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Shakespeare of Stratford
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[and to my fellows, John Hemings, Richard Burbage, and Henry Condell 26 s. 8 d apiece to buy them rings].

Item I give, will, bequeath, and devise unto my daughier Susanna Hall [for better enabling of her to perform this my will and towards the performance thereof] all that capital messuage or tenement with the appurtenances [in Stratford aforesaid] called the New Place,[1] wherein I now dwell, and two messuages or tenements[2] with the appurtenances situate, lying, and being in Henley Street within the borough of Stratford aforesaid; and all my barns, stables, orchards, gardens, lands, tenements, and hereditaments whatsoever, situate, lying and being, or to be had, received, perceived or taken, within the towns, hamlets, villages, fields, and grounds of Stratford-upon-Avon, Old Stratford, Bushopton, and Welcombe,[3] or in any of them, in the said county of Warwick; and also all that messuage or tenement with the appurtenances wherein one John Robinson dwelleth,[4] situate, lying, and being in the Blackfriars in London, near the Wardrobe; and all other my lands, tenements, and hereditaments whatsoever, to have and to hold all and singular the said premises with their appurtenances unto the said Susanna Hall for and during the term of her natural life, and after her decease to the first son of her body lawfully issuing and to the heirs males of the body of the said first son lawfully issuing, and for default of such issue to the second son of her body lawfully issuing and to the heirs males of the body of the said second son lawfully issuing, and for default of such heirs to the third son of the body of the said

  1. Cf. document XV.
  2. The birth-house property. Cf. document XXXI, Note.
  3. Property covered by documents XXXIV, XLIV, LI, LXIII, LXIV.
  4. Property covered by documents LVIII, LIX, LXV. Shakespeare had rented the Blackfriars house to John Robinson.