Alleged acquaintance with Shakespeare, 41, 311, 312. Did he forget his caste? 273, 274. His gift to Shakespeare incredible, 41, 180. How perhaps connected with plays, 284. Never suspected of literary tastes, 1, 273. No evidence that he knew Shakespeare, 311, 312. Biographers find no trace of it, 311. Story manufactured by Shakespeareans, 311, 312. Poems dedicated to, 179. Story of his munificence, why probably a forgery, 44, 311, 312. Supposed friendship for Shakespeare, 273. Why great doubt as to his being a companion of Shakespeare, 40. Spedding, James, believed in more than one author of Henry VIII., 184. Spenser and Chaucer, the great fire not fatal to records of, 80. Spenser, his reference to "Gentle Willie," explained, 148, note. His reference to "Ætion," 147, note. Stage, best seats were on the, 273. "Business," probably not written by author of text, 117. See "Business." Modern, rejects the Shakespearean "business" Then only available depot for literary work, 174. Star Chamber, court of, 100. Had jurisdiction of literary matter, id. Stationers' Company, the blood-hound of the Star Chamber, 107. The origin of, 107. Steele, Richard, his estimate of Shakespearean plays, 26. St. George's day, selected as a birth-clay for W. S. 158. Stratford bust, 97. See Portraits. Said to be by Gerard Johnson, 97. Said to be by Thomas Stanton. 105. Stratford Grammar School, was W. S. a pupil of, 52. Stratford portrait, the, 105. Stratford School, speculations as to, 42, 52, 53, 214, 217, Stratford, vicar of, treats Miss Bacon tenderly, 198. Style, literary, not reliable evidence, 294. Of Bacon and Shakespeare dissimilar, 294. Of the Shakespearean plays, 205. "Reader must judge for himself as to, 294. "Suppers after the play," 274. Susanna Hall, enigmatical epitaph over, 85. Swift, Dean, his estimate of Shakespearean plays, 23. T. Taine, his picture of Shakespearean theaters, 258. Of Shakespearean audiences, 259. Tate, Nahum, his estimate of Shakespearean plays, 21. "Tempest," was a drollery in Ben Jonson's day, 139, note. Theater, management of, a precarious livelihood in the 17th century, 48. Theaters, best seats on the stage, 259. Of Shakespeare's day, description of, 258. Shakespearean habitues of, 37. See Audiences, Plays. Theobald and others, anticipate compromise theory, 301, Theobald believed in more than one Shakespearean author, 181. Theories, compromise between, 300. Shakespearean, three well defined, 188. See New Theory, Delia Bacon, and Baconian. Who anticipated, 301. T. Thompson, Wm., his "Renaissance Drama," 247. Thinks manuscripts may be safe, 244.