'The noate of corn and malte', 4 February 1598
A list of Stratford townsmen giving details of how much corn and malt they held in their barns.
During the mid 1590s there was a series of disastrous harvests due to bad weather. Thousands faced near ...
Thomas Greene's Diary, 15 - 22 November 1614
Late in 1614, there was a controversial proposal to enclose some of the old open fields to the east and north-east of Stratford. As a titheholder, and possibly a freeholder as well, William Shakespeare ...
Thomas Greene's note of Shakespeare's freehold lands in Old Stratford, 5 September 1614. Page 1
In 1602, Shakespeare bought 107 acres in Old Stratford, Bishopton and Welcombe. These were made up of parcels scattered through the open fields, with some of them concentrated in the area which was, in ...
William Shakespeare listed as a possible contributor to a local fund to improve the roads, 11 September 1611. Page 1
In the early seventeenth century, several attempts were made to bring forward legislation to improve the state of the roads. Money was needed to promote this and local subscription lists were opened. ...
William Shakespeare, and two others, seek redress in a legal dispute concering the Stratford tithes, c. 1610. Page 1
In 1605, William Shakespeare had acquired a sub-lease of a share in the Stratford tithes, part of property once belonging to the Stratford College, but subject to a rent of £5 to the chief lessee. Five ...