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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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tive misdemeanours, as well as to refund and pay what 

 thej' shall be found to have defrauded the poor of and 

 such others as they have wronged by not applying the 

 said city estate to the uses to which it was given, &c. 



"Your petitioners most humbly pray that ^-our Ma- 

 jesty out of your known piety and goodness towards the 

 poor in distress will use your interest with the King, 

 which your charity, amongst innumerable other virtues 

 hath justly acquired, to move his Majesty to bestow on 

 your poor petitioners such sums of money as will accrue 

 unto his Majesty from the fines that shall be laid upon 

 such magistrates, officers, and other persons as were either 

 magistrates, officers, or actors under them for from one 

 year before the said inrolment till the time that this peti- 

 tion shall most humbly be laid at your Majesty's feet. 



" Second!}', we likewise beg and pray that your Ma- 

 jesty will graciously be pleased to move his Majesty that 

 a Commission may soon be issued out unto such as his 

 Majesty shall think most fitting, and were members of the 

 late corporation, and neither magistrates, officers, nor 

 deputy-officers (some of which we have reason to fear 

 have long enjoyed cozener's places in the late corpora- 

 tion) to examine how the estate of the former corporation 

 hath been applied and misapplied, and that all ofi'enders 

 therein may be used as the law will allow of and direct 

 for punishing of ill men, and making them refund what 

 shall legally be adjudged under the happy reign of King 

 James the Just. And if in this your Majesty will piously 

 be pleased to relieve us by interceding for your poor sub- 

 scribers in distress we shall incessantly pray. 



" That Heaven may daily shower down innumerable 

 blessing on the King and your Majesty, and that we his 

 poor subjects in distress may live to receive alms both 

 from a Prince of Wales, a Duke of York, and such other 

 of your Royal progeny as maj', by perpetuating your race, 

 bless the nations under his government with a stock of 

 such virtuous and heroic Princes as ma}' make his king- 

 doms flourish with peace and plenty, and his arms and 

 fame as great and glorious abroad, as we may justly ex- 

 pect from the race of a King whose merit, when he was 

 a subject, made him General at land and victorious Ad- 

 miral at sea in the defence of English men and English 

 rights, and more undoubtedly if from the offspring of a 

 Queen whose ancestors commanded armies to maintain 

 the just temporal rights of oppressed subjects against the 

 encroaching persecutions of aspiring churchmen of their 

 own religion ; and if such a royal race will not silence 

 the malice of those that spread jealousies and fears 

 amongst rebellious spirits, and that your Majesties 

 prayers for their conversion hath not such universal in- 

 fluence as your exemplary piety does make us hope it 

 will. They shall then have the curse of the poor. 



" We end this long and our most humble petition in 

 praying that Heaven will long preserve your Majesty in 

 the arms of the best of Kings, and that both your vir- 

 tues may be crowned with everlasting happiness accord- 

 ing to the unalterable prayers of your poor distressed 

 subscribers, and other sick crippled beggars at Winches- 

 ter, who for fear of losing the alms of the before mentioned 

 magistrates have been frighted from subscribing here- 

 unto." 



Tlie hopes expressed about a Pi'ince of Wales 

 and a Duke of York are prophetic and significant 

 — flattery after the fashion of the hour. Thanks- 

 givings had been ofFei'ed up in the preceding 

 J^inuary on the occasion of her Majesty being 

 with child, and on the 10th June following a 

 Prince of Wales was born, the unfortunate Cheva- 

 lier as he was subsequently called. T. B. P. 



SHAKSPEARIANA. 



Shakspeare Family (2""^ S. x. 188.) — I have 

 in my possession an indenture of apprenticeship, 

 dated 7th April, 1725, of Samuel Wilton, son of 

 Samuel Wilton of St. Paul's, Shadwell, to Jona- 

 than Shakespear, citizen and broiderer of London. 

 The arms on the seal attached to the signature of 

 the latter are — a cockatrice close, impaling . . (?) 

 a chief indented ...(?) 



Can this be a descendant of the " John Shacks- 

 peer " of E. A. T.'s token, — the surname amended, 

 and the gift name "writ large? " S. W. Rix. 



Beccles. 



In reply to the Query of E. A. T., may I offer 

 him one note in regard to the family of " John 

 Shackspeer of Roap Walk in Upper Shadwell." 

 Herbert in his History of the Twelve Great Livery 

 Companies of London tells us, under the head of 

 Masters and Wardens of the Ironmongers, that 

 one " John Shakespeare " upon the said list, under 

 date 1769, gave name to "Shakespeare's Walk," 

 47. High Street, Shadwell ; and, farther, that he 

 was buried in Stepney churchyard. 



I also find that the said John Shakespeare suc- 

 ceeded William Calcraft, Esq., as Alderman of the 

 Ward of Aldgate in 1767, Sheriff in 1768, died in 

 1774, and buried as above. There does not ap- 

 pear any note whereby I might trace the ancestry 

 of the name. T.C.N. 



E. A. T. is informed that the rope-factory al- 

 luded to, situated in Love Lane, Shadwell, was 

 destroyed by fire about two months since. A Mr. 

 Shakespear Reed was once a partner, and Shake- 

 speare's Walk is still in the parish of Shadwell ; 

 probably the existing partners have some know- 

 ledge of the Shakespears from whom Mr. Reed 

 must have taken his name. W. S. 



Old Zincke. — About the year 1827, when 

 the writer was a book, print, and picture dealer in 

 the parish of St. Botolph Without, Aldersgate, Mr. 

 Zincke, then commonly called "Old Zincke" (a 

 grandson of Zincke the celebrated enamel painter) 

 referred to in a former* Shakspearian Note of 

 mine, brought me home a picture which I had 

 given him to restore ; when, after paying him for 

 the same, he handed me a written paper to read, 

 which, as near as I can now recollect, read as 

 follows. " That Old Forger Zincke mistook his 

 business, and made a great blunder when he palmed 

 upon the public the painting upon canvas as the 

 'Bellows Portrait ' of one William Shakspeare, 

 representing it to have been taken from the top of 

 a bellows belonging to Queen Elizabeth : such was 

 an erroneous invention, at variance witii the 

 truth, and very rudely conceived ; for it was not 

 a picture at all ; it was a carved parlour-bellows, 

 which at one time did belong to Queen Elizabeth, 



