. William Shakespere : a biography. ere four salaried priests belonging to the guild of Stratford, with a clerk,who was also schoolmaster, at a salary of ten pounds per They werea hospitable body these guild-folk, for there was an annual feast, to which allthe fraternity resorted, with their tenants and farmers; and an inventory oftheir goods in the 15th of Edward IV. shows that they were rich in plate forthe service of the table, as well as of the chdpel. That chapel was partly rebuiltby the great benefactor of Stratford, Sir Hugh Clopton ; and after the dissolu-tion of the guild, and
. William Shakespere : a biography. ere four salaried priests belonging to the guild of Stratford, with a clerk,who was also schoolmaster, at a salary of ten pounds per They werea hospitable body these guild-folk, for there was an annual feast, to which allthe fraternity resorted, with their tenants and farmers; and an inventory oftheir goods in the 15th of Edward IV. shows that they were rich in plate forthe service of the table, as well as of the chdpel. That chapel was partly rebuiltby the great benefactor of Stratford, Sir Hugh Clopton ; and after the dissolu-tion of the guild, and the establishment of the grammar-school by the charterof Edward VI., the school was in all probability kept within it. There is anentry in the Corporation books, of February 18, 1594-5— At this hall it wasagreed by tlie bailiff and the greater number of the company now present thatthere shall be no school kept in the chapel from this time following. , therefore, the schoolboy days of William Shakspere with the Free. [liiKrior of the Grammar School.]• Kcjjort of ConiiiiiBsionrrc, &c. t i)iig(]:ile. A BIOGRAPHY Grammar-Sdu)(j| of Stratford, we cannot with any certainty imagine liim en-gaged in his daily tasks in the ancient room wiiich is now the yet the use of the cliancl as a school, discontinued in 15!)5, might only havebeen a temporary use. A little space may be occupied in a notice of eaclibuilding. The grammar-school is now an ancient room over the old town-hall of Strat-ford ;—both, no doubt, offices of the ancient guild. We enter from the streetinto a court, of which one side is formed by the chapel of the Holy the chapel is a staircase, ascending which we are in a plain room, witha ceiling. But it is evident that this work of plaster is modern, and that aboveit we have the oak roof of the sixteenth century. In this room are a few formsand a rude antique desk. The Chapel of the Guild is in groat part a very perfect spec
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