Silver Street
Windsor House
Stratford-upon-Avon
Strong, Roy
Stubbes, Philip
subsidy rolls
Sugden, Edward
Sully, Duc de
‘Sun Rising, The’ (Donne)
surgery
Surrey
Survay of London see Stow, John
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Description of France (Eliot)
Swan Alley
Swan with Two Necks
Swanston, Jonakyn
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Tailor, Cordelia
Tailor, William
Talbot tavern
Tamburlaine the Great (Marlowe)
Taming of the Shrew, The, Venice gold
Tarlton, Richard
Tatton, George
Tatton, Joseph
taverns
taxation
Taylor, John
Tempest, The
Terrors of the Night (Nashe)
Testament of Love (Chaucer)
theatre
actors and women
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playhouses
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wigs
Threadneedle Street
Three Miseries of Barbary (Wilkins)
Three Pigeons, Brentford
Tillyard, E. M. W.
Tilney, Sir Edward
Times, The
Timon of Athens
tiremaking
John Mountjoy
St Martin le Grand
tires and wigs
workshop
tires see head-tires
Titus Andronicus
blackamoor
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Ovid
Peele
wigs
Tofte, Robert
top-gallant caps
Topographical Dictionary (Sugden)
tragicomedies
Travells of the Three English
Brothers, The (Day, Wilkins
and Rowley)
Treatise of Spousals (Swinburne)
Treswell, Ralph
Trick to Catch the Old One, A (Middleton)
Troilus and Cressida
handfasting
silk
troth-plight see handfasting
Trundell, John
Turner, Roger
Turnmill (Turnbull) Street
Twelfth Night
Twine, Lawrence
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Noble Kinsmen, The (Shakespeare and Fletcher)
Two Unnatural Murthers
underproppers
Valore, Clause
Vansutfan, William
Vautrollier, Thomas
Venice gold
Venus and Adonis
Verstegan, Richard
Volpone (Jonson)
Walker, John
Wallace, Charles William
Wallace, Hulda
Walsingham, Sir Francis
Walton, Judyth
Waters, Joan
Watson, Thomas
Weaver, Christopher
Brentford house
depositions
Mountjoy house
in Queen Anne’s accounts
Webster, John
The Duchess of Malfi
Westward Ho!
Westward Ho! (Dekker and Webster)
Whackter, Katherine
Whetstone, George
Widow of Watling Street, The (Middleton)
wigs
Wilbye, John
Wilkins, George
and Belotts
deposition
Jests to Make you Merrie
lodgings
The Miseries of Enforced Marriage
Pericles
police-record
and Shakespeare
Shoreditch
Three Miseries of Barbary
as victualler
as writer
Wilkins, Katherine
Wilkins, Thomas
Wilson, J. Dover
Windsor, Ann
Windsor, Grizzel
Windsor, Henry, 5th Lord
Windsor House
Winter’s Tale, The
Wolfall, John
Wolfe, John
Wood, Henry
Wood Street
Wormlaighton, Ralph
Wotton, Sir Henry
Wright, Francis
xenophobia
Yorkshire Tragedy, A (Middleton)
Your Five Gallants (Middleton)
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1. The deposition. Shakespeare’s statement at the Court of Requests, 11 May 1612.
2. Plaintiff and defendant in a scene from a Jacobean law-court.
3. Witness-list for the first session of the Belott-Mountjoy suit, including ‘Willm Shakespeare gent’.
4. Signatures of (a) Daniel Nicholas, (b) William Eaton, (c) Noel Mountjoy and (d) Humphrey Fludd.
5. Hulda and Charles William Wallace, discoverers of the Belott-Mountjoy papers, at the Public Record Office, c. 1909.
6. The house on the corner. Detail from the ‘Agas’ map showing Silver Street and Muggle (or Monkwell) Street.
7. The Coopers’ Arms, on the site of the Mountjoys’ house, from a photograph of c. 1910.
8. St Giles, Cripplegate, with bombed-out buildings of Silver Street in the foreground. Drawing by Dennis Flanders, 1941.
9. Commemorative stone on the site of St Olave’s, Silver Street.
10. The surgeon of Silver Street. John Banister anatomizing a corpse at Barber-Surgeons’ Hall, 1580.
11. The author in bed. Title-page illustration from Thomas Dekker’s Dekker his Dreame (1620).
12. A Huguenot tailor at work, c. 1600.
13. Subsidy roll for Aldersgate ward, 1582, listing Christopher ‘Mongey’ and his wife as tax-payers.
14. ‘Mrs Monjoyes childe’. Burial entry in the St Olave’s register, 27 February 1596.
15. Marie Mountjoy consults Dr Forman about missing valuables, 22 November 1597.
16. Simon Forman, astrologer, physician and serial seducer.
17. Henry Wood asks Forman about ‘Mari M’, 20 March 1598.
18. Marie and ‘Madam Kitson’ in a jotting by Forman, c. January 1598.
19. A woman visiting an astrologer, from a seventeenth-century woodcut.
20. A French dancer of c. 1580, wearing a head-tire of the sort made by the Mountjoys.
21. A lady (perhaps Lucy Harington, Countess of Bedford) costumed for the masque
Hymenaei, 1606.
22. Theatrical headwear in Henry Peacham’s sketch of a scene from Titus Andronicus, c. 1594
23. Payments to ‘Marie Mountjoy Tyrewoman’ in Queen Anne’s household accounts, 1604-5.
24. Queen Anne by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, c. 1605-10.
25. Signature of George Wilkins.
26. First edition of Wi
lkins’s Miseries, performed by the King’s Men in c. 1606.
27. ‘A punk after supper’. Customers eating in a Jacobean brothel.
28. The famous Southwark brothel called Holland’s Leaguer, in a woodcut of 1632.
29. Tire-wearing courtesan from a painting by Isaac Oliver, c. 1590-95.
30. A wherry on the Thames near London Bridge, 1614. These water-taxis took playgoers across to the Globe and adulterers upriver to Brentford.
31. The Three Pigeons at Brentford, owned by Shakespeare’s colleague John Lowin, seen here in a nineteenth-century engraving.
32. A handfasting. Detail from Gerrit van Honthorst’s Supper with Betrothal, c. 1625.
33. Wedding of Stephen and Mary at St Olave’s, 19 November 1604.
34. Burial of Marie Mountjoy at St Olave’s, 30 October 1606.
35. Register copy of Christopher Mountjoy’s will, 26 January 1620.
36. Burial of Christopher Mountjoy at St Giles, Cripplegate, 29 March 1620.
a
All depositions and other documents in the Belott-Mountjoy suit are fully transcribed in the Appendix. Quotations from them in the text are sometimes pruned of repetitious legalisms.
b
In Nicholas’s second deposition (19 June) these computations are, more plausibly, given the other way round.
c
In the margin beside Interrogatories 3, 4 and 5 are written the names, respectively, of Humphrey Fludd, William Shakespeare and George Wilkins. They were expected to testify on these particular questions - but Shakespeare did not appear at the second session. Interrogatory 4 has phrasings attributed to Shakespeare by Daniel Nicholas.
d
This entry is written in what Wallace calls a ‘flourished court-hand of Gothic-Roman very difficult to read’. I have followed his transcription and given a rather speculative translation.
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