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October 6, 1600
Exchequer, Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer, Pipe Rolls, naming William Shakespeare as a tax defaulter in 1600
Lay subsidies were a type of tax based on personal wealth. In London, the collection of subsidies was managed at the local level of ward and parish.
ca. 1600-1615
Edward Pudsey's Commonplace book [portions]: containing first known manuscript quotations from Shakespeare's plays
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ca. early 1600s
Early 17th-century manuscript note adapting couplet from Pericles at the end of a copy of a Humourous Day's Mirth
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ca. early 1600s
An Historicall Compendium of the Mutabilitie of FORTUNE & HONOUR: early manuscript allusion to Hamlet
A previously unnoticed reference to Hamlet – possibly one of the earliest in existence – is in a manuscript held by the Folger Shakespeare Library.
ca. late 1500s or early 1600s
Two lines from Venus and Adonis, in a late sixteenth or early seventeenth-century hand, in the margins of a thirteenth-century theological compilation.
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September 8, 1601
Parish register entry recording John Shakespeare's burial
John Shakespeare was buried on September 8, 1601, according to the Holy Trinity Church parish register. Next to the entry, an “X” added by a later hand highlights its significance.
October 10, 1601
Updated deed of transfer of the Globe and other properties from Nicholas Brend to Sir Matthew Brown and John Collett, listing William Shakespeare
Dated October 10, 1601, this is the second of five enrolled indentures of bargain and sale for the Globe site, naming William Shakespeare as a leasee. The Globe playhouse was first built in 1599 on land leased from Sir Nicholas Brend.
February 18, 1601
Examination of Augustine Phillips
In early 1601, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, led a rebellion which was over almost as soon as it began.
October 7, 1601
Deed of transfer of the Globe and other properties from Nicholas Brend to Sir Matthew Brown and John Collett, listing "William Shackspeare gent.”
Dated October 7, 1601, this is the first of five enrolled indentures of bargain and sale for the Globe site, naming William Shakespeare as a leasee. The Globe playhouse was first built in 1599 on land leased from Sir Nicholas Brend.
June 26, 1601
Shakespeare's associates buy property: Bargain and Sale of a "tenement" in Blackfriars to Cuthbert and Richard Burbage, Vendor's copy
James Burbage died in 1597. His sons Richard and Cuthbert, who were principal shareholders of the Globe, inherited Blackfriars Theater from their father. In 1601, they purchased rooms adjacent to it. Their signatures on the “bargain and sale” indenture appear in the photo above.

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