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without children; and Sufanna, who was his favourite, to Dr. John Hall, a phyfician of good reputation in that country.' She left one child only,

try of the chriftening of her eldeft fon: "1616. Nov. 23, Skakfpeare, filius Thomas Quiney, Geut." and according to Mr. Weft fhe was not married till the following February. This Shakspeare Quiney died in his infancy at Stratford, and was buried May 8th, 1617. Judith's fecond fon, Richard, was baptized on February 9th, 1617-18. He died at Stratford in Feb. 1638-9, in the 21st year and was of his age, buried there on the 26th of that month. Her 'third fon, Thomas, was baptized Auguft 29, 1619, and was buried alfo at Stratford, January 28, 1638-9. There had been a plague in the town in the preceding fummer, that carried off about fifty perfons. MALONE.

Dr. John Hall, a phyfician of good reputation in that country.] Sufanna's husband, Dr. John Hall, died in Nov. 1635, and is enterred in the chancel of the church of Stratford near his wife. He was buried on the 26th of November, as appears from the Regifter of burials at Stratford :

"November 26th, 1635, Johannes Hall, medicus peritif

fimus."

The following is a tranfcript of his will extracted from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury:

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The laft Will and Teftament nuncupative of John Hall of Stratford-upon-Avon in the county of Warwick, Gent. made and declared the five and twentieth of November, 1635. Imprimis, I give unto my wife houfe in London. my I give unto my daughter Nafh my houfe in Acton. Item, I give unto my daughter Nafh my meadow. Item, I give my goods. and money unto my wife and daughter Nafh, to be equally divided betwixt them. Item, concerning my ftudy of books, I leave them, faid he, to you, my fon Nafh, to dispose of them as you fee good. As for my manufcripts, I would have given them to Mr. Boles, if he had been here; but forafmuch as he is not here prefent, you may, fon Nash, burn them, or do with them what you please. Witneffes hereunto. Thomas Nash. Simon Trapp."

The teftator not having appointed any executor, adminiftration was granted to his widow, Nov. 23, 1636.

Some at least of Dr. Hall's manufcripts efcaped the flames, one of them being yet extant. See p. 26, n. 9.

I could not, after a very careful fearch, find the will of Sufanna Hall in the Prerogative-office, nor is it preferved in the Archives of the diocese of Worcester, the Registrar of which diocese at my requeft very obligingly examined the indexes of all the wills proved in his office between the years 1649 and 1670; but in vain. The town of Stratford-uponAvon is in that diocefe.

The infcriptions on the tomb-ftones of our poet's favourite daughter and her husband are as follows:

"Here lyeth the body of John Hall, Gent. he marr. Sufanna, ye daughter and co-heir of Will. Shakspeare, Gent. he deceafed Nov. 25, Ao. 1635, aged 60."

"Hallius hic fitus eft, medica celeberrimus arte,

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Expectans regni gàudia læta Dei.

Dignus erat meritis qui Neftora vinceret annis;
"In terris omnes fed rapit æqua dies.

"Ne tumulo quid defit, adeft fidiffima conjux,

"Et vitæ comitem nunc quoque mortis habet."

Thefe verfes fhould feem, from the laft two lines, not to have been infcribed on Dr. Hall's tomb-ftone till 1649. Perhaps indeed the last distich only was then added.

"Here lyeth the body of Sufanna, wife to John Hall, Gent. ye daughter of William Shakspeare, Gent. She deceased the 11th of July, Ao. 1649, aged 66.”

Witty above her fexe, but that's not all,

"Wife to falvation was good Miftrifs Hall.

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Something of Shakspeare was in that, but this "Wholy of him with whom fhe's now in bliffe.

"Then, paffenger, haft ne're a teare,

"To weepe with her that wept with all:
"That wept, yet fet her felfe to chere
"Them up with comforts cordiall.

"Her love fhall live, her mercy spread.
"When thou haft ne're a teare to fhed."

The foregoing English verses, which are preferved by Dugdale, are not now remaining, half of the tomb-ftone having been cut away, and another half ftone joined to it; with the following infcription on it."Here lyeth the

a daughter who was married firft to Thomas Nafh,

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body of Richard Watts of Ryhon-Clifford, in the parith of old Stratford, Gent. who departed this life the 23d of May, Anno Dom. 1707, and in the 46th year of his age.' This Mr. Watts, as I am informed by the Rev. Mr, Davenport, was owner of, and lived at the eftate of RyhonClifford, which was once the property of Dr. Hall.

Mrs. Hall was buried on the 16th of July, 1649, aş appears from the Register of Stratford. MALONE.

8 She left one child only, a daughter, who was married first to Thomas Nafh, Efq.] Elizabeth, our poet's grand-daughter, who appears to have been a favourite, Shakfpeare having left her by his will a memorial of his affection, though fhe at that time was but eight years old, was born in February 1607-8, as appears by an entry in the Regifter of Stratford, which Mr. Weft omitted in the tranfcript with which he furnifhed Mr. Steevens. I learn from the fame regifter that she was married in 1626: “MARRIAGES. April 22. 1626, Mr. Thomas Nafh to Miftrefs Elizabeth Hall." It fhould be remembered that every unmarried lady was called Mistress till the time of George I. Hence our outhor's Miftress Anne Page. Nor in fpeaking of an unmarried lady could her chriftian name be omitted, as it often is at prefent; for then no diftinction would have remained between her and her mother. Some married ladies indeed were diitinguifhed from their daughters by the title of Madam.

Mr. Nath died in 1647, as appears by the infcription on his tomb-ftone in the chancel of the church of Stratford. "Here refteth ye body of Thomas Nafhe, Efq. He mar. Elizabeth the daugh. and heire of John Hall, Gent, He died April 4th, Ao 1647, aged 53."

Fata manent omnes; huc non virtute carentem,
"Ut neque divitiis, abftulit atra dies.
Abftulit, at referet lux ultima. Sifle, viator;
"Si peritura paras, per male parta peris."

The letters printed in Italicks are now obliterated. By his laft will, which is in the Prerogative-office, dar ted Auguft 25th, 1642, he bequeathed to his well beloved wife, Elizabeth Nafh, and her affigns, for her life, (in lieu of jointure and thirds,) one meffuage or tenement, with the

appurtenances, fituate in the Chapel-Street in Stratford, then in the tenure and occupation of Joan Norman, widow; one meadow, known by the name of the Square Meadow, with the appurtenances, in the parish of old Stratford, lying near unto the great ftone-bridge of Stratford; one other

meadow with the appurtenances, known by the name of the Wash Meadow; one little meadow with the appurtenances, adjoining to the faid Wash Meadow; and alfo all the tythes of the manor or lordship of Shottery. He devifes to his kinfman Edward Nafh, the fon of his uncle George Nash of London, his heirs and affigns (inter alia) the meffuage or teneme t, then in his own occupation, called The New-Place, fituate in the Chapel Street, in Stratford; together with all and fingular houfes, outhoufes, barns, ftables, orchards, gardens, cafements, profits, or commodities, to the fame belonging; and alfo four-yard land of arable land, meadow, and pafture, with the appurtenances, lying and being in the common fields of Old Stratford, with all the easements, profits, commons, commodities, and hereditaments, to the fame four-yard lands belonging; then in the tenure, ufe, and occupation of him the faid Thomas Nafh; and one other meffuage or tenement, with the appurtenances, fituate in the parish of in London, and called or known by the name of The Wardrobe, and then in the tenure, use and occupation of- - Dickes. And from and after the death of his faid wife, he bequeaths the meadows above named, and devifed to her for life, to his faid coufin, Edward Nafh, his heirs and affigns for ever. After various other bequefts, he directs that one hundred pounds, at the leaft, be laid out in mourning gowns, cloaks, and apparel, to be diftributed among his kindred and friends, in fuch manner as his executrix fhall think fit. He appoints his wife Elizabeth Nafh his refiduary legatee, and fole executrix, and ordains Edmund Rawlins, William Smith, and John Easton, overfeers of his will to which the witneffes are John Such, Michael Jonfon, and Samuel Rawlins.

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By a nuncupative codicil dated on the day of his death, April 4th, 1647, he bequeaths (inter alia) to his mother Mrs. Hall fifty pounds; to Elizabeth Hathaway fifty pounds; to Thomas Hathaway fifty pounds; to Judith Hathaway ten pounds; to his uncle Nafh and his aunt, his coufin Sadler and his wife, his coufin Richard Quiney and his wife, his

efq. and afterwards to Sir John Barnard of Abington, but died likewife without iffue."

coufin Thomas Quiney and his wife, twenty fhillings each, to buy them rings." The meadows which by his will he had devifed to his wife for life, he by this codicil devifes to her, her heirs and affigns, for ever, to the end that they may not be fevered from her own land; and he "appoints and declares that the inheritance of his land given to his coufin Edward Nafh fhould be by him fettled after his deceafe, upon his fon Thomas Nash, and his heirs, and for want of fuch heirs then to remain and descend to his own right heirs."

It is obfervable that in this will the teftator makes no mention of any child, and there is no entry of any iffue of his marriage in the Regifter of Stratford; I have no doubt therefore that he died without iffue, and that a pedigree with which Mr. Whalley furnished Mr. Steevens a few years ago, is inaccurate. The origin of the miftake in that pedigree will be pointed out in its proper place.

As by Shakspeare's will his daughter Sufanna had an eftate for life in The New Place, &c. and his grand-daughter Elizabeth an estate tail in remainder, they probably on the marriage of Elizabeth to Mr. Nash, by a fine and recovery cut off the entail; and by a deed to lead the ufes gave him the entire dominion over that eftate; which he appears to have misused by devifing it from Shakspeare's family to his

own.

Mr. Nafh's will and codicil were proved June 5, 1647, and administration was then granted to his widow. MALONE.

9--Sir John Barnard of Abington, ] Sir John Barnard of Abington, a small village about a mile from the town of Northampton, was created a knight by King Charles II. Nov. 25, 1661. In 1671 he fold the manor and advowfon of the church of Abington, which his ancestors had poffeffed for more than two hundred years, to William Thursby, Efq. Sir John Barnard was the eldest fon of Baldwin Barnard, Efq. by Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of John Fulwood of Ford Hall in the county of Warwick, Efq. and was born in 1605. He first married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Clement Edmonds of Preston in Northamptonshire, by whom he had four fons and four daughters. She dying in 1642,

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