Item 3 - Postcard from G. C. Moore Smith to R. B. McKerrow

(London.)—Reports the result of his search for references to Thomas Nashe (in some probate records).

(Undated. Postmarked 4 Sept. 1918.)

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Transcript

I could not find Thomas Nashe.—but near his probable date was the administration of the goods of John Nashe lately of the parish of St Mary Colchurch in the city of London granted to his relict Margaret Nashe on 22 March 1600/1. Unless there were some corroborating evidence, it wd of course be very rash to suppose that this is your man. She acted by a proctor, Thomas Brown notary public.

Yours
G. C. Moore Smith

I go tomorrow to 89 Banbury Rd Oxford {1} for 4 days

[Direction:] Dr McKerrow | Messrs Sidgwick & Jackson | 3 Adam St | Adelphi | WC

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Postmarked at London, W.C., at 3.15 p.m. on 4 September 1918. This postcard was formerly inserted after p. 196 of McKerrow’s annotated copy of his Works of Nashe, Vol. V (Adv. c. 25. 76), at the beginning of Appendix E, ‘Extracts from Parish Registers, etc., concerning the Nashe family’.

{1} This address, known as ‘The Lawn’, was at one time the home of the neurophysiologist Francis Gotch (1853–1913) and his family (see the online catalogue of the papers of the Horsley family in the Bodleian Library), but it is not clear who lived there after Gotch’s death.