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PARENTAGE AND BIRTH
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of a public museum and library. Much of the Elizabethan timber and stonework survives, but a cellar under the 'birthplace' is the only portion which remains as it was at the date of the poet's birth.[1] The birthplace buildings were presented under a deed of trust to the corporation of Stratford in 1866. In 1891 an Act of Parliament transferred the property to an independent body, consisting of ten life-trustees, together with a number of ex-officio trustees, who are representative of the authorities of the county of Warwickshire and of the town of Stratford.

  1. ↑ Cf. Documents and Sketches in Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 377-99.
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