.
We may therefore, seeing he was somehow connected with Shakespeare,
imagine Hugh Saunders' mother to have been a Shakespeare. He is styled
"vir literis et virtute percelebris."

FOOTNOTES:

[36] "George Shaksper complains against Agnes Marshall that she detains
two rosaries," June 18, 1533.--"Common Trained Soldiers in Nottingham,"
Peter Shakespear, etc., 1596-97. Stevenson's "Nottingham Records."

[37] Halliwell-Phillipps' "Outlines," vol. ii., p. 252.

[38] Guild of Knowle Register.

[39] John Brome was Lord of the Manor of Baddesley Clinton, but was
murdered in the porch of the Church of the White Friars, London,
November 9, 1468, leaving a wife, Beatrice, three sons and two
daughters, one of whom was Jocosa. His son Thomas succeeded, and died
without heirs, and his second son Nicholas then inherited the property.
Eight of his children are registered in the guild of Knowle. His
son-in-law was Sir Edward Ferrers, who married Constance, to whom the
property afterwards came. Their son was Henry Ferrers, the great
Warwickshire antiquary, who succeeded at sixteen, and was Lord of the
Manor for sixty-nine years ("Baddesley Clinton," Rev. H. Norris, p.
234).

[40] Nam Licentia concessa fuit Johanne Shakespere Sub priorisse ad.
eligend., 5 Sept., 1525; et 20 Nov., 1525, Agnes Little confirmata fuit
Priorissa de Wroxall. Vac. per resign. Joc. Brome. Dugdale's
"Monasticon," ed. 1823, vol. iv., p. 89, and "Warwickshire," ed. 1730,
p. 649.

[41] "Valor Ecclesiasticus," 26 Henry VIII. (1535).

[42] Ministers' Accounts, April 24, 28 Henry VIII., and Augmentation
Books, Public Record Office.

[43] Yeatman's "Gentle Shakespeare," pp. 138-142.

[44] Court Rolls, General Series, Portfolio 207, No. 99.

[45] Addit. MSS., Brit. Mus. (24,500).

[46] Mr. Yeatman's "Gentle Shakespeare," p. 142.

[47] Court Roll, No. 10, p. 207.

[48] Nash's "Worcestershire," vol. ii., account of Tardebigg. See
Augmentation Books, October 14, 1539, 233, f. 8.

[49] Hunter's "Prolusions," p. 9.

[50] Wood's Colleges. Fasti Oxoniensis, Bliss, 1815. Wood, Antiq. Oxon.,
L. 2, 341. Boase, Reg. Univ. Oxon. Newcourt's "Repertorium."

CHAPTER IV

THE SHAKESPEARE COAT OF ARMS

[Illustration: NON SANZ DROICT.]

None of the family seem to have risen above the heraldic horizon till
John Shakespeare applied for his coat of arms. Into the contest over
that application it is well to plunge at once, and thence work backwards
and forwa