Shakespeare's home at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon (1863) (14804882903)

Identifier: shakespeareshome00bell (find matches)
Title: Shakespeare's home at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Bellew, J. C. M. (John Chippendall Montesquieu), 1823-1874
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Shakespeare family Clopton family. (from old catalog) Arden family. (from old catalog) Coombs family Underhill family Hale family Nash family Foster family Hathaway family
Publisher: London, Virtue brothers and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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this reafon, been temporarily with-drawn. If fo, the act has been judicious.While the fubjecl: is in abeyance, it maybe well to confider what has been done with io New Place, with the money fubfcribed, becaufe ajudicious expenditure already made, wouldbe the beft bafis of appeal to the publicfor further moneys to meet future outlays. It is familiar to every one, that Shake-fperes refidence at Stratford was called New Place. There are popular errorsin exiftence, both about the place, andthe name of the place. It may be accept-able to the reader if a few fads.are throwntogether to tell its hiftory, which will beno information to thofe who have beeninterefted in New Place, but may beinftrudive to many not read up in thefubjed. New Place came from, and returnedto, the family of Clopton. The Clop-tons pofferTed it long prior to Shakefperestime, and repofferTed it by intermarriage(fubfequent to Shakefperes time) with adaughter of Sir Edward Walker. Dugdale (as quoted) ftates that the houfe
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Stratford-upon-Avon. 11 houfe was built by Sir Hugh Clopton, ofbrick and timber. Sir Hugh lived in thereign of Henry VII. The general ap-pearance of the building can be eafilyimagined, though there is no drawing ofit in exijience. The plate on the oppofite page gives areprefentation of a houfe built about thefame time that Sir Hugh Clopton erected New Place. It prefents to us the frontelevation of Ockwells, in the parifli ofBray, Berkfhire, at prefent porTeffed byMr. Grenfell, of Taplow. This houfe isstated to have been built during the reignof Richard III., and is one of the very fewfpecimens of domeftic architecture nowremaining of that date. The Great Hall,until lately, was adorned by a beautifulftained-glafs window, emblazoned with thearmorial bearings of Henry VII., and theDuke of Somerfet; but, in a fpirit akinto Vandalifm, this moft interefting rem-nant 12 New Place, nant of antique heraldry has been removedfrom its proper place, and fixed up inMr. GrenfelPs new houfe, on Taplo