baptized September25,1608, of whom nothing further is known. Joan Hart was remembered in the Poet's will by a contingent legacy of fifty pounds to her and her children, together with a bequest of twenty pounds, all his wearing apparel, and a life intereft in the house which she then occupied, at the nominal rent of a fhilling. The Harts continued in Stratford during more than two centuries after the Poet's death, but in comparative obfcurity. In 1794, one of Shakespeare's two houfes in Henley-street was the property of Thomas Hart, a butcher, the fixth in defcent from Joan; and his fon who fucceeded him in bufinefs was, we are told by Dr. Drake, living in the fame houfe in 1817. Richard Shakespeare was buried February 4, 1613. Edmund became an actor, influenced probably in his choice by the connection of his brother with the