. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . kedbench of oak in it, said to have been there in Shakspearestime, and old enough to have been there long before. Thewhole of the interior is equally simple and rustic. I have beenmore particular in speaking of this place, because perhaps atthe very moment I write these remarks this interesting dwell-ing may be destroyed, and all that I have been describing havegiven way to the ravages of modern change. The place is sold,and perhaps the cottage of Ann Hathaway
. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . kedbench of oak in it, said to have been there in Shakspearestime, and old enough to have been there long before. Thewhole of the interior is equally simple and rustic. I have beenmore particular in speaking of this place, because perhaps atthe very moment I write these remarks this interesting dwell-ing may be destroyed, and all that I have been describing havegiven way to the ravages of modern change. The place is sold,and perhaps the cottage of Ann Hathaway is now no more. AMr. Barns, a farmer of the neighbouring hamlet of Luddington,has bought the whole property for 300/., and talks of pullingdown the house at spring. He has already pulled down someof the neigbouring cottages, and built up a row of red staringones in their places; and already he has made an ominousgap into Ann Hathaways orchard! The Taylors, the old pro-prietors, who have lived in the cottage for many years, weregone, the very morning I was there, to Stratford, to sign theconveyance. 98 VISTT TO A YOUNG SHAKSPEARE IN TBB SHAPE OP A SCHOOL-BOY. PRESENT CONDITION OF THE SHAKSPEARE FAMILY. As I went to Shottry, I met with a little incident which inte-rested me greatly by its unexpectedness. As I was about topass over a stile at the end of Stratford into the fields leadingto that village, I saw the master of the national school muster-ing his scholars to their tasks. I stopped, being pleased withthe look of the old man, and said, You seem to have aconsiderable number of lads here; shall you raise another Shak-speare from amongst them, think you V Why, replied the VISIT TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON. 99 master, I have a Shakspeare now in the school. I knewthat Shakspeare had no descendants beyond the second genera-tion, and I was not aware that there was any of his familyremaining. But it seems that the posterity of his sister JoanHart, who is mentioned in
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