. William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . e of ten years from Strat-ford, the poet reappears in his native place as apurchaser of valuable lands and a rebuilder of hisfathers shattered fortune. In that year his onlyson, Hamnet, a boy of eleven, died and was buriedin Holy Trinity Churchyard. In the same yearJohn Shakespeare made application to the Collegeof Heralds for the privilege of using a coat of claim was based on certain services which theancestors of the claimant were declared to have ren-dered the most prudent prince King Henry theSeventh of famous memorie. The ancestr
. William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . e of ten years from Strat-ford, the poet reappears in his native place as apurchaser of valuable lands and a rebuilder of hisfathers shattered fortune. In that year his onlyson, Hamnet, a boy of eleven, died and was buriedin Holy Trinity Churchyard. In the same yearJohn Shakespeare made application to the Collegeof Heralds for the privilege of using a coat of claim was based on certain services which theancestors of the claimant were declared to have ren-dered the most prudent prince King Henry theSeventh of famous memorie. The ancestral distinc-tion put forward on behalf of John Shakespeare wasnot more apocryphal than the services set forth inmany similar romances formally presented to theCollege of Arms as records of fact. The statementthat the applicants wife, Mary, heiress of RobertArden, of Wilmcote, was the daughter of a gentle-man has not been verified. The application wasgranted three years later, and the Garter King ofArms assigned to John Shakespeare a shield: THE COMEDIES 257 on a bend sable, a spear of the first, and for hiscrest or cognizance a falcon, his wings displayedargent, standing on a wreath of his colours, sup-porting a spear gold steeled as aforesaid. Themotto, Non Sans Droict, appears in a sketch ordraft of the crest. Two years later the dramatistwas styled gentleman in a legal document. This effort to rehabilitate his father was followed,a year later, by the purchase of New Place — a con-spicuous property at the northeast corner of ChapelStreet and Chapel Lane, opposite the Guild Chapel,in Stratford, upon which stood what was probablythe largest house in the town. This substantialhouse, built of timber and brick by Sir Hugh Clop-ton in the previous century, had probably beenlong neglected, and was fast going to decay. No clear account of the appearance of the househas been preserved ; but enough remains to showits considerable size and substantial walls of the
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