Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 15
, in common with many of his fellow-burgesses, could not write his own name. He hadland, too, at Snitterfield, where his father hadlived ; and his wife, Mary Arden, was the ownerof Ashbies, the farm at Wilmcote, hard by. Guild Chapel next door. And this was surely inthe poets mind when, in later… … MARY ARDENS HOUSE AT WILMCOTE. But, though the parents were illiterate, theyknew the value of a good education. The FreeGrammar School had been refounded a few yearsbefore by Edward VI. And although there is noactual record of his school days, we may take itas certain that little Will Shakspere was…
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