Note 26 — XII OTHER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARES
Reading edition
Some light is thrown on his position by the Sequestration books of Warwickshire, 1646, Add. M.S. 35098, f. 12. There it is ordered that “the rents payable out of the lands of Mʳ Betham, Mʳ Atwood, Mʳ Hunt; and William Shackspere in Rowington shall be payed since the same was sequestered.” On f. 38, 3rd March 1546-7, it was ordered that “William Shackspere of Rowington shall hould all his lands which is given in by ye oath of John Milburne to be £38 per annum ... for one yeare at £32.” But they were too late. Sequestered for loyalty, he had departed beyond their “orders” by that time.