Redigerer Judith Quiney (avsnitt)

==Ekteskap==
[[Image:Plan-trinity-church.jpg|thumb|Grovskisse av Stratfords Holy Trinity Church, der Judith giftet seg]]
På 10. februar 1616 giftet Judith Shakespeare seg med Thomas Quiney, en vinhandler fra Stratford, i Holy Trinity Church.  Prestevikaren Richard Watts, som senere giftet seg med Quineys søster Mary, forrettet antagelig bryllupet.<ref name=SS_wed>{{cite book
  | last = Schoenbaum
  | first = Samuel
  | authorlink = Samuel Schoenbaum
  | title = William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life
  | url = https://archive.org/details/williamshakespea00scho
  | publisher = Clarendon Press
  | location = Oxford
  | year = 1977
  | pages = p. 292
  | quote = [Thomas] came from an unexceptionable family. […] On 10 February 1616 ‘Tho[mas] Queeny’ was wed ‘to Judith Shakspere’, the assistant vicar Richard Watts probably officiating—he signed the marriage register this month. (Watts later married Quiney's sister Mary.) […] Because the ceremony took place during the Lenten prohibited season that in 1616 began on 28 January (Septuagesima Sunday) and ended on April 7 (the Sunday after Easter), the couple should have secured a special licence from the Bishop of Worcester. They did not do so, although presumably they published banns in the parish church. }}</ref> Bryllupet fant sted under [[Fastetiden|fasten]], da bryllup ikke var tillatt. I 1616 begynte fasten på 23. januar, [[Septuagesima|vingårdssøndagen]], og sluttet på 7. april, søndagen etter [[Påske]].  Derfor krevde bryllupet en spesiell lisens, utstedt av [[Biskopen av Worcester]], som paret ikke hadde lykkes med å skaffe.<ref name=SS_wed/> Formodentlig hadde de gjort den nødvendige lysningen i kirken, siden Walter Wright fra Stratford ble innkalt for å forrette vielse uten utlysning eller lisens, men dette ble ikke regnet som tilstrekkelig.<ref name=SS_wed/> Overtrampet var lite, tilsynelatende forårsaket av presten, siden tre andre par ble viet i februar det året. Quiney ble uansett innkalt av Walter Nixon for å møte foran en [[Consistory court]] i [[Worcester (England)|Worcester]].<ref name=SS_license>{{cite book
  | last = Schoenbaum
  | first = Samuel
  | authorlink = Samuel Schoenbaum
  | title = William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life
  | url = https://archive.org/details/williamshakespea00scho
  | publisher = Clarendon Press
  | location = Oxford
  | year = 1977
  | pages = p. 293
  | quote = Without a license the minister was at fault in conducting the service. […] Thomas and Judith were cited to the consistory court in Worcester Cathedral. Thomas did not come on the appointed day, and was excommunicated. Possibly Judith suffered the same fate […]. The offence was not serious. Others married in Lent—three weddings took place in Holy Trinity that February—and the Quineys may have just [fallen] victim to an apparitor hungry for a fee. Walter Nixon, who summoned them, [later faced] accusations in Star Chamber of taking bribes and [forgery]. The excommunication […] lasted only a short while, for before the year was out the Quineys were at the font to have their first-born christened in Stratford church.}}</ref> (Denne samme Walter Nixon var senere involvert i en sak i [[Star Chamber]] og ble funnet skyldig i å forfalske signaturer og ta i mot bestikkelser).<ref name=SS_license/> Quiney dukket ikke opp på den påkrevde datoen. Registeret inneholder dommen, som var [[ekskommunikasjon]], på eller rundt 12. mars 1616.<ref name=SS_license/> Det er ukjent om Judith også ble ekskommunikert, men straffen varte uansett ikke lenge. I november samme år var de tilbake i kirken for dåpen av sitt første barn.<ref name=SS_license/>

Ekteskapet begynte ikke godt. Quiney hadde nylig besvangret en annen kvinne, Margaret Wheeler,<ref name=SS_wheeler>{{cite book
  | last = Schoenbaum
  | first = Samuel
  | authorlink = Samuel Schoenbaum
  | title = William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life
  | url = https://archive.org/details/williamshakespea00scho
  | publisher = Clarendon Press
  | location = Oxford
  | year = 1977
  | pages = pp. 293-294
  | quote = Before marrying, [Thomas] had got a Margaret Wheeler with child […]. [A] month after the […] wedding, the unfortunate woman died in childbirth, and her infant with her. The parish register records both burials on 15 March. […] ‘whoredom and uncleanness’ […] fell within the purview of the […] bawdy court […]. [The] apparitor Richard Greene […] summoned [Thomas]. The act book records the hearing and sentence on Tuesday, 26 March. In open court Thomas confessed to having had carnal copulation with [Margaret Wheeler], and submitted himself to correction. The judge, vicar John Rogers, sentenced [him] to perform open penance in a white sheet, according to custom, in the church on three successive Sundays before the whole congregation. But the penalty was remitted. In effect Thomas got off for 5s […] for the use of the poor of the parish, and the vicar ordered him to acknowledge his crime, in ordinary attire, before the minister of Bishopton. […] Bishopton had no church of its own, only a chapel; so Quiney was spared public humiliation. }}</ref> som skulle dø under fødselen sammen med barnet, og ble begravet 15. mars 1616. 26. mars 1616 måtte Quiney møte foran [[Court of Peculiars|Bawdy Court]], som tok for seg, blant andre ting, «whoredom and uncleanliness».<ref name=SS_wheeler/> I åpen rett tilstod han «kjødelig samleie» med Margaret Wheeler.<ref name=SS_wheeler/> Han ble dømt til åpen [[botsøvelse]] foran forsamlingen på tre søndager. Han måtte også tilstå forbrytelsen sin for sognepresten i Bishopton i Warwickshire.<ref name=SS_wheeler/> Den første delen av dommen ble omgjort, og i praksis slapp han unna med en bot på  fem [[Britisk shilling|shilling]], som skulle gå til sognets fattige. Siden Bishopton ikke hadde noen [[kirke]], men bare et [[kapell]], ble han spart for noen offentlig ydmykelse.<ref name=SS_wheeler/>