. William Shakespere : a biography. ess of soaking, and scraping, and liming, and softeningby alum and salt. Of such were the large and coarse gloves in use in a ruraldistrict, even amongst labourers; and such process might be readily carried onby one engaged in agricultural operations, especially when we bear in mind thatthe white leather was the especial leather of husbandly furniture, as describedby old Tusser. We may reasonably persist, therefore, even in accord with flesh and felltradition, in drawing the portrait of Shaksperes father, at the time of his marriage,in the free air,—on his h
. William Shakespere : a biography. ess of soaking, and scraping, and liming, and softeningby alum and salt. Of such were the large and coarse gloves in use in a ruraldistrict, even amongst labourers; and such process might be readily carried onby one engaged in agricultural operations, especially when we bear in mind thatthe white leather was the especial leather of husbandly furniture, as describedby old Tusser. We may reasonably persist, therefore, even in accord with flesh and felltradition, in drawing the portrait of Shaksperes father, at the time of his marriage,in the free air,—on his horse, with his team, at market, at fair—and yet a dealer«n carcases, or wood, or wool, or skins, his own produce. He was a proprietorof land, and an agriculturist, living in a peculiar state of society, as we shall seehereafter, in which the division of employments was imperfectly established,and the small rural capitalists strove to turn their own products to the greatestadvantage. ** Vol. V, p. 277- edit. IHiti. A R[00!vA!nY. [Aiuieiil Font, [crnierly in Stnitfoi-a Cluircli.*] CHAPTER 111. THE E E G I S T E R. In the eleventh centur)- the Norman Conqueror commanded a Register to becompleted of the lands of England, with the names of their possessors, and thenumber of their free tenants, their villains, and their slaves. In the sixteenthcentury Thomas Cromwell, as the vicegerent of Henry VHI. for ecclesiasticaljurisdiction, issued Injunctions to the Clergy, ordaining, amongst other matters,that every officiating minister shall, for every Church, keep a Book, whereinhe shall register every Marriage, Christening, or Burial. In the ditierentcharacter of these two Registers we read what five centuries of civilization hadeffected for Ensiland. Instead of beins; recorded in the gross as cofarii or servi, • The history of the old font represented above is somewhat curious. The parochial accouutaof Stratford show that about the middle of the seventeenth century a new font was s
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