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George, fon of Thomas Hart, was baptized Sept. 18, 1636.

But this pedigree is founded on a miflake, and there is undoubtedly no lineal defcendant of Shakspeare now living. The mistake was, the fuppofing that Sir Reginald Forfter married a daughter of Mr. Thomas Nath and Elizabeth Hall, who had no iffue, either by that gentleman or her fecond husband, Sir John Barnard. Sir Reginald Forfter married the daughter' of Edward Nash, Efq. of Eaft Greenwich in the county of Kent, coulin-german to Mr. Thomas Nafh; and the pedigree ought to have been formed thus:

Anthony Nab

George Nafb:

Tho. Nafh Elizabeth Hall Sir John Barnard.

Edward Nafb

Thomas Nafh. Jane Nafh. Mary Nash Reginald Forfter, Efq.

afterwards Sir Reginald Forfter, Bart.

Reginald Forfter. Mary Forfter. Franklyn Miller Jane Forster,

of Hide-Hall, Co. Hertford. |

Will. Norcliffe, Efq.Jane Miller. Nicholas Miller Mary

Nicholas Franklyn Miller.

Mundy, Efq. Miller.

Edward Miller Mundy, Efq. the prefent owner of Hide-Hall.

Thomas, fon of Thomas Quiney, was buried Jan. 28, 1638. [1638-9.]

Richard, fon of Thomas Quiney, was buried Feb. 26, 1638. [1638-9.]

William Hart was buried March 29, 1639.
Mary, daughter of Thomas Hart, was baptizeḍ
June 18, 1641.

Joan Hart, widow, was buried Nov. 4, 1646.
Thomas Nafh, Efq. was buried April 5, 1647.
Mrs. Sufanna Hall, widow, was buried July 16,
1649.

That I am right in this ftatement appears from the will of Edward Nah,, (fee p. 40. n. 8.) and from the following infcription on a monument in the church of Stratford, erected fome time after the year 1733, by Jane Norcliffe, the wife of William Norcliffe, Efq, and only daughter of Franklyn Miller, by Jane Forster.

P. M. S.

"Beneath lye interred the body's of Sir Reginald Forster, Baronet, and dame Mary his wife, daughter of Edward Nash of Eaft Greenwich, in the county of Kent," &c. For this infcription I am indebted to the kindness of the Rev. Mr. Davenport, Vicar of Statford-upon-Avon,

Reginald Forfler, Efq. who lived at Greenwich, was created a baronet, May 4, 1661. His fon Reginald, who married Mifs Nafh, fucceeded to the title on the death of his father, fome time after the year 1679. Their only fon, Reginald, was buried at Stratford, Aug. 10, 1685.

Mrs. Elizabeth Nafh was married to her fecond husband, Sir John Barnard, at Billefley, about three miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, June 5, 1649, and was buried at Abington in the county of Northampton, Feb. 17, 1669-70; and with her the family of our poet became extinct. MALONE.

The eldest fon of Joan Hart, our poet's fifter. I have not found any entry in the Regifter of the deaths of his brothers Thomas and Michael Hart. The latter, I fufpe&t, set

Mr. Richard Queeny,' gent. of London, was buried May 23, 1656.

George Hart, fon of Thomas Hart, was married by Francis Smyth, Juftice of peace, to Hefter Ludiate, daughter of Thomas Ludiate, Jan. 9, 1657. [1657-8. ]

Elizabeth, daughter of George Hart, was baptized Jan. 9, 1658, [1658-9.]

Jane, daughter of George Hart, was baptized Dec. 21, 1661.

Judith, wife of Thomas Quiney, gent. was buried Feb. 9, 1661. [1661-62.]

Susanna, daughter of George Hart, was baptized March 18, 1663. [1663-4.]

Shakspeare, fon of George Hart, was baptized Nov. 18, 1666.

Mary, daughter of George Hart, was baptized March 31, 1671..

Thomas, fon of George Hart, was baptized March 3, 1673. [1673-4.]

George, son of George Hart, was baptized Aug. 20, 1676.

tled in London, and was perhaps the father of Charles Hart, the celebrated tragedian who, I believe, was born about the year 1630. MALONE.

ter.

This gentleman was born in 1587, and was brother to Thomas Quincy, who married Shakspeare's youngest daughIt does not appear when Thomas Quiney died. There is a defect in the Regifler during the years 1642, 1643, and 1644; and another lacuna from March 17, to Nov. 18, 1663. Our poet's fon-in-law probably died in the latter of thofe periods; for his wife, who died in Feb. 1661-2, in the Regifler of burials for that year, is defcribed thus: Judith, uxor Thomas Quiney." Had her husband been then dead, fhe would have been denominated vidua. MALONE.

Margaret Hart, widow, was buried Nov. 28, 1682. Daniel Smith and Sufanna Hart were married April 16, 1688.

Shakspeare Hart was married to Anne Prew, April 10, 1694.

William Shakspeare, fon of Shakspeare Hart, was baptized Sept. 14, 1695.

Hefler, wife of George Hart, was buried April 29, 1696.

Anne, daughter of Shakspeare and Anna Hart, was baptized Aug. 9, 1700.

George, fon of George and Mary Hart, was baptized Nov. 29, 1700,

George Hart' was buried May 3, 1702.

Hefter, daughter of George Hart, was baptized Feb. 10, 1702. [1702-3.]

Catharine, daughter of Shakspeare and Anne Hart, was baptized July 19, 1703.

Mary, daughter of George Hart, was baptized Oct. 7, 1705.

Mary, wife of George Hart, was buried O&. 7. 1705.

George Hart, was married to Sarah Mountford, Feb. 20, 1728. [1728-9.]

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Thomas, fon of George Hart, Jun. was baptized May 9, 1729.

6 Probably the wife of Thomas Hart, who must have been married in or before the year 1633. The marriage ceremony was not performed at Stratford, there being no entry of it in the Regifter. MALONE.

7 He was born in 1636. MALONE.

8 This Thomas Hart, who is the fifth in defcent from Joan Hart, our poet's fifter, is now (1788) living at Stratford, in the houfe in which Shakfpeare was born.

MALONE,

Sarah, daughter of George Hart, was baptized Sept. 29, 1733.

Anne, daughter of Shakfpeare Hart, was buried March 29, 1738.

Anne, daughter of George Hart, was baptized Sept. 29, 1740.

William Shakspeare, fon of William Shakspeare Hart, was baptized Jun. 8, 1743. [1743-4.] William Shakspeare, fon of William Shakspeare Hart, was buried March 8, 1744. [1744-5.] William, fon of George Hart, was buried April 28, 1745.

George Hart,' was buried Aug. 29, 1745. Thomas, fon of William Shakspeare Hart, was buried March 12, 1746. [1746-7.] Shakspeare Hart' was buried July 7, 1747. Catharine, daughter of William Shakspeare Hart, was baptized May 10, 1748.

William Shakspeare Hart' was buried Feb. 28, 1749. [1749-50.]

4

The widow Hart, was buried July 10, 1753.

John, fon of Thomas Hart, was baptized Aug. 18, 1755.

Anne, daughter of Shakspeare and Anne Hart, was buried Feb. 5, 1760.

9 He was born in 1676, and was great grandfon to Joan Hart. MALONE.

2 He was born in 1666, and was alfo great grandson to Joan MALONE.

Hart.

He was born in 1695. MALONE.

This abfurd mode of entry feems to have been adopted for the purpofe of concealment rather than information; for by the omiffion of the chriftian name, it is impoffible to afcertain from the Regifter, who was meant. The perfon here defcribed was, I believe, Anne, the widow of Shakfpeare Hart, who died in 1747. MALONE,

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