Shaxspere

The previously mentioned visit to "Shakespear Park" piqued my curiosity about the missing "e". A bit of research/googling seems to indicate that not only was lack of spelling standardization a bit of an issue at the time, but that many of the alternate spellings propagated outside of London. See this for the surprisingly long list of alternatives.

Of course, considering I've used the word "googling" and the googol/google story, a bit of spelling variation really shouldn't be surprising.