John Shakespeare and his wife Mary sell a share of property in Snitterfield, 15 October 1579
Robert Arden, John Shakespeare's father-in-law, had left a house and land he owned in Snitterfield jointly to six of his daughters by his first marriage, one of whom, Mary Arden, had married John Shakespeare. ...
John Shakespeare and his wife Mary sell a share of property in Snitterfield, 15 October 1579 - left hand side
Robert Arden, John Shakespeare's father-in-law, had left a house and land he owned in Snitterfield jointly to six of his daughters by his first marriage, one of whom, Mary Arden, had married John Shakespeare. ...
John Shakespeare and his wife Mary sell a share of property in Snitterfield, 15 October 1579 - seal of Mary Shakespeare
Robert Arden, John Shakespeare's father-in-law, had left a house and land he owned in Snitterfield jointly to six of his daughters by his first marriage, one of whom, Mary Arden, had married John Shakespeare. ...
John Shakespeare and his wife Mary sell a share of property in Snitterfield, 15 October 1579, endorsement
Contemporary endorsement, with the names of those who witnessed the transaction. They are 'Nycholas Knooles, vicar of Auston [Alveston], Wyllyam Maydes, Anthony Osbaston and others'.
Robert Arden, ...
John Shakespeare's mark, 15 October 1579
John also signed the 1579 conveyance [see below] by mark, establishing, at the very least, that he too was unable to write easily. His reading abilities may also have been limited, but this would have ...
Lease by from John Fyssher Clarke, Master of the Hospital of St Michael, to Thomas Powell, of Warwick, of the site of the Hospital and all its buildings, lands, etc at Warwick
In consideration of 100 marks [£66 6s 8d], for a term of 80 years at the annual rent of £10.
Lease by Lady Bowyer, of the Priory in Warwick, and Henry Wise, of Brompton Park, Middlesex, to Robert Cornwall, of the Borough of Warwick, of the western part of the Great New House in Saltisford, Warwick
To be held from 29 September next for a term of 21 years, at the annual rent of £18.
Lease by Lady Jane Bowyer, of the Priory, Warwick and Henry Wise, of Brompton Park, Middleses, to Job Price, of Warwick, of the east part of the Great New House at Saltisford, Warwick
Containing 4 ground rooms, and all other rooms, chambers and cellars above and below them, with the proportionate part of backbuildings, yard and gardens, with rights of common. Lately in the tenure ...
Lease by Matthew Wise to Thomas Birch, of Woodloes House and a farm in Woodloes
To be held from 25 March last for a term of 21 years, at the annual rent of £214 10s, with additional £10 for every acre of greensward ploughed or converted into tillage and £10 for every acre sown with ...
Lease by Sir Henry Puckering to John Hopkins, of the Priory Mills and the waters from the springs at Woodlows, with the waters supplying it, near Warwick
To be held from the Feast of the Annunciation [25 March] for a term of 500 years at the annual rent of £10, in consideration of £200. (Reverse)
Lease by Sir Thomas Puckering to Thomas Greene, of a tenement in the Walditch in Warwick
To be held for a term of 21 years [no annual rent stated], provided Greene takes on Edward Ley, son of Richard Ley, as his first apprentice for 7 years, and then two other apprentices in turn for further ...
Lease by Sir Thomas Puckering, of the Priory, Warwick, to Thomas Ridge, of Warwick, of a messuage in Saltisford, Warwick
Land currently in the tenure of Thomas Ridge.
To be held from the next feast of the Annunciation (25 Mar) for a term of 21 years, at the annual rent of 16 shillings.
With an attached schedule describing ...
Lease of a barn and garden in Chapel Lane, adjoining property later belonging to William Shakespeare, 1572
Lease from the trustees of the Clifford Chambers charity to Lewes Apwilliams of a barn and garden in Chapel Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon, 20 November 1572.
This property later came to form part of the ...
Letters Patent creating Jonathan Wathen Waller a baronet
Letters Patent of King George III creating Jonathan Wathen Waller of Braywick Lodge, Berkshire and of Twickenham, Middlesex, esquire, a baronet, with portrait of the King in top left hand corner.
Letters Patent granting Thomas Hawkins alias Fisher the site of the Priory and estate in Warwick
In consideration of the sum of £240 17s 6d delivered to the treasury of the Court of Augmentations
The property to be held in socage for the annual rent of 26 shillings 9 and a half pence.
Licence from King James I to Sir Thomas Puckering for the restoration of estates upon reaching the age of 21
Letters Patent of King James granting Thomas Puckeringe, knight and baronet, son of John Puckeringe, Keeper of the Great Seal and Privy Councillor of Queen Elizabeth, all the manors, lands, rents, etc, ...
Mary Shakespeare's mark, 15 October 1579
Mary Shakespeare was unskilled in writing and made a mark on the seal tag of the 1579 conveyance of her Snitterfield property (see below), the clerk adding the words 'The marke of Marye Shackspear'. An ...
Names of the jurors summoned in the case, Shakespeare v Addenbrooke, c. January 1609
List of twenty-four men summoned by order of 21 December 1608 to form a jury to hear the case, Shakespeare v Addenbrooke.
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust reference: BRU 15/5/127b