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ER82/11/5/19

Letter, from Robert Hutton, Warwick re acreage of Charlecote Park.

ER82/11/3/50

Pink folder: genealogical notes on Baldwin, Clopton, Fitzherbert and Porter families.

ER137/70/41

(H.P.R. Finberg) Suggested conditions for publication by Etchells Macdonald

ER1/4/10

Sir John Conway, Sir Fulke Greville, Edward Greville and Ralph Huband to Lord Burghley, praying that Stratford may be relieved from the last...

RSC/SM/1/1965/DOE1

Don't make me laugh by Charles Wood. Formed part of 'Expeditions 2'.. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director:...

ER1/95/15

Portraits of Sir George Carew, Earl of Totnes, copied from engravings (ff. 38, 39)

RSC/SM/1/1976/DES5

Destiny, by David Edgar. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Also used for the 1977 revivals at the Gulbenkian...

DR724/11/8

Bernard Rice, M.B., Stratford-upon-Avon, died 29 April, buried at Alderminster.

ER1/115/10

30 July 1621. Presentments for `not cominge to the Catachisme' for drunkenness, incontinence and `openinge theire shoppes and sellinge...

RSC/SM/1/1975/HF21

Henry IV, part 2. Also used for the 1976 Aldwych revival. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Terry Hands

ER1/2/59

A[rabella] D[iana] widow of John Frederic Sackville, 3rd Duke of] Dorset, to the Town Clerk of Stratford on the election of her son, the 4th...

RSC/SM/1/1978/SAV2

Savage amusement, by Peter Flannery. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: John Caird

ER145/5-7

View of frankpledge with court baron of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester

ER1/40/3

Papers relating to the right of appointing a curate, including a letter from Rev. Stephen Nason, vicar, to the Corporation asserting his...

ER82/11/7/13

Reprint from Stratford Herald, 9 May 1902 of report of Annual Meeting of Shakespeare Birthplace Trustees.

ER82/11/5/17

Letter, from Vicar of Charlecote re marriage of Thomas Lucy.

ER148/1/34

Letter from Mary Astley, wife of Richard, to her sister Elizabeth Ludford, wife of John Newdigate Ludford, Ansley: regrets unable to attend...

ER137/70/52

Shakespeare Head Press (B.H. Newdigate) Returning van Thal's letter.

RSC/TS/2/2/1990/RI21

Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Ron Daniels. Duration: 195 mins (VHS), 190 mins (DVD)

RSC/SM/1/1986

Prompt books used at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in London or on tour by the RSC

ER5/43

Copy Will Phoebe Freeman, Wood St. Stratford upon Avon, widow. Proved Birmingham 2 May 1870. Died 7 March 1870.

DR724/12/1

Guardian, re appointment C.H. Rice to living of Cheam.

ER1/47/58

Entertainment `The Home Circuit or London Gleanings' and `Stop Thief' by [Charles] Mathews and Yates; 15 August 1828 (2 copies, ff. 53, 54).

RSC/TS/2/2/1994/WIV1

By Thomas Southerne. Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Max Stafford-Clark. Duration: 150 mins (VHS), 152 mins (DVD)

RSC/SM/1/1972/ISL1

The island of the mighty, by John Arden with Margaretta D'Arcy. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: David...

RSC/TS/2/2/1999/DOC1

By Friedrich Schiller, translated by Robert David MacDonald. Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Gale Edwards. Duration: 187...

DR724/1/4

Inventory of personal estate of David Rice, deceased. [xerox]

ER1/101/3

Letter from Simon Clarke to Simon Archer mentioning a collection he had made `of all the gentlemens discentes, arms and crestes in collers...

ER137/70/39a

Shakespeare Head Press (B.H. Newdigate) Acknowledgement from Rye

ER82/11/9/22

Notes from The Redditch Indicator `Notes and Queries' (cuttings collected by F. Scarlett Potter).

RSC/SM/1/2000

Prompt books used at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in London or on tour by the RSC

DR18/17/2a/20

Receipted bill from John Grimston for various estate payments.

ER1/126

`Abstracts of Wills and notes of proceedings in various courts of law [1502-1693] connected with the town of Stratford upon Avon. Collected...

DR724/13/1/10

W.L. Perrin, Liverpool: about to return to United States. Details of Rices and Perrins he has met.

DR724/6/2/10/(1)

Baptism of Elizabeth, daughter of William and Elizabeth Maskall, Ufton, Berks.

DR777/50/f.5

- letter from W[illiam] M[ichael] Rossetti to Charles Mackay; 21 November 1886. - invitation to be received by the Empress Frederick (i.e....

ER1/72b

Fresco paintings on the walls of the `Chapel of the Holy Trinity' (sic): viz, the chapel of the Guild of the Holy Cross.

DR18/22/7/10

Agreement between John Gunnston, Baginton, gent., Lord Leigh and William Aldroit, Morry, Foxall, wheelwright, for the yearly tenancy of...

ER137/70/43

(B.H. Newdigate) Etchells Macdonald have not accepted Fane MS

ER1/1/115

Extract from the Court Roll of the Manor of Rowington, co. Warw., the Queen Mother Henrietta Maria being Lord, held 7 November 12 Charles II...

ER137/70/44

(H.P.R. Finberg) The Cresset Press is interested. Query editor?

DR18/17/2a/65

Receipted bill from John Grimston in re land tax etc.

BRU8/10/27

1. The Bailiff and Burgesses of the Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon 2. Richard Smarte Seal missing; including schedules

RSC/TS/2/2/1996/EVA1

Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Kathryn Hunter. Duration: 112 mins (DVD)

ER137/70/21

Peter Davies Ltd. (B. van Thal) Have written Miss Brown

ER25/3/4/27

Printed letter from John Payton, on the Committee of the Public Library, to subscribers, about the proposal to sell certain books

ER148/8/53

Abstract of the will and codicil of Robert Cheslyn of Langley, Leicestershire, delaing with etstaes in Fillongley, Warwickshire

ER56/10

Transcript of court, with view of frankpledge, of Nicholas, Bishop of Worcester

DR147/1/29

Birmingham Road Chapel: Wesley Guild Minutes

ER109/7

Lease from Sir Henry Gibbs of Honington, knight, to Edward Gibbs of Watergall, esq., of the property described in ER109/4; to hold to the...

ER1/127

`Shakespeare. Notes on his Life and Writings made after the publication of my New Illustrations, 1846.' A transcript from a MS by Joseph...

DR165/656-1246

Arranged alphabetically by Stratford street, then by place within county

ER82/11/9/21

Memos for Mrs Stopes re various Warwickshire matters from PRO and Calendar of State Papers.

ER137/70/67

Miss E. Thompson (postcard) Notes on Fane anecdotes

ER25/3/34/4

Cutting from 'Stratford Herald' with report of speech by Rt. Hon. Anthony Eden, Secretary for the Dominions, on 'The Progress of the War' at...

BRR57/3/7/2/1

Grassletting

ER25/3/10/5

Cutting from 'Birmingham Daily Post' publishing letter from Charles E. FLower, chairman of Records Committee concerning dispute with J.O....

DR172/11

Minutes of deacons meetings

RSC/OP/2/1/1

Production file for The Jail diary of Albie Sachs, The Other Place 1979. Deposited with files for 2nd TOP.

DR724/12/19

Stratford-upon-Avon Herald; Death and funeral of Mrs. R.J. Pitt (nee Rice).

ER1/101/18

---- Cornwall, of Beriton, his kinsman, on the pedigree of the Delamares and a marriage between Richard Archer, his great grandfather, and...

ER1/71/17

Barford House and Church (f. 21, 22)

SC80/27

Rother Street, No. 27, Whateleys, Building Contractors

DR430/109

Proposed house for A. F. Brownlow; architect, L.L. Dussault

DR10/2373-2425

ER136/14-18

Papers relating to the Shakespeare Head Press and its fund-raising efforts

RSC/TS/2/2/1996/THH1

By John Arbuthnot, John Gay, Alexander Pope. Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Richard Cottrell. Duration: 135 mins (VHS), 158...

RSC/TS/2/2/1990/LAJ1

By Tirso de Molina, adapted by Nick Dear, translated by Kate Littlewood. Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Danny Boyle....

ER1/3/39

`Programme of the grand Dramatic Jubilean Procession' at Stratford, 23 April 1827; with other similar papers relating to the celebrations of...

DR724/12/14

Times; Marriage notice Rudolf von Delius and Margaret Edith Rice at Munich.

ER145/205

Particulars of copyhold and leasehold property enfranchised to freehold in Shipston and Tredington, also land given up to the Dean and...

ER119/29

Order of the Court of Wards and Liveries reciting an Inquisition post mortem before Edward Chamberlayne of Alexander Martyn formerly of...

DR815

Design for a stained-glass window at Gorleston Parish Church, Suffolk, designed by H. Vernon Spreadbury in collaboration with Professor...

DR18/10/34/2

Inspeximus of a decree in the General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Warwick Easter 17 James I. ( 1619 ). concerning Gatebridge...

ER119/27

Grant by King Charles I to William Pelsant of Bosworth, Leics., in consideration of £14 paid by William Pelsant to the Receiver General of...

ER1/2/83

Report of a meeting at Stratford, 19 December 1820, on the suggestion of Charles Mathews `to consider of the best mode of erecting, in the...

ER137/60

The song the fiddler sang a) Manuscript b) Typescript c) Compositions by children aged 13-15 years on volume called Listen which included...

RL5/2/2281

Colour RSC production photographs. Copyright Royal Shakespeare Company

ER1/1/5

Grant by Henry de Brehulle of Stratford upon Avene to Emma his daughter of a messuage in Stratford. Witnesses: William de Itelycote,...

BRR57/6/9/3B/2

Accident to L.W. Billinge

DR18/10/46/38

Deed of joynture of Katherine Hercy.

ER137/70/28

Edgar I. Fripp Will omit any reference to source

DR18/3/25

ER25/3/28/18

Cutting about the inauguration of the American Fountain

DR10/2427-2428

ER137/70/48

Shakespeare Head Press (B.H. Newdigate) Enclosing copy of reply to Insoll

ER1/95/20

Coloured drawings of frescoes with arms of Hayford and others (ff. 48-50)

BRR57/2/13/7/4

Correspondence with R.L. Hopkins

ER25/3/32/43

Card, with plays and venues for first American Tour, under F. R. Benson, opening 6 October, in Montreal

ER25/3/2/17

Advertisement issued by A[rthur] R. Mason

ER148/4/75

Letter from John Ludford to [Arthur Chichester] Lord Donegall: has examined Thomas Ludford's accounts; increase in rentals pleasing

ER148/8/56

Draft bond from Gastrell Lambert of Bir, Warwickshire, to Joseph Waterhouse, Birmingham, for £260 upon mortgage

ER1/43

Accompt Book, with the heading `An account of all money received and paid to and for the use of Andrew Archer, Esq. [of Solihull, co....

ER82/11/2/20

Proofs of St Nicholas Churchwardens' accounts.

DR172/9

Minutes of deacons meetings

DR10/451 - 460

ER1/24/3

Stratford Church Album, containing the names of visitors to `the shrine of our Immortal Bard', with occasional pieces of verse

ER82/11/9/23

Notes and references from Aubrey's Lives and Letters of Eminent Men.

ER1/2/75

Collections by R.B. Wheler, including, with other rough notes: a) An account of Welcomb Hills (f. 185) b) Pedigree of the Carew family (f....

DR227/187

Papers and deeds relating to the business and licensed premises of Flower and Sons Ltd., brewers of Stratford-upon-Avon

ER137/61

Apollo to Christ and other verse, by E.M. Martin (Chapman Hall Ltd.) a) Manuscript, Songs of a country town and other verse being a file of...

DR1266

Items relating to the first Stratford River Festival, 3rd to 5th July 2009

ER5/7

Probate Copy Will, James Salt, Wooton Wawen, yeoman. Proved Prerogative Court of Canterbury 14 May 1840.

ER1/74

Copies by Captain James Saunders of verses in magazines, etc. relating to Warwickshire, and more particularly to the following places: -...

ER1/13

'An Account of the Jubilee at Stratford on Avon in honor of the immortal Shakespeare the 6th and 7th September 1769. D. Garrick, esq.,...

RSC/SM/1/1977/HH11

Henry VI part 1. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Also used for the 1978 revivals at the Theatre Royal,...

DR671/453a-470

DR18/17/2a/41

Receipted bill from John Grimston for miscellaneous household expenses.

ER1/101/13

George Brock, on the tombs of Thomas Raleigh (d. 1397) and Edward Washburne (d. 1584) at Farnborough; 30 November 1635 (f. 45v)

RSC/TS/2/2/2000/AYL2

Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Greg Doran. Duration: 164 mins Temporarily withdrawn by the depositor

RSC/TS/2/2/1990/ED21

By Christopher Marlowe. Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Gerard Murphy. Duration: 165 mins (VHS), 167 mins (DVD)

ER1/47/18

`Venice Preserved', the pantomime `Harlequin in a Bustle' and `Of age tomorrow'; 16 January 1822 (f. 20)

ER47/5/5

Plea of Elizabeth Hurlstone, wife of Edmund in the case of Ayshcombe v. Hurlstone concerning Broughton Farm in Whitchurch, which John...

ER82/11/6/8

Rough note on the Earl of Southampton's connections with Shakespeare.

ER20/121

Extract from registers of Wolfhampcote of burial of Richard Tibbits, esq., Highgate, London, Patron of Wolfhampcote.

ER25/3/17/9

Letter from Sir Theodore Martin to Trustees of Shakespeare's Birthplace, opposing restoration of Hornby Cottages. Reprinted from 'Stratford...

ER5/47

Copy Will, Alexander Boot, Stratford upon Avon, accountant to the Stratford upon Avon Canal Navigation Company.

RSC/SM/1/1975/RET2

The return of A J Raffles, by Graham Greene. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Also used for the tranfer to the...

ER1/2/40

Agreement of James West, Lord of the Manor of Preston upon Stour, co. Glouc., with the churchwardens, etc. of Preston to build a stone...

ER1/1/8

Grant by John Begelyn, of Stratford upon Avene to the Gild of St. John the Baptist of half a burgage in Stratford in Rutherstret between the...

RSC/SM/1/1967/REV2

The revenger's tragedy by Cyril Tourneur. Lists and plans inserted. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director:...

ER1/6/4

Terrier of the common-field of Preston upon Stour `both arrable meadow and pasture ground as far as is known'; 1721. With note that it was...

ER1/1/24

Indenture of lease by Thomas Arderne, esq. , and Mary his wife, to William Wilmen, of Longley, co. Warw. , husbandman, of a messuage, lands,...

DR18/17/2a/44

Receipted bill from John Grimston for various legal and tax expenses.

ER82/11/9/2

Extracts from the Statutes at Large from Magna Charta to the end of the eleventh Parliament of Great Britain Anno 1761 by Danby Pickering of...

ER25/3/26/10

Correspondence with H.H. Marley Co. Ltd., Cheltenham about designs and estimates for tablets to be placed on buildings in...

ER82/11/5/14

Notes on Lucy family from privately printed biography by Mary Elizabeth Lucy.

ER145/288

Details, entered on a printed form, of an agreement between William Bowler of Catwich in Ellastone, Staffs., by the direction of Court...

SC80/64

Shottery, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, very poor Print

ER145/203

List of copies of court rolls, 1829-1859

BRR59/3/34

Almshouses during restoration

ER1/41

`Shottery Survey', giving the names of tenants, with names, descriptions and measurements of their holdings under Sir Francis Smith;...

DR724/11/4

Mary Ward Rice, Stratford-upon-Avon, died 16 June, buried at Alderminster

RSC/PR/2/1/181

Scrapbook volume containing press cuttings relating to the history of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its productions.

ER5/98

Copy Will, Rev David Beynon, Rector of Newbold upon Stour, co Worcester.

ER13/14/10-32

Nos. 10-32 relate to dispute between Stratford-upon-Avon and Preston re settlement and removal of William Purser and family.

ER1/80/16

`Old Translation of Thomas Jollyffe's deed of foundation for the Free Grammar School', 12 February 21 Edward IV [1482].

ER1/47/47

`The Innkeeper of Abbeville, or the Ostler and the Robbers' the ballet `Tricks upon Travellers, or who gets her out' and the farce `The...

DR724/12/13

South Wales Daily News; Wedding at Abergavenny of Annie Beatrice Martin and Stuart Cornwallis Cresswell.

ER1/1/18

Letters of attorney from John Huggeford, of Edmondescote, squire of the body to the King, and Thomas Whalley to Thomas Walford of Clayendon,...

RSC/SM/1/1966/GOV4

The government inspector by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Edward O. Marsh and adapted by Jeremy Brooks. Prompt book used for Royal...

ER1/108/11

Acquittances from Jane Thompson, Thomas Rhodes and Ann his wife, and Mary Reasin for legacies under the will of William Rhodes late of...

BRR57/6/1/1/1

Accounts and Invoices

ER20/122/8

9 July 1786; Baptism of Sophia; 10 Feb 1792 Baptism of Edward son and daughter of John Mary Timms at Leek Wootton

BRT7/93

Rate book, Special District Rate

ER1/78/1

Subsidy Roll of the inhabitants of Stratford; 7 Edward II [1314] (f. 3)

DR18/10/29/3

Covenant to produce deeds in connection with DR18/10/29/1-2.

ER137/77/4

New flying machine (the Autogiro), Daily Telegraph

ER1/40/2

`An account of the Gild of the Holy Cross', (f. 119).

ER145/420-1

Letter and poem from James Findon to Anne Clarke.

ER148/5/6

Letter from Christopher Wright to Lord Leigh: Enclosing bills from Mr Hughes, and requesting further 10 shillings

BRT4/1/1/47

Summons to [list of names] to appear at sessions on 1 May

ER23/23/2

Similar to ER23/23/1 listing number of yardlands, commons, old inclosures etc but the names of proprietors have been torn off Scale: not...

ER1/71/20

Atherston Hall, Church and parsonage (ff. 26, 27)

ER5/119

Draft Will of John Randle, Upper Eatington [Ettington], carpenter.

DR10/2004-2036

MAP1/24

Elevations of the house of Frederick Scarlett Potter

BRR58a/1

Register of water supply statistics

DR18/1/1166-1168

Deeds relating to Warwick

ER1/71/37

Wootton Hall and Church (ff. 49, 50)

BRR57/2/5/2A/3

Correspondence with Pimm Voyle

ER5/123

Draft Will of Joseph Walker, Stratford upon Avon, gent.

BRR57/4/2/1/2

Bancroft Gardens

BRR57/6/19/4/2

Stocks and stocktaking

DR724/6/1/6

Letter from `Aunt Sue' to Fanny Blackley, Wicklow, with account of wedding of C.H. Rice and Eleanor Vernon Macan.

BRR57/7/18/2

Return of empties

ER137/70/59a

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (F.C. Wellstood) Whereabouts of Fane MS.

ER1/79/10

`Extract from the will of Mr. Robert Perrett as to his charitable bequest', 8 March 1588/9 (f.81)

BRT7/105

Rate book, lighting (gas) rate,1862

DR227/188-197

Papers relating to shares in the business of Flower and Sons Ltd., brewers of Stratford-upon-Avon

ER102/5/5

Printed syllabuses for lecture courses by E.I Fripp (Liverpool University, London University, Queen's University, Belfast)

ER25/3/16/2

Notice offering 20 guineas reward for information concerning participants in the late riot in Stratford. Signed by the Mayor, Richard Allen

BRR57/6/9/2A/1

Institute of Municipal Engineers

DR724/10/9

Alice Bulkley nee Rice.

RSC/TS/2/2/2002/ED31

Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Anthony Clark. Duration: 148 mins [Could be copy of RSC/TS/2/2/2002/ED32 performance]

ER25/3/12/22

Reprint from 'Stratford Herald', being text of sermon preached by Rev. G. Arbuthnot on Mayoral Sunday

DR1129/88

Letter from Marie Corelli, Mason Croft, Stratford-upon-Avon, to Lady Anna Chandos-Pole, Harrington House, Kensington Palace Gardens, London,...

ER148/5/64

Letter from Joseph Hill to John Ludford: schedule of deeds relating to Sussex estates of William, Lord Craven [uncle of Lord Leigh]

ER25/3/11/1

Provisional Order for establishing a Local Board of Health for Stratford-upon-Avon, under the Public Health Act, 1848

DR574/510a-514

ER25/3/16/5

Notice, signed by John Conolly, Mayor, offering ten guineas reward for information about the writer of a letter signed "Mr Fiarsmaker"

DR10/1478-1505

ER102/6/20

Small notebook containing a rudimentary concordance to the Bible.

DR18/3/52

ER23/24/1

In ink. 'F' 'S' 'P' in 3 shields on mantel Scale: 2 inches: 1 foot Surveyor: not given

DR147/1/33

Birmingham Road Chapel: Collection Journals

ER1/119

`Copies of various writings on the walls of the Birthplace, in an old register of visitors'

RSC/TS/2/2/1995/REL1

By John Vanbrugh. Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Ian Judge. Duration: 180 mins (VHS), 197 mins (DVD)

DR65/49

Plan of the estates of John Payton of Stratford-upon-Avon in Old Stratford: field-names and acreages. Undated.

DR197/1-61

Volumes relating to the financial affairs of F. Kendall and Son, brewing chemists of Stratford-upon-Avon

DR197/147-149

Registers of shareholders and share transfers in the firm F. Kendall and Son, brewing chemists of Stratford-upon-Avon

DR18/3/20/1/54

Letter from Matthew Payne to Joseph Hill

ER145/153

Rent roll

DR18/3/19

BRR57/6/1/1/2

Accounts and Invoices

BRR57/6/1/1/4

Accounts and Invoices

DR227/1-43

Ledgers of Flower and Sons Ltd., brewers of Stratford-upon-Avon

ER1/95/9

John Preston Neale's engraved views in Warwickshire: - Compton Verney (f. 17) - Alscott Park (f. 18) - Coughton Court (f. 19) - Wroxall...

DR149/156/28

From the executors of John Thomas Hobbes, esq., captain in the Royal Marines, to John Thomas Harrison Hobbes, his nephew, annuity granted by...

RSC/SM/1/1972/MER2

The merchant of Venice. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Terry Hands

DR724/10/6

Rev. Robert and Mrs. Rice nee Christiana Fanny Davis.

ER82/11/9/24

Notes from `The journey from Chester to London by Thomas Pennant, Esq.'.

DR156/6

R.C. P. Bryan, Worcester College, Oxford to Miss Marjorie Waterhouse, Treasurer, Bullen Memorial Fund, 18 February 1960

DR137/98/11

`Cornerways'.

BRR57/5/20/4

Tree Preservation Order

BRR57/2/19/3

Small Dwellings Acquisition Act

ER24/13

Particulars and valuation of Thomas Salt's land

ER1/101/7

Sir William Dugdale, on the will of William Willington, etc. Blyth Hall, 9 September 1757 (f. 68). Followed by a letter from R.B. Wheler to...

DR18/3/62

BRR57/6/19/1A/4

Staff, general

BRR57/5/3/1/1

Central Land Board

DR18/17/2a/45

List of names and amounts including some arrears.

ER47/7/3

Partial copy of ER47/7/2 in the case of Evelyn Shirley and Thomas Roberts against Thomas Smith, for trespass and damage in Eattington...

ER148/2/66

Letter from Elizabeth Long Woodall to John Newdigate Ludford: claiming legacy under the will of her aunt, Elizabeth Long and enclosing copy...

RSC/SM/1/1983

Prompt books used at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in London or on tour by the RSC

DR98/2027

Grant of tithes from Thomas William Earl of Lichfield to Henry Peyto Lord Willoughby de Broke of tithes issuing out of certain lands in...

RSC/SM/1/1965/PUN1

Squire Puntila and his servant Matti by Bertolt Brecht, adapted by Jeremy Brooks from a translation by Paul Kriwaczek and Paul Lewis. Prompt...

RSC/TS/2/2/1988/TIT1

Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Deborah Warner. Duration: 210 mins (VHS), 214 mins (DVD)

DR724/6/1/8

E.B. Winton, Bournemouth to [C.H.] Rice expressing appreciation of sermon.

RSC/TS/2/2/1989/MAE1

By Frank McGuiness. Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Sarah Pia Anderson. Duration: 107 mins (DVD) [Specific date of the...

ER25/3/28/5

Advertisement from 'Stratford Herald' for the display of the Shakespearean Loo Table at the shop of E. Courtney, Henley Street

ER1/78/2

`Remission from taxes and subsidies in consequence of losses by fire'; 27 January 41 Elizabeth [1599] (f.5)

ER148/4/163-165

The Earl of Donegall's account with John Ludford

ER1/31/15

`Draft lease [by Thomas Ashwin and others to Francis Raymond] of The Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford upon Avon for 7 years' at a yearly...

ER1/50/26

The Tomahawk, or Censor General, no. cxiii, 7 March 1796, with a letter from `Philo-Shakespeare' to Malone on Ireland's Shakespeare MSS....

ER1/33/16

Richard Samuel White, junior; - to the [Rev. James Davenport, D.D.] vicar of Stratford, with enquiries as to the spelling of the name...

ER1/1/62

Letter from `Joane Grevill' [wife of Sir Edward Greville] to the `Bayly' desiring him `chefly and Mister alderman that you too will bee amen...

ER1/26/8

`The Maid of the Mill' (Fanny by Mrs. Kemble) and the farce `All the World's a stage' ; 28 June [1782] (f.9)

ER25/3/2/3

Written warning, printed notice of sale, and receipt for two milch cows of Thomas Parker of Welford, impounded for trespass and sold at 'The...

DR18/17/2a/143

Receipted bill from John Grimston for various expenses.

ER1/6/8

Surveys of lands in Shottery of ---- Archer, --- Hickcox and Leonard Court, made by Richard Overton in 1773; followed by other rough surveys...

DR724/13/1/9

J.A. Montgomery, Philadelphia, enclosing [not with] copy of father's History of Montgomery family.

ER1/50/42

Draft by J.O. Halliwell of a pamphlet on Nicholas ap Roberts, a `butcher's son, of Stratford upon Avon' contemporary with Shakespeare, 1864....

RSC/SM/1/1978/SAG1

Saratoga, by Bronson Howard. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Ronald Eyre

ER1/50/3

Two leaves from a First Folio Shakespeare, 1623, that with the `Names of the Principall Actors'; and pp. 257, 258, with blank paper,...

ER1/139

Transcript of the Indenture, 21 January 1775, between the Commissioners under Act of Parliament and the Proprietors of the Common Fields,...

ER1/108/14

Indictment, affidavits, etc. in an action by Thomas Mason against John Lancaster and others, for obstructing the navigation of the Avon;...

DR18/17/2a/140

List of receipts and weekly bills from 29 March.

RSC/TS/2/2/1995/HE51

Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Matthew Warchus. Duration: 212 mins (DVD) [Could be copy of RSC/TS/2/2/1995/HE52...

DR724/12/31

Evesham Journal Wedding of Heather Flower, daughter of Spenser and John Philip Pagan Taylor at Ilmington.

BRT4/1/57

Containing rough jury lists and presentments, 1773-81, 1783-88, 1791-3, 1795-7, 1799-1800, 1802, 1805-7, 1810-20, 1822, 1825, 1833

RSC/SM/1/1972/ISL4

The island of the mighty, by John Arden with Margaretta D'Arcy. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: David...

DR836/8

ER1/1/67

Petition to the Lord Chief Justice of England from the Bailiff and Burgesses of Stratford upon Avon `a poore markett towne... lately much...

ER1/108/15

Authority of William Wheyam, of Stratford, to Edmund Chambers, senior, and Edmund Chambers, junior, of Binton, executors of Elizabeth...

ER1/1/59

Extract from a rental of the College of Stratford upon Avon, including the names of the members, viz. Anthony Barker `gardianus', Edward...

ER1/33/19

William Staunton: - sending extracts from a Subsidy Roll of 1567 with names of John Shakespere, Thomas Shakespere, Adryan Quyney, Richard...

ER1/107/16

Particulars of Welcomb Manor farm, six messuages next the White Lion Inn, Stratford, in the tenure of Thomas Hart, and others, eight...

ER1/5/4

`Copy of a paper affixed to the Gild Ledger' giving the names of the chief benefactors, with the dates of their admission and other notes,...

ER1/3/2

Certificate by the Churchwardens, etc. of Old Stratford addressed to those of Exall, co. Warw., that John Jakeman and Anne his wife are...

ER1/1/86

The Bailiff and Burgesses of Stratford upon Avon to Sir Henry Yelverton, Attorney General, in behalf of divers poor men oppressed by one...

ER1/1/13

Sale by Richard Aschear of Stotfolde, co. Stafford, "squyer" to John at ye Welle, of Stretford uppon Havyn, and Thomas Cokkys, of the same,...

ER1/7/4

Draft of a petition to John Price, clerk, B.C.L. Chancellor of Worcester, from neighbours of William Smith, of Stratford, praying for a...

ER1/7/1

Mandate from Sir Timothy Baldwyn, LL.D., Vicar General of the Bishop of Worcester, to the Rector, Vicar or Curate of Stratford to proclaim...

ER1/1/1

Lease from Ralph le Power of Clyfford to Henry de Stowa of a quarter of a virgate of land in the fields of Clyfford [Clifford Chambers, co....

ER1/1/2

Lease from Ralph le Power, of Lemyntone [Leamington] to William le Waythe, of Westhanney [Berks] and Agnes his wife of a messuage in...

ER1/1/14

Letters of attorney from John Webbe al. John Jolyf, of Stratford upon Avene, and Johanna his wife, to Thomas Balsale, Master of the Guild of...

ER1/18

`Welcombe Hills. An Historical and Descriptive Poem by John Jordan, of Stratford upon Avon, wheelwright'. Extracts in the author's own hand,...

ER1/3/16

Rev. Richard Jago, Vicar of Snitterfield, to William Hunt, of Stratford, enclosing pieces in prose and verse on the latter's garden and 'the...

RSC/SM/1/1967/AYL1

As you like it. Used also at the Aldwych and on the provincial tour 1967. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production....

ER1/31/4

Will of Anne Hart, widow [of Shakespear Hart] bequeathing to her kinsman George Hart, of Stratford, turner, her seven messuages in Henley...

ER1/35/5

`Pains and orders' at Courts of Andrew Archer 20 October 1686; f. 10 No date [circa 1690] 24 October 1690; one of the signatures `Edward...

ER1/51

`Theatrical bills, of Drury Lane, signed by B. Booth, C. Cibber and Robert Wilks, 1714-15 (ff. 1, 30, 88) Engraving of Shakespeare's...

ER1/89

Volume II (ff. 194) `Romeo Juliet' (f.2) `Julius Caesar' (f. 56) `Cymbeline' (f. 66) `Othello' (f. 74) `Hamlet' (f. 102) `King Lear' (f....

ER1/38

Original letters of David Garrick and others, chiefly relating to the Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 Letters are also included from J. Kendall...

ER1/7/18

Administration Bonds, of: i) Susanna Feild, al. Miles of Stratford, spinster, to the effects of John Bradley, maltster; 23 May 1724 (f.39)...

ER1/137

`A Rent Roule of the Cheife Rents, Fee Farme Rents, Annual Rents due unto... the Duke of Dorsett out of his Burrough, Towne and Mannour of...

ER16/63

Charles William, aged 15, son of William Murrell of Bengeworth, co. Worcs., wine and spirit merchant, to William Burman of...

ER1/47/46

`The Temple of Death, or Edric the Outlaw' the farcetta `There he goes or the Landlord outwitted' and the pantomime `Harlequin Tom, or the...

RSC/SM/1/1978/MEA1

Measure for measure. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Also used for the 1979 revivals at the Theatre Royal,...

RSC/SM/1/1978/DAD4

The dance of death, by August Strindberg, translated by Michael Meyer. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director:...

DR117/50

Notes by Joseph Greene on John de Stratford, archbishop of Canterbury, Robert his brother, bishop of Chichester, and Ralph de Stratfor,...

BRR59/1/p.86

Church Street, site of Maugersbury House

ER5/150

Extract from Will of Mrs Ann Scott, with extract of Codicil dated 15 March 1810. Estate at Rowley Regis, Harborne c.

ER1/50/22

Advertisement of `a curious medly of Entertainments by Mr. Hickman' at the Wheatsheaf, Stratford, consisting of conjuring, etc. with...

ER1/108/20

Agreements for the sale by Samuel Smith - to John Whitehead of a messuage, etc. in Henley Street Stratford; 7, 21 April 1808 (ff. 95, 98) -...

ER1/94/2

`Verses to Anne Hatherrewaye' with other forgeries by W.H. Ireland, etc. (ff. 28v-37) Followed by numerous other pieces, including: - the...

ER1/72/1

Houses, outside Stratford - Baraset House, Alveston (f. 2) - Walton House (f. 3) - Billesley Hall (f. 57) - Charlecote House (f. 65) -...

ER1/108/1

General release: - by Henry Willett, of Oxford, to Michael Goodrich of Stratford; 14 November 1702 (f. 1) - by Lancelott Rumney, of Chipping...

RSC/SM/1/1978/WOE2

The women-pirates, Ann Bonney and Mary Read, by Steve Gooch Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Ron Daniels

ER1/64

Volume IV (ff. 116) Shottery (f.2) Luddington (f. 5) Hampton Lucy (f. 23) Drayton (f. 25) Eatington (f. 26) Alveston (ff. 34, 45) Tiddington...

ER1/4/14

Petitions from the Corporation of Stratford: (a) To Lord Chancellor Ellesmere for a further patent for the collection of alms for the relief...

ER1/50/12

Theatrical bills for properties, smith's work, cleaning, etc. at Drury Lane, 20 March 1713/14 - 9 March 1715/16, the last being a...

BRR59/1/p.18

Waterside, rear of unidentified properly

ER1/76

Stratford Collections, or copies and extracts by Captain James Saunders from the Corporation Records, the Wheler papers and other sources of...

RSC/SM/1/1977/AYL1

As you like it. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Also used for the 1978 revivals at the Theatre Royal,...

ER1/86/6

`Description and plan of property [New Place, etc.] proposed to be purchased for the Mausoleum to Shakespeare'; 5 October 1822 (f. 62)

DR350/10

Further charge from Benjamin Buller to Thomas Tasker (reciting DR350/9, and that the said Benjamin Buller had taken down the two cottages...

DR18/3/56

ER1/83

Volume IX Collections relating to the Jubilee of 1769, etc., including copies made

ER1/84/5

Printed sheets, viz: - `Route of the procession' etc. 23 April 1827 (f. 47) - `A New Song' for Shakespeare's Birthday, beginning `You...

RSC/SM/1/1975/HAM2

Hamlet. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Also used for the 1976 revival at the Roundhouse, London. Director: Buzz...

ER1/86/1

Extracts from newspapers etc. relating to the play `Shakespeare's early days' produced at Covent Garden 29 October 1829 (ff. 2-21) Included...

ER1/26/11

Programme of performance of the `Infant Roscius Master [George] Grossmith, from Reading, only seven years and a half old'; at the Town Hall,...

DR724/8/2/15/1

Apprenticeship indenture of Edward Gibbs, son of Mary, widow, of St. Georges in the East, Middx., to William Thompson, Stratford-upon-Avon,...

ER1/23

Diary of a `Journey in Scotland by the Revd. Mr. [Francis] Gastrell' 24 Aug - 8 Nov 1760; going from Warrington through Carlisle to...

ER1/1/132

Order from the Commissioners for Charitable uses for co. Warwick to the Corporation of Stratford, giving notice of a meeting to enquire into...

BRT9/212/ff.46v-61v

Inventories of the workhouse, 1795,1801,1802,1807, with other inventories, probably of paupers, 1795,1816,1817(3),1818(2),1822

RSC/SM/1/1965/HE51

Henry V. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Directors: John Barton and Trevor Nunn.

DR98/1654/243

Bill from Wakelin Garrard, goldsmiths and jewellers, Hay Market, to [John Peyto] Lord Willoughby de Broke, for repairs, silver dishes and...

ER1/20/7

John Poynder; Bridewell Hospital, [London], 30 August 1830(f.17); - on the Charity Commission reports, etc; 17 December 1839, 18 January...

DR724/6/1/10

Notebook with notes on trip to South Wales. (At back are notes on parish register entries re Edward and Bernard Rice)

ER1/123-125

`Shakespearian Notes by H[enry] Brown': explanations and illustrations, with parallel words and expressions from contemporary and other...

RSC/SM/1/1967/REV3

The revenger's tragedy by Cyril Tourneur. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Trevor Nunn.

RSC/SM/1/1964/MEW1

Merry wives of Windsor. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: John Blatchley.

ER1/50/21

`The Warwickshire Lad'; song `as performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane in the entertainment of the Jubilee' [1769]. Folio 61. With...

BRR59/3/25

Female inmates of Almshouses

BRR59/1/p.58

River, Decency Creek under construction

ER1/88 - 90

Collection of miscellaneous extracts relating to Shakespeare's plays; consisting of songs, prologues and epilogues, parodies, translations...

ER1/50/1

Three leaves from Batman uppon Bartholome [sc. Bartholomew de Glanville] his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum (London, 1582), f. 196 (Lib....

RSC/SM/1/1979/MEW3

The Merry Wives of Windsor. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Also used for the 1980 revivals at the Theatre Royal,...

ER1/81

Volume VII Abstract of the Corporation `Bryge bok and rente roll', 1524-1726; with a preface, dated 1 December 1820, describing the early...

ER1/52

Forgery of Shakespeare's signature by W.H. Ireland (f. 24). Theatrical bills, 1714, signed by Booth, Cibber and Wilks (ff. 27, 31, 57, 58,...

RSC/SM/1/1967/AYL2

As you like it. Used also at the Aldwych and on the provincial tour 1967. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production....

ER1/30/9

`A Directory of the Public Property belonging to the Burgesses of the Borough of Stratford upon Avon' etc; Part 1 (Birmingham, 1837); f. 82....

ER1/1/38

Covenant by Robert Webb, of Snitterfield, husbandman, on his marriage with Mary, daughter of John Perkes, of the same, husbandman, to hold a...

DR1178/1/2

Including some newscuttings

ER1/79/7

`An account of the manor of Old Stratford belonginge to the Bishop of Worcester', beginning `Nowe passinge the boundes of the countie, yett...

ER1/31/12

`Abstract of Title to the White Lion Inn, Henley Street, Stratford upon Avon, belonging to Mr. John Payton and lately sold to Mr. Arkell,...

ER1/120

Transcript, made early in the 19th century of the Stratford Bridge-Wardens Book, 1524-1726, preserved among the Corporation Records;...

DR724/1/3

Will of David Rice, Ambleston, clerk, bequeathing £10 each to his sons Vincent and Bernard; his books to his youngest son Edward, 12 pence...

ER148/4/65

Letter from S. Hamilton, Cusotms Office, Dublin to Lord Donegall: Commissioners of Customs wish to lease land for purpose of building houses...

RSC/TS/2/2/1993/SCL1

By Peter Whelan. Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Bill Alexander. Duration: 182 mins (DVD) Matinee

DR165/227/1

Plans and sections (engineer, James B. Burke), with books of reference and documents relating to the service of notices on landholders;...

RSC/SM/1/1973/TOA1

Toad of Toad Hall, adapted by A.A. Milne from Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company...

RSC/SM/1/1979/CAU1

The Caucasian chalk circle, by Bertolt Brecht. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Also used for the 1980 revival at...

RSC/SM/1/1965/THW1

The thwarting of Baron Bolligrew by Robert Bolt. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Trevor Nunn.

RSC/SM/1/1978/ADA1

The adventures of Awful Knawful, by Peter Flannery and Mick Ford. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: John...

DR724/3/4

Shipston: to [Vincent] Rice; has applied for post as companion to Lady Middleton. Asks him to buy painting box (lists colours) and will pay...

RSC/SM/1/1960/TAM1

The tamingof the shrew. Prompt book used for Shakespeare Memorial Theatre production. Director: John Barton

RSC/SM/1/1983/HE81

Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Also used at Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1984; Barbican Theatre, 1984....

ER1/117/21

Copies of verses, etc. - `My hart doth pant for sorrow' etc. `copied [by J. Jordan] from An Old Manuscript belonging to the family of...

ER1/1/106

Assignment by Spencer Lucy, of Charlecot, co. Warw., Esq., to Anthony Freeman, of Hampton, co. Warw., and Sarah his wife, for the life of...

DR724/6/1/3

Open letter in Times to H from Bartholomew Price, Pembroke College re failure of mathematics examiners to award any 1st or 2nd class.

ER1/1/37

Letters of attorney from Thomas Allen of Warwick, dyer, to Richard Walforde, of Bynton, yeoman, to sue the goods, lands, etc. of Richard...

DR18/17/2a/56

List of names and amounts (?rent arrears)

DR18/3/53/1

Miscellaneous rentals for the Stoneleigh estate.

RSC/SM/1/1964/PED1

Prompt book The pedagogue by James Saunders. Formed part of 'Expeditions one'. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production....

RSC/SM/1/1972/COM2

The comedy of errors. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Clifford Williams

RSC/SM/1/1964/RI31

Richard III. Forms Part C of 'The Wars of the Roses'. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Directors: Peter Hall and...

ER1/1/11

Accompt of expenses incurred by Thomas Leke in the repair of a tenement of Nicholas Leke, chaplain, tenanted by William Ketyll; circ. 1430....

DR777/50/f.10

- letter from J[ames] A. Froude to Colonel Fuller [stepfather of Bertha Vyver], 6 September [c.1875]. - letter from J.L. Motley to Colonel...

ER1/26/7

`She Stoops to Conquer' (Miss Hardcastle by Mrs.Collins) and the farce `The Deserter', 21 June [1782] (f.8)

RSC/SM/1/1967/FOD3

Shakespeare Birthday Recital, Sunday 23 April 1967. Repeated at the Aldwych Theatre Sunday 15 October 1967 when it was named 'Fordham Flower...

DR801

Appointment of Sir Arthur Hodgson as High Steward of the Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon, signed by the Home Secretary, Sir M[atthew] W[hite]...

ER1/1/15

Recital of a composition at the instance of John [Carpenter] Bishop of Worcester, between William Berkeswell, Dean of the Collegiate Church...

ER1/29/3

Views of: - Shakespeare's Birthplace including the plate from the Gentleman's Magazine, January 1807 and C.E. Green's Lithographic...

DR18/17/2a/135

List of receipts and weekly bills from 2 October.

ER17/21

Enclosure papers relating to Little Compton, Warks. (Glos, up to 1845)

ER5/17

Probate Copy Will, Thomas Arkell, Stratford upon Avon, Innholder. Paper Copy enclosed. Proved Prerogative Court of Canterbury 9 Nov. 1831.

ER1/47/44

`The Jew of Lubeck, or the Heart of a Father', the ballet `Little Red Riding Hood' and `The Irish Tutor, or New Lights'; 18 May 1825 (f. 50)...

RSC/SM/1/1979/ANN1

Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production.Also used for the 1980 revivals at the...

DR724/13/1/6

George E. Blood, Bristol: re Christ Church, Dublin and earlier generation of Perrins.

DR724/12/4

Unid. Marriage notice, Herbert Arthur Marriner to Winifred Alice Rice, Auckland, New Zealand.

RSC/TS/2/2/1989/WIZ1

By L. Frank Baum, adapted by John Kane. Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Ian Judge. Duration: 180 mins (VHS), 156 mins (DVD)

RSC/SM/1/1964/EHQ1

Eh? by Henry Livings. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Peter Hall.

RSC/SM/1/1965/COM3

Comedy of errors. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Clifford Williams.

RSC/SM/1/1969/WIN1

Winter's tale. Also used on the Japanese tour and at Melbourne on the Australian tour 1970. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company...

RSC/SM/1/1974/IWA1

I was Shakespeare's double, by John Downie with Penny Gold. Prompt book used for Royal Shakespeare Company production. Director: Howard...

DR724/14/7

"The Neighbourhood of Melbourn and Meldreth", lecture by W.M. Palmer, M.D.; reprinted from Cambridge Chronicle