JosephH.Shakespeare's Son-in-Law: John Hall, Man and Physician, 1976. Originally published in 1964, the four hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. (Cooke's translation of the case-book, with informative introductory chapters)
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Later they had a patient in common, a 65-year-old man from Northampton with “the heat of urine and strangury”. Hall treated this successfully but, after the patient rode to London, the symptoms returned and he consulted Dr Harvey
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LaneJ with EarlesM.John Hall and his Patients. The Medical Practice of Shakespeare's Son-in-Law. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust, 1996. (This also reproduces Cooke's translation of the case-book and uncovers many details about Hall's patients and their treatment)
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SchoenbaumS.William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987
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WeinrebBHibbertC, Eds. The London Encyclopaedia. London: Macmillan, 1983
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“Cosen” is cousin, but this term was loosely used by Elizabethans, and he may have been a close friend rather than a relative
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FoggN.Stratford-upon-Avon. Portrait of a Town. Chichester: Phillimore, 1986
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HoldenE.The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady. London: Bloomsbury Books, 1994. (Discovered and printed after the phenomenal success of her Country Diary for 1906, which was published in 1977)
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The manor of Bushwood was often held by the same owner as the adjoining manor of Lapworth, and Bushwood Hall is, in some accounts, wrongly called Lapworth Hall. Ecclesiastically, Bushwood was an anomalous outlying island of the old parish of Stratford-upon-Avon
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FraserA.The Gunpowder Plot, Terror and Faith in 1605. London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1996
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The whitewash was removed in 1928 and the pictures revealed again, but they are faint and hard to make out
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HaynesA.The Gunpowder Plot. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1994
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JessoppA. In: The Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1921–2: vol. III
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CooperN.Chastleton House, Oxfordshire. National Trust guidebook, 1997
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BearmanR.Stratford-upon-Avon. A History of its Streets and Buildings. Nelson: Hendon Publishing, 1988
