William Shakespeare’s holding of yardlands is included in a list made by Thomas Greene of freeholders’ lands in Old Stratford and Welcombe, appended to an earlier survey of leaseholders’ lands in the same area

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Manerium de Stratford Vetere cum membris in
Comitatu Warr’
Creddita liberorum tenentium ibidem per Annum
iiij^li   xiij^s     vj^d
Creddita Custumariorum tenentium in Stratford

Vetere per Annum
ij^s     vj^d
Creddita Custumariorum tenentium in Welcombe
per Annum
viij^li   xiij^s     xj^d
Creddita Custumariorum Tenentium in Shottery
per Annum
vj^li      x^s
Tenentes per Indenturam

Adrianus Quyney tenet per Indenturam datam
vltimo die Octobris Anno regni domine nuper
Regine Elizabeth &c xiij^o factam per Ambrosium
nuper Comitem Warr’ vnum Toftum et vnam virgatam
Terre et vnum Messuagium et vnam virgatam terre
Cum perti­nentiis pro Termino xxj^o Annorum a festo
Sancti Michaelis Archangeli vltimo preterito ante
datam eiusdem Indenture redditui per Annum
xxj^s

[Notes by TG in left margin]
Mrs [Elizabeth] Quyney
she hath a newe Lease of that
5 September 1614: Mr [Iohn] Gybbes seyeth
yt is but a yard Land & a half.

[Notes by TG in right margin]
2 messuagia
2 virgate terre

Iohannes Combes tenet per Indenturam datam x^mo
die decembris Anno regni nuper Regis Henrici
viij^vi xxx^mo factam per Reverendum in Christo patrem Hugonem
quondam Wigor­n’ Episcopum Tria Messuagia
et da duas Virgatas Terre et tres quarterias
cum pertinentiis pro Termino iiij^xxix Annorum Redditui
per Annum
C^s iiij^d

[Note by TG in right margin]
3 messuagia
2 virgate & ¾

Willelmus Barker tenet per Indenturam datam v^to die
Octobris Anno Regni nuper Regis Henrici viij^vi xxxvj^to factam
per Anthonium Barker Clericum et Richardum Barnes
Clericum domus Collegii de Vetere Stratford Cum
pertinentiis pro Termino lxx^o Annorum Redditui inde per
Annum
C^s

[Notes by TG in left margin]
Mr W.[illelmus] Combe
Colledg house

[Note by TG in right margin]
in the ffeodarys book
it is 4 E 6. Stratford
Colledg tent’ in Capite per
Comitem Warr’ 

Iohannes Combes tenet per Indenturam vnum horreum
existentem super vastum redditui per Annum
xij^d

[Marginal note by TG]
Mr I.[ohannes] Combe

ffranciscus Smyth armiger tenet per Indenturam
factam per Hugonem quondam Episcopum Wigorn’ Iohanni Smyth
armigero et assignatis suis molendina in Stratford cum pertinentiis
per annualem redditum x^li et terras dominicalis manerii de
vetere Stratford Cum pertinentiis pro certis annis
adhuc venturis per annualem Redditum lx^s Ac eciam
Tenementum vocatum Burmans pro quibusdam Annis
adhuc venturis per annualem Redditum xiij^s iiij^d Sed
eciam certam datam huius Indenture et certos terminos
dictarum indenturarum Iuratores ignorant xiij^li xiij^s iiij^d

[Notes by TG in left margin]
Sir Frauncys Smyth
the Ox Closse howse &
Barley Closse & a yard
Land 19 years end