. William Shakespere : a biography. ge family of John Shakspere, ten children in all. Ma-lone has established very satisfactorily the origin of this error into which Rowehas fallen. In later years there was another John Shakspere in Stratford. Inthe books of the corporation the name of John Shakspere, shoemaker, can b«traced in 1580 ; in the register in 1584 we find him married to Margery A BIOGRAIlIY. dies in 1587; he is, williout doubt, married a second time, for in , and 1591, Ursula, Humphrey, and Pliihp are born. It is unquestionablethat tliese are not the childre
. William Shakespere : a biography. ge family of John Shakspere, ten children in all. Ma-lone has established very satisfactorily the origin of this error into which Rowehas fallen. In later years there was another John Shakspere in Stratford. Inthe books of the corporation the name of John Shakspere, shoemaker, can b«traced in 1580 ; in the register in 1584 we find him married to Margery A BIOGRAIlIY. dies in 1587; he is, williout doubt, married a second time, for in , and 1591, Ursula, Humphrey, and Pliihp are born. It is unquestionablethat tliese are not the children of the father of William Shakspere. for they areentered in tiie register as the daughter, or sons, of John Shakspere. without thestyle wiiich our John Shakspere always bore after 15G9—• Mayister. Therecan be no doubt that the mother of all the children of Master John Shaksperewas Mary Arden ; for in proceedings in Chancery in 1597, which we shallotice licreafter, it is set forth that John Shakspere and his wife Mai-v, in the. [Tl\e Ctiiux-h Avenue.] 20th Elizabeth, 1577, mortgaged her inheritance of Asbies. Nor can tiiere \wu doubt that the children born before 1569, when he is styled John Shakspere,without the honourable addition of Master, were also her children; for in 1599,when William Shakspere is an opulent man, application is made to the Collegeof Arms, that John Shakspere, and his issue and posterity, might use a shieldof arms, impaled with the arms of Shakspere and Arden. This application(which appears also to have been made in 1596, as the grant of arms by Dethickstates the fact of John Shaksperes marriage) would in all probability havebeen at the instance of John Shaksperes eldest son and heir. Tiie history otthe family up to the period of William Shaksperes manhood is as clear as canreasonably be expected. William Shakspere has been carried to the baptismal font in that fine old churchof Stratford. The thick-pleached alley that leads through the churchyard to
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