Handbook for Visitors to Stratford-upon-Avon ...Printed & pub. by E. Adams, 1872 - 50 pages |
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... Tree . This mansion was built in the time of Henry VII . , by Sir Hugh Clopton , Knight ; and was devised by him , under the name of the Great House , to his great nephew , William Clopton , Esq . , who died in 1521. In 1563 it was sold ...
... Tree . This mansion was built in the time of Henry VII . , by Sir Hugh Clopton , Knight ; and was devised by him , under the name of the Great House , to his great nephew , William Clopton , Esq . , who died in 1521. In 1563 it was sold ...
Page 22
... Tree became first the object of his dislike because it subjected him to answer the frequent importunities of strangers whose zeal prompted them to visit it . In an evil hour he ordered the tree , then at its full growth , to be cut down ...
... Tree became first the object of his dislike because it subjected him to answer the frequent importunities of strangers whose zeal prompted them to visit it . In an evil hour he ordered the tree , then at its full growth , to be cut down ...
Page 23
... tree in the Great Garden , believed to have been raised from a scion of the original tree which tradition asserts was planted by the hand of Shakespeare . See the evidence upon which this belief rests collected in Mr. Halliwell's ...
... tree in the Great Garden , believed to have been raised from a scion of the original tree which tradition asserts was planted by the hand of Shakespeare . See the evidence upon which this belief rests collected in Mr. Halliwell's ...
Page 33
... trees , is peculiarly sedate and pleasing . The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity . The exact time when it was erected is not recorded , though from the mixture of the Saxon and Norman architecture it may fairly be conjectured to ...
... trees , is peculiarly sedate and pleasing . The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity . The exact time when it was erected is not recorded , though from the mixture of the Saxon and Norman architecture it may fairly be conjectured to ...
Page 42
... trees stand Outside the door , for seats they're plann'd , I thought , if they could speak , how they Might tell what they ... tree , or bush , or ground ; Yes , one sweet - william * did I trace , But one , the last of all his race . So ...
... trees stand Outside the door , for seats they're plann'd , I thought , if they could speak , how they Might tell what they ... tree , or bush , or ground ; Yes , one sweet - william * did I trace , But one , the last of all his race . So ...
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