Shakespeare's Family

from "Haste-vibrans." Whatever it was at its initiation, it may safely be held to have been an intentionally significant appellation in later years. That it referred t

have bin surnames imposed upon the first bearers of them for valour and feates of armes;" and Camden[4] also note

stionlesse given for distinction, facultie, consanguinity, de

arn from Spenser's allusion, evidently intended for him,

ugh last, not l

herd[7] may no

l of high thoug

mself heroic

upon the taste or education of the writers, during transition periods, when they seemed actually to prefer varieties, as one sometimes finds a proper name spelt in three different ways by the same writer on the same page. "Shakespeare" was the contemporary form of the name that the author himself passed in correcting the proofs of the "first heirs of his invention"

wrote it otherwise. But a man's spelling of his own name counted very little then. He might have held romant

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59, x. 15, 86, 122; 7th Series, iv. 66;

o-Archivista dell' Accademia Araldica Italiana, whi

tion of Decayed Intellig

"Remains," ed

porary. Notes and Queri

lin Clout's Come

of the day to call

1594). See my English article, "The Earliest Official Record of Shakespeare

rnivall, in the Journal of the Society of Archiv