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Title: Shakespeare's home at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Bellew, J. C. M. (John Chippendall Montesquieu), 1823-1874
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Shakespeare family Clopton family. (from old catalog) Arden family. (from old catalog) Coombs family Underhill family Hale family Nash family Foster family Hathaway family
Publisher: London, Virtue brothers and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Stratford and Lon-don ; making of bridges and highways;founding exhibitions at Oxford and Cam-bridge ; leaving money for poor prifoners, money 56 New Place, money to hofpitals, to the Mercers Com-pany, and to ye parfon of ye parifh where he lived (a wholefome cuftomthat has Angularly fallen into defuetude).After all legacies and expenfes are paid,he leaves the relidue of his goods andchattels to repairing decayed churches/ mending bridges and highways, main- taining poor children at fchool, and inportioning honeft maidens. This charitable Gent, died a Batcheler, 15th Sept., 1496, and was buried in St.Margarets Church, Lothbury. The ancient and beautiful altar-tombamong the Clopton monuments in Strat-ford Church, without any effigy, but withquatrefoil panels, originally fitted witharmorial bearings in brafs, is moft pro-bably erected to his memory, becaufe itftands on the precife fpot where, accord-ing to his will, he directed that he mouldbe buried, had he died at Stratford; and alfo
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Stratford-upon-Avon, $j alfo becaufe the arms carved in the archabove it are thofe of Sir Hugh, difplayedwith the arms of the Corporation ofLondon, of which he was Lord Mayor,of the Mercers Company, and of the WoolStaplers, to all which bodies he belonged.In corroboration of this probability,which might be pretty fafely afferted asfact, any vifitor to the Guild Chapelmay obferve on the face of the porch-way, over the arch, a feries of fhields, inrecefTes. It has been already mown thatthis portion of Holy Crofs—the nave andporch—were rebuilt by Sir Hugh Clopton.Accordingly, among the fhields we find,iimilar to the fhields over the monument inthe church, the arms of the City of Lon-don, the arms of the Wool Staplers, and thearms of Clopton, quartered with Cockfield(Clopton quartering, a Crofs patee, fitcheein the foot; Cockfield, a lion rampant).* The * Appendix E. 58 New Place, The quarterings agreeing precifely withthe difplay in the Vifitation of Warwick- mire, and therefore fome

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