(This fundie is talking about the Shakespeare Authorship Question -- he thinks that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays.)

Indeed, the cloth may have been offered simply to those listed by The Lord Chamberlain’s Men/ Kings Men as shareholders or players, since King James coming from Scotland most probably did not know the individuals at the time of his coronation.

The company most likely listed the name of Shakespeare as a player in order to protect the source of their plays. Edward, Earl of Oxford. Indeed this very Earl may have even occasionally acted in the company under the name William Shakespeare and made himself as he describes in the Sonnets “a motley to the view.”

In any event, the scarlet cloth is not evidence that William of Stratford was a writer.