boyhood and youth were spent, and he paffed through the ages described by himself: "At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; Before difmiffing the subject of the house in Henley Street, it may be well to record the viciffitudes through which it has paffed. John Shakespere, the Poet's father, appears to have lived in a freehold house in Henley Street, as tenant, in the year 1552. year 1552. In 1574, he purchased from Edmund Hall, and Emma his wife, for forty pounds, the houses, defcribed as "two meffuages, two gardens, and two orchards, with their appurtenances;" and one of these was, probably, that which he already occupied as tenant. On the death of John Shakefpere, these houses defcended to his eldest fon, William; and here, probably, the Poet's wife and family lived while he was working for them in London. The houses continued to belong to him after he had purchased New Place, and he bequeathed "the two meffuages, or tenements, with the appurtenance, fituate, &c., in Henley Street, within the borough of Stratford," to his daughter, Sufanna Hall, from whom G CHAPTER IV. THE next object of intereft was the Grammar School, founded in the reign of Edward VI., by Thomas Jolepe. The prefent buildings, which comprise the guildhall and the schoolroom, are in Chapel Street, and form part of a long row, the upper ftory of which projects over the lower, after the manner of ancient dwellings. The reader may fee it in Mr. Edwards's photograph, with the tower of the Guild Chapel in the background. It was during the play-hour that I visited it, and the head-mafter very kindly showed me over the place. You afcend a flight of stairs to reach the schoolroom, which has much the fame appearance as other rooms devoted to a like purpose. The ceiling has lately been removed and the oak roof revealed, which, with the aid of the latticed windows, gives the room an ancient and venerable appearance, fuch as it bore when Shakespere learned his accidence here. Much stress has been laid upon a fuppofition that CHAPTER IV. THE next object of intereft was the Grammar School, founded in the reign of Edward VI., by Thomas Jolepe. The present buildings, which comprise the guildhall and the schoolroom, are in Chapel Street, and form part of a long row, the upper ftory of which projects over the lower, after the manner of ancient dwellings. The reader may fee it in Mr. Edwards's photograph, with the tower of the Guild Chapel in the background. It was during the play-hour that I visited it, and the head-master very kindly showed me over the place. You afcend a flight of stairs to reach the schoolroom, which has much the fame appearance as other rooms devoted to a like purpose. The ceiling has lately been removed and the oak roof revealed, which, with the aid of the latticed windows, gives the room an ancient and venerable appearance, such as it bore when Shakespere learned his accidence here. Much stress has been laid upon a fuppofition that |