Artist's impression of New Place, Stratford upon Avon
Artist's impression of New Place as it would have been in the time of William Shakespeare.
New Place was Shakespeare's family home from 1597, where he lived when not in London and where he died in ...
John Shakespeare and his wife Mary sell a share of property in Snitterfield, 15 October 1579
Robert Arden, John Shakespeare's father-in-law, had left a house and land he owned in Snitterfield jointly to six of his daughters by his first marriage, one of whom, Mary Arden, had married John Shakespeare. ...
John Shakespeare and his wife Mary sell a share of property in Snitterfield, 15 October 1579 - left hand side
Robert Arden, John Shakespeare's father-in-law, had left a house and land he owned in Snitterfield jointly to six of his daughters by his first marriage, one of whom, Mary Arden, had married John Shakespeare. ...
John Shakespeare and his wife Mary sell a share of property in Snitterfield, 15 October 1579 - seal of Mary Shakespeare
Robert Arden, John Shakespeare's father-in-law, had left a house and land he owned in Snitterfield jointly to six of his daughters by his first marriage, one of whom, Mary Arden, had married John Shakespeare. ...
John Shakespeare and his wife Mary sell a share of property in Snitterfield, 15 October 1579, endorsement
Contemporary endorsement, with the names of those who witnessed the transaction. They are 'Nycholas Knooles, vicar of Auston [Alveston], Wyllyam Maydes, Anthony Osbaston and others'.
Robert Arden, ...
John Shakespeare's mark, 15 October 1579
John also signed the 1579 conveyance [see below] by mark, establishing, at the very least, that he too was unable to write easily. His reading abilities may also have been limited, but this would have ...
Lease of a barn and garden in Chapel Lane, adjoining property later belonging to William Shakespeare, 1572
Lease from the trustees of the Clifford Chambers charity to Lewes Apwilliams of a barn and garden in Chapel Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon, 20 November 1572.
This property later came to form part of the ...
Mary Shakespeare's mark, 15 October 1579
Mary Shakespeare was unskilled in writing and made a mark on the seal tag of the 1579 conveyance of her Snitterfield property (see below), the clerk adding the words 'The marke of Marye Shackspear'. An ...
Nineteenth-century endorsement of the conveyance in which William Shakespeare buys land in Stratford, 1 May 1602.
William Shakespeare bought 107 acres of land in Stratford, 1 May 1602.
This document was once part of the collections of R.B. Wheler. After his death, these had been given by his sister to the Trustees ...
Note of Shakespeare's ownership of New Place and its garden, c. 1605-10
On the back of a 1572 lease of a barn and garden in Chapel Lane, a clerk later scribbled down an undated note about the owners of adjoining land. Shakespeare had purchased New Place in 1597 and he is ...
Shakespeare acquires some property in Chapel Lane, September 1602
Copy of court roll recording the assignment to William Shakespeare of premises in Chapel Lane.
In 1597, Shakespeare had purchased New Place, a large house on the corner of Chapel Street and Chapel ...
Shakespeare protects his interests when enclosure is proposed, 28 October 1614
Part of an agreement between William Shakespeare and William Replingham, setting out procedures to ensure that Shakespeare would not suffer financially as a result of the proposed enclosure at Welcombe.
As ...
Shakespeare's cottage in Chapel Lane
Shakespeare's cottage in Chapel Lane. Pen and wash drawing by Captain James Saunders, c.1810.
Stratford upon Avon, Shakespeare's Birthplace, 1769.
Shakespeare's Birthplace. Engraved from a drawing by Richard Greene and published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1769.
This image formed the basis of the 'restoration' of 1857-1864.
Thomas Greene's Diary, 15 - 22 November 1614
Late in 1614, there was a controversial proposal to enclose some of the old open fields to the east and north-east of Stratford. As a titheholder, and possibly a freeholder as well, William Shakespeare ...
Thomas Greene's note of Shakespeare's freehold lands in Old Stratford, 5 September 1614. Page 1
In 1602, Shakespeare bought 107 acres in Old Stratford, Bishopton and Welcombe. These were made up of parcels scattered through the open fields, with some of them concentrated in the area which was, in ...
William Shakespeare buys 107 acres of land in Stratford, 1 May 1602
Shakespeare, once he had become a man of means, had clearly been toying with the idea of buying some land in or near Stratford since 1598, but it was not until 1602 that he acted, buying from a local ...
William Shakespeare buys New Place, May 1597
In May 1597, William Shakespeare purchased New Place from William Underhill. This was reputedly the second largest house in Stratford, and stood on the corner of Chapel Street and Chapel Lane. It had ...