Born at Tewkesbury, the son of a miller, he had won his way to a Servitorship at Christ Church, Oxford; and somehow, in the course of one Long Vacation, had found money for travelling expenses to join a reading party under the Junior Censor.
"The Ship of Stars"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"However, I own that I never was better pleased than one Christmas when the Vicar came over to our cottage, and brought with him a letter from the Principal of St. Ambrose College, Oxford, appointing me to a Servitorship.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
I shall show, later, that Robert Greene, through the pen of his coadjutor, Thomas Nashe, in an earlier attack than that of 1592, refers to Shakespeare's Servitorship and to the acquisitions of knowledge he made during his idle hours.
"Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592"
Arthur Acheson