 | Samuel Lewis - Great Britain - 1831 - 650 pages
...foot-path, with an iron palisade, supported by brackets of iron, resting on the piers. This bridge was built by Sir Hugh Clopton, in the reign of Henry VII., and widened by act of parliament in 1814. Nearly parallel with it is another of nine cycloidal arches,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 570 pages
...daughters, there his sister still lived. In 1597 he purchased the principal house in Stratford. It was built by Sir Hugh Clopton, in the reign of Henry VII., and was devised by him under the name of the great house. Dugdale decribes it as " a fair house built of... | |
 | 1845 - 410 pages
...daughters, there his sister still lived. In 1597 he purchased the principal house in Stratford. It was built by Sir Hugh Clopton, in the reign of Henry VII., and was devised by him under the name of the great house. Dugdale decribes it as " a fair house built of... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1853 - 566 pages
...servants of the lord chamberlain. In 1597 Shakspeare purchased the principal house in Stratford. It was built by Sir Hugh Clopton, in the reign of Henry VII., and was devised by him under the name of The Great House. It appears to have been sold out of the Clopton... | |
 | Edwin Lees - Dramatists, English - 1854 - 108 pages
...Shakespeare's home, the home that he loved to abide in—broken up, demolished, built upon—utterly degraded. Shakespeare when still a young man, early...youthful recollections are never forgotten. Treated contumelious]y, as he had been, by the great squire of the vicinity, Sir Thomas Lucy, and doubtless... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 668 pages
...Stratford Nov. 4th, 1646. New Place, the abode of the poet's later years, — which is said to have been originally built by Sir Hugh Clopton in the reign of Henry the Seventh, and which was then known by the name of The Great House, — came, on Shakespeare's death,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...Shakespeare for safe custody. » " New Place, the abode of the poet's later years,— which is' said to have res the Seventh, and which was then known by the name of The (freat Houne, — came, on Shakespeare's death,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 836 pages
...for safe custody. 119 " New Place, the abode of the poet's later years, — ' which is said to have ff. — It is my lady ; O, it is my love : O, that she knew she the Seventh, and which was then known by the name of The Great HOVM,— cnme, on Shakespeare's death,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...this he gave " to the aforesaid Hercules sixty pounds sterling." The house on thi« property had been built by Sir Hugh Clopton, in the reign of Henry VII., and was called the great house, but Shakespere, a.nov*t homo, called it New Place. He used it a short time... | |
 | Samuel Neil - Dramatists, English - 1861 - 140 pages
...this he gave " to the aforesaid William sixty pounds sterling." The house on this property had been built by Sir Hugh Clopton, in the reign of Henry VII., and was called the great house, but Shakespere ((state 33), a novus homo, called it New Place. He used... | |
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Howie, — came, on Shakespeare's death, to Mrs. Hall, and, on her decease, to her only child, Elizabeth Nash, afterwards Lady Barnard. In this mansion, while it belonged to Mr. 
