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Excerpt from An Apology for the Believers in the Shakspeare-Papers: Which Were Exhibited in Norfolk-Street
To be found, with regard to Shakfpeare,' by fimilar diligence, and lucky accidents. The attive editor had thus fhewn,~ that Shak -fpeare died, at the age of fifty, two, on the 2gd of April 1616; leaving his daughter Sufanna, and her bulband, Doétor John Hall, his executors. Now, the will demonftrates, that he died poffeffed of baubles, gewgaws, and toys to mock apes. Doctor Hall died, on the 25th of November 1635; leaving a nuncupative will, whereby he bequeathed his library, and-manufcripts, to Thomas Nalh, who had married his daughter, Elizabeth Here, then, is fufiicient proof, that Doctor Hall, the executor of Shakfpeare, left a library.
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