spere, to the use of the within-named William Shakespere, in the presence of Anthony Nashe, William Sheldon, Humfrey Mainwaring, Richard Mason, John Nashe.
Note. Gilbert Shakespeare was the poet’s younger brother, born in 1566, evidently acting because the actual purchaser was unable to leave London. On March 5, 1610, he witnessed a deed in Stratford. He was probably the ‘Gilbertus Shakspeare, adolescens’ buried, according to the Stratford Register, February 8, 1612. (See no. LV, and Mrs. Stopes, Shakespeare’s Environment, pp. 68 ff., 332 ff.)
XXXV. SHAKESPEARE GETS ASSURANCE OF HIS TITLE TO NEW PLACE FROM HERCULES UNDERHILL (1602).
Foot of second ‘fine’ levied on New Place, Michaelmas, 1602. (Public Record Office.)
Inter Willielmum Shakespeare, generosum, querentem, et Herculem Underhill, generosum, deforciantem, de uno mesuagio, duobus horreis, duobus gardinis, et duobus pomariis cum pertinenciis, in Stretford-super-Avon . . . et pro hac recognicione, remissione, quieta clamancia, warantia, fine et concordia idem Willielmus dedit predicto Herculi sexaginta libras sterlingorum.
Note. This document agrees verbally with the ‘fine’ which Shakespeare received from William Underhill in 1597 (see document XV), except for the addition of two orchards (duobus pomariis) not mentioned in the earlier paper and the substitution of Hercules Underhill in place of his deceased father, William, as deforciant. Halliwell-Phillipps (Outlines, 7th ed., i.
