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Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 - blank leaf following Old Testament front page, owners' notes

Births and deaths recorded in a Bible of Shakespeare's time. Family notes recording the birth of a son to Edward Lumley in 1695, and the death of Mary, the wife of a later owner, Robert Mason, in 1780 ...

Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - notes on verso of front flyleaf .

An owner’s family notes in their Bible from Shakespeare's time. This Bible has notes by a number of former owners whose signatures appear on the title-page. On the flyleaf a late Victorian owner ...

Burial of William Shakespeare's father, John, 8 September 1601

Entry in the parish register, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, recording the burial of William Shakespeare's father, John, on 8 September 1601. His date of birth is not known, but he was probably ...

Cremation Urns

Black earthenware cremation urns with decoration. Burnt bones were placed inside these urns. The pots were hand made (i.e. they were not made on a potter’s wheel) and were decorated by incising and stamping ...

Grave Goods

The grave goods from a female burial. From left to right: An iron knife with an bronze ferrule (strengthening ring) between the blade and the tang (point) that was inserted into the handle. 95mm ...

Grave Goods - rings

The grave goods from a female burial. Finger bones and three spiral finger rings of silver (20mm diameter). Two of them were found still encircling the finger bones. 6th Century A.D. 1922/23 excavations ...

Jet Jewellery

Jet is a form of coal, which was formed from the compressed and chemically altered remains of plants that lived 170 million years ago. The north eastern town of Whitby, Yorkshire, became the centre, ...

Nails - Roman

A selection of hundreds of nails found on Roman sites. They vary in size from the large one which is 160mm to the smallest which is 30mm. The two with flattened heads are probably from a coffin

Order of Service

Order of service for the funeral of Cecil Audrey Waterfield at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Leamington Spa, on 3 May 1985 at 11.45am

Order of Service Booklet

A printed Order of Service for the Burial of the Dead booklet for the funeral service of Mr Frank Gaskin, father of Mrs Edith Banwell (nee Gaskin). The service took place at Leamington Spa Cemetery on ...

Order of Service for King Edward VII's Funeral

An eight-page order of service in commemoration if his late majesty King Edward VII to be used in all churches and chapels in England and Wales on the day of his funeral, 1 January 1910.

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - A corpse awaits burial, p.89r, detail.

A body in its linen burial cloth, or shroud, and laid in a tomb: a possible source for Shakespeare. William Shakespeare, in 1605, purchased an interest in the local tithes, and so automatically became ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - infant woodcut detail, p.100v.

Infant mortality: Shakespeare's older sisters died young. William's two older sisters both died in infancy. For Elizabethans the death of a child was a common occurrence. William's younger brothers, ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Life and death, p.122v.

Death in everyday life in Shakespeare's time. Life and death went hand-in-hand everywhere in Shakespeare’s England, where medical knowledge was very limited, and most illness depended on traditional ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Momento mori woodcut, p.89v, detail.

A possible source for the Capulet tomb. The end of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet takes place in the Capulet family tomb where the apparently dead Juliet has been laid. Such places had a ghostly reputation, ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Momento mori woodcuts, p.89v.

The everyday presence of death in Shakespeare's England. Much of Richard Day’s prayerbook has illustrations which remind readers of the everyday presence of death in the 16th century. ‘Thou ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Prayers for wisdom, p.89r.

Private prayers in Shakespeare's time. Many members of the gentry and the nobility had ordained clergymen as part of their households, and had private indoor chapels, or churches in the grounds of ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - reminders of mortality, p.112r.

‘Momenti Mori’: reminders to Shakespeare's contemporaries. The ‘momenti mori’ (reminders of death) are skulls and skeletons that may also have provided inspiration for dramatic ...

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