Shakespearean relics. The history of Shakespeare's brooch

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E. Fox, 1883 - 19 páginas
 

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Página 18 - An Act to repeal an Act of the present session of Parliament, intituled ' An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire Suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits;' and to make other Provisions for the abolition of unnecessary Oaths.
Página 18 - And I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled " An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament...
Página 6 - This little book of Ovid was given to me by W. Hall, who sayd it was once Will Shakespere's TN, 1682.
Página 5 - ... mulberry-tree which he carelessly sold to one of the earliest Stratford profiteers. Gastrell had become engaged in the ancient, popular, but exhausting practice of dodging the tax-gatherer. According to Wheler: "Being compelled to pay the monthly assessments for the maintenance of the poor (some of which he thought to escape because he resided part of the year in Lichfield, though his servants continued in the house during his absence), in the heat of his anger he declared that his house should...
Página 4 - Shakespeare's home, the home that he loved to abide in—broken up, demolished, built upon—utterly degraded. Shakespeare when still a young man, early in the year 1597, purchased New Place from William Underbill for £60. It was then described as consisting of " one messuage, two barns, and two gardens with their appurtenances." The mansion had been originally built by Sir Hugh Clopton, in the reign of Henry VII., and called "The Great House," and was then doubtless the largest and best house in...
Página 4 - I nowe dwell," to his daughter Susanna Hall for life ; remainders to her male issue, in strict entail, remainder to his granddaughter Elizabeth Hall, then...
Página 12 - I can see no reason to doubt its antiquity, or any part of the description that accompanies it.

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