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longer retained the power of enjoying it; and left several sums to charity by his will, though during his life no art could extort a single shilling from his gr'p.^e without the expectation of a return. His heir, or executor., has had the modesty to terminate a Ion;.; Elfish nscription with this very applicable motto I'irlu., Post funera vivit.
Thj chao ! of the guild is a fabr c built in imita- tion of fr chancel o': the church, by Sir Hugh Clopton, ktrght. lord-mayor of London, about the rear I496. Still more ancient is the Guildhall,
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��erect in 1296, of Godfrey GiiTord Bishop of Wor- cester. He appropriated it to the guild of the Holy Cross, an ecclesiastical fraternity, wh'ch had subsisted at Stratford from very high ant'qmty. Th's .res dissolved in the seventh of Edward VI. and the hall granted to the corporation, which has ever since transacted its business in it. A chauntry also was established here in 1 3 3 1 , by }'Am de Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury, for a warden and four prie ts, who were to celebrate divine ser- vice in the chapel dedicated to the martyr Thomas a Becket, built by the founder on the south side of the church. The establishment was swept away by the Reformation, and its endowments trans- mitted to lav hands; but the residence of the
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