. St. Nicholas [serial]. o chamberlains towhom the towns finances were intrusted. But when Will was thirteen. John Shakespeares longer attended service in the parish church forfear some process-server there might hand hima warrant summoning him to court: he was writ-ten down recusant A Actions for debt againsthim were sustained in the local courts; when theytried to levy on his effects, no property was to befound; he was removed from the list of alder-men; Wills schooling came to an end; so do thefacts. In 1582, Will married Anne Hathaway. This much we know to be true; but for sometime the res
. St. Nicholas [serial]. o chamberlains towhom the towns finances were intrusted. But when Will was thirteen. John Shakespeares longer attended service in the parish church forfear some process-server there might hand hima warrant summoning him to court: he was writ-ten down recusant A Actions for debt againsthim were sustained in the local courts; when theytried to levy on his effects, no property was to befound; he was removed from the list of alder-men; Wills schooling came to an end; so do thefacts. In 1582, Will married Anne Hathaway. This much we know to be true; but for sometime the rest is tradition, or legend. Traditionalleges that Will had led a rather wildish youth,and that, in or about 1584, his boyhood life inStratford came to a sudden, tempestuous close. The legend, which you have heard often andoft, declares that he got into trouble, poachingon Sir Thomas Lucys estates, and fled to escapeprosecution. Old legends affirm some curious things, to whichwise men pay little attention; but this one ap-. SHAKIiSPEARE S BIR THPLACE AT STRATEORn-ON-AVON. fortunes fell away. A mortgage was put on themothers farm, in security for a loan from herbrother-in-law, Edmund Lambert, who promptlyforeclosed the lien. John Shakespeare never prospered again; hisdifficulties increased; he plunged deeper anddeeper in debt; was more deeply drawn in by hisbrother; his property became involved; he no pears to be based upon facts, and I see no goodreason to doubt it. Will fled out of Stratford-on-Avon—some sayinto Gloucestershire, where he lived remote byStinchcombe Hill, near Dursley. From this time for several years his story goes 1 The term applied to those who refused to attendthe services of the Church of England. WILL SHAKESPEARE, STAR OF POETS 485 into obscurity which the most zealous researchhas failed to disperse. Conjecture has not beenidle —conjecture never is idle —assigning him,during these unknown years, a piebald train of
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