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A deed of conveyance of a house in Henley Street describes William Shakespeare’s house (now the Birthplace) as adjoining it on the west

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Date: July 20, 1609
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Conveyance from John Shakespeare to George Badger of a strip of land in Henley Street

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Date: January 26, 1597
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Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos hoc presens scriptum pervenerit Iohannes Shakespere de Stratford super Avon in

comitatu Warr' yoman salutem in domino sempiternam Noveritis me prefatum Iohannem pro et in consideracione summe quinquaginta

solidorum bone et legalis monete Anglie mihi per quendam Georgium Badger de Stretford predicta draper premanibus solutorum

vnde fateor me fideliter esse solutum et satisfactum dictumque Georgium Badger heredes executores et administratores suos inde quietos esse

et exoneratos imperpetuum per presentes Barganizavi et vendidi necnon dedi et Concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi prefato

Georgio Badger heredibus et Assignatis suis Totum illud toftum et parcellam terre mee cum pertinenciis iacentem et existentem in

Stretford super Avon predicta in quodam vico ibidem vocato Henlye Strete inter liberum tenementum mei predicti Iohannis Shakespere ex parte orientali

et liberum tenementum predicti Georgii Badger ex parte occidentali continentem in latitudine per estimacionem dimidium unius virgate apud uterque

fines et iacet in longitudine a predicto vico vocato Henlye Strete ex parte Australi usque Regiam viam ibidem vocatam Gyll Pyttes ex parte

boreali continens per estimacionem in longitudine viginti et octo virgatas vel circa et modo est in tenura siue occupacione mei predicti

Iohannis Shakespere habendum et tenendum predictum Toftum et parcellam terre cum pertinenciis prefato Georgio Badger heredibus et assignatis

suis ad solum et proprium opus et usum eiusdem Georgii heredum et Assignatorum suorum imperpetuum tenenda de Capitalibus dominis feodi illius

per seruicium inde prius debitum et de iure consuetum. Et Ego vero predictus Iohannes Shakespere et heredes mei totum predictum toftum et

parcellam terre cum pertinenciis prefato Georgio Badger heredibus et assignatis suis ad opus et usum supradictis contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus

et imperpetuum defendemus per presentes Sciatis insuper me prefatum Iohannem Shakespere plenam et pacificam possessionem

et seisinam de et in predicto Tofto et parcella terre cum pertinenciis prefato Georgio Badger secundum vim formam tenorem et effectum

huius presentis Carte mee inde ei confecte in propria persona mea tradisse et deliberasse In cuius rei testimonium huic

presenti scripto mea Sigillum meum apposui datum vicesimo sexto die Ianuarij Anno regni domine nostre Elizabethe Dei gracia Anglie francie et hibernie Regine

fidei defensoris etc. tricesimo nono 1596.

 

 

 
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Included in the inventory of the possessions of the late Robert Johnson, yeoman, is a barn in Stratford-upon-Avon worth £20, held by lease from William Shakespeare

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Title: Transcripts and Notes: Richard Savage papers
Date: October 5, 1611
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Call number and opening: ER82/6/93/37, fol. 1-6

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Transcripts and Notes: Richard Savage papers
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Bond between John and Mary Shakespeare and Robert Webbe concerning the sale of their premises in Snitterfield

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Date: October 15, 1579
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[The English translation of the legal Latin of this bond is as follows]:

LET ALL MEN KNOW by these presents that we John Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon in the county of Warwick yeoman, and Mary his wife, are held and firmly bound by Robert Webbe of Snitterfield in the county aforesaid yeoman, to pay twenty marks of good and legal English money to the same Robert Webbe or his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or his assigns; to make which payment well and faithfully we bind ourselves firmly, our heirs, and our administrators by these presents sealed with our seals. Dated this fifteenth of October, in the reign of our Lady Queen Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the Faith, etc. the twenty-first.

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ER 30/2

Noverint vniuersi per presentes nos Iohannem Shackspere de Stratford vppon Avon in comitatu Warwici yoman et Mariam vxor eius teneri et [firmiter]

obligari Roberto Webbe de Snitterfielde in comitatu predicto yoman in viginti marcis bone et legalis monete Anglie soluendum eidem Roberto aut [suo]

certo Attornato executoribus administratoribus vel assignat suis Ad quam quidem Solutionem bene et fideliter faciendi obligamus nos

heredes executores et administratores nostros firmiter per presentes Sigillo nostro Sigillate date decimo quinto die mensis octobris Anno regni

nostre Elizabeth Dei gracia Anglie ffranncie et Hibine regina fidei defensor etc vicesimo primo

The Condition of this obligacion is such thatif thabove bounden Iohn Shackspere & Marye his wyeffe theire heires & the heires of eyther of them theire

executors administrators & assignes and everye of them doe well & trulye observe performe fulfyll & keepe all & singular covenantes grauntes artycles

& agreementes which on theire partes are to be observed perforemed fulfylled & kepte contayned comprised & specified in one paire of Indentures bearinge

date the daye of the date of this present obligacion made betwene the above named Robarte Webbe on the one partye & thabove bound Iohn Shackspere

and Marie his wieffe on the other partye that then this present obligacion to be vtterlye voyde & of none effecte or ells to stande remayne

and be in full power strengthe force & vertue

Signum Ioannis Shaxpere

Signum Mariae Shacksper

Sealed and delyvered in the presens of

Nycholas Knooles vicar of Auston

Wyllyam Maydes & Anthonye

Osbaston with other moe

[Seals applied on a tag, Mary's seal clearly a horse]

 

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An endorsement, added between 1603 and 1616 to a deed of 1572, defines the eastern boundary of William Shakespeare’s New Place property

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Date: ca. 1609
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Shakespeare purchases Chapel Lane properties: Copy of court roll recording the assignment of a cottage in Chapel Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon, from Walter Getley to William Shakespeare

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Title: View of frankpledge with court baron of John Huggeford of Rowington, recording the surrender by Walter Getley to William Shakespeare of a cottage in Walkers Street, otherwise known as Dead Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon
Date: September 28, 1602
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Rowington

View of frankpledge with court baron of the noble lady Ann countess of Warwick held there on 28 September in the forty-fourth year of the reign of our lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God queen of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith etc., before Henry Michell, gentleman, deputy steward of John Hugord, esq., chief steward there.  

To this court came Walter Getley, by Thomas Tibbotts junior, his attorney, one of the customary tenants of the said manor (the aforesaid Thomas Tibbotts having been sworn for the truth) and surrendered into the hands of the lady of the said manor a cottage with its appurtenances situated lying and being in Stratford-upon-Avon in a certain lane there called Walkers Street alias Dead Lane to the use of William Shakespeare and his heirs for ever according to the custom of the said manor; and so it remains in the hands of the lady of the said manor until the said William Shakespeare shall come to receive the said premises. In witness of which the said Henry Michell has placed his seal to this present copy on the day and year abovesaid

By me Henry Michall

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[ER 28/1, with marginal note, c. 1790. by Edmond Malone: ‘28 Sepr 1602. E.M.’]

Rowington
Visus ffranci plegii cum curia baronis prenobilis domine Anne Comitisse Warwici ibidem tentus xxviijo die Septembris Anno regni domine

nostre Elizabeth dei gracia Anglie ffrancie & Hibernie Regine fidei defensoris &c quadragesimo quarto coram Henrico Michell Generoso

deputato Scenescallo Iohannis Huggeford Armigeri Capitalis Scenescalli ibidem

 

Ad hanc Curiam venit Walterus Getley per Thomam Tibbottes Iuniorem Attornatum suum vnum Customariorum Tenentium manerij predicti (predicto Thoma

Tibbottes Iurato pro veritate inde) & sursumreddidit in manus domine manerij predicti vnum cotagium cum pertinentiis scituatum iacens & existens in

Stratford super Avon in quodam vico ibidem vocato Walkers Streete alias dead lane ad opus & vsum Willelmi Shackespere &

heredum suorum imperpetuum secundum Consuetudinem Manerij predicti Et sic remanet in manibus domine manerij predicti quousque predictus Willelmus Shakespere

venerit ad capiendum premissa predicta In cuius rei testimonium predictus Henricus Michell huic presenti copie sigillum suum apposuit die &

anno supradictis

Per me Henricum Michell 

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View of frankpledge with court baron of John Huggeford of Rowington, recording the surrender by Walter Getley to William Shakespeare of a cottage in Walkers Street, otherwise known as Dead Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon
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Shakespeare sues John Addenbrooke: writ to bring Addenbrooke’s surety, Thomas Hornby to court, following Addenbrooke’s failure to give satisfaction

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Title: Shakespeare v. Addenbrooke
Date: June 7, 1609
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Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon
The serjeants at mace are instructed that, whereas one William Shakespeare, gentleman, lately in the court of the lord James, now king of England, of the said borough, held there by virtue of letters patent of the lord Edward VI, late king of England, instituted a certain suit against one John Addenbrooke in a plea of debt, and whereas also one Thomas Hornby of the said borough became a surety and mainpernor of the said John, namely that if the said John in that plea shall be attainted by due process that the said John should give satisfaction to the said William Shakespeare in respect both of the debt in that plea to be recovered by the said William against the said John and of the fees and costs which should be awarded by the said court in that plea to the said William, or that he surrender himself to the prison of the said lord king James of the said borough to give satisfaction to the said William  for the said debt, fees and costs; and further that if the same John did not give satisfaction to the same William for the said debt, fees and costs, nor surrender himself to prison of the said lord king to give satisfaction to the same William in said form, that then the same Thomas Hornby would will to give satisfaction to the same William for the debt thus to be recovered and the fees and costs so adjudged;   and whereas also in the said plea in like manner it was proceded in the same court that the same William in the same plea, by judgement of the same court,  should recover against the same John both 6 pounds in debt and 24 shillings for damage of fees and costs incurred by the same William in pursuit of the same plea, and further that sergeants at mace there were instructed to arrest the said John and produce his body before the bailiff of the said borough at the next court of record held there to give satisfaction to the said William both of the said debt so recovered and of 24 shillings in damages and costs so awarded, whereupon Francis Boyce then and there serjeant at mace on the day of the return sent word that the said John was not found in his bailiwick whereupon the same William at the said court of the king beseeched that he be provided with a suitable remedy against the said mainpernor in this part; the sergeants at mace there are therefore ordered that through good and lawful burgesses they let the same Thomas know that he be in the presence of the bailiff of the said borough at the next court of record held in the said borough of the said borough to show if there is any reason why the said William should not have his execution against the said Thomas for the debt, fees and charges, according to the force, form and effect of the surety, if he should seek to free himself, and further to do and receive what the said court of the said lord king should decide in this case; and that they should then and there have this order.
Witness Francis Smith, junior, gentleman, bailiff there, 7 June in the 7th year of James king of England etc.

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Stratford
Burgus
Preceptum est Servientibus ad Clavam ibidem quod Cum quidam Willelmus Shackspeare generosus nuper in Curia domini Iacobi nunc Regis Anglie burgi predicti ibidem tenta virtute literarum patentium domini Edwardi nuper Regis

Anglie sexti levavit quandam querelam suam versus quendam Iohannem Addenbrooke de placito debiti cumque eciam quidam Thomas Horneby de burgo predicto in eadem querela devenit plegius et

manucaptor predicti Iohanne scilicet quod si predictus Iohannes in querela illa legitimo modo convincaretur quod idem Iohannes satisfaceret prefato Willelmo Shackspeare tam debitum in querela illa per prefatum Willelmum versus predictum et

Iohannem in Curia predicta recuperandum quam misas et Custagia que eidem Willelmo in querela illa per eandem Curiam adudicata forent versus eundem Iohannem vel idem se redderet prisone dicti domini Regis Iacobi

nunc burgi predicti ad satisfaciendum eidem Willelmo eadem debitum misas et Custagia Et ulterius quod si idem Iohannes non satisfaceret eidem Willelmo debitum et misas et Custagia nec se redderet predicte

prisone dicti domini regis nunc ad satisfaciendum eidem Willelmo in forma predicta quod tunc ipse idem Thomas Horneby debitum sic recuperandum et misas et Custagia sic adudicata eidem Willelmo satisfacere

vellet cumque eciam in querela illa taliter processum fuit in eadem Curia quod predictus Willelmus in loquela illa per iudicium eiusdem Curie recuperabat versus predictum Iohannem tam sex libras de debito quam

Viginti et quatuor solidos pro decremento misarum et Custagiorum ipsius Willelmi in secta querela illius appositos super quo preceptum fuit servientibus ad Clavam ibidem quod capiant seu etc predictum Iohannem si etc

et eum salvo etc Ita quod habeant corpus eius coram ballivo burgi predicti ad proximam Curiam de Recordo ibidem tenendam ad satisfaciendum predicto Willelmo de debito predicto sic recuperato quam de viginti et

quatuor solidis pro predictis dampnis et Custagiis adiudicatis vnde ffranciscus Boyce tunc et nunc serviens ad Clavam ad diem retorni inde mandavit quod predictus Iohannes non est inventus in

balliva sua vnde idem Willelmus ad predictam Curiam dicti domini Regis supplicaverit sibi et remedio congruo versus predictum manucaptorem in hac parte provideri super quod preceptum est servientibus

ad Clavam ibidem quod per probos et legales homines de burgo predicto scire faciant seu etc prefatum Thomam quod sit Coram ballivo burgi predicti ad proximam Curiam de Recordo in burgo predicto tenendam ostensurus si quid

et se habeat vel dicere sciat quare predictus Willelmus execucionem suam versus eundem Thomam de debito et misis et Custagiis illis habere non debeat iuxta vim formam et effectum

manucapcionis predicti si sibi viderit expedire et vlterius facturus et recepturus quod predicta Curia dicti domini Regis consideret in ea parte Et habeant ibi tunc hoc preceptum Teste ffrancisco

Smyth Iuniore generoso ballivo ibidem septimo die Iunij Annis regni domini nostri Iacobi dei gracia Regis Anglie ffrancie et Hibernie septimo et Scotie xlijo                                 Greene

Item Title
Shakespeare v. Addenbrooke
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Shakespeare sues John Addenbrooke: the order to produce Addenbrooke at the next court sitting

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Stratford borough
The sergeants at mace there are instructed that they arrest John Addenbrooke and that they have his body in the presence of the bailiff of the said borough at the next court of record there held to give satisfaction to William Shakespeare gentleman in both a debt of six pounds which the said William recovered against him in the same court and of 24 shillings which were awarded to him for damages and the costs which he sustained by the occasion of the detention of the said debt; and to have this order then. Witness Francis Smith junior gentleman bailiff there, 15 March in the sixth year of the reign of King James.

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Stratford
Burgus
Preceptum est Servientibus ad Clavam ibidem quod Capiant seu etc Iohannem Addenbrooke si etc et eum salvo etc ita quod habeant Corpus eius coram balliuo burgi

predicti ad proximam Curiam de Recordo ibidem tenendam ad satisfaciendum Willelmo Shackspeare generoso tam de sex libris debiti quas predictus Willelmus in eadem Curia

versus eum recuperavit quam de viginti et quatuor solidis qui ei adiudicati fuerunt pro dampnis et custagiis suis quos sustinuit occacione

etencionis debiti predicti Et habeant ibi tunc hoc preceptum Teste ffrancisco Smyth Iuniore generoso ballivo ibidem xvo die Marcii Annis regni domini nostri

Iacobi Dei gracia Regis Anglie ffrancie et Hibernie sexto et Scotie xlijo

                                                             Greene

 

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Declaration in the Stratford-upon-Avon court of record, in a suit between William Shakespeare and Philip Rogers, concerning money owed by Rogers for the sale of malt to him by Shakespeare in 1604

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Title: Shakespeare v. Rogers
Date: ca. 1605
Repository: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
Call number and opening: ER27/5
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Borough of Stratford: Philip Rogers was summoned by the serjeant at mace there to reply to William Shakespeare in a plea that he return to him 35s 10d which he owes him and unjustly detains; and the pledges for the prosecution are John Doe and Richard [Roe]; and whereupon the same William, through his attorney William Tetherton, says that, whereas the said Philip Rogers, on 27 March in the first year of the reign of James king of England, France and Ireland, and the thirty-seventh year of his reign as king of Scotland, here at Stratford aforesaid  and within the jurisdiction of this court, had bought from the same William three measures of of malt for 6s, of the said 35s 10d; and also that whereas the said Philip Rogers, on 10 April in the second year of the said king of England etc., here at Stratford aforesaid  and within the jurisdiction of this court, had bought from the same William four measures of malt for 8s, of the said 35s 10d; and also that whereas the said Philip, on 24 April in the second year of the said king of England etc., here at Stratford aforesaid  and within the jurisdiction of this court, had bought from the same William three other measures of malt for 6s, of the said 35s 10d; and also that whereas the said Philip, on 3 May in the second year of the said king of England etc., here at Stratford aforesaid  and within the jurisdiction of this court, had bought from the same William a further four measures of malt for 8s, of the said 35s 10d; and also that whereas the said Philip, on 16 May in the second year of the said king of England etc., here at Stratford aforesaid  and within the jurisdiction of this court, had bought from the same William a further four measures of malt for 8s, of the said 35s 10d; and also that whereas the said Philip, on 30 April in the second year of the said king of England etc., here at Stratford aforesaid  and within the jurisdiction of this court, had bought from the same William two  measures of malt for 3s 10d, of the said 35s 10d; and whereas the said Philip, on 25 June in the second year of the said king of England etc., here at Stratford aforesaid  and within the jurisdiction of this court, had borrowed two shillings of legal money of the said 35s 10d, to be paid to the same William when required; all which several sums amount in all to 41s 10d, and the said Philip had made satisfaction to the same William in the sum of six shillings, neverthless the said Philip, though frequently asked, has not yet returned the remaining 35s 10d to the same William, but has refused to repay it and still refuses to do, whereby he says that he is suffering and has damages to the value of 10 shillings; and so he brings suit.                    

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Stretford
Burgus
Phillipus Rogers sommonitus fuit per servientem ad c1avam ibidem ad Respondendum Willelmo Shexpere
de placito quod reddat ei triginta et quinque solidos decem denarios quos ei debet et iniuste
detinet Et sunt plegii de prosequendo Iohannes Doe et Ricardus [Roe] etc. Et vnde idem Willelmus
per Willelmum Tetherton Attornatum suum dicit quod cum predictus Phillipus Rogers vicesimo septimo
die Marcii Anno regni domini nostri Iacobi Regis nunc Anglie francie et Hibernie primo
et Scocie tricesimo septimo, hic apud Stretford predictam ac infra iurisdiccionem huius
curie emisset de eodem Willelmo tres modoros brasii pro sex solidis de predictis triginta et quinque
solidis decem denariis, ac etiam quod cum predictus Phillipus Rogers decimo die aprillis Anno
Regni dicti domini Regis nunc Anglie etc, secundo hic apud stretford predictam ac infra iurisdic
cionem huius curie Emisset de eodem Willelmo quatuor modoros Brasii pro Octo solidis
de predictis 35o solidis decem denariis. ac etiam quod cum predictus Phillipus, vicesimo quarto die
dicti Aprillis Anno Regni dicti domini Regis nunc Anglie etc secundo, hic apud stretford
predictam infra iurisdiccionem huius curie, Emisset de eodem Willelmo alios tres modoros brasii pro
sex solidis de predictis 35o solidis 10o denariis, ac etiam quod cum predictus Phillipus tercio die
Maii Anno Regni dicti domini Regis nunc Anglie etc. secundo hic apud stretford predictam ac
infra iurisdiccionem huius curie Emisset de eodem Willelmo alios quatuor modoros brasii
pro Octo solidis de predictis 35o solidis 10o denariis. ac etiam quod cum predictus Phillipus decimo
sexto die Maii Anno regni dicti domini Regis nunc Anglie etc secundo hic apud stretford
predictam infra iurisdiccionem huius curie Emisset de eodem Willelmo alios quatuor modoros brasii
pro Octo solidis de predictis 35o solidis 10o denariis. ac etiam quod cum predictus Phillipus tricesimo
die Maii Anno regni dicti domini Regis nunc Anglie etc secundo hic apud stretford predictam,
ac infra iurisdiccionem huius curie Emisset de eodem Willelmo duas modoros brasii pro
tres solidis decem denariis de predictis 35o solidis 10o denariis. ac etiam quod cum predictus Phillipus
vicesimo quinto die Iunii Anno dicti domini regis nunc Anglie etc. hic apud stretford
predictam ac infra iurisdiccionem huius [curie] mutuatus fuisset duos solidos Legalis monete etc de predictis
35o solidis 10o denariis residuos solvendos eidem Willelmo cum inde requisitus fuisset, Que omnia
separales somme attingunt se in toto ad quadraginta et vnum solidos decem denarios, Et
predictus Phillipus Rogers de sex solidis inde eidem Willelmo postea satisfecisset, predictus tamen
Phillipus Licet sepius requisitus predictos triginta et quinque solidos decem denarios residuos
eidem Willelmo nondum reddidit sed illos ei hucusque reddere contradixit, et ad
huc contradicit vnde dicit quod deterioratus est et dampnum habet ad valenciam decem solidorum

Et inde producit sectam etc

 

Item Title
Shakespeare v. Rogers
Item Date
July 1604
Repository
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
Call Number
ER27/5
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TAGS: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, UNESCO Memory of the World item, Manuscript, Legal and financial, 1600s, Manuscript mention of Shakespeare in his lifetime, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

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Title: New Place fine
Date: May 4, 1597
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Item Title
New Place fine
Item Date
May 4, 1597
Repository
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
Call Number
ER27/4a
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TAGS: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, UNESCO Memory of the World item, Manuscript, Personal property, 1590s, Manuscript mention of Shakespeare in his lifetime, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

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