Note 601:C — Chapter XIV

Gildon says that Shakspeare left behind him an estate of 300l. per annum, equal to at least 1000l. per ann. at this day; but Mr. Malone doubts "whether all his property, real and personal, amounted to much more than 200l. per ann. which yet was a considerable fortune in those days." "If," he adds, "we rate the New Place with the appurtenances, and our poet's other houses in Stratford, at 60l. a year, and his house, &c. in the Blackfriars, (for which he paid 140l.) at 20l. a year, we have a rent-roll of 150l. per ann. Of his personal property it is not now possible to form any accurate estimate; but if we rate it at 500l., money then bearing an interest of 10l. per cent. Shakspeare's total income was 200l. per ann."—Reed's Shakspeare, vol. i. pp. 73, 74.