whom mention conversations they had had with Mr. Shakespeare. It appears from the evidence that Mountjoy’s house, in which Shakespeare was living from about 1602, stood on the corner of Muggle (Monkwell) and Silver streets. The court finally adopted the strange expedient of referring the matter to the authorities of the French Church in London, who decided in favor of Belott and gave Mountjoy a very bad general moral character. The documents were discovered by Professor C. W. Wallace and printed by him in extenso in the University Studies of the University of Nebraska, 1910.
LVII. BURIAL OF RICHARD, THE POET’S BROTHER (1613).
Stratford Burial Register.
1612 [ie. 1618] February 4 Rich. Shakspeare.
Note. Richard, whose burial occurred just a year and a day after that of Gilbert (see no. LV), appears to have been the last surviving brother of the poet.
LVIII. SHAKESPEARE PURCHASES A HOUSE IN BLACKFRIARS, LONDON (1618).
Deed from Henry Walker to Shakespeare and his Trustees, March 10, 1613.
This indenture, made the tenth day of March in the year of our Lord God, according to the computation of the Church of England, one thousand, six hundred and twelve [i.e. 1613] . . . between Henry Walker, citizen and minstrel of London, of the one party, and William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon in the county of Warwick, gentleman, William Johnson, citizen and vintner of London, John Jackson, and John
