The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street (58 page)

Wright, Francis

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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).