=Page 59.=--_Old House on High Street._ This house, the finest example of Elizabethan architecture in Stratford, and one of the best in England, was built in 1596 by Thomas Rogers, whose daughter, Katherine, married Robert Harvard, a butcher in the parish of St. Saviour in London, and became the mother of John Harvard, the early benefactor of Harvard College from whom it took its name. The house of Thomas Rogers was nearly opposite New Place, the residence of Shakespeare in his later years; and Mr. Rogers and his daughter doubtless knew the dramatist as a famous neighbor of theirs, and may have seen him on the stage. The cut on page 59 gives no adequate idea of the elaborate carving on the front; but this is well shown in the full-page heliotype in Mr. Henry F. Waters's _Genealogical Gleanings in England_, where these facts concerning the parentage of John Harvard first appeared. On the front of the house, under the second-story window, is the inscription, TR 1596 AR The "AR" doubtless stands for Alice Rogers, the second wife of Thomas. This proves that the second marriage occurred before 1596. Mr. Waters found no record of the burial of the first wife, Margaret, but that of Alice was on the 17th of August, 1608, and that of her husband on the 20th of February, 1610-11. The Globe Theatre, of which Shakespeare was a shareholder, stood in the parish of St. Saviour. Robert Harvard died in 1625, and was buried in St. Saviour's Church. His widow appears to have been married twice (to John Elletson and Richard Yearwood) before her death in 1635; but the date of the Elletson marriage (Jan. 19, 1625) given by Mr. Waters cannot be correct if that of Robert Harvard's death (Aug. 24, 1625) is right. =Page 89.=--_Adonai or Elohim._ Hebrew names for Jehovah, or God. =Page 112.=--_Shrewd turns._ That is, evil turns (chances or happenings). Cf. _Henry VIII._ v. 3. 176:-- "The common voice, I see, is verified Of thee, which says thus, 'Do my Lord of Canterbury A shrewd turn, and he is your friend for ever';" that is, he returns good for evil. Compare _As You Like It_, v. 4. 178:-- "And after, every [every one] of this happy number That have endur'd shrewd days and nights with us Shall share the good of our returned fortune;" and Chaucer, _Tale of Melibæus_: "The prophete saith: Flee shrewdnesse, and do goodnesse," etc. =Page 162.=--_A sergeant at-arms his mace._ In Old English _his_ was often put in this way after proper names, which had no genitive (or possessive) inflection. In the 16th century it came to be used frequently in place of the possessive ending -_s_. It was occasionally used in the 17th and 18th centuries, when some grammarians adopted the false theory that the possessive ending was a contraction of _his_. The construction occurs now and then in Shakespeare; as in _Twelfth Night_, iii. 3. 26: "the count his galleys," etc.