Anne Hathaway’s Pt 2
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Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 29 Jun 2018 21:57
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Anne
Hathaway’s Cottage – Part Two    The far bedroom.
This oak armchair
dates from the early 1600s. Known by the Shakespeare family as ‘Shakespeare’s
Courting Chair’, it
was reputed to have been handed down from William Shakespeare to his
granddaughter, Lady Elizabeth Barnard. Lady Elizabeth did not have children and
she gave the chair to the Hathaway family. The chair is carved with two elements
from the Shakespeare coat of arms, a shield with a spear. Analysis of the patina
suggests that these carvings were made shortly after the chair was made. The
W.A.S. was added after Samuel Ireland bought the chair from the Hathaway family
in 1792.
  The right corner had tea laid out and in the near corner, tatting in progress.
  Down the steep staircase and a peep into the laundry
room.
    A very posh dining
room.
 In the next room, the sitting room, the eye
was drawn to the simple table, covered in memorabilia................
   .......postcards that
were sold by the family because Anne’s married her famous
husband.
  A little bit of
fraud, with the ageing of the plates. A photograph of
the Hathaway’s.
  The takings box
and an old Mirror
featuring the cottage.
   It was fun finding the ‘bits’ of information around the house. Mary Baker, a
direct descendant of Anne’s brother Bartholomew, would tell visitors that Anne
and WIlliam sat here and talked during their romance. Mary would charge 6 pence
for a piece of this settle seat, which most likely
dates from the 1700s rather than the 1500s. The above cups
and saucers and lustre teapot were presented by the Mayoress of
Stratford-upon-Avon (Mrs. William Pearce) November, 1906. They were originally
used in this cottage, and came into the possession of Mrs. Pearce through her
great-grandmother, who was a descendant of Susanna, daughter of Robert
Hathaway.
   On our way out – such a
pretty place to visit.
ALL IN ALL STUNNING MY FAVOURITE HOUSE OF TODAY |