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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES, SATURDAY, MARCH 13TH, 1916
SHAKESPEARE'S WILL.
THE SECOND BEST BED. When Shakespeare in his will of 1818, left the second best bed to his wife Aane, he did not realize the problem he was bequeathing to future generations. This problem has long vexed the minds of his admirers, who would fain think him a good husband as well as a great post. Now a good husband does not cut off his wife with a shilling; and to that teatarantary insult it has secmed-just to compare the second best bed.
In & recent number of Mates and Queries Mr. S. O. Addy who is well known in certain directions of anti- quarian research, presents a seven-column argument to the end of rescuing Shakes peare's memory from the stigma on his sense of right and wrong, Mr. Addy's conclusion, in brief, is that the second hest bed in no way expressed the foll intentions of the testator. He ventures even to suggest a reason why the best bed was not mentioned. And first be quotes Sir Sidney Lee's summary in the last edition of the "Life":
WOMAN WHO LOVED BLUE
BOOKS.
OFFICIAL ADVENTURES. HER UNIQUE POSITION AT THE HOME OFFICE.
Miss Rose E. Squire the woman who best the "Gambeen Man," "as Sir Mai- colm Delevingne, of the Home Offer, hinted at a dinner given in her honour, related the story to an Evening Standard representaitve.
Miss Squire has just retired from the Home Office after working in connection with it for thirty years, and being the only woman on its administrative side the Apart from her adventures in service she has attained distinction as a woman who loved bluebooks and learn ed them by heart.
י.
In a message which the Queen-han sent to her it was observed that Miss Squire's record is worthy of the best traditions of the Civil Service and should prove an inspiring, example to those who folion after."
woman
Sir Malcolm Delevingne spoke of the days when Hias Squire was n factory inspecter and mentioned that she bad in that capacity many joyoun and gallant adventures."
Miss Squire laughingly said when interviewed that Siz Malcolm must have meant her adventures with the Gomber
The name of Shakespeare's wife was omitted from the original draft of the will, but by an interlineation in the final draft she received his second best bed with the furniture." No other heest was made her. It was a common practice
man in Ireland at the time when she of the perind to specify a hedstead or other defined article. of household furni- was obtaining evidence for and conduct ture as part of a wife's inheritance.ing prosecutions in connection with the Nor was it unusual to bestow the best Truck Act. bed on another member of the family than the wife, leaving her only second legt, but no will except Shakespeare's is forthcoming in which a bed forms, the Bole bequest,
1er right to
widow's dower to a third part for life in freehold estate--was "not subject to testamentary disposition, but Shakes peare had taken steps to prevent ber from benefiting-at any rate, to the fall extent-in that legal arrangement. He The Steamship BENVENUE"-
had larred the dower in the case of his CONSTANTES ang at their Blackfriars Sucht prove CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform latest purchase of freehold estate, viz., risk into the hazardous and/or extra bazardous Godowas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd whence, and/or from the whares, Delivery may be obtained
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods left the Godowas, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 13th instant, will be subject to Bent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be pressated to the Undersigned on or before the 29th instant, or they will not be recognised.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 15th instant, at 10a.m. No Fire Insurnace has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods hays left the Godowns, and all Goods remain ing undelivered after 16th March, 1926, will be subject to Bent.
dure is pretty conclusive pront that he had the intention of excluding her from the enjoyment of his possessions after his
death.
CONTEMPORARY WILLS.
It will be noticed that Sir Sidney Lee expressly allows that Mistress Shakes peare's right to a widow a dower or third part was not subject to testamentary disposition. Mr. Addy shows how old was the doctrine in common law of the reasonable part as applicable both to Laid down by wives and children. Bracton, who died in 1266, it continued over a considerable part of England until the 17th century was nearing it and, and in London, as late as 1724.
In the absence of any collection of Warwickshire wills, Mr. Addy has had to rely on the wills of other counties. Here evidence of the recognition of the jaw rights of widows and children frequently appears. It is ex- ceptional in many published series of wils for the testator to bequeath the shares to which their families were en- titled by the rommon law. The reason- able pärts were often called portions,
common
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The Truck Act, which prohibits the payment for work done by goods instead of money, was, Miss Squire explained, not being enforced in those days, and sha was sent over in about 1900 to the North of Ireland, where abuses were prevalent.
The Gombeen man was a familiar figare in that part of Ireland as the man who gave out work to the peasants in the cottages and who would pay them in Miss Squire said, The women," goods just what he thought he would. "Were really in slavery to the local, shopkeeper. He gave them wool with which to knit garments, and for this l he was paying them in ten. instead would find in one instance perhaps that of allowing them the tea at the ordinary prices he was debiting them with tea at to his customers at 1s 38. to da per lb., which was being sold
went 08 a tourist and stayed in small lonely hotels in out-of-the way places, cycling around the district and dropping into the cabins.
The poor people were too frightened to come to court voluntarily to give we had to ulpana them. evidence against their employers, and
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When the unses began to come on the whole neighbourhood rose against thin Englishwoman who had come to upset the Irish countryside, and the mutterings and murmurings became so serious that Dublin Castle and the Home Office grew rather afraid that something might hap- Pen to Miss Squire, so she had to be ac- hers of the Irish Constabulary. companied everywhere she went by mem-
FASCINATION OF BLUE BOOM",
One of the things claimed for ber at: last night's dinner by one of her frienda was that: there is, not an Act of Parlia ment, a Blue Book, or a section of a Blub Book referring to her department
so that men spoke of their wives portions that Miss Squire cannot quote. and their children's portions as if they were vested rights.
"Well, why not?" she said. "After
all, if one is a Civil Servant one must There was, then, no need for Shakes take one's job seriously, and I would peare to give to his wife any part of his much rather know the whole of an Act fortune, seeing that her right was strictly for a Blue Book than simply reply on prescribed. But Mr. Addy proceeds to extracts from either. Why not? Blae traverse Sir. Sidney Lee's assertion that Books have always had a fascination for no will except Shakespeare's is forthcomine. But learning them meant a good ing in which a bed forms the sole be- deal of study," pré
"In the days when I became a factory All Claims against the Steamer must be
inspector, you see,women did not get seated the Undersigned on or before 23rd quest: and he does so by quoting a case
to
from the York Probate Registry: March, 199, or they will not be recognised All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on azy Tuesdays or Fridays, between the houre 10.45 am. and
to
In 1605 John Hill, of Grimesthorpe, the legal training that some of them do near Sheffield, after giving some peeu- now. Women factory inspectors to-day niary legacies to his friends and re-are often women who have been called to
Storage period of Oma 1003, within the Free lations, gave to Rose bis wife his best the Bar, but I had to study Blue Books
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hed, and he gave her nothing more. He and Acts for the simple purpose of get- bequeathed his lands to trustees to the ting to know what was necessary for me use of his daughters, saying nothing in my work.".
ahout dower, and he also gave to his daughters the residue of his estate. The
will was proved by Rose Hill, the widow
and relict, to the use of Elizabeth, valuable, is common knowledge. Mr. Anne, and Grace, children under, age." Addy, however, with a large depan- To the inexperienced it would appear dence on immovable property, cautionsly that he had treated his wife very badly proffers another theory. He bida us not by leaving her acthing but his best bed, to forget that a bed was frequently made thereby giving her loss than he had given an heirloom, and suggests that shakes to distant relations and friends. Yet pear's best bed may have been affixed to ebe proved his will, and was in fact the panelling or framework of the New treated with perfect fairness, for by the Place,
common law she was entitled not only
HOUSE AT BLACKFRIARS..
to dower in his lande but to a third part The next point concerns the house at Blackfriars It. stood within 600ft of of all his money, goods, and chattels
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This will, we are told, is on all fours, the Blackfriars Theatre. That theatre, HAMBURG, BREMEN AND GENOA.
with Shakespeare's, except that John as we like to remember, occupied pärt Hill's widow proved his will, whereas of the site now, covered by The Times THE Steamship
Shakespeare's widow, who was past 80, Office. The house was bought by Sharkes- "OOSTKERK, (9)"...
was not appointed executrix. In neither peare in 1813 for £140, and imme- having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are notified that all Goods case did the husband behave with cruelty, dately mortgaged for 200. By a
or show a want of affection for his wife. veyancing device his wife's dower was are being landed at thai- risk into the
But some paring fellow; such as Dr. barred, and the Blackfriars property was hazardous and/or extra-hazarious Godowns of the
as Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Johnson contemned, may object that bequeathed to Busanaa, the poet's daugh- Consequently, Busadna got only an Company Limited, whence, and/or from the Shakespeare did not leave his best bed, ter, with the debt upon it unredeemed.
after the example of John Hill,
equity of redemption. wharves, Delivery may be obtained.
The common law entitled the wife to Goods not cleazed by the 16th March," one of the best beds within my house,
as did Philip Morton, of Bradfield, in 1926, will be subject to Bent
and damaged Packages are South Yorkshire, in 1550. No, he con- dower in the freeholds of the testator, All broken, chafed his liberality, to the second beat among which the house, at Blackfriars be
on the 15th March, 1926, at 10 bed, and, though he included the furni- would not be included, owing to the un- examined
ture belonging, he did not like Philip redeemed mortage. She had also the am., by Meters. Goddard and Douglas.
right to remain in her husband's capital Claims against the Steamer must be present Mortion, add a cow.
Many have tried to explain this second mansion (New Place in Stratford-on" ed in writing within ten days after arrival of
best legacy. Professor Dowden remarks Avon) for 40 days after his death, dur Steamer, otherwise they will
that perhaps Shakespeare chose a partiing which time her dower must be assign
pretty sure recognized,
cular bed to indulge some fancy" of ed to her. Mr. Addy is his wife's. That wives do indulge fancies that Susanna and her husband, Dr. Hall, for particular articles of furniture, and would agree to the settlement of the one- not always the most intrinsically third of the estate without compulsion.
We others can at least hope so. (Centiqued on noci odlumn).
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