Shakespeare’s Library Source Notes p. 7. ‘higgledy-piggledy, ‘helter-skelter’: John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, (Edw. Blount, 1598), p. 412. p. 7. ‘blood-stained’: Titus Andronicus II.iii; I Henry IV, I.iii. p. 7. ‘eyeball’: The Tempest, I.ii. p. 7. ‘fancy free’: A Midsummer Night's Dream, II.i. p. 7. ‘seamy’: Othello, IV.ii. p. 7. ‘zany’: Love’s Labour’s Lost, V.ii. p. 8. ‘entertained and at his game’, ‘William the Conqueror…was before Richard the Third’ : John Manningham, diary entry for 13 March 1601; see John Bruce (ed.), Diary of John Manningham, of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister-at-law, 1602-1603, (Westminster: Printed by J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1868). p. 9. ‘the connaturals, concurrences, correspondents, concatenations…throughout the whole’: Orville W. Owen, Sir Francis Bacon’s Cipher Story, (Detroit: Howard Publishing Co., 1893), p. 25. p. 12. ‘Ringleader to all naughtiness’: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, (London: Printed for Peter Parker, 1676), p. 30. p. 13. ‘the acknowledged poet of the age, the friend of nobles and the pet of princes’: Henry Tyrrell, The doubtful plays of Shakspere, revised from the original editions with historical and analytical introductions and notes critical and explanatory, (London: J. Tallis, [1850]), p. 411. p. 13. ‘friend and adviser/admirer’, ‘a gold tissue toilet or table cover’: Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells, Will Sharpe & Erin Sullivan (eds), The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, 2nd ed., (OUP, 2015), p. 498. p. 14. ‘haunted by the conviction…ever practised on a patient world’: Henry James to Violet Hunt, letter dated 26 August 1903, quoted in George L. McMichael and Edgar M. Glenn, Shakespeare and His Rivals: A casebook on the authorship controversy, (New York: Odyssey Press, 1962), p. 61. p. 17. ‘He is a Brontosaur: nine bones and six-hundred barrels of plaster of paris’: Mark Twain, ‘Is Shakespeare Dead?’, (New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1909), p. 49. p. 19. ‘pathetic efforts to sign his name…this question – he could not write’: Mortimer J. Adler, Letter to Max Weismann, Director, Center for the Study of The Great Ideas, November 7, 1997. https://doubtaboutwill.org/past_doubters 1 p. 20. ‘In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves…slightest sign of them in Shakespeare’: Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964), pp. 364-65. p. 20. ‘English literary history’s sublimest gay poet’: Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as a Stage, (London: HarperPress, 2007), p. 139. p. 21. ‘emetick infusion mixed with syrup of violets’, ‘wrought very well both upwards and downwards’: John Hall, quoted in Doreen Evenden Nagy, ‘Lay and learned medicine in early modern England’, in Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1500-1800: A source book, (Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2004) p. 39. p. 22. ‘King Henry making a Masque at the Cardinal Wolsey’s house…benefit of a provident wit, put it out with a bottle of ale’: Sir Henry Wotton to Sir Edmund Bacon, letter dated 2 July 1613, in Sir Henry Wotton, Reliquiae Wottonianae, (London : Printed for B. Tooke & T. Sawbridge, 1685), p. 426. p. 29. ‘in a necessary-house’, ‘with a book in his hand…very attentively’, ‘sh-te without a book’: Shakespeare’s Jests, or the Jubilee Jester, (London: Printed for R. Sharpe, 1790), p. 61. p. 30. ‘Jo. Bretchgyrdles Book’: Alan H. Nelson, ‘Shakespeare and the Bibliophiles: From the earliest years to 1616’, in Robin Myers et al. (eds), Owners, Annotators and the Signs of Reading, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2005), p. 50. p. 31. “Will: Boothby’: Peter Beal, ‘”My books are the Great Joy of My Life” Sir William Boothby, Seventeenth-century Bibliophile’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily. Fifty years of The Book Collector, (London & New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p. 296. p. 32. ‘No, without right’: see, for example, Nigel Ramsay, ‘William Dethick and the Shakespeare Grants of Arms’, posted 1 July 2014. https://collation.folger.edu/2014/07/william-dethick-and-the-shakespeare-grants-of-arms/ p. 34. ‘gentle Shakespeare’: Ben Jonson, ‘To the Reader’, in Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies, (London: Printed by Tho. Cotes for Robert Allot, 1632). pp. 36-37. ‘every important French sixteenth-century collector: Grolier…Diane de Poitiers; popes and cardinals’: Eloquent Witnesses, edited by Mirjam M. Foot, 2004; p. 264. p. 37. ‘If anyone came into the room he would throw…to prevent it being seen’: Eloquent Witnesses, edited by Mirjam M. Foot, 2004; p. 272. p. 39. ‘mountain belly’, ‘rocky face’: Ben Jonson, ‘My Picture Left in Scotland’, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, (London: R. Bishop, sold by A. Crooke, 1640). p. 39. ‘had one eye lower than tother and bigger’: John Aubrey, Brief Lives, (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1998), p. 172. p. 39. ‘a bruised, rotten russet apple, or a badly pock-marked brass warming pan’: Thomas Dekker, quoted in Anne Barton, Ben Jonson, Dramatist, (Cambridge: CUP, 1984), p. 3. 2 p. 39. ‘a study of books’: Susanna Hall v. Baldwin Brookes: Bill of Complaint, Court of Chancery. May 12, 1637. http://www.shakespearedocumented.org/exhibition/document/susanna-hall-v-baldwin- brookes-bill-complaint-court-chancery. A ‘study of books’ is also mentioned in Dr John Hall’s last will and testament: original copy. http://www.shakespearedocumented.org/file/prob-138. p. 41. ‘accompt-books and theatrical contracts’: Edmond Malone, An Inquiry Into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments, Published Dec. 24, 1795 and Attributed to Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth and Henry, Earl of Southampton, (London: T. Cadell, Jun., & W. Davies, 1796), p. 428. pp. 43-44. ‘at best a Country clown at the time he went to seek his fortune in London, that he could never have had any school… breeding who alone could by their intercourse make up for the deficiencies of his youth’: James Corton Cowell, quoted in Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare’s Lives, (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006), p. 397. p. 45. ‘bags and boxes of writing’, ‘on the platform before the house’: ‘Francis Wilmot’, quoted in Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare's Lives, (Oxford: O.U.P, 1993), p. 398. p. 45. ‘Wilmot does not venture so far as to say definitively that Sir Francis Bacon was the Author…but through his great knowledge of the works of that writer he is able to prepare a cap that fits him amazingly’: James Corton Cowell, quoted in Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare's Lives, (Oxford: O.U.P, 1993), p. 399. p. 45. ‘A Pervert,…nay a renegade to the Faith I have proclaimed and avowed before you all’: James Corton Cowell, quoted in Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare's Lives, (Oxford: O.U.P, 1993), p. 399. p. 47. ‘By God I wish you had arrived a little sooner! Why, it isn’t a fortnight since I destroyed several baskets-full of letters and papers,….’, ‘My God! Sir, you are not aware of the loss which the world has sustained. Would to heaven I had arrived sooner!’, ‘I do remember it perfectly well! And, if you will call to mind my words, I told you not to burn the papers, as they might be of consequence’: William-Henry Ireland, The confessions of William Henry Ireland, containing the particulars of his fabrication of the Shakespeare Manuscripts…, (New York: James W. Bouton, 1874), pp. 30-32. p. 48. ‘Budde which Bllossommes Bllooms butte never dyes’: William Henry Ireland, Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and seal of William Shakespeare, (London: Egerton et. al., 1796), p. xxx. p. 49. ‘Orlandoo Furiosoo’, ‘Shepheardes Calenderre’: William Henry Ireland, ‘Catalogue of Shakespeare’s library’, (c.1796). University College London, Special Collections MS Ogden 54/1. p. 50. ‘Well, I shall now die contented, since I have lived to witness the present day’: James Boswell, quoted in William Henry Ireland, The Confessions of William Henry Ireland containing 3 the particulars of his fabrication of the Shakespeare Manuscript, (London: Thomas Goddard, 1805), p. 96. p. 51. ‘Masterre William Henry Ireland ande otherres’, ‘much toe merrye throughe Lyquorre’, ‘drownynge’, ‘pulled off hys Jerrekynne and jumpedd inn’, ‘withe muche paynes’, ‘hys havynge savedde mye life’: William Henry Ireland, Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and seal of William Shakespeare, (London: Egerton et. al., 1796), pp. 49-50 & 52. p. 52. ‘for fear…of the enterprise seeming Foolish’: Jonathan Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare, (London: Picador, 1998), p. 84. pp. 53-54. ‘created a favourable impression by his urbanity of temper, kindliness, and social ease’: Samuel Schoebaum, Shakespeare’s Lives,(New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006), p. 112. p. 54. ‘no magnifying glasses or other aids are requisite: it is only necessary for any person,…to be convinced that the pretended Letter of Queen Elizabeth to Shakespeare is a manifest and bungling forgery’: Edmond Malone, An inquiry into the authenticity of certain miscellaneous papers and legal instruments, published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton, (London : T. Cadell, Jun., & W. Davies, 1796), p. 111. p. 55. ‘and when this solemn mockery is o’er’: William Henry Ireland, Vortigern, (London: Joseph Thomas, 1832), p. 51. p. 55. ‘the absurd manner in which almost every word is over-laden with both consonants and vowels’: Edmond Malone, An inquiry into the authenticity of certain miscellaneous papers and legal instruments, published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton, (London : T. Cadell, Jun., & W. Davies, 1796), p. 34. p. 55. ‘I praye you perfume thys mye poore Locke with thye balmye Kysses forre thenne indeede shalle Kynges themmeselves bowe ande paye homage toe itte’: William Henry Ireland, Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and seal of William Shakespeare, (London: Egerton et.