bond and license in 1836, in the Confiftorial Court of Worcester. In the original it is full of legal abbreviations, as given in Mr. Knight's Biography. For the fake of fimplicity, the full text, as rendered by Mr. Halliwell, has been adopted above.

The probability is, that the ceremony of marriage was performed in the Chapel of Luddington, a hamlet of the parish of Stratford, at a fhort distance from Shottery, the refidence of Ann Hathaway, and a place with which the Hathaways were connected. The Marquis of Hertford, to whom Luddington belonged, informed Malone that he remembered there were tenants of the name of Hathaway on the estate: One, John Hathfarmed part of the estate as late as 1775. It is alfo worthy of note that the curate of Luddington was the Rev. Thomas Hunt, who was fchoolmaster of Stratford

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The annexed Pedigree will give a neceffary particulars regarding Shake fpere's family, his marriage, and h iffue. Writers upon this fubject hav commonly stated the marriages and de scents in the ordinary letterpress of thei works, which, in fuch matters, is con Buried fufing

* Mafters of the School:-1570, Walter Roche 1572 to 1577, Thomas Hunt (buried at Stratford April 12, 1612); 1580, Thomas Jenkins.

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fufing. Where a Pedigree is fet out, the eye inftructs the memory much more eafily and directly, and for this reason the prefent method has been adopted.

Allufion has been made to a popular error regarding Shakefpere's refidence. Paragraph 10 (p. 21) ftates that the houfe in which he lived was pulled down at the commencement of the laft century. Any representation of that houfe, to be authentic, muft therefore bear date previous to 1719. No fuch plate or picture exifts, and there is no evidence of any fuch having existed. In order to fatisfy public curiofity, two were invented; the one publifhed by Malone, the other by Samuel Ireland, father of the notorious forger of Vortigern and other Shakefperian MSS. Malone's picture was a draft upon imagination, drawn by John Jordan, of Stratford, to whom reference has been made. Jordan was perfectly prepared,