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Show I Travesty on Real Falstaff. I Yarmouth has a claim upon all Eng lishmen qulto Independently of its associations as-sociations with tho breakfast bloater, remarks a writer in St. NIcholan. For it was tho homo of Shakcspearo's Falstaff, Fal-staff, who appears to have been a man of exemplary piety. Tho Falstafts wero an old Yarmouth family. "A Falstolfo or Falstaff," writes John Richard Green, "was bailiff of Yarmouth In 1281. Another Is among th,o first of Its representatives in parliament, par-liament, and from that tho members , of Hint family filled the highest municipal mu-nicipal offices. John Falstolfe, a man of considerable account In the town, purchased lands at tho close of the fourteenth century in (Jaistor, and be-camo be-camo tho father of Sir John Falstolfe, who, after a distinguished military career, ca-reer, was luckless enough to glvo his name to Shakespeare's famous character. char-acter. In Yarmouth, however, ho was "" better known as a benefactor to tho 1 groat church of St. Nicholas. |