Shakespeare's, what it must have been, 212. License to print, meaning of a, 108. Ling & Trundell, procure copies in shorthand, 307. Proof of fact, 307. Lin tot, Bernard, invented the King James letter story in 1710, 44, 168. Literary imposture. See Imposture, literary. Literature, persecuted if unlicensed, 107. See Star Chamber, Copyright, 107. "Lord Leicester's groom." See "Groom." "Lover's complaint," appears with the Sonnets, 277. "Lucrece," of doubtful authorship, 41, 218. Lucy, Sir Thomas, lampoon on, 123. M. Macaulay, accounts for Bunyan's works, 165, 166. Maids of honor, seated on the stage, 273. Malone, Edmund, his "chronologies," 86, 87. His contributions to Shakespearean biography, 76, et seq. His Shakespearean labors, 76, 80, 85. Whitewashes the Stratford bust, 97. Management, theatrical, no sinecure in 17th century, 48. Manuscripts, Bacon's Will directs certain, locked up, 244. Delia Bacon's idea of their disposition, 193, 194. May yet come to light, 244. Minute and constant search for, 49, 50. Northumberland, discovered by Spedding, 242. Marshall's picture, 95. See Portraits. Masques, William Shakespeare wrote none, 271. Massey, Gerald, makes a romance from sonnets, 283. Matthew, Sir Tobie, banters Bacon, 237. His postscripts, 180, 181, 236, 237. Innuendos of, 181. Knew Bacon, but not Shakespeare, 147. Quotation from, to this effect, 148. Why he did not reveal Bacon's secret, 152, note. Medicine, knowledge of, displayed in the plays, 210-215. Medico-Legal knowledge, displayed in the plays, 215. Merchant of Venice, law in, 245, note. Meres, Francis, cited as a witness, 250. His testimony critical, not historical, 132. Merry Wives of Windsor, story of order for, may be true, 310. Rebuke to lechery in, 310. Perhaps to Elizabeth, 310, note. Milton, John, first to claim author's copyright, 108. His Areopagitica, 108. His estimate of Shakespearean plays, 20, 36. Value of his estimate, 20, 36. Mitylene, curious custom prevalent in, alluded to in Pericles, 55, note. Monasteries, dissolution of the, 175. Monastery, Christian, in Ephesus, 116. Montgomery, perhaps connected with plays, 284. Music, familiarity with, 297, note, N. Nashe, Thomas, his testimony to insecurity of authorship, 109. New and Delia Bacon theories, coincide, 299. New theory, alternative presented by, 202. Further details of, 284. The, what is, 256. Newton, his discoveries anticipated by plays, 212. Northumberland MSS., discovered by Spedding, 242. "Noverint," what Nashe may have meant by, 245. O. Oldys, story about a brother of William Shakespeare, 84. Orthography of name Shakespeare, 169-171.