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CATALOGUE
OF THE
BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, WORKS OF
ART, ANTIQUITIES AND RELICS
AT PRESENT EXHIBITED IN
SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPIACE
WITH 61 ILLUSTRATIONS.
STRATFORD-UPON-AVOn :
Printed for the Trustees and Guardians
of Shakespeare's Birthplace,
In the year
1910.
College
Library
COPYRIGHT — ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Printed by A. J. Stanley, Tudor Press, High Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon.
Cbe trustees and Guardians or SDakespeare's
BIrtDplace. 1910.
Incorporaled by Act of 34 and §§ Vid., iSgi
EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES:
The Lord Lieutenant of the County j ^^^^ ^^i^rq^IS OF HERTFORD
The Hij?h Steward of the Borough )
TheMa'yor of the Borough-' EDWARD DEER, Esq.
The Aklernien of the Borough-* W. G. COLBOURNE, EDWARD
DEER, • R. LATIMER GREENE, A. E. PARK, W. PEARCE,
J. SMALLWOOD.
The Justices of the Peace for the Borough—* R. M. BIRD, Esq.,
G. BOYDEN, Esq., G. W. EVERARD, Esq., • R. LATIMER,
GREENE, Esq., W. HUTCHINGS. Esq., J J. NASON, Esq.,
J. SMALLWOOD, Esq., F. WINTER, Esq.
The Town Clerk of the Borough— ROBERT LUNN, JUN., Esq.
The Vicar of the Parish— -The Rev. W. G. MELVILLE, M.A.
The Head Master of the Grammar School— The Rev. CORNWELL
ROBERTvSON, M.A.
LIFE TRUSTEES:
ERNEST EDWARD BAKER, Esq., l.S.A.
FRANCIS ROBERT BENvSON, Esq.
LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON. G.C.vS.L, G.C.I. E., P.C.
• LIONEL CUvST, Esq., M.V.O., F.S.A.
• ARCHIBALD DENNIS FLOWER, Esq., C.C.
LORD RONALD SUTHERLAND GOWER. F.S.A.
• The Rev. KR.aNCIS H. HODGSON. M.A.
• SIDNEY LEE. K;sq.. D. Litt , LL.D. (Chairman of Executive
Committee).
LORD REDESDALE, C.B., G.C.V.O.
The EARL OK WARWICK.
• Members of the ICxecutive Committee.
Secretary and Librarian— RICHARD SAVAGE.
1092595
PREFACE.
In this Catalogue, which has been prepared for
the use of visitors to the Birthplace, all the books,
manuscripts, works of art, antiquities and relics, which
are at present on exhibition, are entered and numbered.
Some historical and literary annotations are added
where there seemed need of fuller explanation than
the bare descriptive entry supplies. In all cases of
acquisition by gift, mention is made of the donor's
name.
The Catalogue is, to a large extent, an inventory
of .somewhat mi.scellaneous gifts which have been
chiefly made by public-spirited inhabitants of Stratford-
upon-Avon, and Shakespearean scholars. Shake-
speare's Birthplace has been national property for
nearly sixty-three years, and many of the donations
date from the early years of that period. The largest
benefactions are due to Miss Annk Whei.ER, Mrs.
Beisly, William Oakes Hunt, Frederick William
Fairholt, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps,
and The Royal Shakespearean* Club, of Stratford-
xn.
upon-Avon, which presented the manuscript-collections
and drawings of Captain James Saunders, a resi-
dent in the town through the early years of last cen-
tury. To most of these donors the tribute of a brief
biography is paid in the following pages.
The Trustees hope that the present and future
generations will emulate the generous example of the
past. They count with confidence on the assistance
of Shakespeare lovers and students in their efforts to
improve their collection, and to increase its interest
as a national memorial.
The Catalogue has been compiled by Mr.
Richard Savage, Secretary and Librarian to the
Trustees. The numerous illustrations have been
reproduced from photographs taken for the purpose
by Mr. L. C. Keighley-Peach, of Mickleton.
.25 March, igio.
Sidney Lee,
Chairman of the Executive Committee.
Xlll.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
LIST OF TRUSTEES . . . . ix.
PREFACE . . . . . . xi.
THE BIRTHPLACE PROPERTY . . . . XV.
GROUND FLOOR — OUTER ROOM . . I
GROUND FLOOR — INNER ROOM . . lO
Elizabethan Coins and Medals. . . lo
Deeds witnessed by Shakespeare's kindred . . 28
The Four Folios . . . . 30
Quarto Plays . . . . . . 34
Ben Jonson's Autograph. . . . . 35
Shakespeare's Stratford Estate . . 4c, 58
Shakespeare's litigation .. .. 41
Signatures of Shakespeare's elder daughter and
granddaughter . . 43, 46
Stratford and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 . . 49
Tokens of Stratford Tradesmen . . 54
A volume bought for Clopton House in 1598 . . 59
Stone Drinking Jugs of Shakespeare's Time 65
STAIRCASE . . . . . . 70
FIRST FLOOR — OUTER ROOM . . . . 74
Early \'iews of Shakespeare's Birthplace .. 75
FIRST FLOOR — INNER ROOM . . . . 86
Sixteenth-century Herbals . . . . 87
The medical notes of Shakespeare's son-in-law.
John Hall .. .. ..88
Paintings and Drawings of Stratford in the iSth
an(i early 19th centuries .. .. 91
XIV.
Page
Portraits of Shakespeare's granddaughter and her
second husband . . .96
The Ely Palace Portrait of Shakespeare . . 99
London in Shakespeare's day . . . . 99
Memorials of David Garrick . . . . 105
Autograph manuscripts of Shakespeare's Friend,
Richard Quiney .. .. no
Richard Quiney's Letter to Shakespeare, 1598 no
Records of the Quiney family . . . . 113
Early notices of Shakespeare and his work . . n6
Shakespeare's Library. Books with which
Shakespeare's work shows him to have
been familiar .. .. 124
THE BIRTHROOM PORTION OF THE HOUSE 132
THE KITCHEN . . . . . . 132
THE BIRTHROOM . . . . . . 132
THE ROOM AT REAR OF THE BIRTHROOM 132
THE GARDEN DOOR . . . . I33
CENTRE OF THE GARDEN PATH . . 134
XV.
THE BIRTHPLACE PROPERTY.
The two houses and garden forming the Birthplace Property
were purchased by trustees on behalf of the nation at a public
auction in London on 16 September, 1847 (see Nos. 229 and 230).
From the sixteenth century — when the premises were
tenanted and owned by John Shakespeare, the dramatist's father —
down to the earlj' years of the nineteenth century, the ownership
coutinuetl without interruption in the dramatist's family.
The property passed from his father to the dramatist him-
self and then successively to his elder daughter, and to his only
granddaughter, who bequeathed it on her death in 1670, to her
cousin, Thomas Hart, the poet's grandnephew and grandson
of his sister, Mrs. Joan Hart. Shakespeare's sister, Mrs. Hart,
seems to have lived in the house from her birth in 1569 till her
death in 1646. But from the second or third decade of the seven-
teenth century, she confined her residence to the western half and
let out the eastern portion to a tenant who converted his tenement
into an inn known at first as ' The Maidenhead ' and afterwards as
'TheSwan and Maidenhead.' Asuccession of tenantsof theeastern
portion of the property continued this arrangement for nearly
two centuries. Meanwhile the western portion remained in the
occupation of the Hart family, and the whole was owned by
Thomas Hart's descendants down to 1S06. In tliat year the
premises were sold to one Thomas Court, on the death of whose
widow they were again offered for sale in 1847, and then became
Eublic property. For at least 100 years before that date they had
een a popular show jilace.
The Birthplace Trust was incorjwrated by Act of Parliament
in i8gi, when it was formally invested with Shakespeare's New Place
estate in Stratford-upon-Avon, in addition to the Birthplace pro-
perty. The New Place estate had been independently pjirchased
by public subscrij)tion as a national memorial of Shakespeare
in 1862.
In i.S92 the Birthplace Trustees acquired by purchase, iu
accordance with the provisions of the Act of Parliament, Anne
Hathaway's cottage, at Shottery.
Two cottages adjoining the Birthplace garden on its eastern
boundary, which were, during Shakespeare's lifetime, in the
occupation of the Horneby family, were presented to the Trustees
by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, in 1903, and nave since been used as
the ofhces of the Trust.
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I. — Framed photograph of the statue of
Shakespeare in Tower Grove Park, St. Louis,
U.S.A., ift. ghin. by ift.
Presen/ed by "The Seven Boys in Europe,"
per Mr. Scott H. Blewett, St. Louis, 1887.
2. — Photograph of a statue of Shakespeare,
by J. Ward, in the Central Park, New York.
Presented by Col. Rush C. Hawkins, 1874.
3. — Play-bill of an amateur performance
of Henry IV., Part i., at the Theatre Royal, Man-
chester, 20 December, 1847, ^" ^i^ of the fund for
purchasing Shakespeare's Birthplace — with tickets,
printed prologue, (S:c.
Ptesetiled by George Wali.is, Esq., F. S. A.,
Resident Keeper of the Art Collections,
S. Kensington Museum, 1887.
4.— Play-bill oi Hamlet 2X the Theatre Royal
Stratford, 30 April, 1872 ; Hamlet by Wybert Rousby,
Ophelia by Mrs. Rousby.
Presented by Mr. Wvbert Rousuv.
5. — Angel, with outspread wings. An
ancient carved oak figure from the Chapel of the
Guild of the Holy Cross, Stratford-upon-Avon,
3ft. high.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler, 1865.
6 — A fragment of ancient carved oak.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler, 1865.
7 — A fragment of stone sedilia from Thomas
h Becket's Chapel in the south aisle of Stratford-
upon-Avon Parish Church ; erected by John de
Stratford, Bishop of Winchester, (afterwards Arch-
bishop of Canterbury) between 1323 and 1333, and
taken down in 1839.
Presented by Mr. Wii^liam Read, Holtom Street,
Stratford-upon-Avou.
8. — A fragment of stone sedilia from Thomas
^ Becket's Chapel in the south aisle of Stratford-
upon-Avon Parish Church. See No. 7.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
9. — Cast of the face of Shakespeare, from
the bust on his monument in Stratford-upon-Avon
Parish Church.
Presented by W. O. Hunt, Esq.
10. — Specimen of Arras, used for wall hangings
of substantial houses of Queen Elizabeth's time ; from
Shipton Hall, Shropshire.
Cf. " I will ensconce me behind the Arras." —
Merry Wives, iii. 3. 96.
Presented by Mr Ouver Baker, Lindeuhurst,
Trinity Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Sep-
tember, 1905.
II. — Angel with outspread wings, holding a
shield. An ancient carved oak figure from the Chapel
of the Guild of the Holy Cross, Stratford-upon-Avon.
14 inches high.
Presented by Miss Anne Whei,ER.
12. — Two fragments of stone tracery from the
Clopton Chapel in Stratford-upon-Avon Parish Church.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
13. — Stone sill of one of the windows of the
old Charnel House which stood on the north side
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of Stratford-iipoii-Avou Parish Church, and was taken
down in 1804.
Cf. Jill. "O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris.
From off the battlements of 3'onder tower
Or shut me nightly in a Charnel-House.
Oer-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,
With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls ; "
Romeo and Juliet, iv, i, 77.
Presented by Miss Anne Whei.er, 24 April, 1865.
14. — A carved headstone of tlie old tithe barn
which formerly stood in the Guild street, in which
dramatic performances took place in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries.
/'resented by Mr. Manley C. Ashwin, Stratford-
upon-Avon, 1905.
15. — The bottom stone of a Quern, or handmill,
used by the Kempson family of " Haunted Hil-
borough," and afterwards by the great-grandfather of
the Donor, who married Elizabeth Bird, sister of
Lady Vernon.
The word Quern is from the. \nglo Saxon cweorn,and is often
met with in literature from the tenth century downwards. It
figures in Wycliff's Translation of the Bible, St. Matthew, xxiv : —
"Twowymen schulen be gryndynge in o<> ^^Wi'^rz/f." Shakespeare
also uses it, —
" Skim milk, and sometimes labour in ihe giter/i,
.\nd bootless make the breathless housewife churn ".
.MiusfMMER Nights' Dream, ii, 1, 36.
/'resented by Proctor Vernon-Wadley, K.sq.,
Durcott House, Kvesham.
16. — The top stone of a Quern, or hand-mill,
discovered on opening an ancient well on the premises
of Mr. W. L. Norris, High Street, Stratford-upon-
Avon, in 1865. It is of granite and weighs 71^ lbs.
Set- No. 15.
/'resented by Mr. W. L. Norris, 1869.
17- — An ancient oak Corbel representing an
angel holding a shield; from the roof of the Chapel
of the Gnild of the Holy Cross, removed when the
alterations were made in 1804. 2 ft. 9in. high.
Presented by Mr. James White, Trinity vStreet,
Stratford-upon-Avon, 24 April, 1865.
18. — Cast of the face of Sir Thomas Lncy
(1532 — 1600), from his monument in Charlecote
Church ; mounted on a slab of wood from the old
Boundary Elm of Stratford-upon-Avon, cut down in
February, 1847.
Presented by the Rev. John Ivicv, I\I.A., Hamp-
ton Lucy, 1867.
19. — An ancient beam from the Free Grammar
School, Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare was
educated ; removed when the school was repaired,
in 1866.
Presented t)y Messrs. C.\ij.a\vav Hros., 1866.
20. — A fine piece of wrought iron-work.
21. — Thomas Jolyffe's Endowment of
THE Schoolmaster of the Free Grammar
School in Stratford-upon-Avon (1482).
Indenture quadripartite between John Stratford, rector of
Combarton Majjna, co. Wore, and Tho. Warde, of Pyllardyngton,
CO. Warw., feoffes of Thomas Jolyffe, of the first part. John Alcoke,
Bishop of Worcester, of the second part, Tho. Balsale, clerk.
Warden of the Collegiate Church of Stratford, of the third part,
and Tho. Clopton, Esq., Master of the Guild of the Holy Trinity,
Stratford, with assent of the Aldermen and Proctors of the same
Guild, on the fourth part; covenanting that, Tho. Jolyffe having
granted to the said Guild all his lands, etc., in Stratford and Dod-
well. Tho. Clopton and his successors shall choose a fit priest to
teach grammar freely to all scholars coming to him to school in
Stratford, taking nothing from them for their learning, at a yearly
stipend of £H till the next vacancy and of ^10 after the next
vacancy, with a chamber within the said Guild, but if not in
health to teach, having only £^, and ^5 to be given to an able
No. iS.
substitute; such priest also to celebrate mass in tbe Guild Chapel
and on Festivals in the Parish Church at the Altar of St. John
Baptist for the good estate of the Bishop and for the souls of the
said Tho. Jolyffe and others, turning towards the people and
saying '"Ye shall pray specially for the sowles of Maister Thomas
JolyfFe, John and Johanne his fadur and modur, and the sowles of
all brethern and sustern of the said Gilde and all cristen sowles,
sayinge of youre charite a paternoster and a ave," Moreover the
said Tho. Clopton and his .successors shall nominate the grammar
master as often as a vacancy shall occur, and shall keep an obit
for the said Tho. JolyfFe and others as above on the eve of St.
Bartholomew's Day both in the Guild Chapel and in the Church,
at the altar of St. John Baptist, and in default the .said Tho. Bal.sale
and his successors shall enter upon the lands till security be
found, and if it be not, shall retain the same for the maintenance
of certain choiristers. Finally, the said priest grammar master
and his scholars shall twice a week. Wednesday and Fridaj'. sing
an antiphon of the Virgin and say a " De profundis" for the souls
of Tho. Jolyffe, his parents and all the faithful departed.
Dated, at the beginning. 12 Feb. 21 Fdward IV. (1482) ; and at
the end, in the Hall of the Guild, Monday after the Feast of the
Translation of St. Thomas the IMartyr (7 July) 22 Kdward IV. ( 14S2).
Latin. Vellum — with seal of the Guild (injured).
Presented by Mi.ss Anne Whelkr.
22. — All ancient oak Desk from the Free
Grammar School at Stratford-upon-Avon.
Presented by the Corporation of Stratkord-
UPON-AvoN, 23 April, 1863,
23— Standard bushel " 1671, H. D." and half-
bushel "1670, H.D."; with six smaller measures.
Presented by the Corporation ov Stratford-
U PON- A VON.
24. — Eight encau.stic tiles from Stratford-
upon-Avon Church.
Presented by Mi.s.s Anne Whei.er, 1865.
25. — Angel with outspread wings (imperfect),
carved in oak, from the Guild Chapel. 3 ft. high.
Presented bv Mi.ss Anne Whei.er.
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26. —Framed facsimiles of entries in the
Heralds' College as to the assignment of Arms to
the dramatist's father, John Shakespeare of Stratford-
upon-Avon in 1596-1599 by Sir William Dethick
[Garter King of Arms].
The documents, of which facsimiles are here given, are dis-
persed through various volumes of evidences in the Herald's
College, in the city of London. Though in all the papers John
Shakespeare, the poet's father, is represented as the applicant for
a grant of arms, there is little doubt that the poet was personally
acting throughout the transactions in his father's name. The
documents show that on 26 October, 1596, Sir William Dethick,
Garter King of Arms, drafted a grant to John Shakespeare, of a
shield, which was thus described : " Gold, on a bend sable, a spear
of the first, and for his crest or cognizance a falcon, his wings dis-
played argent, standing on a wreath of his colours, supporting a
spear gold steeled as aforesaid." A second copy of this draft was
made with a few verbal alterations. The draft of 1596 was how-
ever not fully executed. In 1599 a fresh application was made to
the Herald's College for a "recognition " or "exemplification"
of John Shakespeare's coat of arms, together with a request for
permission to impale the arms of the Ardens, the family of the
poet's mother. The desired "exemplification" of John Shake-
speare's coat was granted jointly by Sir William Dethick, Garter
King, and William Camden, the great Elizabethan Antiquary,
who had become Clarenceux King of Arms in 1597. With regard
to the impalement of the mother's arms the Herald's, after trick-
ing those of the great Warwickshire family of the Ardens of Park
Hall, substituted the arms of the Arden family of Alvanley,
Cheshire. As a matter of fact, no Arden arms were adopted by
the poet or members of his family. The Shakespeare arms alone
are displayed on the poet's monument in the Church of vStratford-
upon-Avon, and they figure without any indication of the Arden
arms, in the heraldic emblems used by the poet's daughters. See
Lee's Life of Shakespeare, bth Ed. 190S; pref. xi-xv, pp. 194-200.
Presented by Garter King of Arms and Xorroy
King of Arms, 5th ^lay, 1909.
27. — An Elizabethan oak chair.
Presented by 'M9.. Edward Adams, 1864.
28. — " The House in which Shakespeare was
born " : an engraving pnblished by T. H. Rllis, London
May, 1847.
29- — The old sign of The Falcon Inn, Bidford.
Presented by Mr. John Ashfikld, Stratford-upon-
Avon, 24 April, 1865.
30. — Three angels holding shields; from the
Chapel of the Guild of the Holy Cross (their wings lost);
two Miserere seats, from Thomas k Becket's Chapel
in Stratford-upon Avon Parish Church, and ten other
carvings, in wood, of foliage and figures.
Presented by ^SIiss Anne Whkler, 24 April, 1865.
31. — Cast, on pedestal, from Shakespeare's
bust in Stratford-upon-Avon Church, modelled by
George Bullock.
Two copies only were executed, one for Mr. Wheler, the
other for Mr. Bullock himself, " who then immediately broke up
the mould."
Presented by Mis.s Anne Wheler-
32. — A Venetian glass bowl of the Shake-
spearian period. i ft \ in. in diameter and 5 in.
deep.
Bequeathed by F. W. I'".\irholt, Esq., F.S.A.
33.— Portrait of John Conolly, M.D., D.C.L.,
(1794-1866) engraved in mezzotint by \V. Walker after
a painting by Sir John W. Gordon, R.A., 1851.
John Conolly was a resident in Stratford-upon-Avon 1822-27,
and Mayor of the borough 1S25-6; an ardent Shakespearean
student, author of " .\ Study of Hamlet." published by Moxon,
London, 1863. Memoir of him by .Sir James Clark, Bart., K.C.B.,
M.D., F.R.S., Physician in ordinary to Queen Victoria, published
by John Murray, 1869. —.S>^ Dictionary of Sational Piof^raphy,
vol. Arii, if).
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GROUND FLOOR— INNER ROOM.
34. — A model of Shakespeare's crest, carved
by W. G. Rogers, i860, and shewn in the London
Exhibition of 1861.
Purchased
35. — A [Maidenhead spoon — silver — Leicester
Town Mark.
Presented by IMiss Anxk Whb;ler.
36. — An Elizabethan latten spoon, found
when excavating near Knaresborough Castle.
Presented by Mr. T. C. Hksi.ington, 2 North
Road, Ripon, 1891.
37. — An Elizabethan pewter spoon, dredged
from the Thames at Wandsworth.
Presented by IMk. Thomas Bovnton, Norman
House, Bridlinjjton Quay, 1892.
38. — A milled Sixpence, dated 1562, silver, 46
grains.
39. — A milled Threepence, dated 1569, silver,
20 grains.
Presented by IMr. (t. W. Cordner, 14 Carlyon
Street, Sunderland. June, 1906.
40. — A milled Sixpence, dated 1562.
/'resented In' Mr. John IMar.shai.i,.
41. — A milled sixpence, dated 1566.
Presented bv Mk, Wii.mam Bkanham.
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42. — Shilling of Queen Elizabeth, 1591 : Obv.
Bust and Tudor Rose. elizab d g an fr rt hib'
REGi; Rev. shield of Anns, 1591, POSVI devm
ADIVTOREM MEV. One inch diameter.
No. 43.
43. — A silver penny of the rei^^n of Queen
Elizabeth undated.
Presented by Mr. George S.wagk, Junr., Priory
Street. Alcester, 1888.
No. 44.
44. — An Elizabethan three-farthings piece,
dated 1561.
Presented by Sir John Kv.\ns. K C.B., F.S.A., Nash
Mills, iHemel Hempstead, Herts, July, 1900.
No. 45.
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45- — A farthing token.
I O. At ye Mearemayd. A Mermaid.
( R. Tavern Cheapeside. I.T.M.
Engraved in Ackermann's "Tradesmen's Tokens current in
London,'' No. 415.
This coin was privately struck, in conformity with authorised
practice, by the keeper of the famous Mermaid Tavern, which
Elizabethan men of letters frequented. The tavern stood in
Bread Street, but had passage entrances from Cheapside and
Friday Street, that from Cheapside being most used. Hence
the reference to Cheapside on the reverse of the token.
Sir Walter Raleigh is said to have established the well-known
literary club at the Mermaid of which Shakespeare, Ben Jonson,
Beaumont, Fletcher. Carew, Donne, Selden, and others were from
time to time member.^.
Cf. " What things have we seen
Done at the Mermaid, heard words that have been
So nimble and so full of subtle flame.
As if that every one from whom they came
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest."
Francis Beaumont.
Presented by Sir John Evans, K.C.B., F.S.A.,
Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, Herts.,
December, 1900.
46. — An Elizabethan sixpence, dated 1580.
Presented by Miss Lockwood, Kingham,
nr. Chipping Norton, April, 1904,
47. — Round snufF-box of oak, 3tin. diameter.
On the top a silver plate with the inscription : " The wood
of which this Box is made formed part of the old Blue Boar Inn,
Leicester, where Richard 3rd slept on the night of August 16,
1485, on his way to Bosworth."
Presented by Wiijjam Kklly, Esq., of Leicester,
1862.
48. — A pocket ring-dial of brass, 2} in. dia-
meter, with the maker's name — Hancock.
Cf. " And then he drew a dial from \\\?, poke.^'
As YoxT LiKK It, ii, 7, 20.
Presented by Wii.liam Hainks, Esq., Chichester.
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No. 4^.
49. — I'wo silver medals, struck for Garrick's
Jubilee Celebratiou at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1769,
one of which (with ribbon) was worn by Mr. William
Hunt, the then Town Clerk at that commemoration.
Obv. Shakespeare's bust, "We shall not look upon
his like again;" rev. "Jubilee at Stratford in
honour and to the memory of Shakespeare, Septr.
1769, David Garrick Steward." '{ inch diameter.
Preseuird hy \V. O. Hunt, Ksq.
50. — Two silver medals struck for the Jubilee
Celebration at Stratford-upon-Avon of 1769. See
No. 49.
Pirseitted fiv Miss Annk Whki.kr.
51. — An ormolu medal struck in 1864, to com-
memorate the Tercentenary of the birth of Shakespeare.
Purchased oj Mr. Frki> Boi.ton.
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52. — Medal in bronze commemorating the
Shakespeare Festival at Stratford upon-Avon in 1816.
Presented by Miss Anne Whei<er.
53. — Two medals, in pewter, commemorating
the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon in
1816.
Presented by Miss Anne Whei^er.
54. — A silver medal struck to commemorate
the formation of the Shakespeare Club, at Stratford-
upon-Avon on 23 April, 1824.
Purchased oj Mr. Fred Boi^ton.
55 — A bronze Jubilee medal of 1824.
Presented by Miss Anne Whei^ER.
56. — Three medals struck to commemorate the
Tercentenary Festival of 1864.
Purchased 1S64.
57. — A pair of large brass stirrups; with a
statement by the donor that they were purchased about
fifty years before 1863 by S. J. Shirley, Esq., having
been found in a cupboard in the Birthplace.
Presented by Evei^yn P. Shirley, Ksq,,
RttiiiRton Park, 1863.
58. — Corporation Mace. — Silver-Gilt Mace
i6| inches long, composed of thin plates on an iron shaft
with three plain collars; the bowl i^ inches diameter,
with rich cresting of trefoils much injured ; on the
top the Royal Arms with crown and ostrich feathers ;
small plain pommel with six cha.sed wings. With-
out date, inscription or hall mark.
Probably a verge of the Guild of the Holy Cro.ss, our blessed
Lady, and St. John the Baptist, of Stratford-upon-Avon (13th
century to the Dissolution, 1545-6.)
Presented by The Corporation ok Stratford-
upon-Avon, 1867.
No. 58.
Top of Mace.
59. — Corporation Mace. — Silver-
gilt mace, 1 3I inches long, with a plain
stem divided half-way by a corded collar
with mouldings ; the bowl 2] inches
diameter with cresting of trefoils (two
only of which remain), in the centre
the Royal Arms, English and French
Quarterly, enamelled in their proper
colours on a ground of green ; on
the flat pommel the arms of Stratford
with three ornamental brackets attached
(one of which is broken away). Without
date, inscription or hall mark. (?)i553.
Presented by The Corporation ov Stratford-
upon-Avon, 1867.
60. — A sword with narrow curved
blade, i ft. 10 in. in length, channelled
on both sides, rudely engraved with a
scene of a dog chasing deer, handle and
cross-guard of brass, with bone grip.
Formerly belonging to Alderman Payton
and alleged to have been Shakespeare's.
Mr. Payton was Mayor of Stralford-upon-
Avon 1 780-1, 1795-6, and 1801-2.
Presented by W. O. Hunt, Esq,
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No. 59. Top of Mace
Impression of No. 61.
No. 59.
No. 60.
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6i. — Shakespeare's gold finger-ring, with the
initials W.S., a true lovers knot intwined between
them, beaded border, the face of the signet measuring
§ in. by f in.
Presented by Miss Anne Whei^er.
'J'he story of this ring is told by Robert Bell Wheler (1785-
1857) solicitor of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the interleaved and
annotated copy of his " Guide to Stratford-upon-Avon," published
in 1814, now in the Birthplace Library :— "Upon Friday, the i6th
day of March, iSio, this ancient gold seal ring, weighing 12 dwts.
and bearing the initials "'W. S." engraved in Roman characters,
was found by a labourer's wife (named Martin) upon the surface
of the mill close, adjoining Stratford Churchyard, being the exact
spot whereon Mr. Oldaker since erected his present residence. It
may be remarked as a curious coincidence, that a man, named
William Shakespeare, was working for Mr. Oldaker in the same
field at the very time the ring was picked up. He was a day
labourer from the neighbourhood of Rowington, and might be a
descendant of one of the numerous branches of the poet's family.
It had undoubtedly been lost a great many years, being nearly
black ; and though I purchased it upon the same day for thirty-six
shillings (the current value of the gold) the woman had sufficient
time to destroy the precious <?rtt^o by consenting to have it un-
necersarily immersed in aquafortis to ascertain and prove the
metal at a silver-smith's shop, which consequently restored its
original colour. It is of tolerably large dimensions, and evidently a
gentleman's ring of Elizabeth's age The connection
or union of the letters by the ornamental string and tassels was
then frequently used Upon this seal ring being found
it immediately occurred to me that it might have belonged
to our immortal poet Mr. Malone, in a conversation
I had with him in London, the 20th of .April, 1812, about a month
before his death, said that he had nothing to allege against the
probability of my conjecture as to its owner. He mentioned a
William Smith, Draper, of Stratford, at the period in Question,
with whose initials the letters on the seal-ring corresponded ; but
upon telling him that I possessed an impression of Smith's seal
representing a skull and bones over his initials, he observed that
it was very unlikely that Smith should have two seals, and that
the seal-ring evidently belonged to a person in a very respectable
class of society After numerous researches into publick
and private documents, I find no Stratfordian of that period so
likely to own such a ring as Shakespeare. Upon retiring from the
stage to his native town, our bard resided in the principal house
here, which he had formerly purchased ; had accumulated con-
siderable property, and frequented the best company that Strat-
ford and its neighbourhoocl afforded. In his age seal-rings were
very fashionable, but were probably more limited than at present,
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to the nobility and respectable families ; for I still confine myself
to the respectability of its proprietor In bis will he
gives to several of his friends twenty-six shillings and eightpence
each to buy them rings. It has been suggested that these seal-
rings might have been one of those which Shakespeare thus
directed his friends to buy in remembrance of him ; a supposition
very unlikely ; because this is a seal-ring, which, though an
ornamental article, was evidently intended for 7/se ; and it is not
probable that tho?e persons would have Shakespeare's initials re-
versed upon a seal which did not correspond with their own, as
was certainly the case of the names mentioned in his will. To
this will there is no seal affixed ; but it is a singular circumstance
that in the concluding part of it where the Scrivener had written
• In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand afid Seal.' These
words ' and Seal' were struck out, and more strongly and remark-
ably confirm my conjecture that the Poet had then lost this
Signet Ring." See A^o. SS infra.
62. — Brass finger-ring engraved I. H. or H. I. ;
17th century.
This ring is somewhat vaguely conjectured to have belonged
to Mr. John Hall (1575-1635), Physician, husband of Susanna, eldest
daughter of Shakespeare.
63. — Privy seal of the High Bailiff of Stratford
1592 : silver, oval, f in. x^,\in., arms of Stratford, with
beading ; on the back, " r. queknf.y sigillum st'
VPON AU' 1592."
Richard Queeney (or Quiney) was High Bailiff of Stratford-
upon-Avon in 1592-.3 and 1601-2 in which latter year he died. He
was buried 31st May, 1602.
64. — Oval seal ofsilver(?) set with an agate, on
on which is engraved a bust intaglio, legend XPS +
CAPUT ->r OMNIUM -f ; found with the Abbot's
finger-ring; i inch high, with a ring for suspension to
the girdle. See No. 66.
Presented by Miss Annk Whkler.
65.— The autograph of Dr. "Jo. Hall " and
his fellow-churchwarden " Antonie Sniithe."
These autoj^raphs were found in Kdmund Malone'scopy of Dr.
Hall's •• Me lical Observations " and had evidentlv been cut from
No. 160 of Vol. I of " Miscellaneous Documents" belonging to the^
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No. 6,i
The Old Half-Timbered House, inentioned in So 67.
From Captain James Saunders' Warwickshire Drawings, Vol. i,
f. 33, Birthplace Library).
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Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon and are their signatures to a
Presentment in 1627,
Presented by Ernest E. Baker, Esq , F.S.A..
Dunkery, South Road, Weston-super-Mare,
May, 1899.
66. — All abbot's ring, set with an uncut
sapphire; found at the Cross o' the Hill, Stratford-
upon-Avon.
In ri94 Pope Innocent III. ordained that an Abbot's ring
should be of solid gold, set with a precious stone, on which nothing
was to be cut.
Presented by Miss Anne Whei<er.
67. — All ancient signet ring engraved " b ",
found in the foundations of an old half-timbered
house which faced the western end of IMiddle Row,
Bridge Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, taken down prior
to the erection, in 1821, of the present Market House
Purchased of Mrs. Lucy, (formerly of The Mill,
Stratford-upon-Avon), February, 1899.
68. — Gold annular brooch or buckle f inch
diameter, one side rounded, the other flat and engraved
with the motto 1- amor vincit omnia.
Chaucer mentions this motto as one used on mediaeval
brooches— 5^^ Canterbury Tales, 160.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
69. — Fragment of stone from Shakespeare's
monument in Stratford-upon-Avon Church ; given by
R. B. Wheler to W. O. Hunt.
Presefited by W. O. Hunt, Esq.
70. — All ancient knife with curved blade and
horn handle, found by Mr. Henry Perkins, of Stratford-
upon-Avon, about the year 1844, in a mortise of the
right-hand door-jamb between the kitchen and sitting
room of the Birthplace.
Presented by Mr. Henry Blshop, Windsor Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon, Feb. :6th, 1885 (Mr.
Henry Perkins concurring).
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71. — A sheath for a pair of " wedding knives"
made of carved box- wood, 9 inches long. In front, in
compartments, are carved the six works of mercy.
(Matthew xxv. 35, 36), and in the bottom compart-
ment is an angel holding a shield on which is engraved
I . . N ; on the back are six scenes illnstrating the
parable of the Prodigal Son ; and on each side are six
Apostles with their symbols, at the bottom on one side
being the date 1602 and on the other w G w.
The initials, W. G. W. occur also on two similar wooden
sheaths in tlje Debruge Dumesnil collection at Paris, dated 1593
and 1615, and seem to be those of the carver of the sheaths
For " Wedding Knives " see ArchcEologia, vol. xii. p. 215.
Presented by J. O. Halli\veh,-Phii,i,ipps, Esq.
72. — Heavy iron knocker 10 inches long, from
Stratford College : on the knob is engraved " E. S.
Knock, 1615."
Purchased from the Whki^ER Coi.i<kction.
73. — Two iron keys said to have belonged to
Stratford-npon-Avon Church ; one 4^ inches long with
hollow stem, the other, much decayed, 5^, inches long.
/'urchased from the Whklkr Coi^lkction.
74. — Two ancient keys belonging to the Cor-
poration of Stratford-upon-Avon.
75. — Impre.ssion in lead of "the seal OF THE
BOROVG TowxK OK STR.-\TFoRi) " — anus in the centre.
Presented by Mis.s Annk Whklkr.
76. — A .seal of the time of Queen Elizabeth,
bearing tlie impre.ssion of a death's face.
Cf. liiron. " A Death's face in a ring."
LovK'.s Labour's Iv0.st, v, 2, 616.
.\nthony Sheldon, of Broadway, co. Worcester, gent., by his
Will proved at Worcester 2nd August, 1585, gives to liis brothers
and sisters " to each of them A ring off the value of xxx^ A pece
w'h a deathe heade in remembrance of nic."
Presented by J. O. Halmwki.l, Esq., 1872.
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']']. — Plaster cast of the Coinmoii Seal of the
College of Stratford-upon-Avon, founded by Ralph de
Stratford in 1353; and taken down in 1799; pointed
oval 2 J in. X \\ in.; the Trinity, legend " SIGUU.U
COE COLI.EGII DE STRE'l^FORI) AD CAS [caUSaSi ,"
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
The t'vo Jollo'wino: drawings of the Collei!;e (see No. jj above),
are preserved in the Birthplace Library.
View of the Hall of the College from Captain Tames Saunders'
Warwickshire Drawinj^s, Vol. i, f. 30, Hirthplace Library.
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No. 77.
No. 81.
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78. — Impression of the Seal of the Trustees and
Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace.
See Front Cover of Catalogue.
79. — Leaden Bulla of Pope Clement iii.
Presented by J. O. HalliweIvI.-Phili.ipp.s, Rsq.
80. — Impression in wax from the matrix (in
the British Museum) of the Common Seal of the Guild
of the Holy Cross at Stratford: round seal, 2 inches
diameter, the crucifixion, with legend "sigillum
COMMUNK (ilLDK SCK CRUCIS DE STRATFORDP: " with
plaster cast of same. [ 13 century.]
Presented by Robkrt Ready, British Museimi.
8r. — Jmpression in wax of the Seal of the
Peculiar of Stratford : pointed oval, 3 in. x 2 in., in the
centre the royal arms supported by a lion and dragon,
below PRO PECVLI.^RI lURIS DE STRATFORDE VPON
AVix. Legend sigillv : regiae : maiestatis :
AD : causas : ecclesiasticas +.
\ Peculiar is the technical name of a Parish, or Church,
exercisinjj, through a special court of its own, jurisdiction for pro-
bate of Wills, &c., exempt from the ordinary, and the Bishop's
Courts. Stratford-upon-Avon Peculiar Court was abolished in 1838.
Presented by Miss Annk Whki.kr.
82. — Oval box, 3',' in. x 2 in., containing troy-
weight scales " made from the wood of the walnut-
tree, which grew in the front of Shakespeare's
Birthplace and was cut down in 1765," impressed
" Sharp, Stratford-on-Avon."
This caseoriKinally belonged to Rev. Stephen Nason, M.A.,
Vicar of Stratford-upon-.Avon, 1763-1787.
Presented by ]OHS ]\yiv.s Nason, Esq., M.B„J.P..
Church House, Stratford-upon-.\von (grand-
son of Rev. vStephen Nason), 1868.
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83. — Another specimen of No. 82.
Presented by W. O. Hunt, Esq., 1870, "to whom
it came from his grandmother."
84. — A DEED WITNESSED BY THE DRAMA-
TIST'S FATHER, AND CONCERNING HIS NEIGHBOURS
IN HENLEY STREET, I575.— Deed of Sale by William
Wedgewood of Stretford vppon Avon, tailer, to Edward Willies of
Kyngsnorton, yeoman, for fforty fower ponndes, of towe Tene-
mentes in Stretford aforesaid in a street there commonly called
Henley streete, in the occupatyon of the sayd William Wedgewood,
Betwyne the tenement of Richard Hornebe [blacksmith] of the
East part. And the tenement of John Shakesper, yeoman, of the
west parte, and the streete of the sowthe parte, and the qnenes
high way called the Gillpitts of the norlhe parte. Dated 20th
September, 1575, Signed — WvUiam Wedgwood. ''Wytnesses
hereof John Shakesper, Edward Affyeld, Humfry AfFyeld, Walter
Rocb, Bartholomn Kytle, Richard Horneby."
See No. 88 infra.— The: dramatist was eleven years old at the
date of this deed, and living in his father's house, which was next
door to that of William Wedgewood, the tailor. The forge and
smithy of Richard Horneby, adjoined Wedgewood's shop.
Horneby's premises now form the Birthplace Ticket Office.
Horneby's forge and smithy may well have suggested to the
dramatist this vivid picture :
I saw a smith stand with his hammer thus —
The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool.
With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ;
Who, with his shears and measure in his hand,
Standing on slippers (which his nimble haste
Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet),
Told of a many thousand warlike French
That were embattled and rank'd in Kent ;
Another lean unwash'd artificer
Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death."
King John, iv, 2, 193.
Presented by Messrs. Best & Horton, Bir-
mingham through Mr. Joseph Hill,
Perry Barr.
85. — SIGNATURE OF HAMNET SADLER, THE
GODFATHER OF THE POET'S SON HAMNET IN I598,—
Bond from Thomas Blackford, of Butler's Marston, co. Warwick,
yeoman, to Daniel Smyth of Stratford, yeoman, in 200 marks to
perform covenants in an Indenture of the same date, 10 July 40
Eliz. (1598), respecting the sale of a messuage in Sheep Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon. Signed. Witnesses— William Court. Ham-
net Sadler, Gilbert Charnocke, Richard Niccoles, Hugh Piggin.
Small iieal.
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Haninet Sadler was a legatee under, and a witness to, Shake-
speare's Will, and was godfather to the poet's son, Haninet, who
was buried in the Parish Church on August nth, 1596, in his
twelfth year.
Presented by Miss Annk Wheler.
86. — CONVEYANCE OF A MESSUAGE AND LAND
IN SHOTTERY TO BARTHOLOMEW, BROTHER OF ANNE
HATHAWAY, SHAKESPEARE'S WIFE, 1610. — Deed of
Feoffment by William Whitmore of London. Esq., and John
Randall, of Preston Pagot, co. Warw. gent., to Bartholomew
Hathaway, of Shottery, husbandman, of land, etc., in Shottery in
his own tenure and parcel of the Manor of Old Stratford, viz : a
messuage and yard-land sometime in the tenure of Thomas
Perkins, a messuage and yard-land called Howlands, a toft and
half yard-land called Hewlyn's and three closes called Howland's,
Hertiyn's, and Palmers, with common of pasture in Shottery, to
hold the sime at a yearly rent of 33sh. 4(1. Dated ist April, 1610.
Signed : with seals.
Wittnessfs — Richard Cockes, Francis Collyns, etc
Vellum.
Presented by Miss Annk Whklkr.
87. — A DEED OF 1394 RESPECTING LAND AT
SNITTERFIELD. — Grant from Thomas Elniet, of Snytefeld, to
Thomas Hoggys. Chaplain, and John Parkere. of the same, of a
messuage and curtilage in vSnytefeld (Snitterfield, co. Warwick)
between a tenement formerly belonging to Walter Malonis and
the highway, together with two acres of arable land lying in half-
acre plots at Hunstensmor, behind Rowlowe, on Evermers furlong
and against FletenhuU, and adjoining lands of Rog. atte Wer,
Will. Fraunceys and Hugh Baschet, at a yearly rent of 4d. silver.
Witnesses : — Sir Waiter, Vicar of Snytefeld,
Peter Lyndiaper,
Rich. Appulby, etc.
Dated on the Feast of St. Matthew (21 Sept.). 18 Rich. II,
<«394)-
Latin. Small seal.
Presented by W. O. Hi'nt, H.'^q.
88. — JOHN shakespeark's neighbours IN
HENLEY STREET, 1 573. — Deed of sale by William Wedge-
wood, of Stretford-uppou-.\ von, yeoman, to Richard Hornebe, of
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the same, smith, of a parcel of .ifround " in the backe syde of the
tenement of the said Richard Hornbe in a streete called Henly
Streie," extending to "the Quene's highewaye called the Gill-
pittes." Dated 28. Aug. 15 Eliz. (1573*
Signed with seal, W. S. entwined with a true-lover's knot,
differing, however, from vShakespeare's signet-ring (See A^o. 61
supi'a). Witnesses: — Gualter Roche, John Shaxpere, the dram-
atist's father, Roger Grene (?), John Ange.
See No. S4 supra, and Halliwell-Phillipp's Outlines, 6th Edn.,
l886, Vol. 2. p. 232.
Presented by Miss Anne Whki,er.
89. — AN EXEMPTION FROM MUNICIPAL OFFICE
AT STRATFORD, 1571. — Award by Sir Fulk Grevile and Sir
Thomas Lucie, knts., and Clement Throckmerton and Henry
Goodere, esquires, in a dispute between John Sadler, Bailiff, and
the Burgesses of Stratford, and Robert Parratt, of Stratford, gent.,
ordering that, in consequence of an oath and vow of the last-
named "never to be of the compaygnie and corporacion " of
Stratford, wherewith he, " cannot be perswaded to dispense with
hymself in conscience, althoughe he be verie sorie for the same,"
he be exempt from bearing any office and from all appearance by
summons, etc., at the Common Hall, as well as from all other
Charges, paying therefor to the Bailiff and Burgesses ;f 13, and " of
his owne mere and free good will, and for theould love and affect-
ion that he beareth to the said towne and corporation, ^40 to be
employed during his life as he shall devise and after his death to
such uses as he shall appoint,'' Dated 3 Jany. 13 Eliz. (1571)-
Signed l)y Tho. Lucy, ('le. Throckmerton and H. Goodere;
with seals of the last two remaining.
Vellum.
Presented by Miss Annk Whklek.
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90. — WILL OF SHAKESPEARE'S GRANDDAUGHTER
AND HIS LAST SURVIVING DESCENDANT, 1669-7O. —
Will of Dame Elizabeth Barnard, wife of vSir John Barnard, of
Abington, co. Northampton (and grand-daughter of Shakespeare) ;
29 Jan. 1669-70.
Probate Copy, much defaced by damp.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
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91. — MARK OF SHAKESPEARE'S YOUNGER
DAUGHTER JUDITH, 161I. — Deed of Sale by Elizabeth
Quyney of Stratford-upon-Avon, widow (daughter and sole heir of
Tho. Phelippes, mercer, son and heir of William Phelippes) and
Adrian Quyney her son and heir, to William Mountford, of Strat-
ford, wheelwright, for £131, of a messuage in Woode Street, in the
tenure of the said William Mountford and late in the tenure of
Margery Lord, widow of Ralph Lord. Dated 4 Dec. 9 James
I. (1611).
Mark of Eliz. Quyney and signature of Adrian Quyney ^
with seals.
Attached is a power of Attorney to Edm. Rawly ns, gent.,
to give seisin.
Witnesses— Tho. Greene, Letice Greene, Edm. Rawlyns, and
Judeth Shackespeare (Mark of J. S.)
With note of seisin, signed by Edm. Rawlyns, Antonie
Smithe and others.
See Halliwell-Phillipps Outlines, 6th Edn., 1886, Voi 2, p. 153.
92. — THE FIRST FOLIO. — Mr. William Shake-
speares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies Published
according to the True Originall Copies. London.
Printed by Ifaac laggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623.
The First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays ; and, except-
ing for slight defects, an excellent copy ; measuring I2i in. by 8| in.
Portrait engraved by Droeshout on title in-laid, lower corner
of M. 4 and margins of last leaf mended. Bound in russia ; extra
gilt edges.
Purchased by INIessrs. Henry Sotheran & Co., 140, Strand,
London, on behalf of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's
Birthplace, for ^^585, at the vSale of the third (and final) portion of
the Library of the Earl of .Ashburnham. in the Auction Room of
Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 Wellington Street.
Strand, London, on May nth, 1898.
Messrs Sotheran & Go's. Certificate is as follows: —
"Collated with the 'Grenville' Copy in the British Museum
and found quite perfect: the two short leaves are genuine."
The copy is placed in Class i. Division B. (No. 17) of Dr. Sidney
Lee's Census of extant copies of the First Folio, — published in
1902.
93. — An Imperfect First Folio.
Placed in Dr. Sidney Lee's " Census," in Class iii, Division B.
(FragnK-nlary) No i4-^.and thus described : — "Size I3iin by 8|in.
History : .\cquired i\ 1820 by Robert Bell Wheler, of Stratford-
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Mr. VVI LLIAM
SHAKESPEARES
COMEDIES,
HISTORIES, &
TRAGEDIES.
'ubi:ilieJ accot clinr; to titc Tnic Origin?!! Copies.
L, 0 .'^^ JV U .. V
iTc J by lijac laggard, and Ed. Biouni. i6ii-
No. 92. iiilepage.
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on-Avon, and bequeathed to present owners by his sister, Miss
Anne Wheler, in i87o. Condition: bad ; all leaves before p. 31
and many later leaves missing; many surviving pages mutilated;
the copy of portrait, engraved by J. Swaine, inserted."
94. — THE SECOND FOUO. — Mr. William Shake-
speares Comedies Histories and Tragedies. Published
according to the true Originall Copies. The Secotid Im-
pression. London. Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert
Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the
Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1632. Folio.
This complete copy was the property of Lady Theodore Martin,
nee Helen Faucit, and bears upon the front fly-leaf her autograph
inscription to the effect that it was presented to her by Reginald
Cholmondeley, Esq., of Condover Hall, Shropshire, in 1878.
Bookplates of Nicholas Smyth, of Nibley, and Reginald
Cholmondeley.
Presented by Sir Theodore Martin, K.C.B.,
K.C.V.O. 31, Onslow Square, London, S.W.
February 1899.
95. — THE SECOND FOLIO. — Mr. William Shake-
speares Comedies Histories and Tragedies. Published
according to the true Originall Copies. The Second Im-
pression. London. Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert
Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the
Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1632. P'olio.
Complete with title-page and Ben Jonson's lines. With note
of Gift by Nicholas Smith, of Nibley, co. Glouc, to his nephew,
Thomas Smith, of Paradise, 1670.
Presented by Miss Annk Wheler.
96.— THE THIRD FOLIO.— Mr. William Shake-
speare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published
according to the true Original copies. The Third Im-
pression. And unto the Impression is added seven
Playes, never before printed in Folio. London for
P. C. 1664.
The Portrait and Hen Jonson's linrs supplied, ist, 5th, and
6th pages of Dedicatory matter and pages 37-40 missing; p. 277
slightly imperfect, text supplied in M.S. Portrait and Ben
Jonson's lines, mounted.
Presented by Miss Annk WhkIvER.
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97- — The Fourth Folio. — Mr. William
Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.
Published according to the true Original copies.
Unto which is added, Seven Plays, never before
Printed in Folio. viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre^ The
London Prodigal^ The History of Thomas Lord Crom-
well Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham, The Puritan
Widow, A y<?r^^/!/r^ Tragedy, The Tragedy of Z^rr/W.
The Fourth Edition. London. Printed for H. Herring-
mau and are to be sold by Joseph Knight and Francis
Saunders at the Anchor., in the Lower Walk of the
New Excha?tge. 1685.
This imprint, which differs from that of the majority of the
extant copies of the Fourth Folio, gives this exemplar exceptionat
bibliographical interest.
Complete, with portrait, etc., but much stained.
Presented by W. O. Hunt, 1863.
98. — Two leaves from the rare quarto edition
of the " Pleasant Comedy of the Merry Wiues of
Windsor." Published in 1602.
Presented by J. O. HALUWEi:.i.-PHii.i.iPPa.
99. — The first part Of the true & honorable
history of the Lifeof Sir John Old-castle the good Lord
Cobham. As it hath bene lately acted by the Right
honorable the Earle of Nottingham, Lord High
Admirall of England his Seruants. Written by
William Shakespeare. London, printed for T. P. 1600.
A quarto play falsely ascribed to Shakespeare in his own
lifetime by an enterprising publisher.
Purchased 1867.
100. — The Puritaine or The Widdow of Watling-
Streete. Acted by the Children of Panics. Written
by W. S. Imprinted at London by G. Eld. 1607.
A quarto play falsely ascribed to Shakespeare in his own
lifetime by an enterprising publisher.
The second leaf is missing.
Purchased 1872.
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loi. — Fragment of the second edition of
"Venus and Adonis," 1594. — A single leaf, beginning:
"A thousand spleenes bear her a thousand wayes"
(//V/^Qoy).
Purchased from the collection of George Daniel,
Canonbury, Islington, July 1864.
102. — THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, 1600. —
The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice with
the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the lew, towards the
saide Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh.
And the obtaining of Portia^ by the choyse of three
Caskets. Written by W. Shakespeare. Printed by
J. Roberts^ 1600, 4to.
Two leaves, C. i and C. 4, supplied in facsimile, 1906, by
Messrs. Riviere & Son, London, after the perfect copy purchased
in October, 1906. See No. 103.
Purchased 1867.
103. — THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, 1600. — The
Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice with the
extreme cruelty of Shylocke the lew towards the saide
Merchant, in cutti7ig a iust pound of his flesh. And the
obtaining of Portia^ by the choyse of three Caskets.
Written by W. Shakespeare. Printed by J. Roberts^
1600. 4to.
A perfect copy. Measures 7iV by Si*^ inches. Bound by
RiviSre & Son, 1906. See for full description of this and the three
following Quartos: — "Four Quarto Editions oj Plays by Shake-
speare, the Property of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare' s
Birthplace." By Sidney Lee, 1908.
Purchased October, 1906.
104. — KING LEAR, 1608. — Mr. William Shake-
speare, his True Chronicle History of the life and
death of King Lear, and his three Daughters. With
the vnfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the
Earle of Glocester, and his sullefi and assumed humour
<7/"Tom of Bedlam. As it was plaid before the Kings
Maiesty at White-Hall, vppon St. Stephens night, in
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Christmas Hollidaies. By his Maiesties Sernanls,
playing^ vsiially at the Globe on the Banck-sidc.
(Printer's device) Printed for Nathaniel Butter. 1608.
Small 4to., a little writing on the title anJ blank verso;
measures 71*^ by 5,-^ inches. Bound by Riviere & Son, ;9o6.
See note under No. loj supra.
Purc/iased October, 1906.
105. — A MIDSUMMER XIGHT'S DRKAM, i6co. —
A Midsoninier nicrhts drt-anie. As it hath beene
sundry times publikely acted, by the Right Ilot/ourabic^
the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. IVrit/en by
William Shakespeare. (Printer's device, with motto
*' Post tenebras hix " — after darkness, light.) Printed
by lames Roberts, 1600.
A perfect copy. Measures y^'^^ by 5,',, inches. Bound in red
morocco by Bedford. ^S>^ note under A'o. loj supra.
Purchased January, 1908.
106. — THK MKRRY WIVES OE WINDSOR, 1619. —
A Most pleasant and ex-cellent conceited Comedy, 0/
Sir John Falstaffe., and the merry Wines of Windsor.
With the swaggering vaine of Ancient Pistoll, and
Corporall Nym. Written by W. .Shakespeare.
(Printer''^ device, with Welsh motto " Heb ddim heb
ddiev " withont anything, without God.) Printed for
Arthur yohnson.^ 16 19.
A perfect copy. Measures 7^^^ by 5V'^ inches. Bound in red
morocco by Bedford. See note under No. loj supra.
Purchased January, 1908.
107. — THE MERCHANT OE VENICE, 1637.— The
most Excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice, etc.
Printed by M. P. for Laurence Hayes, and are to be
sold at his Shop on Fleetbridge, 1637. 410.
Purchased from }. Russell Smith, 1872.
108. — BEN jonson's autograph. — Hierouymi
Savonarolae Ferrariensis Trivmphvs Crncis, sive De
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HIERONYMI SAVONAROLA
Ferrariensis
TRI VMPHVS
c R u c I s,
S I V E
De Veritate Fidei
L I B R I IV.
Tiegcns in hctm edims^
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L V G -1 V N I B A T A V O R V -.1,
Exofiicina loANNlt b Mair £-
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No. io8.
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Veritate Fidei Libri IV. Recens in lucem editus.
(Savonarola's Triumph of the Cross), 1633.
This copy was the property of Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's
friend, who died in 1637. Jonson has written in latin on the title-
page, his motto, " tanquam Explorator" (as it were an explorer),
and words to the effect that the book was a gift to him from the
famous Sir Kenelm Digby. " Sum Ben : lonsonij ex dono
perillust. Equitis D. Ken: Digbaeij."
Purchased 1904.
>09 — Photographs from Council Book "A",
Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation Records: — The first
page of the Account of John Tayler and John Shaks-
peyr, Chamberlains of the Corporation, for 1563-4,
and the first page of the Account of William Tylor
and William Smythe, Chamberlains, for 1565-6 ' made
by John Shakspeyr ' [the dramatist's father], with full
transcript of each photographic facsimile.
Reproduced by permission of The Corporation
OF Stratford-upon-Avon.
1 10. — CONVKYAN'CE BY JOHN AND MARY SHAKE-
SPEARE [THE dramatist's PARENTS TO ROBERT
WEBBE, OF PROPERTY IN SNITTERFIELD, 1579, WITH
BOND OF SAME DATE. — Deedof saleby John Shackspere. of
Stratford-upon-Avon, yeoman, and Mary his wife, to Rol)ert Webbe,
of Snitterfylde, yeoman, for £^, of their moiety of two messuages
with appurtenances in Snitterfylde.
Dated 15 Oct. 21 Eliz. (i579)- Signed by marks. With
seals. John Shakesp>eare's seal bears the initials J. S.. and his
wife's seal has the design of a horse galloping. Witnesses —
Nycholas Knoolles, VMcar of Auston (Alveston), Will. Maydes,
and Anth. Osbaston.
With bond from the same to the same in 20 marks, to per-
form covenants. Date, witnesses, etc., as above.
Presented by Evelyn Philip Shiklrv, m.a.,
Ettington Park.
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III. — DEED, DATED 26 JANUARY 1 596-7, PROV-
ING THAT SHAKESPEARE'S FATHER THEN RESIDED IN
THE HOUSE NOW KNOWN AS THE POET'S BIRTHPLACE.
Deed of sale by John Shakespere of Stratford-upon-Avon, yeoman,
to George Badger, of the same, draper, for 50s., of a toft and
parcel of land in Stratford, in Henlye Strete, between his own
free tenement on the east, and the said George Badger's free tene-
ment on the west, being in width i yard and extending in length
28 yards from Henlye Street on the south to the highway called
Gyllpyttes on the north, and now being in the tenure of the said
John Shakespeare. Dated 26 January, 39 Eliz. (1596-7).
Signed with John Shakespeare's mark. Seal lost.
Sealed, delivered and seisin given on the same day, in the
?resence of Richard Lane, Hen : Walker, Will. Courte, " scriptor,"
ho : Loche, and Tho. Beseley. Latin. Vellum.
Printed in «' Halliwell-Phillipps' Outlines," 6th edit., 1886.
vol. ii, p. 13.
Presented by Evelyn Philip Shirley, m.a.,
Ettington Park.
112. — THE poet's STRATFORD ESTATE. — A FINE
ASSURING NEW PLACE TO SHAKESPEARE, 1 597 —
Fine, Easter Term, 39 Eliz. (1597), whereby William Underhill,
gent., assures to William Shakespeare a messuage (i.e. New Place),
two barns and two gardens with appurtenances in Stratford-upon-
Avon for j£6o. Seal "ad lirevia in Banco." Latin. Vellum.
Recorded, 4 May, A« 39 (1597).
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
113. — THE poet's STRATFORD ESTATE. — SUR-
RENDER OF A COTTAGE IN CHAPKL LANE TO SHAKE-
SPEARE, 1602. — Extract from the Court-Roll of Rowington
Manor, co. Warwick, recording that at a Court of Anne, Countess
of Warwick, held 28 Sept. 44 Eliz. (1602), before Henry Micliell,
Deputy for John Huggeford, steward, Walter Getley, by Thomas
Tibbottes, Junr., his Attorney, surrendered a cottage in vStrat-
ford-upon-Avon, in Walker's Street, alias Dead Lane [now Chapel
I/ane] to the use of William Shackespere and his heirs for ever.
Latin. Vellum.
The cottage, which has since disappeared, adjoined the
garden of Shakespeare's residence, New Place.
Presented by \VuAA\yi 0\KT?.9, Hunt, Aug. 1861,
to whom the property then belonged.
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114. — THE poet's litigation. — DECLARATION
OF SHAKESPEARE IN STRATFORD COURT OF RECORD,
l604< — Declaration of William Shexpere in an action against
Philip Rogers in the Stratford Court of Record, to recover
358. lod. the balance of 41s. lod. due for 20 bushels of malt, etc.
(1604). Latin.
Presented by Miss Anne Whkler.
115. — A DEED WITNESSED BY GILBERT SHAKE-
SPEARE, THE poet's youngest BROTHER, 1609-IO. —
Lease from Margery Lorde, widow, and tavern-keeper in Middle
Row, Bridge Street, to Richard Smyth, alias Courte, butcher,
one of her sons, for qg years at a rent of 2d., of a small piece of
ground, 3 yards wide, whereon is a " foundation of stone"
. . . "placed in a Taverne or sellar which is parcel of the
Taverne of the said Margery" in Middle Row, Bridge Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon, and supporting "a chymneye now in the
hall of the dwellinge house of the saide Richard."
Dated 5 March 1609-10. Vellum.
Witnesses— Richard Wylling. Gilbert Shakespere (youngest
brother of the poet), and William Bellamye.
Presented by Miss A.nne Wheler.
116. — THE poet's litigation. — PRECEPT IN
SHAKESPEARE'S SUITS, AGAINST JOHN ADDENBROOKE,
1609- — Order of the Court of Record of Stratford-upon-.\von to
the Serjeants at Mare to produce John Addenbrooke before
the Bailiff at the next Court, to satisfy William Shackspeare,
gent., for a debt of ^6 recovered against him with 24s. costs. Dated
15 March 6 Jas. I. [1609]. Witness— Francis vSmyth, junr.,
Bailiff. Latin. Vellum. Endorsed with return by F. Boyce,
Serjeant, that the said John .Addenbrooke had not been found
within the liberty of the Borough.
Presented by Miss .\n.nk Whei.er.
117. — THE POFrr'S LITlG.VnoX. — ANOTHER PRE-
CEPT IN SH.\KESPEARE'S SUIT AGAINST ADDENBROOKE,
locg. — Order of the Court of Record to summon Thomas
Horneby, as surety for John Addenbrooke, to show cause why
he should not be answerable to Will : Shackspeare for the debt
and costs of John .Addenbrooke.
Dated 7 June 7 James i. (i6oq).
Witness— I-'rancis Smyth, Jun.. Bailiff.
Latin. Vellum.
Presented by Miss .Anne Whklkr.
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ii8. — A collotype facsimile of a Mortgage by
" William Shakespeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon,
Gentleman", and others, to Henry Walker, citizen,
of London, of a dwelling-house within the precincts of
"the late Black Fryers". Dated, ii March, lo Jas. i.
(1612-13). Sec No I2J.
The original document is in the British Museum.
Presented by Richard Savage, Secretary and
Librarian to the Trustees, 1S99.
119. — Shakespeare's Marriage Licence Bond. —
A framed photographic facsimile.
In this deed, of which the original document is in the Dio-
cesan Registry, Worcester. I'lilk Sandels and John Richardson,
husbandmen of Stratford, bind themselves in the bishop's con-
sistory court, on November 28, 1582, in a surety of 40I. to free the
bishop of all liability should a lawful impediment — ' by reason of
any pre-contract' [r^. with a third party] or consanguinity — be sub-
sequently disclosed to imperil the validity of the marriage, then
in contemplation, of William Shakespeare with Anne Hathaway.
On the assumption that no such impediment was known to exist,
and provided that Anne obtained the consent of her friends, the
marriage might proceed 'with once asking of the banns of
matrimony betwene them.' There is no known documentary
record of Shakespeare's marriage extant.
Presen/ed by Ev\N G. Humphrkys, Bath Road,
Worcester, April 1901.
120. — Shakespeare's Will. Photo-lithographic
facsimile.
The original, which was drafted 25 January, 1616, and was
signed in March following, is in Somerset House.
Presented bv Day & Son, 6, Gate Street, Lincoln's
Inn Fields, London, W. C; 9 April 1864.
121. — SIGN.\TURE OF SHAKESPEARK'S ELDER
DAUGHTER, MRS. SUSANNA HALL. — A SETTLEMENT
OF SHAKESPEARE'S ESTATES 1639. Indenture tripartite,
whereby Susannah Hall, of Stratford-upon-.Avon, widow, Thomas
Nash, of Stratford, P^sqre., and Eliza lieth, his wife, covenant to levy
to George Nash, of Southwark, gent., and Edmund Rawlins, of
Stratford, gent., a fine of a messuage in Blackffriers, Ivondon,
" neare the Wardrobe," now or late in the tenure of Dickes,
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cordiner and heretofore in that of John Robinson ; a messuage
in Acton, co. Middlesex, in the tenure of Leerewood; a
capital messuage in Stratford-upon-Avon called the New Place;
two messuages in Stratford in Henley Street, in the tenure of Jane
Hiccox and Johan Harte, widows ; and 4i yardlands of arable
meadow and pasture in Stratford-upon-Avon, Old Stratford,
Bishopton, and Welcombe, with all other lands, etc. in the same,
heretofore the inheritance of William Shakespeare, gent., late
father of the said Susan ; such fine to be to the intent that the said
George Nash and Edmund Rawlins shall suffer a common
Recovery, to be had of the same by George Townesend and
John Stephens, of Staple Inn, co. Midd., to the uses as follows,
viz : as regards the messuage at Acton to the use of Thomas Nash
and Elizabeth, his wife, for life, with remainder to the heirs of
their bodies, and in default to the heirs of the body of Elizabeth,
and in default to Thomas Nash his heirs and assigns, and as re-
gards all other the premises to the use of Susan Hall for life, with
remainder to Thomas Nash and Elizabeth, his wife, for life, with
remainder as before. Dated 27 May, 15 Chas. I. 1639. Signed by
Susanna Hall, Geo. Nashe, Edm. Rawlins, Geo. Townesend and
John Stephens.
With five seals, that of vSusanna Hall bearing the arms three
talbots heads erased, impaling the arms of Shakespeare.
Presented by 'i\\^% Anne Whei.ER.
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No. 122.
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No. 122.
122. — SIGNATURE OF SHAKESPEARE'S ELDER
DAUGHTER, MRS. SUSANNA HALL, AND OF HIS GRAND-
DAUGHTER, MRS. ELIZABETH NASH. A DECLARATION
OF USES RELATING TO NEW PLACE, ETC., 1 647. — Inden-
ture tripartite covenanting that, whereas Susan Hall [Shakes-
peare's eldest daughter] and Elizabeth Nash [Mrs. Hall'sdaughter
and Shakespeare's granddaughter], both of Stratford-upon-Avon,
widows, in Easter term preceding levied two fines of a messuage
in Blackfriars, London, 'neere the Wardrope;" a messuage in
Stratford-upon-Avon called the New Place, a messuage in the
same town, in Henley Street called the Maidenhead now or late
in the tenure of John Rutter ; another messuage adjoining, now
or late in the tenure of Thomas Hart, 4i yardlands in Stratford,
Old Stratford, Bishopton and VVelcombe, and all other lands, etc.,
in the same heretofore the inheritance of William Shakespere,
gent., father of the said Susan Hall, to Richard Lane and W'illiam
Smith, the intent of such two fines is that the said Richard Lane
and Will. Smith shall suffer a recovery of the premises to be
?rosecuted by Will. Hathaway of Weston-upon-Avon, yeoman, and
ho. Hathaway, of Stratford, joiner, to enure to the useof the said
Susan Hall for her life, witn remainder to the use of the said
Elizabeth Nash and the heirs of her bod}' and in default to the use
of her right heirs for ever.
Dated 2 June, 23 Chas. i. (1647).
Signed by Susanna Hall (signet seal).
Elizabeth Nash (seal of Arms).
Richard Lane and Will. Smith (seals).
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
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123- — Facsimile of Conveyance of the Black-
friars Estate from "Henry Walker Citizen and Min-
strell of London " to "William Shakespeare of Stratford-
npon-Avon in the Conntie of Warwick ^entlt-nian."
10 March, 1612-13. See No. 118.
From the original in the Guildhall Library, Loudon.
Purchased.
No. 124.
124.— SIGNATURE OF vSHAKESPEARE'S (tRAND-
DAUGHTER, MRS. ELIZA [bETHJ BARNARD, FORMERLY
MRS. ELIZABETH NASH. — A DISPOSITION OF NEW
PLACE AND OTHER ESTATES OF SHAKESPEARE
MADE BY HIS GRANDDAUGHTER, ELIZABETH BARNARD,
IN 1653. — Deed-poll of Ivlizabeth, wife of John Barnard, p:sq.,
assigning to Henry vSniith, of Stratford, gent., and Job Dighton,
of the Middle Temple, London, esq., a messuage in Stratford called
the New place, together with 42 yardlands, arable, meadow and
pasture in Stratford, Welcombe and Bishopton " sotnetimes the
inheritance of William Shackspeare, gent., my graiulfatlier," upon
trust, after the death of the said John Barnard and herself without
heirs of her body, to sell the same, the money to be rai.sed thereby
to be disposed as she shall appoint. Dated 18 April. 1653.
Signed, Ivliza Barnard, with seal of Anns, viz: Barnard impaling
Shakespeare.
Witnesses — Richard Lane, Mary Lane, Pliil. Scarlett, Ivliz.
Writon.
Presented by Miss Annjc Whki.kr.
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125- — A DOCUMENT ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY
OF THE GUNPOWDER PLOT 26 FEB., 1605-6. — Inquisition
taken at Stratford-upon-Avon, 26 Feb. 3 Jas. i. (1606), before
William Wyette, gent., Mayor, by virtue of his office of Escheator,
by oath of Tho. Barbor, gent., Abraham Sturley, gent., John
Smyth, gent.. Hen. Walker, gent. Will. Tetherton, gent.. Will.
Walforde, Phil. Greene, Ralph Lord, Will. Hardinge, John
Willmore, Hugh Piggen, Edw. Wall, Rich. Collyns, Tho. Allen,
and Tho. Parker, who testify that the said Will. Wyette, on 6 Nov.
preceding, seized the goods and chattels following, the property
of Ambrose Rookewoode, late attainted of High Treason, viz., a
" white gelding (20sh. ), one challice with a cover of silver and
gilte (4osh), another challice and a cover of silver and gilte
{26sh 8d.), a little silver bell (2osh), a silver and gilte crucifix
(6sh 8d), another silver and gilte crucifix (3sh 4d), another
little silver and gilte crucifix vppon velvette (i2d), a crosse of
glasse (i2d), a crosse of copper with the picture of Christ vppon
it (2sh 6d) and an altar stone, two white surplesses (losh), one
ould sheete (i2d), one peece of lynnen (i2d), one other peece of
lynnen (I2d), a vestemente of white stuff like Tishue witn a pall
and armelettes belonginge to the same and a peece of redd sar-
senette to wrappe vpp the same (2osh), a Vestemente of crymson
satten with a pall ana armlettes belonging to the same and a peece
of redd sarsenette to wrappe up the same (20sh), a handkercheffe
wrought aboute with redd silke (ish 8<1), a blacke vestemente of
damaske with a pall and armelettes belonginge to the same (losh),
one hearse cloath of damaske lyned with buckram (3sh 4d), one
hearse cloath of damaske lyned with cotton (3sh 4d),eighte small
paper pictures (id), ffoure cases to keepe paper pictures i2sh), ffive
Latine Bookes (i2d), a Bracelette of tcnn amber Beades and of
one glasse beade (6d), a paire of prayinge beades of bone (2d), a
little wooden crosse silvered (2d), a pakes (2sh), a little round silver
box (2sh 6d, a watche (losh), a case for a Booke (4<i). and a cushion-
ette of crymson taffata (4d)"; together with a "graye nagge "
(53sh 4d), and "glasse beades " (4d) of Tho. Pearce, gent., arrested
on suspicion of High Treason, and a pair of old leggings
(ocreae) of Ambrose Fuller, noted as "returned".
Signed by " Wyllyam Wyeate, Eschetor"
Vellum.
The above goods were seized at Clopton, Stratford-upon-
Avon, where Ambrose Rookwood resided during the preparation
of the Gunpowder Plot. Rookwood occupied Clopton, by advice
of the chief conspirator, Robert Catesby, a native of Lapworth.
Warwickshire, and son-in-law of Sir Thomas Leigh, ofStoneleigh.
The conspirators organised their plot at various places in the
Midland Counties. Rookwood was tried for high treason and exe-
cuted with Guy Fawkes in old Palace Yard, Westminster, 31
January, 1606.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
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126. — "A north view of the Great Booth or
Amphitheatre in the Bancroft, Stratford-upon-Avon,
erected for the Jubilee, Sept. 6 and 7, 1769."
An original drawing by Richard Greene, a well-known
antiquary of Garrick's native place, Lichfield. 7^ in, by 4^ in.
The Jubileei commemoration of Shakespeare, organised by
the actor David Garrick, opened at Stratford-upon-Avon on Sept.
6th and closed on the 9th, 1769.
Presented by ^ . O. Hali.iweli,-Phii,i,ipps, 1875.
127. — A rosette made of ribbon worn at the
Garrick Jubilee, 1769.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
128. — Ticket for the Oratorio, Dedication Ode,
Ball, etc., at the Shakespeare Jubilee, 6 and 7 Sept. 1 769,
signed by George Garrick (David Garrick's brother)
with seal, framed.
Presented by John Ashfield, Chapel Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon.
129. — Silver medal struck for Garrick's Jubilee
in 1769.
130. — Wood-block of a drawing of Heme's
Oak, Windsor Park, by F. W. Fairholt, 1835, 4^ in.
by 3I in. See Nos. 231, 2^4, 2gs-
131. — A twisted iron stand for a rush candle
8^ in. high.
Rush holders date from the i6th century. They consist of
an iron standard firmly fixed in a wooden stand with a pendant
forceps for grasping the rush. The rush employed was that
usually found growing near hedges and ditches; some practice
was required in peeling them, the object being to leave one stem
rib from top to bottom to support the pith ; they were then dipped
In any kina of fat or grease and served as the lights in domestic
use, especially in the rural homes of the humbler classes.
Presented by H. T. Wage, F.S.A., Shrewsbury
1868.
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132. — Five specimens of rushlights.
Presented by Oliver Baker, The Manor House,
Over Whitacre, July, 1903.
133. — Four specimens of rush candles.
Presented by Mrs. Peile, London, 3 Dec. 1902.
134. — Stand for a rush candle (fitted with
specimen).
Presented by I . R. Furness, Plas Mawr, Conway,
1895.
135. — A silhouette portrait of Mrs. Hornby, 20
May 1 84 1.
Mrs. Mary Hornby resided at Shakespeare's Birthplace and
acted as cicerone from 1793 to 1820. She showed Washington
Irving over the house in 1815, and he has described her personal
appearance in his ' Sketch Book.' She collected relics of the
Poet and was author of two volumes : ' The Battle of Waterloo,
a traeedy' (Stratford-upon-Avon, 1819), and of 'Extemporary
Verses written in Shakespeare's Birthplace ' (Stratford-upon-
Avon, no date).
Presented by The Governor.s ok the Memorial
Theatre, Stratford-upon-.^von, Aug. 1902.
136. — Casket made of oak from Shakespeare's
Birthplace, carved by John Marshall ; 5A in. by 3^in.
by 3in.
Presented by Mr.s. Marshall, widow of the
carver, December 7th, 1.S87.
137. — A punch ladle.
Purchased (from Mrs. Barlow, Worcester) and presented by
Messrs. John M. Carrere, .Architect, 28, East Forty-first Street,
New York City, and Frederick Eugene Partington, Staten Island
Academy, New Brighton, V. S. A., August, 1904.
Copy of declaration accompanying the ladle:-- " I found it behind
the wainscoating on the ground floor of the Great Room in Shake-
speare's House in Henley Street, Stratford-on-A von, in i860. The
house was under repair and restoration ; I was the Sub-Contractor
under Mr. Gibbs, Architect, Mr. Reed was Manager, Mr. Callaway
•was Clerk of the Works. I was Foreman over the Masons. —
A Punch Bowl Spoon— wooden. I give it to Clara R. Barlow, White
Lion Hotel, Bidford. I sign this paper as being true, Feb. 19th,
1897. Saml. Wilkes, Broom ".
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138. — A small round oak box made of wood from
Shakespeare's pew in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-
upon-Avon, removed in 1840.
This box was purchased from the Executors, of the late
Thomas Kite, Feb. 7, 1900. Mr. Kite was Parish Clerk at the time
of the restoration of Stratford-upon-Avon Parish Church in 1840,
when all the ancient pews were aemolished. He died Dec. 27, 1899,
in the 91st year of his age.
139. — A box made by Thomas Sharp, from wood
of Shakespeare's Mulberry Tree. 7! in.by 4in.by 2|in.
Enclosed in the box is the following memorandum :-" I have
given this Box carved from Shakespeare's Mulberry Tree and
presented by the late Miss Mason to my brother Robert Bell Wheler^
to be deposited and preserved in the IVIuseum at Shakespeare's
House. Anne WHEtER. Febry. 23rd, 1865 ".
140. — A little round box made out of oak from
Shakespeare's Birthplace, taken out at the restoration
of 1859.
The maker was John Marshall, Carver and Cabinet maker,
who lived in "Julius Shaw's House," Chapel Street, and was
largely employed on the fittings of the Birthplace.
Presented by Charles Burton, Paddingtou,.
London, February, 1901.
141. — Punch ladle, used at the Garrick Jubilee
in honour of Shakespeare, held in September, 1769.
It belonged to William Pklmunds (" the grey-headed sexton "
of Washington Irving's Sketch Book) until his death in April, 1823.
It then became the property of his only child, Elizabeth, wha
married Francis Horn Kite, of vStratford-upon-Avon. From their
youngest son, Thomas Kite (born June 30, 1S09, died December
27, 1899); see No. ijS, note: it was purchased by the Trustees of
Shakespeare's Birthplace, March ist, 1899.
142. — Tooth of Mammoth (Elephasprimogenius)
" from a gravel pit near Bull Lane," Stratford-upon-
Avon.
/'resell tt'd by Miss Annk Whki.kr.
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143- — Tooth of Mammoth (Elephasprimogenius)
found near Stratford-upon-Avon.
Presented by Thomas Gibbs.
144. — Brass Seal of Rev. James Davenport, D.D.,
Vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon, as Ordinary Judge of
the Peculiar of Stratford, 1787.
Dr. Davenport was Vicar of Stratford from 1787 till his
death in his ninety-second year, in 1841.
145. — A series ofRoman coins, found at Stratford-
upon-Avon between the years 1800 and 1856.
They consist of about eighty specimens, ranging from
Germanicus, B.C. 15, to Gratianus, A.D. 367, i«cluding Nero, Ves-
pasian, Antoninus Pius, V'erus, Comniodus, Philippus Postumus,
Gallienus, Maximianus, Claudius Gothicus, Tetricus, Constantine,
Crispu.s, Decentius, Magnentius, and Gratianus. The only empress
whose coins appear among the series is Faustina the younger, wife
of Marcus Aurelius. As usual with hoards of coins found in
England, those of Constantine greatly preponderate; in this in-
stance about half the entire number belong to the reign of that
emperor. There are no remarkable or rare rever.ses in the col-
lection, the most interesting being those of Antoninus Pius, with
Britannia seated on a Rock ; and those struck by the usurping
Roman governors Carausius and Allectus in Britain.
All these, with one exception, were found at Stratford-upon-
Avon. A third brass, VRBS . ROMA, with the wolf and twins on
the reverse, found in the neighbouring parish of Welcombe in
1831.
Presented by Mis.s Anne Whei^er.
146. — A series of about forty Roman coins,
similar to the above, generally in bad condition.
They were found at Stratford-upon-Avon in various years
before 1800.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
147. — Silver Roman Coins found at Stratford-
upon-Avon, belonging to the reigns of the Emperors
Vespasian, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius,
Gordianus, Decius, Valerian, Julian the Apostate, and
Gratianus.
Presented by Miss Anne Whei,er.
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148. — Silver British coins found at Stratford-
upon-Avon, viz., Ethelred, Edward the Confessor,
Henry III, Henry VHI, Alexander II of Scotland,
Gulielmus Episcopus Cambracensis.
Presented by Mis.s Anne Wheler.
149. — Coins found at the Cross o' the Hill (a hill
about a mile south of Stratford) : — Thirteen silver
pennies of Henry HI, all with short cross reverses.
150. — Forty-seven pennies of Edward I., Edward
II.. Edward III., minted in various cities.
151. — Eighteen groats and half-groats of
Edward I., Edward II., and Edward III, fifteen minted
at London, two at Canterbury, and one at York.
152. — Ten groats, half-groats, and pennies of
Henry V., and Henry VII., minted at Calais and
Canterbury.
Presetited by Miss Anne Whei^er.
153. — A collection of Stratford-upon-Avon
tradesmen's tokens, and of coins found in Stratford-
upon-Avon, thirty-two in all.
Tokens-:
p
(1-2) Obv. a falcon with wings extended, A between the
legs. Legend joskph phillipps. Rev. his
HALFPENNY. 1 668. STRATFORD VPPOX AVON.
\ in. diameter.
H H
(3-4) Ohv. R A. Legend richard hvnt. Rev. r a Strat-
ford 1 65 1. H in. diameter.
(5-6) Obv. Arms of Stratford samvel philips.
p
Rev. s T STRATFORD 1652. % in. diameter.
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(7) Lawrance and Elizabeth Horwood. ii.d-
(8) Francis Smith, his halfe-penny. n.d.
(9) John Eson. 1657.
(10) I. B. in Stratford, mercer, n.d.
A single specimen only, found at Stratford in February, 1848.
(") Richard Hicks. The Angel, his halfpenny, n.d.
(12) John Bonlton, carrier, n.d.
(i3> Edward Rogers, bookbinder, 1668.
Tokens ol provincial bookbinders are of unusual occurence,
and it is notable that Stratford should at so early a period have
supported this special trade.
('4» Thomas Taylonr of Stratford-upon-Avon. n.d.
(15) John Willmor, Stratford, n.d. [1650I
(16) Daniel Mason, 1668. Grocers Anns.
(17) Daniel Mason, n.d.
(i8> Edward Smith in Stratford-upon-Avon. n.d.
('9» William Bradford at the Bear in Bridgetown, n.d.
(20) Mulberry Tree Inn. W. Court, modern.
(21) Warwickshire Halfpenny. 1791.
\ duplicate inferior exanij^le is marked as havinj^ been
found at the Birthplace in 1S62.
(22) Richard Hunt. 1667.
(23' Borough of Stratford hallpennx. 16O9.
" Aj^reed that 61l)S. of halfpfiKt- i.e bcuxht and stam])ed with
the Corporation amies upon tlic-ni. and delivi-red into the hands
of the Chamberlynes toexchanj^'c llif same, and what profit shall
accrue by puttiuv; lhi*m forth shall bt laye<l out for the benefit of
the pcore." Corpoiadoit A/SS., /6(g. 'J'here is an order dated
October i, 1669. " for other persons wlio have put forth halfpence,
etc.. to call them in under a penalty."
(24» A Shakespeare halfpenny, n.d.
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(25-27) Three Nuremburg tokens.
Two were found at the Mill at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1855;
the third (with a cross) on the site of Luddington Chapel in
April, 1844.
(28-30) Three silver coins of Charles I.
One of these is noted by Mr. Wheler as having been found
in Februarj', 1839, on taking down the old Workhouse in Henley
l,ane at the corner of Hell Lane. (The Catholic School now (1909)
stands upon the site).
(31) A Queen Anne's farthing, 1714, of the common type.
(32) A farthing of the year 1675.
Found in the garden of Shakespeare's Birthplace, June, 1862.
Presented by Mis.s Anne Whei^er.
154. — "Fragments of brick from the Birthplace
proper, taken np when the window or opening to the
cellar was made or restored in 1862."
Preseiited by J. O. HAr^ivivvEi.T--PHii.Lipps.
155. — A snuff-box made from the wood of the
*'One Elm" boundary-tree, Stratford-upon-Avon, cut
down in 1847.
Presented by Thomas Gibbs.
156. Painting, executed at the end of the 17th
Century, of Windsor Castle, etc. from the river, showing
the street down which Falstaff is represented in the
Merry Wives of Windsor as having been carried in the
buck-basket ; in oil, 4 ft. 5^ in. by 2ft. 6:fin.
This, and a similar picture of the same date, apparently by
the same artist, preserved at Greenwich Hospital, are believed to
be the two earliest paintings of Windsor known to exist.
Presented by J. O. Hali.iwei.i,-Phii,i.ipps, 1866.
157. An imaginary picture of the interior of the
Globe Theatre, Bankside, in the days of Shakespeare.
Photograph of a painting by George Pycroft, May 1872.
Presented by Miss Eli.a Pycroft, Seaming
Rectory, Norfolk, 4 March, 1908.
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158. — THE poet's STRATFORD ESTATE — THE
ORIGINAL CONVEYANCE OF IO7 ACRES OF LAND IN
OLD STRATFORD FROM WILLIAM AND JOHN COMBE TO
SHAKESPEARE, TST MAY, l602. — Deed of FeoflFuieut, dated
the " ffirste daie of Maye in the ffowre and ffortieth 3-eare of our
Soueraigne Ladie Elizabeth" (1602) from William Combe of
Warrwicke, Esquier, and John Coml)e ofOlde Stratford, gentle-
man, to William Shakespeare of Stretford-vppon-Avon, gentleman,
for and in Consideracion of the sonime of Three Himdred and
Twentie Poundes of Currant Englishe money, of ffowre yarde
lande of errable lande within the parrishe or towne of Okie
Stretford Conteyninge by estimacion One Hundred and Seaven
acres. And also all the Common of Pasture for Sheepe horse kyne
or other Cattle in the feildes of Okie Stretford aforesaide to the
saide ffowre yarde lande belonginge — now or late in the seueral
tenures or occupacions of Thomas Hiccoxe and Lewes Hiccoxe.
Endorsed. Sealed and deli%'ered to Gilbert Shakespere
to the use of the within named William .Shakespere in the
presence of Anthony Nasshe, Jhon Nashe, William vSheldon,
Humfrey Maynwaringe, Rychard Mason.
Printed in " Halliwell-Phillipps' Outlines," 6t]i edition,
1886, vol ii, pp 17-19,
159. — THE poet's STRA'J^FORD ESTATE — CON-
VEYANCE TO SHAKESPEARE, IN 1605, OF THE MOIETY
OF A LEASE, GRANTED IN 1 544, OF THE TITHES OF
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, OLD STRATFORD, WELCOMBE,
AND BISHOPTON. — A.ssignment by Ralph Hubande, of Ippesley
CO. Warw., Esq., to William vShakespeare, of vStratford-upon-Avon,
gent., for ^440, of a moiety of tithes in Stratford, Old Stratford,
Welcombe, and Hishopton, co. Warw., for the residue of a lease for
92 years from the Warden and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of Stratford dated 7 July, 3^ Hen. VIII (1544), paying yearly to
the Bailiff and Burgesses i'17 and to John Barker £5. Dated 24 July,
3 James I. (1605). Signed — " Raffe Huband."
Witnesses-William Huband, Anth. Nashe, Era. CoUyns.
Vellntn.
Printed in Halliwell-Phillipps' C/////;/^, 6lh K<ln., uSSf,, vol. 11,
pp. ig-24.
Presented hy Miss Ann'K Whhi,i;k,
160. — Bond from William Combe, of Old
Stratford, to Francis vSmith, of Stratford-upon-Avon,
mercer, in ;^40, to perform covenants in articles on the
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part of himself, Katherine his wife, and Thomas Combe
his brother with the said Francis Smith of the same
date. Dated 6 May, 21 Jas. I. 1623.
Signed ; with seal. Witnesses-Francis Ainge, John Eston,
Rich. Robbins, and others.
Presen/ed dy Miss Anne Whkler.
161. — JOHN FLORIO; ITALIAN-ENGLISH DIC-
TIONARY 1598. — A Worldeof Wordes, Or Most copious,
and exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, collected
by lohn Florio . Printed at London, by Arnold Hatfield
for Edw. Blount, 1598. Folio.
The first edition of one of the best Dictionaries of Shakespeare's
time.
This volume is of peculiar interest from the fact that it was
purchased on publication by Sir George Carew, of Clopton House.
Stratford-upon-Avon, (afterwards Ix)rd Carew of Clopton and Earl
ofTotnes) who married Joice, eldest daughter of William Clopton,
of Clopton, Esq., Maj- 31, 1580. Carew's autograph signature
appears on the title page with the date 1598. By the Corporation
Charter of July 23. 161 1, Sir George was appointed to be the first
High Steward of Stratford-upon-Avon ; he died in theSavoy build-
ings, London, March 27, 1629, and was buried in the family vault
of theCloptons at the cast end of the North aisle of Stratford-upon-
Avon Church, May 2, 1629. It would appear that Sir George
presented, in 161 1. the volume to his private secretary. Sir Thomas
Stafford, whose autograph signature, with that date, is on the
title page below that of Carew.
/Purchased, July, 1904.
162. — Two-handed sword of state, 4 ft. 10 in.
long, formerly borne before the High Bailiffs and
Mayors of Stratford-upon-Avon ; in a scabbard of red
leather bound with brass, i6th century.
John Shakespeare, the poet's father, filled the oflice of High
Bailiff for one year, viz., 1568-9.
Presented by the Curi'or.\tion of Strati-ord-
I'POX-.AVON.
163. — A ponderous halberd-head of the time of
Queen Elizabeth, 13?. in. long and weighing 3lbs. 4A0ZS.
Shakespeare alludes to the weapon in more than one jiassage
Cf.' Advance thy //(/ //'<'/■</ higher than my breast." — Rich. III. i. 2, 40.
Presented by I . O. H.\i,r.nvt:i.i.-rHn.i.iprs. 1865
6g
No. i6i.
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164. — Iron-bound oak box 11 i in. by jh in. by
5f in., with two locks, said to have formerly belonged
to the Hart family, occupants of the Birthplace, and
the direct descendants of Shakespeare's sister; early
17th century.
Purchased.
165. — An Elizabethan trencher found in an old
house in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Purchased, November, 1903.
166. — Shallow dish, 8^, in. in diameter, with
indented edges, and scroll work and figures in yellow
and blue on a white ground, in the centre a winged
cupid ; Italian, i6th century.
Bequeathed by F. W. Fairhoi.T.
167.- -A viatorium, or pocket dial, in brass, of
the Shakespearean period, i^ in. in diameter.
For another specimen see No. 48 above.
Presented by \. Y. Akerman, F.S.A., 1S69.
168. — Plate, 9! in. diameter, with sunk centre
and flat sloping sides: a mounted warrior, in classical
armour, with sword in the left hand, the colours —
blue, green, yellow, and grey. Italian majolica, i6th
century.
Bequeathed by F. W. Fairholt.
169. — A i6th century bullet-shaped iron padlock,
i^ in. diameter, found at Luddington, near Strat-
ford-upon-Avon.
Presented by John Baldwin, Luddington.
1868.
170. — Shallow dish, 7^ in. diameter, with fluted
sides, in the centre a wingle.ss cupid. Italian majolica.
i6th century.
Bequeathed by ¥ . W. Faikuolt.
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1 71. — Dark blue glass jug, 6[ in. high, on it
two hounds chasing a fox, round the neck the date
1599; of German make.
Bequeathed by F. W. FairholT.
172. — A broad bottomed green glass jug, 8 in.
high and 6f in. in diameter at its widest part.
Traditionally known as Shakespeare's Jug, it belonged to
William Hunt, Town Clerk of Stratford-upon-Avon, (born 1731,
died 1783). " Garrick sipped wine from this Jug at his Jubilee
in 1769."
Presented by \V. O. Hunt.
173. — Venetian glass jug, 9^ in. high, with
handle and spout, the handle surmounted at the top
by a cock, all uncoloured.
Bequeathed by V . W. FairholT.
174. — A piece of oak cut from the corner of
Shakespeare's desk about the beginning of the 19th
century.
It was acquired by Richard Thomas Tasker, M.R.C.S.,
F.S.A., (born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1819) during his education
at the Grammar School, and treasured by him up to the time of
his death in 1879.
Presented by his daughter , Miss Anne M. Tasker,
Melbourne, Derbyshire, November, 1899.
175. — Goblet, ']\ in. high, bowl y^ in., made
and carved about 1760, by Thomas Sharp, of Stratford-
upon-Avon, from Shakespeare's mulberry tree ; with
bust of Shakespeare, his arms and crest, mulberry
leaves and fruit ; lined and tipped with silver.
Upon the silver rim is engraved : —
"And that I love the tree from whence thou sprang'st
Witness the loving kisse I give the fruit."
3 Henry VI. v. 7.
At one time the property of Joseph Shepherd Munden,
(1758-1832) the famous comic actor.
On a card: — " From this goblet the distinguished Actors named
the Rebellious Eight, i.e. Messrs. Fawcett, Munden, Johnstone,
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Incledon, Holnian, H. Johuston, Pope and Kiiij<ht, were wont [in
1800] at their meetings held to consider the differences subsisting
betwixt them and the Proprietors of Covent Garden Theatre to
pledge the Immortal Memory of Shakespeare."
Presented by Joseph Mayer, F.S.A., to Dr.
Kingsley, at his Mayor's Feast in Septem-
ber, 1868, with a view to its being de-
posited in the Birthplace Museum.
176. — Piece of oak, 4} in. by 2^ in., labelled
"Wood from Shakespeare's Pew (in Stratford Cluirch)
removed in 1839."
The pew stood in the Nave against the north-east pillar.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
177. — A goblet, 7^ in. high and 5] in. diameter,
carved from wood of Shakespeare's mulberry tree,
with bust of Shakespeare, ivy-leaves, etc.
Presented by The Rev. Euas Webb.
178. — A goblet carved from the wood of Shake-
speare's crab tree, fX in. high, bowl 3^ in. diameter.
Purchased.
179. — An inkhorn, of the Elizabethan era.
Presented by W. R. Yardley, Birkenhead.
180. — A portion of an Exchequer Tally, with
inscription, " De Johanne filio Johannis de Repinghal
de arreragiis computi patris sui." (Of John son of John
de Repinghall for the arrears of his father's account).
Cf. " Our fore-fathers had no other books but the score and
the tally:'
2 Henry VI. iv. 7. 37.
Mr. John Courroux, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law,
Retired Assistant Secretary of H. M. Customs, (i June,
'905). writes of the uses of the tally thus :
"The raising of the charge of Customs duties by the use of
Tallies may be described as follows : —
Payment of money for Customs duties was made into the
Exchequer by the proper Accounting Officer, usually the ' Cus-
tomer,' that is the Principal Officer for carrying on and superin-
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tending the business relating to the revenue, who was also, by the
Sovereign's Letters Patent, the Collector of the great and Petty
Customs and of the subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage— sometimes
the Sheriff who was recognized as the Farmer or Collector of the
Revenue. The proper place of payment was at the Receipt or
Lower Exchequer at the Office of the Tellers who entered the sum
paid in a book. The entry was immediately transcribed on to a
Slip of Parchment called the 'Teller's Bill,' and thrown down a
pipe into a place designated the 'Tally Court' where the 'tally'
was struck or levied. A Tally was a square stick of hazel or some
other hard wood, nine or ten inches long, on which at intervals of
numeration, in increasing value from right to left, certain notches
were cut which indicated the sum in the Teller's Bill, a large
notch of one inch and a half indicated One thousand pounds, a
notch of one inch One hundred pounds, and still smaller notches
stood for less sums. The Clerk of the Pells entered the Bill with
the name of the Teller whom he charged with the sum. Such
entry was called the ' Pell of Receipt.' and the Tail}' writer wrote
the sum on the two sides of the stick of wood which was then
cleft from the head to the shaft through the notches, one half
called the -Tally' being retained at the Exchequer by the
Chamberlains, the other half called the ' Counter Tally ' or ' Foil '
being delivered to the person paying in the money as his dis-
charge in the Exchequer of Account. On every occasion of pay-
ment by the proper officer of his account into the Receipt these
two halves were brought together, and the new Entry was re-
corded by new notches across the cleft. The two pieces were then
separated and dealt with as before, but they were again connected
at the completion of the Officer's Account when the two halves
in order to be a valid check, were required to correspond, cut for
cut, and letter for letter.
Tallies were dispensed with by Statute 23 Geo. IIL, c. 82,
Sec. 2., and indented checks were substituted as receipts. The
system, however, continued until 1826 on the death of the last of
the Chamberlains of the Exchequer. In 1834 an order was issued
for the destruction of the returned Tallies, and they were utilized
as fuel for the stoves of the House of Lords, but the too extrava-
gant use of them overheated the flues and resulted in the burning
of the Houses of Parliament."
Presented by John L.\nk, Old Town, Stratford-
upon-Avon, 1880.
181. — Large silver extinguisher suniiouiited
by an eagle " found in an oxidized state in a house in
the Old Town formerly belonging to the Clopton
Family : " about 1700.
Purchased.
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Stone drinking jugs of the Shakespearean
PERIOD, (nos. 182-91).
The so-called "Bellarmine" or "Bartmann" Jujifs, Nos.
186-8, were made at Frechen, near Cologne, and largely used for
the export of Hollands or Dutch spirits in Shakespeare's time.
The other sj>ecimens were made at Raeren, a village in the
province of Liniburg, then part of the Low Countries.
182. — Stoneware jug, blue and grey, 8in. high,
with pewter cover ; about 1600.
18,^. — Blue-grey stoneware cup, without handle.
Sin. high, sin. diameter; in front "ie TENOR ICH
HEB EMPOR " ; about 1600.
184. — Blue-grey stone-ware cup, 3|in. high,
with metal cover ; about 1600.
185. — Brown stoneware jug, 7fin, high, with
cover and mounting of metal ; early 17th century.
186. — Brown stoneware Bellarmine or Long-
beard jug, 5in. high ; in front a bearded head; two
circular bands, one formed of medallions of female
heads and the other chiefly of leaves ; early 17th century.
Bellarmine or Long-beard Jugs are so named after Cardinal
Robert Bellarmine, the eminent Roman Catholic Apologist,
(1542-1621). He was the opponent of the Reformers in the Low
Countries, and met with much derision from the Protestants.
He is said to have been very short, round, and hard-featured ;
hence his name passed to these jugs. They appear to have been
of different sizes, the largest, or "Galonier," contained four
quarts ; the " Pottle Pot," two quarts ; a smaller, one quart; and
the smallest one pint.
"Thou thing.
Thy Belly looks like to some strutting Hill,
O'ershadow'd with thy rough Beard like a Wood,
Or like a larger Jug, that some Men call
A Bellarmine, but we a Conscience ;
Whereon the lewder hand of Pagan Workman
Over the proud ambitious Head, hath carved
An idol large, with Beard episcopal,
flaking the Vessel look like Tyrant Eglon."
The Ordinary, iii. 8. By Wm. Cartwright 1657.
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187. — Greenish grey and brown stoneware
Bellarmine or Long-beard jug, 7|in. high, with a
bearded head in front.
188. — Brown stoneware Bellarmine or Long-
beard jug, I4in. high, and about iiin. diameter in its
thickest part ; in front a bearded head, and a circular
plaque, 3|in. diameter, containing a sheep-shearing
scene ; the surface covered with rosettes in relief, and
medallions with female bust.
189.— Brown stoneware jug, 8|in. high, bearing
the arms of the seven Electors of the Empire —
Bishop of Treves King of Bohemia.
,, ,, Cologne Prince Palatine
,, ,, Mayence King of Saxony
Margrave of Brandenburg
with the date 1603 below the last on the right.
190. — Brown stoneware jug, I3in. high and
9in. diameter; six oval medallions, five round the
middle and one above in front, containing a figure in
ruff and trunk hose, holding in the right hand a purse
and in the left a spear, with the words, " icH BEN
EIN HEBT ICH HAF DEN BUIDEL DOLT " ; On the
rim the words: *' gelderlos ben ich altos" and
" MOETEN SEI WEISSEN ALDEI DIT LEISSEN: P.M. 87."
191. — Brown stoneware jug, lojin. high ;
Herod's banquet; on the front of a building "wiLM
KALES;" on a slab on the right " devnthvidvng
lOHANNis ; " below, an executioner delivering the
head of John the Baptist to Herodias ; on the
extreme right the date 1580.
Bequeathed by F. W. Fairhoi,t.
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No. 192.
192. — An Elizabethan leather bottle.
" the shepherd's homely curds,
His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle.
3 Henry VI. ii, 5, 47.
Presented by Oliver Baker, Edgbaston, May,
1900.
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193- — Centre panel of a chimney piece from a
house in Stratford formerly belonging to the Clopton
family; of walnut wood, ift. 6Mn. by yfin., carved
with fruit and foliage in high relief. i8th century.
Presented by W. O. Hunt, 1868,
194. — A brass snuffer-holder of the Elizabethan
period.
Presented by John Marshall, Chapel Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon, 187 1.
195. — Rapier, of Shakespeare's day, apparently
of German manufacture.
The perforated blade, is 2ft. loj in .long, and engraved on one
side "PEDRO TESCh," and on the other side "an solunGen."
The hilt is of steel, and the leathern scabbard is bound with steel.
Presented by George Chapman, 1866.
196. — A sack-bottle of brown glass, with glass
plaque attached bearing the crest of Partherich of
Clopton.
Presented by Sir Arthur Hodgson, K.C.M.G.
Clopton, 1885.
197. — Photograph, three-quarter length, of
Henry Graves.
Henry Graves, a well-known print-publisher of Pall Mall,
London, was a life-Trustee of Shakespeare's Birthplace from 1879
to his death in 1892.
Presented by Algernon Graves, Pall Mall,
London, 1892.
198. — Photograph of William Oakes Hunt,
with his autograph.
William Oakes Hunt, born at Stratford-upon-Avon, on 26
November, 1794, was Town Clerk of the Borough, in succession to
his father, Thomas Hunt, from 1827 till his death on 16 March,
1873. He actively interested himself in the preservation of mem-
orials of Shakespeare in the town, and was a Trustee of the Birth-
place Trust from its creation in 1848 till his death.
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199- — Photograph of James Orchard Halliwell-
Phillipps, with his autograph.
James Orchard Halliwell, afterwards Halliwell-Phillipps,
who was born in London, on 21 June, 1820, and died at HoUingbury
Copse, near Brighton, 1889, devoted himself to the elucidation of
the life of Shakespeare, and the history of Stratford-upon-Avon. He
was a Trustee of the Birthplace and initiated and successfully
carried through, in 1863, the movement for the purchase, on the
public behalf, of Shakespeare's New Place Estate. This property
now forms part of the Estate of the Trustees of Shakespeare's
Birthplace.
200. — An enlarged photograph (by J. F. Ward,
of Stratford), of Miss Anne Wheler, 13 September, 1870,
aged 88 years, with autograph ; in oak frame, carved
by John Marshall from wood formerly in Shake-
speare's House.
Miss Wheler, who was born 25 January, 1782, and died in
1870, was sister of Robert Bell Wheler (1785-1857) author
of " The History and Antiquities of Stratford-upon-Avon " (1806)
and collector of local deeds and relics. Miss Wheler presented
her brother's valuable collection to the Trustees of Shakespeare's
Birthplace.
201. — Photograph of Charles Holte Bracebridge,
Atherstone Hall, with autograph.
Author of " Shakespeare no Deerstealer. a short account of
Fulbroke Park, near Stratford-upon-Avon." London, 1862. See
No. 248.
202. — Piece of ancient carving, in wood.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
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STAIRCASE.
:o:
203. — An engraved portrait of Sir William
Dugdale, the Historian of Warwickshire, bv Hollar,
1656.
Sir William Dugdale, Garter King of Arms, was born at
Shustoke, near Coleshill, Warwickshire, on 12 September, 1605,
and died at Blyth Hall, 10 Feb., 1686. He published his "Anti-
quities of Warwickshire " in 1656.
Presented by J. Kershaw, 1871.
204. — A view of Stratford-upon-Avon Church
and the Avon from the Bridge, bordered by scenes from
Shakespeare's Plays. Layton sculp.
Bequeathed by V . W. Fairhoi^t.
205. — SHAKESPEARE AND HIS ASSOCIATES :
engraved portraits of the six following persons : —
(1) Shakespeare, after Droeshout's engraving in
the First Folio published by W. Smith.
(2) Edward Alleyn, the actor, from the original
at Dulwich. S. Harding, del. T. Nugent,
sculp., published 7 March, 1792.
(3) Richard Burbage, the actor, from the picture
at Dulwich. S. Harding, del. and sculp.,
published i March, 1790.
(3) Nathaniel Field, the actor, from the picture at
Dulwich. S. Harding, del. D. Gardiner,
sculp., published ist April, 1790.
(4) Henry (Wriothesley), Earl of Southampton.
Shakespeare's patron ; See No. 241.
(6) Pliilip Massinger, the dramatist. C. Grignion,
sculp.
Presented by Henry Graves, May, 1888.
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2o6. — Portrait of Shakespeare, at full length : a
drawing, 2 ft. 3 in. by 10 in., copied " from the original
drawing by Ford Madox Brown."
Madox Brown's painting of Shakespeare was acquired by the
Manchester Art Gallery in 1902.
207- — Portrait of Queen Elizabeth " designed
and engraved by George Vertue" after a drawing by
Isaac Oliver, limner.
Presented by M'RS. Chambers, of Milcote, 1867.
208. — Portrait of the Rev. Stephen Nason, M.A.,
Vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon, 1763-1787 : a photo-
graph by J. F. Ward from a painting by Edward Grubb,
of Stratford-upon-Avon, 7^ in. by 6in.
Edward Grubb (i74o?-i8i6) was a portrait painter of repute,
who lived at Stratford-upon-Avon. See N^o. 2og.
Presented by John Jamrs Nason, M.B., of
ritratford-upon-Avon, grandson of the
subject of the portrait.
209. — A portrait in oils, by Kdward Grubb, of
the Rev Joseph Greene, master of the Free Grammar
School, Stratford-upon-Avon, from 1735 to 1772.
ift. by giin.
Joseph Greene born at Lichfield in 1712, died, while rector
ofWelford, in 1790. On the back of the picture are the inscriptions:
" ICfTigies Joseph! Greene. A.M., Rectoris de Welford, Loniitat
Glocestriens 1771."— "H. Grubb de Stratford super Avon delin,
1783, Anno ..^tal. losephi Greene Rectoris 72."
Presented by ISIi.ss Annic Whf.i.kr.
210. — Mask of vShakespeare from the Monumental
Bust.
.\ lithograph by R. J. Lane. A.R..\.. published by Tho.
Baxter. Worcester, February, 18^3; with facsimiles of autographs
from Charles Knight's " Shakspere, a Biography."
Bequeathed by F. W. F.\irhoi,t.
211. — Coloured Drawing by F. W. Fairholt,
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i862, of Shakespeare's Monument in Stratford-upon-
Avon Church. lofin. by 4fin.
Engraved by Fairholt for Halliwell's Folio Volume edition
of Shakespeare's Works, i6 Vols. (1853-65).
Bequeathed by F. W. Fairhoi,t.
212. — Portrait of George Carew, Earl of Totnes
and Lord Carew, engraved by Van Voerst, about
1630.
For an account of George Carew see note on No. 161.
Presented by Frederick Manning, Leamington,
January, 1862.
213. — Sir Thomas Lucy : a drawing of his bust
from his tomb in Charlecote Church, co. Warwick.
Sir Thomas Lucy (1532-1600) was the owner of Charlecote
House, at the time of Shakespeare's alleged poaching exploit
in the neighbourhood.
The drawing, formerly in the possession of John Payne
Collier, was made \)y Augusta Cole, after a sketch by Fairholt.
Presented by Henry Graves. August 1884.
214. — Two portraits of John Trapp, M.A.,
Master of Stratford-upon-Avon Free Grammar School,
1624- 1669.
One engraving by R. Gaywood, is dated 1654, when Trapp
was 53; the other is dated 1660. Trapp, a distinguished Puritan
scholar, was also rector of Welford 1646-60. He died at Weston-
upon-Avon on 16 Oct., 1669.
Presented by J. O. Hai.i,iwei.i,-Phili«ipps, 1871;
215. — Miniature portrait of Sir Thomas Lucy,
Knight (1585-1640), grandson of Shakespeare's Sir
Thomas Lucy. 4iin. by 3in.
Copied by G. P. Harding, about the year 1820, from the
original by Isaac Oliver in Charlecote House. (See No. 213).
The younger Sir Thomas Lucy was a friend of Edward,
Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
Presented by Henry Graves, February 6, 1889.
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No. 215.
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FIRST FLOOR.— OUTER ROOM.
:o:
2i6. — Address of the " Freie Deutsche Hoch-
stift flir Wissenschaften Klinste und allgemeine
Bildung in Goethe's Vaterhause" at Fraiikfort-on-the-
Maiiie to the Mayor and Council of Stratford, sending
greeting to the British Nation on the Tercentenary of
the Birth of Shakespeare. Dated "am Sonntag
Jubilate" (17 April) 1864.
Engrossed on vellum, with ornamental border, containing
miniatures of Goethe's and Shakespeare's Birthplaces, and the
Arms of the Societ)-. With seal. Frame made of wood taken
from the scion of Shakespeare's Mulberry-tree in New Place
Garden.
Presented h The Frkie Deutsche Hochstift,
FKANKFURT-a-M|
217. — A miniature portrait of William Henry
Ireland, by Samuel Drummond ; painted from life,
on ivory, about 1825. 2Mn. by 2in.
William Henry Ireland (1777-1^35) made himself notorious
as a forger of Shakespearean documents.
Presented h Dr. C. JNI. Inglkhv, 1876,
218. — Wreath of oak-leaves with acorns which
was placed upon a bust of Shakespeare at Frankfort at
the Tercentenary Celebration, in 1864. Artificial,
excepting the cups of the acorns ; framed.
Presented hv The Knci-ish Ci.un at Frankfort,
to be deposited as a memorial in the
Birthplace Museum, 1864.
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219- — " Prologue spoken by Garrick at the
opening of Drury Lane Theatre, 1747," by Dr. Samuel
Johnson ; on vellum, framed.
" When learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes
First reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose,
Each change of main* coloured life he drew.
Exhausted worlds and then imagined new.
Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign.
And panting time toiled after him in vain.
His powerful strokes presiding truth impressed.
And unresisted passion stormed the breast." •
S.\Mr.. Johnson, L.L.D.
Presented hTuv. Rkv. Calkb Whitkfoord, M.A ,
Rector of Bnrford, 2iid part, Salop, 1885
220. — Plaster bu.st of Shakespeare, after the
Chandos portrait, i ft. 9 in.
221. — Engraved portrait of Thomas Amyot,
F.R.S., F.S.A., Chairman of the London Committee
for the purchase of Shake.speare's Birthplace, 16
September, 1847.
Thomas Aniyot (1775-1850) was a distinguished antiquarj",
who took an active part in the work of the Shakespeare, Camden,
Percy, and other literary anil arcluuological societies between
1839 and his death. .SVr Xo. 22g.
Presented by W. H. .Amvot, Jesmond Gardens,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1893.
Early vikws of suakkspkark's birthplace,
xos. 2 2 2-2 28.
222. — Shakesj^t-are's Birthplace. Pencil drawing
from an etching by Colonel Philip De la Motte, 1788.
The Trustees own the coi)pfr plate on which De la Motte
etched tlie Birthplace in I7.S8. Tlie Colonel, an archaeologist of
repute, resided at Batsford, Gloucestershire. His etching of the
Birthplace followed a drawing made in 1769, by Richard Greene,
a w^eil-known antiquary, of Lichfield. .\ reproduction of the
original etching is given on p. x of this Catalogue.
223. — View of Shakespeare's Birthplace, etched
by A. Rider, of Leaniins^ton, 1824.
Presented by Robkkt Birbkck, Birmingham
Deceml)er, 1894.
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224- — Daguerrotype of Shakespeare's Birth-
place, 6^ ill. by 5f in., taken early in 1849 by Joseph
Whitlock, of Leamington and Birminghain, photo-
grapher.
Presented by Sam : Timmins, F.S.A., Arley. 1883.
225. — View of Shakespeare's Birthplace, about
the year 1830.
A copy in water-colour made in 1867 by Charlotte M.
Halliwell, daughter of James Orchard Halliwell [-Phillipps].
Presented hy Miss Charlotte Halliwell, 1867.
226. — Front view of Shakespeare's Birthplace
before the restoration of 1849-50, showing the Swan and
Maidenhead with its brick front and the house adjoining
since taken down ; chromo-lithograph.
Presented by E. W. Ashbee.
227. — A water-colour drawing of the western
portion of the Birthplace, made in 1858.
Presented by R. Phene Spiers, London,
April, 1901.
228. — Shakespeare's Birthplace, in 1871, I5in.
by lo^in.
An oil painting by J. T. Marshall, of Stratford-upon-Avon.
See Nos. 259-01.
229 — The original autograph of the offer of the
Stratford and London Committees " for raising sub-
scriptions for the purchase of Shakespeare's House"
made to George Robins the Auctioneer, of ;^3ooo, "with-
out regard to the Funds which they at present command^
in the confidence that the justice of the Public will
eventually discharge the Committees from the indivi-
dual responsibility which they thus incur"; London,
16 September 1847.
Signed by Thos. Amyot, Tho. Thomson,
Peter Cunningham, W. Sheldon.
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Shakespeare's Birthplace, which, from the time of his death
until 1806, belonged to members of the Hart family, the descendants
of the poet's sister, was, after the death of the widow of Thomas
Court (the purchaser of 1806), put up for public sale in 1847.
The auctioneer accepted ;iC3000 which was offered in behalf of
two committees formed respectively in London and at Stratford-
upon-Avon for the purpose of making the building national
property. Thomas Amyot and leter Cunningham, men of letters,
represented the London Committee ; Dr. Thomas Thomson and
W. Sheldon, the Stratford Committee. Dr. Thomson, thrice
mayor of the borough, died 21 January, 1873, aged 70.
230. — Particulars of Shakespeare's House at
Stratford-on-Avon, for sale by Auction by Mr. Robins,
at the Mart, London, on Thursday, September 16,
[1847] , at 12 o'clock.
This volume contains the original Sale Books which the
auctioneer, Mr, Edmund Robins and his chief clerk used at the
Sale. They are interleaved and contain many MS. notes : Mr.
Robin's preliminary address, in his own hand writing — the bid-
dings for the House, — copy of the sale contract — prices realized
for relics sold immediately after the sale of the Birthplace, etc.
Presented by Mr. Philip S. Robins, 5, Waterloo
Place, Pall Mall, London, April, 1898.
231- — Oak panel, 4 ft. 7^ iu. long by 7 in. wide,
carved with runniug course of leaf and flower pattern ;
from a house in Old Town (the present Avon Croft),
formerly belonging to the Clopton family.
Presented by William Green way.
232.— View of Stratford-upon-Avon Church in
1750, with the wooden spire (cased in lead), and charnel-
house ; in oil. i ft. lof in. by ift. 2\ in. See No. 240.
Presented by Charles Lucy, 1866.
233. — View of Stratford-upon-Avon from the
Cross o' the Hill ; about the year 1750. In oil,
I ft. io| in. by i ft. 2} in.
Presented by Q-aw.z.ns Lucy, 1866,
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234- — View of Clopton's Bridge and Bridge-
town in 1750 ; in oil. i ft. lof in. by i ft. 2^ in.
Sir Hugh Clopton (died 1496) a notable benefactor to Strat-
upon-Avon, constructed the fine stone bridge, on fourteen arches,
at his own expense.
Presented by Charles Lucy, 1866.
235. — Engraved view of " The Alto Relievo in
front of the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall,"T. Banks,
R.A., fecit., Benj., Smith, sculp.; published by John
and Josiah Boydell, 4 January 1796.
Thomas Banks's alto-relievo, which formed part of the
fa9ade of Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, in Pall Mall, London,
is now preserved in New Place Garden.
236. — Arms of the Corporation of Stratford-
upon-Avon, in proper heraldic colours.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
237. — Portrait of David Garrick, engraved by
Valentine Green after the painting by Thomas Gains-
borough (now in Stratford-upon-Avon Town Hall) ;
published April, 1769, by J. Boydell.
238. — A book-case made of old oak timber found
in Shakespeare's House. The contents form a portion
of the gifts of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps.
See No. igg.
The maker of the book-case wasjohn Marshall, local carver
and cabinet maker, who is mentioned at No. 140 above.
Made for the Trustees in 1871.
239. — An etching of Heme's Oak by William
de la -Motte, 1820. 2ft. ^in. by ift. ^in. See Nos. ijo
and 2go.
Presented liy Henry Graves, Pall Mall, June, 1881.
240. — An oil painting of Stratford-upon-Avon,
showing the Parish Church before the wooden spire
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was taken down in 1764, also the charnel house and
" minister's study " over the charnel-house, which was
taken down in 1800. ift. lojin. by ift. z^in. See No .2^2.
Presented by Miss Anne WheIvER.
241. — Two engraved portraits of Henry Wrio-
thesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare's
patron.
(i). From the original of Mirevelt, in the collection of His
Grace the Duke of Bedford. Drawn by R. Satchwell, and engraved
(with permission) by R. W. Sievier. Published June 1st, 1817.
Proof.
(2). The Friend and Patron of Shakespeare. From an
original picture in the collection of the Duke of Portland at
Bulstrode (now at Welbeck). G. P. Harding, Delin. R. Dun-
karton, Sculp. Published 2 May, 1814.
Presented by Sidney Lee, LL.D.
242. — A cast of Shakespeare's monumental effigy
Copy of inscription on back — " Moulded by George Bullock
from the original in the Church at Stratford, December, 1814."
This Cast represents the Bust as painted at Malone's
suggestion, and as it appeared previously to the original colours
being restored in 1861. It was presented by Mr. Bullock to the
Rev. Dr. Davenport, Vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon, whose name is
engraved on the back.
Purchased.
243. — An oil painting on panel, (by a Dutch
artist) called " The Feast of Fools." i ft. 5^ in. by i ft.
The following inscription is at the back : — " Curious
painting of the time of Albert Durer, probably by Ab. Eyck, re-
presentmg a Feast of Fools and Jesters of several noble families."
Francis Douce, in his " Dissertation on the Clowns and
Fools of Shakespeare " (in Illustrations oj Shakespeare, iSoj) gives
engravings of jBgures from this picture.
Presented by J. O. Hai,i,ivi'ei<i,-Phii,i,ipps, 1871.
244. — Lines written by Washington Irving in
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Shakespeare's Birthplace, in the writer's autograph,
viz: —
"Of mighty Shakespeare's birth the room we see ;
That where he died in vain to find we try.
Useless the search :— for all Immortal He,
And those who are Immortal never die.
W. I. Second visit, October, 1821."
Presented by ^A^i: Timmins, F.S.A. 1870.
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FIRST FLOOR -INNER ROOM.
245.— Portrait of F. W. Fairholt, F. S. A.,
half-length, in pencil, A.S. (or S.A.) delin. 5 July,
1847 ; 81 in. by 6J in.
Frederick William Fairholt (1824- 1866) bequeathed his
Shakespearean Collection to the Shakespeare's Birthplace
Trustees.
246. — Engraved portrait of William Whateley,
vicar of Banbury and Lecturer at Stratford-upon-Avon,
set 56. 1639. 4in. by 3|in. See No. 2^y.
Whateley was an eminent Puritan divine, born at Banbury
in 1586; he died there in 1639. He was appointed lecturer of Ban-
bury in 1604, and in 1610 was instituted to the vicarage of
Banbury, which he held until his death. For some time, alter-
nately with other divines of similar Puritan sentiments, he
preached a lecture at Stratford-upon-Avon Church.
247. — God's husbandry : The First Part. Tend-
ing to show the difference betwixt the Hypocrite and
the true-harted Christian. As it was delivered in
certaine sermons, and Is now published. By William
Whateley, Preacher of the Word of God in Banbury in
Oxfordshire. London. Imprinted by Bernard Also/),
for Thomas Man, and are to be sold at his Shop in
Pater-noster-row, at the signe of the Talbot, 1622.
The work is dated " From my Study in Banbury^ April 6th,
1619." See No. 246 and Note.
Purchased.
248. — A miniature in oil of Charles Holte
Bracebridge ; three-quarter length. 5^in. See No. 201.
Presented by ^KTA : Timmins, F.S.A. 1874.
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249- — Original drawing of " Harvard House,"
26 High Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, by Frederick
W. Fairholt, F.S.A.
The early home of Katherine Rogers, who became the
mother of John HarvarJ, founder of Harvard University, Cam-
bridge, Mass., U.S.A. She was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon
Parish Church 25th November, 1584, and was married therein to
Robert Harvard of Southwark, 8th April, 1605. The house was
acquired by trustees for Harvard University in 1909.
Bequeathed by F. W. Fairholt.
250. — A model of Shakespeare's Birthplace,
loin. long and 6in. high.
The handiwork of Hamnet, son of John Marshall, of Strat-
ford-upon-Avon, carver. The boy, born 9 November, 1847, finished
it a fortnight before his death on 20 December, 1864. See Nos.
140 and 2j8.
Presented by Mrs. Marshall, December, 1887.
251-2. — A collection of flowers, in oak cabinet,
illustrating the flora of Shakespeare, pressed and
mounted, with quotations from the plays in which each
particular flower is mentioned.
The Flowers presented by Miss Laura Abell,
Grafton Manor, Bromsgrove, May, igoo,and
the Cabinet by Mr. F. F. Barham, The
Mount, Bromsgrove, May, 1900.
253. — Thk Great Herbal.— The grete Herball
which gyueth parfyt knowlcge and vnderstandyng of
all maner of herbes and theyr gracyous vertues which
god hath ordeyned for our prosperous welfare and helth
for they hele and cure all maner of dyseases and seke-
nesses that fall or mysfortune to all maner of creatures
of god created practysed by many expert and wyse
maysters, as Auicenna and other, &c. Also it gyueth
parfyte vnderstandynge of the booke lately prynted by
me (Peter treueris) named the noble experience of
vertuous hand warke of surgery.
Imprynted at London in South warke by me
Peter Treueris. In the yere of our lorde god. M. D.
xxix., the xvii day of Marce.
A second edition of a work which was long a standard
treatise. The first edition came out in 1526, and the last in 1561.
It was a translation from a French work Le Grand Herbitr.
Bequeathed by Mrs. Beisly, 1896.
254. — turner's herbal. — The first and seconde
parte of the Herbal of William Turner, Doctor in
Phissick, lately ouersene, corrected and enlarged with
the Third parte lately gathered, and nowe set oute with
the names of the herbes, in Greke, Latin, English,
Duche, Frenche, and in the Apothecaries and Herbaries
Latin, with the properties, degrees, and natural! places
of the same.
Here vnto is ioyned also a Booke of the bath of
Baeth in England, and of the virtues of the same with
diuerse other bathes, most holsoni and effectual], both
in Almanyeand England, setfurthby William Turner,
Doctor in Phisick.
God saue the Queue.
Imprinted at Collen by Arnold Birckman, In the yeare
of our Lorde, M.D. LXVIII.
Cum Gratia and Priuilegio Reg. Maiest.
The first part of this work appeared in 1551 and the second
in 1562. Turner dedicates this third and final edition of his hook
to Queen Elizabeth, dating the dedication "From my house at
London, in the crossed Fryers, the 5 daye of Marche, 1568."
Bequeathed by Mks. Beisi.v, 1896.
255. — GERARD'S HERBALL. — The Herball or
general Historic of Plantes. Gathered by John
Gerarde of London, Master in chirvrgerie. Imprinted
at London by John Norton, 1597.
The first edition of the chief work on Botany of Shakespeare's
day.
Pnrcnaied Deckmbkr, 1871.
256. — Select Observations on English Bodies:
First, written in Latine by Mr. John Hall Physician,
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ENGLISH
BODIES:
OR,
Cures boih Empericall and
Hiftoricall, performed up-
on very eminent Per-
(onsindcfjjcracs
Difcalcs.
Firft, Written in Latine
by Mr. JoBnHall Phylician,
living at Stratford apon Avon
in Warvcickc-lhire^ where he
was very famous, as alfo in
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pearts by the fcObfcrvat ions
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dreds of hi?, as choyfefV.
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No. 256.
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living at Stratford-upon-Avon, . . . now put into
English . . . London, 1657.
Theauthor of these notes of medical practice, was John Hall,
(born 1575, died 1635,) who married Susanna, the Poet's elder
daughter, on 5th June, 1607, in Stratford-upon-Avon Parish Church.
Hall practised medicine at Stratford-upon-Avon and the
neighbouring country from the date of his marriage till his death
which took place at New Place, on 25 November, 1635.
Presented by Miss Anne Whei,er.
257. — Select Observations on English Bodies:
by Mr. John Hall, 1657.
Another copy of No. 256, opened at the reference to the
treatment of his wife, Mrs. Hall.
Presented by Samuei. Crompton, Manchester,
May 15th, 1880.
258. — Select Observations on English Bodies :
by Mr. John I^all. Third Edition, 1683.
A third edition of Hall's Medical Notes (SeeNos.z^d & z^^J.
Opened at the reference to the treatment of his only
daughter, Shakespeare's granddaughter, Elizabeth, who became
Lady Barnard. (See No. 271).
In the account of her case her father states "After the use
of these, the former form of her mouth and face was restored
Jan. 5, 1624." He also writes " In the beginning of April she
went to London, and returning homewards, the 22nd of the said
month, she took cold, and fell into the said Distemper on the
contrary side of the face; before it was on the left side, now on
the right." " In the same year she was afflicted with an Erratick
Feaver" but finally "delivered from Death, and deadly Diseases,
and was well for many years. To God be praise."
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
259-61. — Three painting.s in oil, by J. T. Marshall,
of Stratford-upon-Avon. 1871 : —
(259). — Anne Hathaway's Cottage, i5in. by
io|in.
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(26o). — Mary Arden's Cottage at Wilnicote, lyiin.
by I2|in.
The reputed home of Robert Arden (d. 1556) father of Mary
Arden, who married John Shakespeare, in 1557, and was the
dramatist's mother.
(261), — Old Cottages at Bishoptoii, existing in
Shakespeare's time, isfin. by loiin.
Purchased 1871.
262-4. — Three water-colour drawings, of Strat-
ford-upon-Avon, made in 1835, ^Y Celiiia, wife of
Edward Fordham Flower, of The Hill, Stratford-
upon-Avon, which show buildings of Shakespeare's
time.
These three drawings are reproduced on pages 92, 93 & 94.
265. — Wood Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, and
the Market Cross, as it appeared in 1820: drawn and
lithographed by C. F. Green. See page g§.
266. — Three original pencil sketches by F'red-
erick Goodall, R.A. (1822-1903), In one frame:
1. Shakespeare's Birthplace. July, 1848.
2. Anne Hathaway's Cottage. July, 1848.
3. The Shakespeare Tavern, Shottery. July,
1848.
Presented ly The Artist.
267. — Stratford-upon-Avon from the Cross o'
the Hill, done after 1764, when the wooden spire of
the Church had been replaced by a stone one; painting
in oils, io|in. by I2:^in.
Presented by Miss Anne Whelek.
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268. — Pencil drawing of Avon Bank " when
occupied by Mr. Battersbee"; about 1840, 8^in, by 5|in.
This house, north of the churchyard, was ancieutly known as
"the house of St. Mary in Old Town." It was taken down in 1866.
269. — An engraving by John Horsburgh, of
J. M. W. Turner's drawing in 1834, of Shakespeare's
monument, grave, etc., in the chancel of Stratford-
upon-Avon Parish Church.
Published by Robert Cadell, Edinburgh.
Presented hy Henry GRAVES,London, May, 1887.
270. — Water-colour view of Avon Bank, Strat-
ford-upon-Avon, "as it appeared before 1866." 4fin.
by 3iin. See No. 268.
271. — Portrait, in oils, of Dame Elizabeth
Barnard, grand-daughter and last descendant of
Shakespeare.
Baptized 21 February, 1608, she married at Stratford, 22
April, 1626, her first husband, Thomas Nash, who died 4 April, 1647 ;
she married secondly, at Billesley, near Stratford-upon-Avon, 5 June,
1649, John Barnard, Esq., who was knighted by King Charles II.,
in 1661. She died and was buried 17 February, 1670, at Abington,
near Northampton, where her second husband resided.
See No 258.
This portrait, and that of Sir John Barnard (No. 272), were
at one time in the possession of Thomas Hart, fifth in descent
fromjoan, Shakespeare's sister. They were in the Birthplace from
1793 to 1820, when Mrs. Mary Hornby lived in the house. Mrs.
Hornby removed them, with other relics, when she left the house
in 1820. From 1820 these pictures remained in the possession of
Mrs. Hornby and her heirs, and formed part of Mrs. Hornby's
Shakespearean Collection,
Purchased at the sale of the Hornby Coi,i,ECT ion,
4 June, 1896.
272. — Portrait, in oils, of Sir John Barnard,
Knight (1605-1674), Abington Manor, near North-
ampton. See No. 2^1 & Note.
Purchased at the sale of the Hornby C01.1.ECT10N,
4 June, 1896.
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98
No. 272.
99
273- — The Arms of Shakespeare, properly em-
blazoned.
274. — The Armsof Ardeti, properly emblazoned.
The above are the work of H. Foster Newey, 14, ^New
Street, Birmingham.
Presented by Mr. C. Isaac Newey, Sutton Cold-
field, 1910.
275. — Portrait of Shakespeare which belonged
to Thomas Turton, Bishop of Ely, (1780- 1864) ; called
the Ely Palace Portrait.
Painted upon an oak panel in oils. Inscription on top left
hand side. — .^t. suse. 39. X 1603. Framed in old Dutch style.
/*;w^«/'^i/ /i.v Henry Graves, Pall Mall, London,
April 23, 1864.
276. — A View of London as Shakespeare
KNEW IT. — Reprodnction of a View of London, by
C. J. Visscher. a.d. 1616.
This panoramic view of London in Shakespeare's time shows
with great clearness the Globe Theatre on Bankside, London
Bridge, and all the chief features of the City and of Southwark as
Shakespeare knew them. The map was the work of a I'lemish
artist and engraver, named Visscher, and the engraving was first
issued in 1616, which date the plate bears. Only one original
example is now known to be extant. It is in the King's Library
at the British Museum. The present reproduction is published
by the London Topographical Society.
Presented by The London Topographicai,
Society, January, 1910.
277. — An original drawing for a pictnre now in
the Palazzo del Te, Mantna, by Jnlio Romano.
Julio, or Giulio Romano (1492-1546), Raphael's chief pupil,
and at one time head of the Roman School of painting, is
mentioned by Shakespeare and highly commended as a sculptor
in The Winter's Tale V. z. 105: "That rare Italian Master, Julio
Romano."
The artist's versatile accomplishments included skill in
scuplture and in architecture.
Lent by William W.alton, Aldeburgh, Suffolk,
September, 1902.
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No. 275.
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278. — Pliotograph of the proof impression of
Droeshont's engraved portrait of Shakespeare, 1623,
from the original formerly in the possession of J. O.
Halliwell-Phillipps.
This impression of the Droeshout engraving differs in some
details from that ordinarily found in copies of the First Folio,
and shows the picture in its first state. Halliwell-Phillipps' early
impression of tlie enj^raving is now in the library of H. C.
FoJger, Brooklyn, New York. Another early impression in
Malone's copy of the First Folio, now in the Bodleian Library,
Oxford, shows some other differences in the details.
Presented by}, O. Hai,i.iwell-Phii.lipp.s, 1866.
279. — Photograph of the so-called "Darmstadt
Death-Mask of Shakespeare."
The mask (formerly in the Kesselstadt collection dis-
persed at Mainz in 1843) was purchased by Ludwig Becker, of
Darmstadt, in 1847, and is now in the possession of his repre-
sentatives at Darmstadt. The inscription "A" Dni: 1616" is said
to be on the edge at the back. The chain of evidence which
•would identify the mask with Shakespeare's features is incomplete.
Purchased.
280.— "The Sonth East View of Stratford
Church '' ; a sketch in water-colours, " \_Johti\ Jordan
del."
The artist John Jordan, born 1746 and died 1809, was a well-
known antiquary of Stratford-on-Avon, many of whose manu-
scripts belong to the Trustees.
Presented by Miss Annk Whkler.
281. — The chancel of Stratford-upon-Avon
Church, taken before the restoration of 1835; a view
in water-colour; i ft. 5^ in. by i ft, 'l in.
Presented by 'Hv.-SKW Gr.wes, 1886.
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282. — The interior of Holy Trinity Church,
Stratford-upon-Avon, looking east, before its restor-
ation in 1835.
A view in water-colours (varnished) by Charles Barber, a
native of Birmingham, who won much repute as an artist at
Liverpool.
Purchased
283. — The arms of Shakespeare, in plaster,
coloured.
See No. 26 supra.
284. — A cast taken by Bullock in 1814 from the
bust of Shakespeare in the chancel of Stratford-upon-
Avon Church.
This cast was painted by jNIr. Simon Collins, in 1861. It
temporarily filled the place of the monumental effigy in the
Church while the effigy was removed for the purpose of allowing
Mr. Collins to remove the coat of white paint (which had been put
upon the original in 1790 at the suggestion of Edmund Malone),
and to restore the obliterated colours.
Presented by W. O. Hunt.
285. — Rubbing of the inscription on the brass
attached to the stone over the grave of Anne,
widow of William Shakespeare, in the chancel of
Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Transcript.
" Heere lyeth interred the bodye of Anne wife of William
Shakespeare who departed this life the 6th day of August 1623,
being of the age of 67 yeares.
Vbera, tu mater, tu lac, vitamq' dedisti.
Va; mihi : pro tanto munerc saxu dabo.
Quam mallem, amoueat lajjidem bonus angelus ore,
Exeat vt Christi corpus, imago tua.
Sed nil vota valent : veniascito, Christe ; resurget,
Clausa licet tumulo, mater, et astra petet.
Translation by Ribton Turner: —
" Mother (to me) thou gavest thy breast, and milk, and life
Woe me ! For such great gifts I give a tomb !
I would far rather that the good angel should from its mouth
the stone remove
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That like Christ's body, thy image might come forth.
But vain are wishes : ]Mayest thou come quickly Christ (and then)
My mother though entombed, shall rise again and seek the stars."
The inscription may have come from the pen of Dr, John
Hall, husband of the poet's elder daughter, Susanna.
286. — Rubbing of the inscription on Shake-
speare's monument on the North wall of the chancel
of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Made and presented by William Bennett,
Parish Clerk, and Richard Savage,
Secretary and Librarian to the Trustees.
287. — Rubbing of the inscription on Shake-
speare's grave-stone made by Thomas Kite, Parish
Clerk, in 1844.
Presented by Thomas Kith, vStratford-upon-Avon,
i«93-
288. — Oak chair with arms, the back carved
with pattern of vine-leaves, etc.
This chair was described by the donor as "An ancient
chair from the Falcon Inn, liiiiford, called Shakespeare's Chair,
in which the Poet is saiil to have sat when he held his Club
Meetings there."
Presented by Dy.y SIS Dighton, April, 1S65.
289. — Thirteen encaustic tiles (nine in iron
frame and four loose) removed from the chancel of
Stratford-upon-Avon Church in 1835.
The four loose tiles are thus inscribetl —
I. In the centre a rose surrounded by the inscription :
" Menteni sanctam, spontaneuni honoreni Deo et patrie liber-
acionem," i.e. "Tlie holy mind, honour freely rendered to God,
and liberty to the country." The same legend is quoted by Sir
William Dugdale as having been inscribed upon the great bell
given to Kenilworth Church by Prior Thomas Kedermynstre,
elected in 1402. In a little volume of .MS. notes in the British
Museum (Add, MSS. 12, 195) compiled by a XVth century monk, the
legend is mentioned as a charm against fever and other ailments
and its further efficacy indicated by a marginal note " for fyre."
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2. The inscription which dates from the fifteenth century
runs: —
"Thenke . mon . yi . liffe
. eii . endure.
. dost . yi . self
yow . art . sure.
. yow . kepist
yi . sectur . cure.
. hit . availe . ye
but . aventure ''
The modern rendering is : —
" Think, man, thy life may not ever endure :
That thou doest thyself of that thou art sure:
But that thou keepest unto thy executor's cure,
And ever it avail thee, it is but aventure."
The words convey the moral admonition to " work while it is
day," and not defer to the care of an executor those duties of
Christian benevolence, which might be better discharged by
ourselves.
3. On a shield three lions of England passant regardant
(Arms of the Plantagenet kings, surmounted by the inscription
*' Fiat voluntas Dei " — God's will be done.)
4. A chevron between three martlets. This tile was
originally in the pavement of the Guild Chapel. (See Fisher's
Antiquities of Stratford-upon-Avon, plate xx.)
Of the tiles in the frame, two have the single rose inside
the symbol of the Holy Trinity (the interlaced triangle) ; a third
has I. H. C. crowned ; a fourth has a quarter of the double rose.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
290. — Heme's Oak, Windsor Park ; painted by
Francis Nicholson of Pickering, Yorkshire, and London,
from an original sketch of the tree in 1788 ; ift. 9^in.
by I ft. 3^in.
Nicholson, the artist, 1753-1844, was one of the founders in
1804 of the old Society of Painters in Water Colours.
'See No. 130.
Presented by Thomas Francis Dillon Croker,
F S.A., the artist's grandson, London, 1870.
291. — Several specimens of wood from the tree
in Windsor Park, known as Heme's Oak, which fell
down in 1863.
The donor supplied a certificate attesting the genuineness
of the specimens. See No. 130.
Presented by VJuxiK-si Perry, Windsor, 1867.
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292. — Photograph of two adjoining houses,
dating from mediaeval times, — Avon Croft and old
Avon Bank— at Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon ; by
J. F. Ward.
203. — Pedigree of the Shakespeare Family by
A. W. Cornelius Hallen, M.A., F.R.S. (Scot) ; in oak
and gilt frame.
Presented -^j/Evan G. Humphreys (the publisher)
Stratford-upon-Avon, June, 1885.
294. — Letter from David Garrick to Francis
Hayman, R.A. ;
" Mr. Windham is now with me ; we have had much talk
about you and j'our performances and both agree the scheme of
the Six Pictures from Shakespear will be an excellent and advan-
tageous one If you intend altering the Scene in
Lear (which by the bye cannot be mended either in design or exe-
cution) what think you of the following one? suppose Lear mad
upon the ground with Edgar by him ; his attitude should be lean-
ing upon one hand and pointing wildly towards the Heavens with
the other. Kent and Footman attend him and Gloucester comes
to him with a torch ; the real madness of Lear, the frantick affect-
ation of Edgar, and the different looks of concern in the three
other characters will have a fine effect The country
is much alarm 'd by the Rebells ; for my own part I have little
fear of 'em, and intend offering my service as a Volunteer as I
have no other engagement upon me, and cannot be better em-
ploy'd."
Framed and glazed ; together with portraits of Garrick (as
Kitely) and of Hayman, as well as of James Lacy ."ind Edward
Moore, who are mentioned in the letter. Hayman was one of
the original members of the Royal Academy which was founded
in 1768. This letter is dated 1765.
Presented by Henry Graves, 6, Pall Mall,
Ivondon, 1877.
295. — A mezzotint engraving of the face of
David Garrick from a mask taken after death. " Rob.
Edge Pine, pinx 1779. John Dixon, sculp."
Garrick died 20th January. 1779. The painter, Robert
Edge Pine (1730-1788), is credited with four portraits of the great
actor.
Presented by Frederick Haines, F.S.A., 1866.
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296. — Address to David Garrick from the Com-
mittee of the " Society established for the relief of
indigent persons belonging to His Majesty's Company
of Comedians of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane "
(1776), acknowledging his having procured the incor-
poration of the Society by Act of Parliament, and
appointing him Master ; London, 25 ^larch 1777.
Signed by Peter King, John Packer, and others.
With ornamental border including arms and medal of the
Society.
297. — Letter dated, London, 8 May, 1769, from
David Garrick, to the Corporation of Stratford-upon-
Avon, thanking them for electing him a Burgess.
"The freedom of your Town given to nie unanimously, sent
to me in such an elegant and inestimable Box, and deliver'd to
me in so flattering a Manner, merit my warmest gratitude."
The Box referred to was made of wood from the mulberry
tree Shakespeare planted at New Place, and cut down in 1756.
Prese)ited by I\Ir. John Lane, Old Town, Strat-
ford-upon-Avon.
298. — Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy;
(an engraving 8'2 in by 6.| in.) froui the original picture
by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; now in the possession of Lord
Rothschild, Tring Park, Hertford.shire.
Tragedy is represented by Mrs. Siddons, and Comedy by
Lady Inchiquin, Garrick's niece.
Presented by Miss Annk Whki.ER.
299. — " Mr. Garrick as Steward of the Stratford
Jubilee, Septeuiber, 1769"; engraved in mezzotint by
J. Saunders, and published by him 24 June, 1771.
300. — Cast of the face of David Garrick.
Presented by Miss Anne Wheler.
301. — A chair formerly in the Chinese Temple
which was erected in Stratford-upon-Avon at the
Jubilee in 1769, by William Hunt, for the u.se of Garrick
and his friends.
Presented by W. O. Hunt.
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302. — Shakespeare ; a photograph of " the Strat-
ford Portrait." See No. jjo.
Presented by W. O. Hunt.
303. — A copy ill crayon, by Ozias Humphry, of
the Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare, 1783.
The following inscription, in the hand-writing of Malone,
is on the back of the picture : —
" This drawing of Shakespeare was made in August 1783 by
that excellent artist Mr. Ozias Humphry, from the only original
pictiire extant, which formerly belonged to Sir William Davenant,
and is now in the possession of the Duke of Chandos. The painter
is unknown. The original having been painted by a very ordinary
hand, having been at some subsequent period painted over, and
being now in a state of decay, this copy, which is a very faithful
one, is in my opinion invaluable. Mr. Huinphry thinks that
Shakspeare was about the age of forty-three when this portrait was
painted ; which fixes its probable date to the year 1607.
(Signed) Kdmond ISIalone. June 29, 1784.
The original picture is twenty-two inches long, and eighteen
broad." See l<o. 304.
Presented by Hknrv Gr.wks, Pall Mall, London,
April 1864.
304. — " The Chandos vShakespeare."
" traced from the original picture by [Sir George]
Scharf, Nov. 1S63," and lithographed by J. H. Lynch.
Published 23 .\pril, 1S64, by Chapman & Hall.
The Chandos portrait is now in the National Portrait
Gallery, London, to which it was presented by the Earl of
EUesmere, in 184S.
Presented by vSir Georgk Schari", F.S..\.,
Secretary of the National Portrait Gallery,
August 1864.
305. — Shakespeare in his Study ; a copy, in oils,
by Thomas Newland from the original picture by John
Boaden, dated 22 July, 1828.
The painter, John Boaden, died in 1^39.
Bequeathed by F. \V. Fairhoi.t.
306. — Shakespeare : a chromo-lithograph by J.
io8
Vincent Brooks from the Lumley Castle portrait in the
collection of the late Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
The portrait which is said to have been in the collection of
John, first Lord Lumley (died 1609), is of the same type as the
Chandos Portrait. The chromolithograph is dated 1863.
Presented hy Mr. Hogarth, Haymarket Theatre,
April 1855.
307. — Photograph of a Portrait, which was
iiiscovered during the last century, in Southwark, and
is considered by some to be a likeness of Shakespeare.
Presented by Mrs. H.a.rrison Gray Otis, Boston,
U.S.A., 1870.
308. — Portrait in oil, on panel, g^in by yin., said
to be of Shakespeare, and to be painted by Zucchero.
Many 17th century portraits, which are said to represent and
to be by Zucchero are extant. None are genuine. Of this painting
the donor wrote, "This portrait has been for many years in
private hands; having passed successively by gift, into the
possession of its present owner from a barrister (well known in
nis day as a judicious collector of Paintings), a colonel of dis-
tinction in the army, and a beneficed clergyman."
Presented by The Rev. Thomas Rees Medwin,
Head Master of Stratford-upon-Avon Gram-
mar vSchool, 1843-1868.
309. — Milton's Epitaph on Shakespeare, 1630;
engrossed on vellum by Culleton ; in carved oak frame.
Presented by The Rev. Caleb Whitefoord, M.A.,
Oxon, Rector of Burford, and part, Salop,
1885.
310. — Engraving of the .so-called Jansen portrait
of Shakespeare.
A bust, in rufT, and embroidered jerkyn, with date
"^546, 1610"; engraved by R. Dunkarton "from an original
picture formerly in the possession of I'rince Rupert, now in the
collection of Archibald, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon." etc.,
published by S. Woodburn, London, 181 1.
On the back are the following inscriptions, " Purchased by
me at the sale of Sydney, Lady Morgan's property, after her
death.— S. C. Hall" ; and " Given to me by S. C. Hall as a memorial
of Lady Morgan, July 1859. -F. W. Fairholt."
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The original picture, assigned to the Flemish painter
Jansen or Janssens, belonged before it passed to the Duke of
Hamilton, to Charles Jennens of Gopsall, who had it engraved, in
1770, by Richard Earlom. The picture now belongs to Lady
Guendolen Ramsden, of Rulstrode.
Presented by F. W. F^irholt, F.S.A.
311. — A miniature picture of David Garrick, by
Benjamin West, R.A.
Benjamin We^t (1738-1S20) became President of the Royal
Academy on the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792.
Presented by J. O. HALLnvELL-PniLUrPS, 1879.
312. — A miniature portrait, in oils, on copper, of
William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer of
Queen Elizabeth.
Presented by Wright Wilson. ^ F.R.C.S.,' .Bir-
mingham, August 1901.
313. — A photographic copy and translation of
part of a View of Frankpledge, Stratford-upon-Avon^
dated 29 April 1552, recording that John Shakespeare,
■with others, was fined for having made a dirt heap in
Henley Street.
The original is in the Fublic Record OfTice.iLondon.
Presented ly Thk Misses Stokes & Cox, Lincoln
Chambers, 75, Chancery I.ane, London,
September, 1905.
314. — Three photographs of the Shakespearean
entry in an account book of the household expenses
at Belvoir Castle, of the Earl of Rutland, 1613.
The entry shows that "Mr. Shakespeare" and "Richard
Burbadpe " the actor were, on 31 March, 1613, each paid the sum
of 44 shillirgs by the Flarl of Rutland's steward for services
rendered in devising and making an " impresa," or semi-heraldic
pictorial badge with motto, which adorned the F'arl's shield and
equipment at the spectacular tournament at Whitehall, on the
preceding 24 March.
Reproduced in 1906 by permission of the Duke of Rutland, K^G»
Purchased, February, 1906.
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315. — Framed engraved composite portrait of
Shakespeare.
Presented by the engraver, C. W. Sherborn, R.E.
London, 1893.
316. — The Birthplace Library Bookplate, de-
signed and engraved by C. W. Sherborn, R.E.
Reproduced on the back cover of this catalogue.
317. — Engraved portrait of Shakespeare by
William Marshall, prefixed to Shakespeare's Poems^
1640.
A facsimile, from Wivell's Inquiry into the Shakespeare
Portraits, 1827. Marshall followed the " Droeshout " engraving
in the First Folio of 1623.
318. — A LETTER ADDRESSED TO SHAKESPEARE
BY A STRATFORD FRIEND. — Original letter from Richard
Quyney to his " Loveinge good Frend and contrey-
mann mr. Wm. Shackespere," reqnesting a loan of ;^3o ;
dated " From the Bell in Carter Lane (London) the
25th October, 1598."
This is the only letter addressed to Shakespeare known to
be in existence.
The writer, Richard Qiiiney, a close friend ol the dramatist,
was twice chosen Bailiff of vStratford, in 1592 and in 1601 ; he died
during his second term of ofBce. His elder son, Thomas, married
the poet's younger daughter, Judith, on 10 February, 1616.
Literal transcript.
" Loveinge Contreyman I am bolde of j'o* as of a ffrende,
craveinge yo"' helpe w'h xxxll vppon m' Bushells and my
securytee or m' Myttons w'h me m' Rosswell is nott come to
London as yeate & I have especiall cawse, yo" shall ffrende me
muche in helpeinge me out of all the debettes I owe in London I
thancke god & muche quiet my niynde w'=h wolde nott be
indebeted I am nowe towardes the Cowrte in hope of answer for
the dispatche of my Buysenes yo"^ shall nether loase creddytt nor
monney by me the Lorde wyllinge & nowe butt perswade yo^'^selfe
see as I hope & yo" shall nott need to feare butt w'h all hartie
Ill
thanckefullenes I wyll holde my tyine & content yo»' fTrende &
yf we Bargains farther yo'" shalbe the paie m' yo^^self. my tyme
biddes me hasten to an ende & soe I committ thys [to] yo"' care
& hope of yo"' helpe I feare I shall nott be backe thys night
ffrom the Cowrte,— haste, the I/)rde be w'h yo" & w'h vs all amen,
ffrom the Bell in Carter Lane the 25 octobr 159S.
YQwrs j„ all kyndenes
Rye. Quyney.
(Addressed.) To my Loveinge good ffrend
& contreyniann m"^ w'"
Shackespere dlr. thees
Armorial seal. On a bend three trefoils slipped.
Presented by Miss Axxk \Viiki,i;r.
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No. 318 (ii).
319. — Petition for relief from taxation from the
Borough Town of Stratford-upon-Avon to the Court
of Exchequer, 1598.
(1598). Draft of the petition taken by Richard Quiiiey on
behalf of the Baileefe, Aldermen and Burgesses of liyr nia''"
Borrowghe Towne of Stratforde-v])pon-Avon to the Court of
Exchequer, for relief " in regarde of the darthe ofcorne, w^h by
the Lordes hand is layed vppoii or lande and vppon o' cowntye
mor then manye others ; " the conunandnient " to restrayne nialte
makeing generaly," which the inhabitants " arr not liable to
indwer in that o' towne hath noe other especiall trade, havinge
therbye onlye tynie beyownde mans memorye lyved by excer-
syseng the same, o' howses fytted to noother vses, manye servantes
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amonge vs hyered onlye to that purpose " ; " o" townewanting the
helpe of commons to keepe any cattle towardes o' sustenance
and besydes thatt we have eiiduered greate losses by twoe extreenie
fiers wch hathe niightely decayed o' saved towne haveing lUirnt
in the 36 and 37 of hyr hig: raigne 120 dwellinge howses and con-
sumed 12000" & vppwardes in goodes, be nieanes whereof we have
400 poore people that ly ve onlye vppon releeve att o' doores in thatt
o' habilytes cannot better provyde for them ; " finally it is asked
"thatt in consyderatiou hereof hitt might please yo"" Ho: to en-
large vs w'h some Toleration to yo"'ho: best beseeminge & to
Leav the allowance vnto vs adioyninge S' Ed : Grevyle w'h vs thatt
it may the better appeare we desyer to satisfie thatt beseenieth o'
dweties to yo* & o' contrey & savegarde of o' poore neighbors
estates wherevnto we are allsoe bownde, & thatt it might please
yo" allsoe to geve order to o' Justices for the cowntie to restraine
all farmers & husbandemen inhabitinge in o' cowntrye nott to
converte ther owne Barley into mawlte as they have done & doe
to the greate hyndrance of all o' marketles & the vtter spoyle of
o' towne."
The Draft is in Richard Quiney's handwriting. For an
account of the writer see note on No. 318.
In the Wheler Papers, vol i, No. 44, is a contemporary Copy
of the Warrant of Queen Elizabeth, dated at Westminster, 27
Jan. Ao. 41 (1599), releasing the inhal)itants of the "ancient
Borrough " of Stratford-uj)on-Avon, from the payment of six
fifteenths and tenths and of three subsidies granted her by parlia-
ment in 1597-8.
320. — Transcript and translation of a letter,
written, in Latin, by Richard Quiney the yonnger to
his father, Richard Quiney, circa 1598.
The Superscription runs —
" Patri suo amaiitissimo Mro. Richardo Quiuye
Richardus Quinye filius S.P.I).
The signature at the end is :
Filiolus tuus tibi obedieiitissimus
Richardus Quinye."
The letter runs in English thus: —
"To his most loving father. Mr. Richard Quinye,
Richard Quinye his son bids much health.
With every respect and rather niTection towards you (my
father) I give you thanks for all those benefits which you have
conferred upon me ; also I pray and beseech you that you would
provide for my brother and me two paper book-^. whicli we very
much want at this present time, for if we had them, we should
114
tnily have very much use for them: And moreover I give you
thanks that from infancy, as they say, up to this daj', you
have instructed me in studies of sacred doctrine ; Far be even
vain suspicion of flattery in my words, for I deem not any one of
my friends to be dearer, or more loving of me, than you, and
earnestly I pray that this your singular love may always remain as
ever hitherto, and although I cannot requite your kindnesses,
nevertheless, T shall heartily, from my inmost breast, wish you
all health. Farewell.
Your most obedient little son,
Richard Quinye."
This letter illustrates the familiarity with the Latin language
which was common among Stratford-upon-Avon school boys in
Shakespeare's day, although the style of the epistle suggests
that the writer's schoolmaster had a hand in the composition.
The document was printed from the manuscript for the first time
by Edmund Malone, in his " Life of Shakespeare " (Variorum
Edition, 1821, Vol. ii. p. 564), but the original letter cannot at
present be traced. Richard Quiney, the boy writer, was second
son of Richard Quiney, the author of the letter to Shakespeare
noticed above (No. 318). The boy was baptised in Stratford-upon-
Avon Church, on 8 October, 1587, and was doubtless just eleven
years of age at the time of writing. The present letter which is
undated, was probably addressed by the son to his father in
October, 1598, when the elder Quiney was in London, transacting
business in behalf of the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon.
The writer subsequently became a citizen and grocer of London
but maintained relations with Stratford, where he married 27
August, 1618, Elianor, daughter of John Sadler. He joined a
brother-in-law, also John Sadler, who was like himself a citizen
and grocer of London, in presenting to the Corporation of Stratford
22 August, 1632, " two fayre gilte maces " which are still in use.
321-3 — Photographic facsimiles of entries in
Stratford-upon-Avon Parish Register, respecting
Shakespeare's friend, Richard Quiney (who died
bailiff of the town in 1602) and his two sons, Richard
and Thomas.
(321).— The Baptism of " Richard sonne to Richard
Queeny." 8th October, 1587. See No. j20.
(322).— The Burial of " Mr. Richard Quiney,
Bailey of Stretford," 31 May, 1602. See No. j/8.
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(323).— The Marriage of " Tho. Queeny tow
Judith Shakespeare," lo February, 1615-16.
The bride was Shakespeare's j'ounger daughter and four
years her husband's senior.
Reproduced by pei'inission oj the Rev. W. G.
MelviIvLE, M.A., Vicar of Stratford-upon-
Avon, 19 10.
324. — Facsimile Heading of the first page of an
Account of Thomas Quiney, Judith Shakespeare's
husband, as Chamberlain of the Borough of Stratford-
upon-Avon, delivered to the Corporation in the year,
1623; with facsimile of his signature and monogram,
as well as of a quotation in French with which he em-
bellished the front cover of his account-book.
The French lines in Quiney's autograph were from St.
Calais, a French mediaeval romance, in which they run: —
" Heureux celui cjui pour deveuir sage
Du mal d'autrui fait son apprentisage."
The original manuscript is among the records of the Cor-
poration of Stratford-upon-Avon.
EARLY NOTICES OF SHAKESPEARE AND
HIS WORK, Nos. 325-336.
325. — TRIBUTE TO SHAKESPEARF/S GENIUS IN
1598. — WITS TRE.\SURY. The Second Part. A
Treasurie of Diuine, morale, and Phylosophicall
similies and sentences, generally usefull. But
more particularly published for the vse of Schooles, by
F.M. Master of Arts of both Vniversities. London,
1634. i2mo.
The author of this book, Francis Meres (1565-1646), a
divine and schoolmaster, having graduated at Pembroke College,
Cambridge (B.A. 1587, M.A.. 1591), was incorporated at Oxford in
1593, and became on 14th July, 1602, Rector of Wing, co.
Rutland. There he kept a school until his death, in 1646, at the
age of 81 years.
The second impression of the book, which, on its first
issue in 1598, bore the title " Palladis Tamia. Wits Treasury,
being the second part of Wits Commonwealth. By Francis
ii6
Meres, Maister of Artes of both universities." Shakespeare
figures in Meres's pages as the greatest man of letters of the
day.
Meres's tribute to Shakespeare in 1598 runs thus: —
" As the soule oi Euphorbits was thought to live in Pythagoras ;
sothesweetewittiesoule oi OvidVw^s in mellifluous and hon}- ton-
gued Shakespeare vvitnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lncrece, his
sugred Sonnets among his private friends, &c.
"As Plautns and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy
and Tragedy among the Latines ; so Shakespeare among the
English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for
Comedy, witiies his Gentlevien of Verona, his Errors, his Love
labours lost, his Love labonrs ivonne, his 3Lidsn»i!ners nights dreame,
and his Merchant of Venice : for Tragedy his Richard the 2,
Richard the 3, Henry the 4, King fohn, Titus Andronicns and his
Romeo and Juliet.
"As Epius Stolo said, that the Muses would speake with
Plautns tongue, if they would speake Latin : so I say that the
Muses would speak with Shakespeare's fine filed phrase, if they
would speake English."
Bequeathed by Mr.s. Beisi^v, vSydenham, 1896.
326. — The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. Lon-
don. Printed by Richard Bishoj) and are to be sold
by Andrew Crooke in St. Panics Chnrch-yard Ano D.
1640. Folio.
The volume contains two early notices of Shakespeare in the
capacity of actor. Prefixed to the reprint of Jonson's play of
'■ Every man in his humour. A Comedie. .Acted in the jeere
1598. By the then Lord Cliamberlaiue his vServants." is the list
of " The principall Comedians " where the name "Will. Shake-
speare" stands first.
Again in the reprint of the jilay of "Seianus his fall. A
Tragedie. First acted in the }eere 1603. By the Kings Maiesties
Servants," the names of "The principall Tragedians" are given
thus : —
" Ric. Biirbadge Will. vShake-Speare
.Vug. Philips / Job. Ilcmiiigs
Wil. Sly 1 Hen. Condel
Joh. J^owin ' .\lex. Cooke."
327. — WILIJAM CAMDKN'S MKXTIOX OF SHAKE-
SPEARE, 1603. — Reniaincs of a orrcatcr worke, Con-
cernin<^ Hritaine, the inhabitants thereof, ^h<ir Lan-
guages,, Nuities,, Suniaiiiis^ Empresses^ Wise speeches^
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Poesies y and Epitaphes. At London, Printed by
G [eorge] E [Id] for Stmon Wafersoti^ 1605. 4to.
This volume forms a separately-published appendix to the
standard topographical work entitled Britannia, whigh first
appeared in 1586. The author, William Camden, was the chief
antiquary of Shakespeare's day and the intimate friend of Ben
Jonson. Camden's Reinaines was, according: to the ' Epistle
dedicatorie,' ready for press on 12 June, 1603. Under the heading
of ' Poems,' Camden wrote at page 8 :
" These may suffice for some Poeticall descriptions of our
auncient Poets ; if I would come to our time, what a world could I
present to you out of Sir Philipp Sidney', Ed. Spencer, Samuel
Daniel, Hugh Holland, Ben : Johnson Th. Campion, Mich. Drayton,
George Chapman, John iMarston, William Shakespeare, and other
most pregnant witts of these our times, whom succeeding ages may
justly admire."
328. — MICHAEL iDRAYTON'S TRIBUTE. — The
Battaile of Agincovrt, and other poems.
London, Printed for William Lee, at the
Tnrkes Head in Fleete-Streete, next to the T^Iiter and
Phoenix, 1627. Folio.
In the concluding section of this volume entitled ' Elegies,'
Drayton gives a poetic epistle — 'Of Poets and Poesie ' — which he
addressed to his friend, Henry Reynolds. There, Drayton, who was
born in 1563, at Hartshill, a hamlet near .^.therstoi-.e, Warwickshire,
and was a Warwickshire friend of Shakespeare, apostrophises the
great dramatist thus (p. 206) :
"and be it said of thee,
Shakespeare, thou hadst as smooth a Comicke vaine,
Fitting the socke. and in thj' naturall braine,
As strong conception, and as Cleere a rage.
As any one that trafiqu'd with the stage."
It would seem that Drayton wrote these lines before 1619.
Purchased January, 1909.
329. — THOMAS HEYWOOD ON SHAKESPEARE. —
The Hierarchic of ble.ssed Anj^elLs. the T//etr Names,
orders,, and Offices. The fall of Lncifer with his
Angells Written by Tho : Heyivood. — London. Printed
by Adamlslip, 1635. Folio.
Thomas Heywood, the poet and dramatist, who was a friend
of Shakespeare and of many contemporary men of letters, writes
in the fourth book of this work of the form of honour paid to poets
ii8
in old times, and draws attention to the familiarity with which
poets of Shakespeare's epoch were treated by the public, who
commonly talked of them by their Christian names.; Of
Shakespeare Heywood remarks :
•' Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose inchanting Quill
Commanded Mirth or Passion, was but Will.''
Purchased December, 1908.
329. — SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT'S TRIBUTE, 1 638. —
Madagascar ; with other poems. By W. Davenant.
London, 1638. i2ino.
The author Sir William Davenant or D'Avenant (born at
Oxford in 1606, died in London in 1668), claimed to be Shake-
speare's godson. His father was an Oxford innkeeper, at whose
house Shakespeare often stayed on his journeys to and fro
London. D'Avenant, who won fame as poet and dramatist is
said to have changed the spelling of his name from Davenant to
D'Avenant in order to emphasize his claim to kinship with the
Warwickshire Avon. In this, the earliest collection of his poems,
appears the following on p. 37.,—
In remembrance of
Master William Shakespeare.
Ode
(I).
Beware (delighted Poets!) when you sing
To welcome Nature in the early Spring;
Your num'rous Feet not tread
The Banks of Avon ; for each Flowre
(As it nere knew a Sunne or Showre)
Hangs there the pensive head.
(2).
Each Tree, whose thick, and spreading growth hath made
Rather a Night beneath the Boughs, than Shade,
(Unwilling now to ^row)
Lookes like the Plume a Captive weares.
Whose rifled Falls are steept i'th teares
Which from his last rage flow.
(3)-
The piteous River wept it selfe away
Long since (Alas ! ) to such a swift decay ;
That reach the Map ; and looke
If you a River there can spie ;
And for a River your mock'd Hie,
Will find a shallow Brooke.
Bequeathed by F. W. Fairholt.
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331- — A Hermeticall Banqvet, Drest by a Spa-
giricall Cook : for the better Preservation of the
Microcosme. London, 1652. i2mo.
A jen d'esprit on cookery books, good-naturedly ridi-
culing literary affectations. Eloquence is personified as mistress
of the house, and her servants' various offices are thus allotted :
" Shack-spear, Butler. Ben Johnson, Clark of the Kitchin, Fenner
his Turn-spit, And Taylor his Scullion. All these have their
chamber-doors pester'd with sharking Players, Fidlers, Ballad-
singers, and such like hangers on."
The references to Fenner and Taylor are to two rival
doggerel versifiers, William Fenner and John Taylor, the water-
poet, who amu.sed the town in 1615 by violently attacking one
another in print.
Bequeathed by Mrs. Beisly, vSydenham, 1896.
332. — siK WILLIAM DUGDALE, 1656. — The Anti-
quities of Warwickshire ilkistrated ; from Records,
Leiger - Books, Manuscripts, Charters, Evidences,
Tombes, and Arms. Beautified with Maps, Prospects,
and Portraitures. London, 1656. Folio.
Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686) the great W'arwickshire
antiquary, gives under the heading, 'Stratford-upon-Avon,' an
account of Shakespeare's monument and tomb-stone with plate
by Hollar. He concludes his description of the borough with
these words (p. 523): —
"One thing more, in reference to this antient Town
is observable, that it gave birth and sepulture to our late famous
Poet IVill. Shakespere, whose monument I have inserted in my
discourse of the Church."
Under date 1653, in the Diary ot Sir William Dugdale,
(first published in 1827. p. 99), the antiquary makes the entry,
" Shaicespeares and John Combes Monuments, at Stratford-super-
Avon, made by one Gerard Johnson."
Purchased.
333. — fuller's BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICK in his
Worthies of England. London [662. Folio. The
first edition.
In this work (liegun about 1643), Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
a literary divine of great repute, attempted the first biographical
notice of Shakespeare. Fuller's notice includes these sentences :
*' William .Shakespeare was born at Stratford-on-.\von. in this
County [Warwickshire] in whom three eminent poets [Martial,
I20
Ovid, and Plauliis] may seem in some sort to be compounded . ..
Add to all these that thoufjh his Genius g;enerally was jocular and
inclining him to festivity, yet he could when so disposed be
solemn and serious, as appears by his Tragedies He was
an eminent instance of the truth of that rule, Poeta non fit sed
nascitur ; one \s not r/un/e hut dorn a Poet Many were the
wit-combats betwixt him and Ben. Jonson, which two I behold
like a vSpanish great galleon and an English man of war; ISIaster
Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning, solid but
slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the ICnglish man-
of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all
tides, tack about, and take advantageof all winds by the quickness
of his wit and invention He died Anno Domini i6[i6], and
was buried at Stratford-upon-Avon, the Town of his Nativity."
Purchased, April, igc^g.
334. — JOHN AUBREY'S NOTICES ill hi.s ' Brief
live.s,' chiefly of contemporaries, .set down between the
years 1669 and 1696.
Jolin Aubrev, the Oxford antiquary and gossip (1626- 1697)
collected information about Shakespeare and ether men of letters
in manuscript notes which are in the Bodleian Library. Oxford.
They were first printed imperfectly at the end of a book called
"Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries." Oxford, 1813. They were first fully
edited from the author's MS.S. by the Rev. .Andrew Clark,
Oxford, Clarenden Press, 1898. Aubrey based part of his inform-
ation respecting the ])oet on reports communicated to him by
William Beeston (d. 1682), an aged actor, whom Dryden called 'the
chronicle of the stage,' and who was doubtless a trustworthy
witness.
In his account of Sir William Davenant, Aubrey writes
(vol. I, p. 204)—" Mr. William v'^hake.speare was wont to goe into
Warwickshire once a yeare, and did commonly in his journey
lye at this house [the Crowne Taverne] in Oxon, where he was
exceedingly respected. I have heard Parson Robert Davenant
[Sir William Davenant's brother] say that Mr. W. Shakespeare
has given him a hundred kisses."
Of Shakes]>earc himself Aubrey records (vol. II. p. 225)
"Mr. William Shakespear was borne at vStratford-upon-Avon, in
the county of Warwick : his father was a butcher, and I have been
told heretofore by some of the neighbours, that when he was a boy
he exercised his father's trade, but when he kill'd a calfe he would
doe it in a high style, and make a speech. There was at that time
another butcher's son in this towne that was held not at all inferior
to him for a naturall witt, his accjuaintance and coetanean, but
dyed young. This William, being inclined naturally to poetry and
acting, came to London, I guesse, about 18, and was an actor at
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one of the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well. He
began early to make essayes at draniatique poetry, which at that
time was very lowe, and his playes tooke well. He was
a handsome well shap't man, very good company, and of a very
readie and pleasant smooth witt. The humour of ... . the
constable, in A Miiisomer nii^ht's Dreame, he happened to
take at Grendon, in Rucks, -I think it was Midsomer night that
he happened to lye there — which is the roade from London to
Stratford, and there was living that constable about 1642, when I
first came to Oxon. Mr. Josias Howe is of that parish, and knew
him. Hen Johnson and he did gather humours of men dayly wher-
ever they came. One time as he was at the tavern at Stratford
super Avon, one Combes, an old rich usurer, was to be buryed, he
makes there this extemporary epitaph.
Ten in the hundred the Devill allowes,
But Combes will have twelve, he sweares and vowes:
If any one askes who lies in this Tombe,
" Hoh ! " quoth the Devill, " 'Tis my Jolin o Combe."
He was wont to goe to his native countrey once a yeare. I
thinke I have been told that he left 2 or 300 //. per annum there
and thereabout to a sister, (vide his epitaph in Dugdale's War-
wickshire). I have heard Sir William Davenant and Mr.
Thomas Shadwell (who is counted the best comredian we have now)
say, that he had a most prodigious witt, and did admire his natural!
parts beyond all other dramaticall writers. He was wont to say
(B. H. Johnson's I iidencoodsj that he 'never blotted out a line
in his life'; sayd Ben Joiison, 'I wish he had blotted out a
thousand.' His conucdies will remaine witt as long as the
P^nglish tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum ;
now our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons
and coxcombeities, that twenty yeares hence they will not be
understoo<l.
Though, as Ben Johnson sayes of him, that he had but little
Latine and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well, for he
had been in his younger yeares a schoolmaster in the countrey.
From !Mr. Beeston."
Purchased \\\ 1909.
335. — ?:inV.\RD PHH.IJPS'S THEATRUM POET-
ARUM. — A Complete Collection of the Poet.s, E.speci-
ally The most Eminent, of all Age.s With some
Observations and Reflections npon manvof them, parti-
cularly those of our own nation, Together with a
Prefatory' Di.scourse of the Poets and Poetr}' in Generall.
London, 1675. i2mo,
Edward Phillips (1630-1696). the author of this compilation,
was nephew and pupil of the poet Milton, many of whose
poetical opinions be reproducett in this volume. In the Pre-
122
face, Phillips remarks, — " let us obseii>e Spencer with all his
Rustic, obsolete zvords, zvith all his rous:h-heivn cloivterly Verses;
yet take him throuf^hout, and we shall find in him a grace-
full and Poetic Majesty : in like manner Shakespear, in spight
of all his unfiled expressions his rambling and indigested Fancys,
the laughter of the Critical, yet must be confessH a Poet above many
that go beyond him in Liteiature some degrees. ''
Phillips's observations upon Shakespeare on p. 194 are :
''William Shakespear, the Glory of the Phiglish Stage;
whose nativity at Stratpord upon Avon, is the highest honour that
Town can boast of : from an Actor of Tragedies and Comedies, he
became a Maker ; and such a Maker, that though some others may
perhaps pretend to a more exact Decorum and ceconomie, especially
in Tragedy, never any express't a more lofty and Tragic heighth ;
never any represented nature more purely to the life, and where
the polishments of Art are most wanting, as probably his Learning
was not extraordinar}', he pleaseth with a certain wild and native
Elegance ; and in all his Writings hath an unvulgar style, as well
in his Venus and Adonis, his Rape of Luciece ami other various
Poems, as in his Dramatics."
Phillips also remarks of Ben Jonson that "he was no
Shakesphear." Of Marlowe he says that he was "a kind of a
second .S'Aayt^5;f>/ri!'rt;'(whose contemporary hewas)." Again Phillips
notes of Fletcher that he was •' one of the happy Jriumvirate
(the other two h^\\\^ Johnson and Shakespeare) of the chief dramatic
Poets of our Nation, in the last foregoing Age, among whom
there might be said to be a symmetry of perfect, while each ex-
celled in his peculiar way : Ren Jonson in his elaborate poems
and knowledge of Authors, Shakespear in his pure vein of wit
and natural Poetic heighth, Fletcher in a Courtly PUegance, and
gentile familiarity of style, and withal a wit and invention so
overflowing, that the luxuriant branches thereof were frequently
thought convenient to be lopt off by his almost inseparable
Companion Francis Beaumont."
Purchased.
336. — WILLIAM WINSTAXLEV'S NOTICE of 1684 —
The Lives Of the iiicst Famous English Poets or the
Honour of Parnassus. London, 1687, 12 mo.
W'illiam Winstanley, of Safl'ron Walden, Esst-x (1628-1698)
was an industrious compiler of biographies, and devised the first
' Poor Robin ' Almanacks. His account of Shakespeare in this
volume boldly plagiarizes Fuller's and Phillips' earlier notices,
and liad first appeared in the second edition of ' Winstanley's
England's Worthies' in 1684. Winstanley makes no original re-
marks about Shakespeare, save that the dramatist of vStratford-
upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, was "one of the Triumvirate, who
from Actors, became Makers of Comedies and Tragedies, I'iz.
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Christopher Marloiv before him. and Mr. John Lacey, since his
time." Lacey was a well-known actor ami (Iratnatisl of Win-
stanley's own generation.
SHAKESPEARE'S LIBRARY.
Books with which Shakespeare's Work shows him to
have been fainiliar. Nos.jjj-j-/6.
337 — hounshed's chkoniclks of England,
Ireland, & Scotland. London, 1586. Folio.
This is the second and enlarged edition of the standard
book on linglish History in Shakespeare's era. The first liditiou
appeared in 1578. The compiler and editor, Raphael ilolinslud,
was assisted by William Harrison in his descriptions of Kngland
and Scotland and by Richard Stanihurst in the history of Ireland.
Holinshed dieil about the end of 15.S0, and the new edition was
revised and extende<l and broiight down to date by other hands.
Shakespeare seems to have studied I-^nglish history from this
second edition of Holinshed. He borrowed thence almost all the
plots of his historical plays, often embodying Holinshed s langu-
age. He also depended largely on Holinshed's Chronicle for his
plays based on earlv British or Scottish legemls, viz : — Macbeth,
King Lear and Cyuibeline.
Jkqiieathed by Mrs. Beisly, Sydenham, 1896.
338. — north's tr.'\xsl.\tion of pi.ut.akch's
LIVES. — The lives of the noble Grecians and Roniaines,
compared together by that grave learned pliilo.sopher
and historiographer Phitarke of Clueronea. Tran.slated
out of (ireeke into French by lames Amiot and out of
French into English by Sir Thomas North, Knight.
London, Printed by Richard Field, 1612.
North's great translation of Plutarch's Lives was first printed
and published in Lonilon in 1579, by Thomas VautroUier, whom
Richard Field, a native of Stratford-upon-Avon, served as appren-
tice. Fiehl succeeded to Vantrollier's business in 1587 and he re-
printed North's Plutarch in 1595 and 160^, as well as in 1612; his
issue of the last year is here exhibite<l. Shakespeare was wtU-read
in North's standard version of Plutarch, and <>n it he bases his
Roman tragedies oi Jnlins Qcsar, .in tony and Cleopatra, and Corio-
lanns. North worked not from the Greek original, but from an
admirable French translation.
Bequeathed by Mrs. Beisi.v, Sydenham. 1896.
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339- — Fragments of eight leaves of " A C mery
tah's." A popular jest-book of Shakespeare's day.
Alluded to by Shakespeare in Much Ado about Nothing ii.
i^ 135-
Beat. Nor will j'ou not tell me who j-ou are ?
Bene. Not now.
Beat. That I was disdainful, and that I had my good wit
out of the Hiittdred Merry Tales: well, this was Siguier
Benedick that said so.
There seem to have been many sixteenth centurj' editions
of the book. But of these onlj- one perfect copy appears to have
survived. The unique exemplar, which was " Kmprynted at
London at the signe of the Mermayd At Povvlys gate next to
chepe syde" by "Johannes Rastell,'' 22nd November, 1526, is now
in the Royal Library of the University at Gbttingen ; it was
reprinted in London in 1866.
Presented h }. O. H.-vi^liwell-Phiixipps.
340. — A Merry Jeste of a Shrewde and Curste
Wyfe lapped in ]\Iorrelles Skin for her good Behanyour.
Fragment of a black-letter poem, printed in London about
1550. The only perfect copy is in the Huth Library. .\n imper-
fect copy is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. There are no other
traces known of this earl}' edition. The poem tells the farcical
story of a shrewish wife, whom her husband tames by wrapping
her in the skin of an old ' morel,' or dark-coloured horse. The
wife's character and experience are commonly regarded by com-
mentators of vShakespeare as suggesting to him some touches for
his comedy of The Taming of the Shreio. The poem is reprinted
in ' vShakespeare's Library ' edited by W. C. Hazlitt, Ft I.
Vol. iv. p. 415 seq.
Presented by"^. O. Halliwell-Fhillipps
341. — GIRALDI CINTHIO'S COLLECTION OF
ITALIAN ROMANCES. — Degli hecatommithi di M. Gio-
vanbattista Giraldi Cinthio, nobile Ferrarese. Venice,
1580. 8vo.
This is the fourth edition of a famous collection of Italian
stories, which was first publi.shed in is^is, and was widely popular
under the title of " Hecatommithi," i.e. a hundred tales. The
author, Giraldi Cinthio (1504-1573), a native of I'errara, was a six-
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teenth century disciple of Boccaccio. Shakespeare seems to have
drawn direct from Cinthio's pages the plots of C>///^//c» and J/t'</5«;r
for Measure. The Italian tale of Desdemona's tragic history is
not known to have been translated into either French or English
in Shakespeare's day.
Presented by T. \V. De\v.\r, Sandilands, Lanark-
shire, December, 1908.
342.— THOM.AS WILSON. — The Arte^of Rhetorike
London, 1567. 4to.
For full title see facsimile of title page.
This standard treatise on rhetoric or prose-composition
was first published in 1553, and reprinted in 1562. The pte-
sent revised edition of 1567 was re-issued in 1580, 15.S4 and 1585.
The author, Thomas Wilson (1525 ?- 1 581), held many political
ofTices, and became Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth. He
dedicated his ' Arte of Rheloricke ' to John Dudley, Earl of
Warwick, the eldest son of tlie Duke of Northumberland, who
WHS Lord of the ^lanor of Stratford-upon-Avon from 15^9 till
his execution in 1553. The young Earl of Warwick died the year
after his father. There is little doubt that the volume was in use
iu Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School in Shakespeare's youth.
Shakespeare seems to have drawn many ideas and phrases
from Wilson's pages. Wilson anticipates the character and
language of Dogberry, when citing examplesof the talk of " a good
fellow of the countrey being an officer and mayor of a towne, and
desirous to speak like a fine learned man, having just occasion
to rebuke a runnegate fellowe," (p. 16").
Again, Wilson ofTers logical proof of the conclusion
Slaiinder a greater offence then theft :
"And first he, [the logician] might sliewc. that slaunder
is theft, and that euery slaunderer is a thief. I'or as wel the
slaunderer as the thief, doe take awaie an other mannes possession
against the owners will. After that he might shewe, that a
slaunderer is worse, then any thief, because a good name is better,
then all the goo<ldes in the worlde, and that the losse of money,
maie be recouered, but the losse of a mannes good name, can not
be called backe againe, and a thief maie restore that againe which
he hath taked awaie, but a slaunderer can not giueaman, hisgood
name again, which he hath taken from hym. Again, he that
stealeth goo<ls or catell, robbes onely but one man, but an euill
tongued man, infecteth all their mindes : unto whose eares, this
report shall come.'
Compare lago's speech in Othello iii. 3. 156.
' Gotd name in man auvl voman, dear my lord.
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
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Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.'
Wilson's work also quotes an epistle devised by Erasmus,
which supplies the same argument as that employed by Shake-
speare to persuade a young man to marry, in the opening
sections of the Sonnets.
Bequeathed by Mrs. Beisly, Sydenham, 1896.
343. — ROGER ascham's schoi.emaster. Lon-
don, 157 1. 4to.
For the full title see facsimile of title page.
The work is a practical treatise on education, which enjoyed
great repute in Shakespeare's early life. The first book deals with
education in general, and the second book gives practical rules
and methods for teaching Latin. The author, Roger Ascham, was
Queen Elizabeth's private tutor, while she was princess and queen.
Ascham died in 1568, aged 53, and his ' Scholemaster ' was first
published posthumously in 1570. This is the second edition.
Purchased 1903.
344. — JOHN LYLY'S EUPHUES AND HIS ENGLAND.
London, 1588.
For the full title see facsimile of title page.
This is the second part of ' Euphues,' John Lyly's famous
didactic romance. The affected prose style gave rise to a mode
of talking and writing which was generally known as Euphuism.
The first part ' Euphues the anatomy of wyt,' was first published
in 1579. The sequel or second part, ' Euphues and his England,'
which described the hero Euphues' travels in England, was first
published in 1580. The copy of the latter here exhibited is of the
fourth edition, which is often found bound with an edition of the
first part which came out in 1587. Many later editions of both
parts appeared in Shakespeare's lifetime. Lyly wrote eight light
comedies as well as his romance, and with most of his work
Shakespeare shows familiarity in his plays. He seems to borrow
from Lyly's ' Euphues and his England ' (p. 2) most of Polonius's
advice to Laertes in Hamkt, i, 3, 55 seq. However Shakespeare
may have regarded the moral sentiment of that didactic fiction,
he had no respect for the afTectations of its prose style, which he
ridiculed in a familiar passage in ///p«r)'/K, ii, 4, 445: 'For though
the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet
youth the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears' (Lee's Life of
Shakespeare, 6th edition, 1908, p. 65).
Bequeathed by Mrs. Beisly, Sydenham, 1896.
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345- — GOLDiNG's OVID. — The XV Bookes of P.
Ouidius Naso, Entitiiled, Metamorphosis. Imprinted
[at London by W. Seres, 1567.] 4to.
This is the second complete edition of the standard Eliza-
bethan translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The first edition
came out in 1567. The copy here exhibited is a copy of the
second edition which appeared in 1575. The words (here printed
in brackets) on the title-page of the present copy are a modern
imprint on a corner of the page which has been supplied. The
date has been rightly corrected from 1567 to 1575 by the pen.
Bound in old calf. On the title-page is the inscription William
Smith, 1672.
Shakespeare's work shows much familiarity with Golding's
translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Golding's phraseology con-
stantly reappears in Shakespeare's pages. The ' Lord's ' description
of Daphne ' roaming through a thorny wood,' in The Tamitiffof the
Shreiv. Induction, Sc. 2, paraphrases Golding's Metamorphoses
I. 508-9. Prospero's recantation of his magical powers in The
Tempest, v. i. 33 seq^- '\e. elves of hills,' &c. — echoes Medea's
incantation in Golding's Metamorphoses, \\\. i^"] seq. See " 0\'\<\
and Shakespeare's Sonnets," by Sioney Lee, in Quarteily Revieiv,
April, 1909.
Presented by J. O. HALijWEr,i,-PHirxiPPS, who
upon the fly-leaf, has written: "This
is the edition of 1575. This is one of the
few books which we know for certain was
read by Shakespeare."
346. — FLORio's MONTAIGNK. — The Essay.s, or
Morall, Politike and Millitarie Di.sconr.ses of Lo : M.
de Montaigne. .. .now done into English by.... J.
Florio. London, 1603. Folio.
The first edition of the first English translation of Mon-
taigne's Essays, which was published in London in 1603. The
translator, John Florio, son of an Italian Protestant refugee, was
a prominent figure in London literary circles in Shakespeare's day.
Many passages in Shakespeare's plays show that the dramatist
was well read in Florio's translation of the work of the great
French essayist.
The bookplate is that of Richard Townley, of Townley Hall,
Lancashire, who like many of his family in the 17th and iSth
centuries was a book-collector of note. The stamp on the cover
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Jus voiagc and aducnturcs, mixed with
[iuidne prcticdilcourfcs of honcft (^
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wherein there is finall offence by lightncfl'c
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bears the family motto: 'Tenez le vray.' From the Townley
collection the copy passed to the library of Lord Amherst of
Hackney, whose library was dispersed by sale in 1909.
One copy of this volume in the British Museum Library
bears an alleged autograph of Shakespeare, of which the authen-
ticity is in doubt. A second copy in the same library has a
genuine autograph of Ben Jonson.
Purchased by Thk Trustees, November, 1909.
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BIRTHROOM PORTION OF THE HOUSE.
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THE KITCHEN.
347. — Eight-day clock, mahogany case. Thomas
Sharp of Stratford-upon-Avon, maker.
Purchased at the sale of the effects of Robert
Bell WheiJvR, (historian of Stratford)
in 1870.
348. — An ancient oak dresser.
Presented by Mr. Edward Adams, Stratfonl-
iipon-Avon, 24 April 1865.
BIRTHROOM.
349. — Two carved oak coffers sold out of the
Birthroom, Shakespeare's House, at a public auction,
16 September, 1847.
Purchased from Mr. J. Rochklle Thomas,
London, February 10, 1900.
350. — A carved oak desk-box, formerly in the
College, Stratford-upon-Avon.
For the College at Stratford-on-Avon, .SV^" No. jj.
Presented by Miss Annk Whici.kr.
THE ROOM AT THE REAR OF THE BIRTHROOM.
351. — THE STRATFORD PORTRAIT — .^ portrait
of Shakespeare in oils, on canvas, generally known
as the Stratford Portrait.
This portrait which represents the Poet in the same costume
as in the monumental effigy in the Church, seems to have been in
the possession of the donor's family since 1758.
Presented by William Oakks Hunt, 1864.
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352. — A portrait, in oils, of William Oakes Hunt,
painted by J. F. Ward, 1873. See No. ig8
Presented by ]OHti J. Nason, M.B., J.P., vStratford-
upon-Avon, November 1894.
THE GARDEN DOOR.
353. — Two ancient oak pillars with brackets,
the carving representing a crosier with a lily (enil)leni
of the Virgin) suspended from it, and three crowned
heads, supposed to represent the three Wise Men of
the East who travelled to visit our Saviour at
Bethlehem.
These pillars and brackets supported the upper storey of the
nortli winij of a building called " Avon Bank " (taken down in
1866) adjoining the Churchyard. The old house seems to have
occupied the site of " the house of St. Mary in Old Town," men-
tioned in the Stratford Corporation Records, p. 271, No. 202,
14 Henry IV.
Presented by Charles R. Flower, Avon Bank,
1866.
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CENTRE OF THE GARDEN PATH.
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354. — The base of the pillar of the mediaeval Stone
Cross which stood on the open gronnd beneath the old
Market Honse at the north end of High Street, Strat-
ford-npon-Avon, until that structure was demolished
in 1821.
The stone was at one time in the possession of Captain
James Saunders, the Stratford antiquary, and from his represen-
tatives it passed to Mr. Thomas Heritage, Church St., who sold
it to the Birthplace Trustees, 7 March, 1861.
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