вовать body paws and a. As I dan wantagne the Poplicctio of fire one, so I dan Part of Egerton MS. 1994, f. 329' (reduced), showing the deletion 822.9 SHAKESPEARE & THE UNIVERSITIES BY FREDERICK Samuel M.A. (Oxon); Hon. LL.D (St. Andrews) Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Publisher to The Shakespeare Head Press English Sotheran PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS LTD STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 13 6 2-13-92 01-23-24vw, HE general scope and purpose of this volume are set TH Tore genthal scopduction, forth in the Introduction, and these prefatory words are therefore chiefly by way of acknowledgement. Seven of the chapters are based, with considerable revision and enlargement, on contributions to periodicals, and I have to thank the respective editors for permission to republish them in their present form. Chapters II and VII are expansions of articles in The Fortnightly Review, and chapter V of an article in The Library. Chapter IV appeared in The Contemporary Review, and chapters VIII, IX, and XI in The Times Literary Supplement, but in every case these have been revised to bring the various sections of the volume into closer relation. Chapters I, III, VI and X are new, except that in III I have 'lifted,' with the consent of Sir Israel Gollancz, a few passages from my contribution to The Book of Homage to Shakespeare. I wish also to repeat my thanks to those who in various ways have helped or facilitated my investigations. Dr R. L. Poole allowed me to examine some of the documents in the Oxford University archives, and to reproduce in facsimile. an extract from the Vice-Chancellors' accounts. The Town Clerk of Oxford made arrangements for me to inspect the accounts of the City Chamberlains, and to reproduce in facsimile an extract from them. Mr C. H. Wilkinson permitted me to collate the manuscript of The Cheats in Worcester College library, and drew my attention to the library's unrecorded set of Shakespearean quartos. Mr William Forster, C.I.E., allowed me to make extracts from minute-books of the East India Company and some of the logs of early voyages preserved at the India Office. He was also the first to identify 'W.M.', author of The |