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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
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ed, as it was in Stratford, inlater life, that the greater!: achievementsof his genius were accomplifhed. Imagi-nation alone can aid us to picture him at New 262 New Place, New Place when he was comparativelywealthy, able to purchafe property andtythes in Old Stratford, Welcombe, andBifhopton, and to carry on profitabletranfactions in corn or wool. In hishome he had but one child, Judith, whoremained unmarried until the year pre-vious to his death ! Poor Hamnet, hertwin-brother, died the year before theymoved into New Place ! Mrs. Shakefpereand this daughter were his conftant com-panions. His other daughter and herhufband, Dr. Hall, lived hard by, andhad made a grandfather of him whenhe was only forty-four years of age. Agrandfather ! when many Englishmen, asJohnfon exprefTed it, having frifked with the dogs, are only beginning tothink about marriage, now-a-days ! The glimpfes we catch of him as hepaffed along the laft ftage of his life arevery few, and fcarcely take us into his home.
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The Ancient Chalice and Paten of Bishopton, From ivhieh SHAKESPERE is faid to have received the HolyCommunion. (It will be observed that the lid of the Chalice, when Will UC ULOCIVCU llldl LUC 11U Ul U1C V^UcllILC, \\ 1 inverted, forms the Paten, upon the top of whichis engraved the date, 1571). Face p. 262. Stratford-upon-Avon. 263 home. Bufinefs tranfactions connectedwith his purchafes at Stratford or inLondon; the pofTeffion of corn; a vifit toLondon in 1614 to oppofe the enclofureof lands at Stratford,—thefe and a fewother facts of a like character are all the in-formation regarding him that has reachedus. There is infinitely more fatisfactionin mufing over a couple of lines in RowesLife, becaufe their ftatement depends uponBettertons inquiries, made at Stratford afew years after Shakefperes death. Hefpent his later days in eafe, retirement, and the converfation of his friends. The words may be applied to the laftyears both of Shakefpere and of Milton.In retirement and (poor tho

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