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Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare; With a Life of the Poet and Notes, Original and Selected
Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare With a Life of the Poet and Notes Original and Selected Author:William Shakespeare General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1844 Original Publisher: Charles C. Little and James Brown Subjects: Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or... more » missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SHAKSPEARE'S WILL. FROM THE ORIGINAL IN THE OFFICE OF THE PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY. Vicesimo quinto die Martii, Anno Regni Domini nostri Jacobi nunc Regis Anglia, fyc. decimo quarto, et Scotia quadragesimo nono. Anno Domini 1616. In the name of God, Amen. I, William Shakspeare, of Stratford upon Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory, (God be praised !) do make and ordain this my last will aml testament in manner and form following; that is to say : -- Fir ft, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Savior, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made. Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Judith, one hundred and fifty pounds of lawful English money, to be paid unto her in manner and form following; that is to say, one hundred pounds in discharge of her marriage portion within one year after my decease, with consideration after the rate of two shillings in the pound for so long time as the same shall be unpaid unto her after my decease ; and the fifty pounds residue thereof, upon her surrender' ing of, or giving of such sufficient security as the overseers of this my will shall like of, to surrender or grant, all her estate and right that shall descend or come unto her after my decease, or that she now hath, of, in, or to, one copyhold tenement, with the appurtenances, lying...« less