In this same letter he says:

"I send you here certain odde epitaphs and epigrammes that go under the name of pasquils." Query-Were these written by Nicholas Breton? He wrote "Pasquils Mad-Cap," and "Pasquils" of other sorts. Nicholas Breton's mother was a daughter of John Bacon. After her husband's death (who left her a rich widow with several children) she married the poet George Gascoigne, a member of of Gray's Inn. Gascoigne helped in the Kenilworth entertainment given in honor of the Queen, in 1575. Nicholas Breton dedicated "Characters upon Essaies, Morall and Divine," 1615, to Sir Francis Bacon.

Shakespeare sought the good of all men. He above all others elevated the Actor, and uplifted Dramatic Art. On March 10th, 1582, Sir Francis Walsingham sent for Edmund Tilney "to chuse out a Company of Players for her Majesty" (see Appendix B.) Query-Was Hamlet's instructions to the Players, originally given to these twelve men who were chosen for the Queene's Players? Later on the Poet corrected, and added many lines to the original sketch, which is greatly enlarged in the first Folio.

@ This is the sit of Bacons House just under the shadow of the London Wall R bity walls.

© witch outside the bity wall.

I Drawing from tracking of ancient map

I am indebted to Mr. Charles W. F. Goss, F. S. A., Hon. Librarian and Hon. Secretary of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, for the above map showing the actual site of Bacon's House in Noble Street, and its nearness to Silver Street, and Muggle Street.

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SHAKESPEARE'S LODGINGS IN SILVER STREET.

We find in Harper's Magazine March, 1910, Dr. W. C. Wallace, through his researches in the Public Record Office, London, discovered the earliest known signature of Shakespeare, dated May 11, 1612. This was signed to a deposition, as a witness in the Belott v. Montjoy suit. Dr. Wallace discovered that Shakespeare was a lodger in the house of Montjoy, a Tire-maker, and that he had sojourned there from 1598 to 1612.

This house was on the corner of Silver and Mugwell Streets, in a zone of interesting houses filled with historical Elizabethens. Bacon House was in Noble Street, and Stowe says: "Then at the North end of Noble Street is the Parish Church of Saint Olave, in Silver Street." The only monument worth Stowe's notice in this Church was that of Lord Windsor's daughter, who died in 1600.

Bacon's friend, Lord Windsor, had a house in Mugwell (now Monkwell) Street. Bacon's father owned property in the Parish of St. Botolph, without Bishops Gate, and in the Parish of St. Lawrence Old Jewry.

If Francis Bacon befriended Shakespeare, as I think he did, the Poet's residence in the house of the Huguenot, Christopher Montjoy, is not to be wondered at. Anthony Bacon sympathized with the Huguenots. His long residence in France enabled him to speak French perfectly, and much of his correspondence was in French.

One of his familiar friends, Mr. John Castol, was the head of the French Church in Threadneedle Street, London, to which church the Belott v. Montjoy suit was sent for a final decision. "Mr. John Castol was minister of the French Church from 1581 to 1601 and was succeeded by Mr. Abraham Aurelius, who was minister from 1605 to

1631." This I have learned from Mr. Charles W. F. Goss, F.S.A., who kindly sent me the information. In passing I may say that the Huguenot printer and bookseller, Astanius De Reinalme, 1580-1600, who resided in the Blackfriars, named in his will one Castol of the French Church, London. Also in Minshu's Dict., 1625, I find among the Subscribers 'the French Church Library in London.'

This discovery of Dr. Wallace opens up a new vein of inquiry very interesting to the student. I find that Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, in his Will 1612, mentions Thomas Belott. His father, the great Burleigh, had a Steward by that name.

Barnaby Riche in his satirical pamphlet, "The Honestie of This Age,' 1614, pictures for us the trade of a Tiremaker as follows:

"I would be loath to do Minerva wrong,

To forge untruths, or deck my lynes with lyes;

I can not fable, flatter, nor disguise.

Yet mounted now on Tyme's discerning stage,

I stand to note the Follies of this Age.'

Among these Follies, Riche seems to be particularly severe on Tire-makers and Tires. This pamphlet was printed two years after the Belott v. Montjoy suit. It is said Shakespeare was indebted to 'Riche's Farewell to the Militaire Profusion,' 1581. King James found fault with this book, but after he became King of England he gave Riche a gift of a hundred pounds for some service or other performed in Scotland.

According to Riche some of the fine ladies in their coaches would turn a deaf ear to the cry of beggars and:

'Let them cry till their tongues do ake, my lady hath neyther eyes to see nor eares to heare, shee holdeth on her way to the Tyre-maker's shoppe, where shee shaketh out her crownes to bestowe upon some new fashioned attire, that if we may say there

be deformitie in art, upon such artificial deformed periwigs that they were fitter to furnish a Theatre or for her that in a stage play should represent some Hagge of Hell, than to be used by a Christian woman.'

Did Montjoy make female wigs for the boy-actors? As Shakespeare 'sojourned' in his house fifteen years I have no doubt he brought him much Theatrical trade. Riche continues:

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'And what are these they do call Attyre-makers? the first inventers of these monsterous periwigs? and the finders out of very many other like immodest attyres? What are these and all the rest of these fashion mongers? * if you will not acknowledge these to be idolmakers, yet you cannot deny them to be devil's enginers, ungodly instruments to decke and ornifie such men and women as may well be reputed to be but Idolle's' *** 'As these Attyremakers that within these forty years were not known by that name, and but nowe very lately they kept their lowzie commodities of periwigs, and their other monstrous attyres closed in boxes, they might not be seene in open show, and those women who used to weare them would not buy them but in secret. But now they are not ashamed to sette them forth upon their stalls, such monstrous May-poles of hayre, so proportioned and deformed, that but within these twenty yeares would have drawn the passers by to stand and gaze, and to wonder at them. * * The ancient Romanes prohibited all sorts of people, as well men or women, from wearing gaudy gar mentes, Players and Harletes only excepted; for to them there was tolleration in regard of their professions. * ** And from whence commeth this wearing and imbrodering of long lokes, this curiositie that is used amongst men in freziling and curling of their hayre? * And are not our

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