An Historical Account Of The Monumental Bust Of William Shakspeare In The Chancel Of The Church At Stratford Upon Avon Warwickshire With Critical Remarks On The Authors Who Have Written On It With A Plate

Author : James Harvey Bloom
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ISBN 13 : 9780838310328
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Shakespeare's Church, Otherwise the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity of Stratford-upon-Avon written by James Harvey Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902. Excerpt: ... County Surrey. Under the provisions of her will it passed August 31, 1769, to the Rev. John Fullerton, Rector of All Canons, Wilts., who in 1796 left it to Edmund Battersbee, who three years later entirely destroyed it (Wheler, "Hist, of Strat.," p. 90). THE BUILDING. The College stood opposite the west end of the church on the ground now occupied by "Elmhurst," and part of its garden walls yet remain. The original edifice was built by Ralph de Stratford, Bishop of London, who obtained Royal protection (1352-53) for his carpenters and masons, the letters patent setting out that M whereas Ralph, Bp. of London, ordained certain houses and other buildings at Stratfordon-Avon to be built anew (de novo) for the inhabitation of the chaplains in the chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr there, celebrating daily for the salvation (salute) ot us, our progenitors and our heirs and of the ministers and servants of the same chaplains; and on this account he caused to be hired ten carpenters and ten masons and their servants, to remain there till the work should be finished, we have taken under our special protection the said carpenters and masons, and also ten carts, with their carters, hamers, and horses to carry timber, stone, and other necessaries." Westminster, May 12, 26 Ed. II. (Patent Roll, Part 1 (No. 238), Mem. 6). Of course it is impossible to say much of this building. Leland, however, saw it, and says "their mansion place is an ancient piece of work of square stone hard by the cemitarye" (Lel., "Itin.," iv. 167), and Dugdale does not further help us. Nor is it until the time of Robert Wheler, Stratford's historian, that we have any detailed account. In his own annotated copy of his "History of Stratford," in the Birthplace Library, is a plan, from which we see ...