A Critical Enquiry Regarding The Real Author Of The Letters Of Junius, Proving Them To Have Been Written By Lord Viscount Sackville

And it is apparent that he was known by his neighbors as a man of substance. In October 1598 Richard Quiney of Stratford (whose son would eventually marry one of ShakespeareБЂ™s daughters) wrote to Shakespeare asking for a loan of бё30-roughly бё 15,000 in todayБЂ™s money, so no small sum. In the event, it appears Quiney had second thoughts or was somehow deflected from his course, for the letter seems never to have been sent. It was found among his papers at his death. Rather oddly, this period when Shakespeare was displaying wealth in an unusually debonair manner coincided with what must have been a financially uncertain period for the Lord ChamberlainБЂ™s Men. In January 1597 James Burbage, their guiding light and most senior figure, died at the age of sixty-seven, just as the companyБЂ™s lease on the Theatre was about to expire. Burbage had recently invested a great deal of money-бё1,000 at least-in purchasing and refurbishing the old Blackfriars Monastery in the City with the intention of turning it into a theater ...»