. William Shakespere : a biography. ll decrease, as well within their now usual house, called the Globe, within our county ofSurrey, as also within any town-halls or moot-halls, or other convenient places within the libertiesand freedom of any other city, university, town, or borough whatsoever within our said realms anddominions. Willing and commanding you and every of you, as you tender our pleasure, not onlyto permit and suffer them herein, without any your lets, hindrances, or molestations, during oursaid pleasure, but also to be aiding and assisting to them if any wrong be to them offered
. William Shakespere : a biography. ll decrease, as well within their now usual house, called the Globe, within our county ofSurrey, as also within any town-halls or moot-halls, or other convenient places within the libertiesand freedom of any other city, university, town, or borough whatsoever within our said realms anddominions. Willing and commanding you and every of you, as you tender our pleasure, not onlyto permit and suffer them herein, without any your lets, hindrances, or molestations, during oursaid pleasure, but also to be aiding and assisting to them if any wrong be to them offered, and toallow them such former courtesies as hath been given to men of their place and quality ; and ihowhat further favour you shall .show to these our servants for our sake, we shall take kindly at In witness whereof, &c. Witness ourself at Westminster, the nineteentl. day of isy Per Breve de privuto sigillo, «;t^^v^^ w. - ■•!.-■■. ,■■■ * 1 . f,i-- ) Jf _ ^ V .i^^»> V .^ ...-« 4^ .:I.^iV l^-ffr. I^Tlie Garden of New Place.] CHAPTER We have seen that in the year 1602 Shakspere was investing the gains of hisprofession in the purchase of property at Stratford. It appears from the origi-nal Fines of the Court of Kings Bench, preserved in the Cliapter-house, that alittle before the accession of James, in 1603, Shakspere had also purciiased amessuage at Stratford, with barns, gardens, and orchards, of Hercules Underliill,for the sum of sixty pounds.* There can be little doubt that this continuedacquisition of property in his native place had reference to the ruling desire ofthe poet to retire to his quiet fields and the placid intercourse of society atStratford, out of the turmoil of his professional life and the excitement of the LlFK. * The document was firat pnblislieil in Mr. Colliers New I 481 WILLIAM SHAKSPERE : companionship of tlie gay and the biiUiant. And yet it appears highly piobablethat he was encouraged, at this very peri
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