ON Saturday, 20 September 1794, Isaac Reed, in one of his stays in Cambridge, as a guest of Dr Richard Farmer, Master of Emmanuel College, had employed himself ‘in reading a Volume of Mss. Notes on Shakspeare brought to Mr. Steevens by Mr. Death the Actor. He said they were written by a Suffolk Magistrate, a man of consequence as he styled him. (I find they are by Lord Chedworth)’. Two days later, Reed, wrote that ‘This Morning, after breakfast Mr. [George] Steevens brought me some Mss. notes on Shakspeare, which he had just received from Mr. Seymour, the Actor’ (206–207).1 Henry Howe, fourth Baron Chedworth, had accumulated a number of observations on Shakespeare which were eventually published in 1805 with the full title of Notes. Edward Hickey Seymour and John Death were both members of a Norwich company of players which acted in Cambridge at the famous Stourbridge (or Stirbritch) Fair. Lord Chedworth was a patron of the Norwich company. In any event, Seymour published REMARKS. In his Introduction he wrote of ‘the suggestions of some valued friends, eminently qualified for any work of criticism, and intimately conversant with the genuine style and spirit of our poet. The friends here alluded to, are Mr. Capel Lofft, Mr. Ben. Strutt, of Colchester, and the noble person whose name is inserted in the title page’ (13). Benjamin Strutt wrote, and himself published The Constitution of the Burgh of Colchester, 1802, and had published The History and Description of Colchester, two volumes, 1803. The more widely-known Capel Lofft (1751–1824) compiled and had published a collection of Aphorisms from Shakespeare, 1812. There are sixteen notes by Lofft and fifty-five by Strutt in Seymour’s Remarks.2