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Show : SHAKESEARE A CATHOLIC, Archdeacon Davies, vicar of Sapperton, a vil-hge vil-hge in the county of Gloucester, adjoining tho poet's county, made the following entry in a manu script biographical dictionary which he kept: "Shakespeare was much given to all unluckiness Jru stealing of venison aud rabbits, particularly from Str Thonms;Lue&V who had him oft-whipped aud sometime? imprisoned, and at last made him fly his native county, to his great advancement, Ie died ! in April 23. 1616, probably at Stratford, for there he is buried and hath a monument on winch he lays a heavy curse upon anyone who shall rernoye his bones. He died a Papist." (See Halliwell-Phillips' Halliwell-Phillips' "Outlines of tho-Life-oS" Shakespeare-seventh Shakespeare-seventh edition, for facsimile of the original.) This corroborative testimony on tho part ot Davies and Rowe ; concerning the "deer, stealing places that episode "beyond the shadow of reasonable reason-able doubt, and it will appear obviou- to tha least observant accurate when he says Shakespeare Shake-speare died probably at Stratford (subsequent research re-search proved that he did die there) ; but with regard re-gard to the poet's religion he manifests no eloubt or misgiving, lie expressly and positively declares, "He died a Papist." Donahoe's Magazine. |