Gunnison Gazette | 1914-12-25 | Page 5 | Travesty on Real Falstaff

Travesty on Real Falstaff. Yarmouth has a claim upon all Englishmen Eng-lishmen quite independently of its associations as-sociations with the breakfast bloater; remarks a writer in St. Nicholas. For it was the home of Shakespeare's Falstaff, Fal-staff, who appears to have been a man of exemplary piety. The Falstaffs were an old Yarmouth family. "A Falstolfe or Falstaff," writes John Richard Green, "was bailiff of Yarmouth in 12S1. Another is among the first of its representatives in parliament, par-liament, and from that the members of that family filled the highest municipal mu-nicipal offices. John Falstolfe, a man of considerable account in the town, purchased lands at the close of the fourteenth century in Caistor, and became be-came the father of Sir John Falstolfe, who, after a distinguished military career, ca-reer, was luckless enough to give his name to Shakespeare's famous character. char-acter. In Yarmouth, however, he was better known as a benefactor to the great church of St. Nicholas.