Sales catalogue 501: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/59
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 501: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | Shakespeare |: Indenture—continued. from Stratford, and a city to which Shakespeare frequently alludes in his Plays. SIR JOHN BARNARD was the second husband of Shakespeare’s grand- daughter Hlizabeth—this grand-daughter owned New Place up to the time of her death. She died at Abington Manor, and in this Deed Sir John Barnard is described as of Abington . JAMES HALES of Snitterfield was evidently the grandson of Bartholomew Hales, the Squire of Snitterfield, who was one of the Executors to the Will otf Thomas Combe, and as such had the privilege of handing to Shakespeare his Legacy. THOMAS SHAKESPEARE, Butcher. It would be interesting to find out exactly what relation he was to the Poet. We should imagine that Shakespeare’s father must have been this Thomas Shakespeare’s great grandfather, as the dramatist’s father came from Snitterfield; and the Thomas Shakespeare in the Deed is described as a butcher. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S father was also a butcher (butcher in this Deed evidently referring to a Grazier, not a butcher as we know him to-day). There is a further name mentioned in the Deed, that of NICHOLAS SMYTH, evidently a relative of SIR FRANCIS SMYTH, -Lord of the manor-of Wootton Wawen, who was also a beneficiary under the Will of JOHN COMBE. COVENTRY itself has great Shakespearian connections. In “ Richard II ”’ it is mentioned as the place appointed for the trial by battle between Bolingbroke and Mowbray, and the Scene in Act EF, Se. 3, is’ laid there: Falstaff refuses to march through Coventry with his ragged company. Edward IV plans to meet Warwick at Coventry. The scene of Act V, 1, is laid there, where we are told that the King ‘‘ pytched his filde’’ in a plain by the city, but Warwick ‘ kept hym selfe close within the walles.”’ 629 SHARP (JOHN). PU VOGRAPE EE LT ERISIGNED TO HORACE WALPOLE. 2 pp., 4to. C.C.C.C., oth February, 1750. ES COrY OF AN ORIGINAL LETTER BY KING ED- WARD VI. 15s Sending Horace Walpole a copy of a letter by Edward VI., the original of which was preserved in the Manuscript Library of Corpus Christi College. Also offering to undertake any other researches should his correspondent desire it.