Word: southwarke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This Philip Rogers was very likely the kinsman of the fair Katharine Rogers, whom Shakespeare might have seen before the altar in the parish church of Stratford, one morning in 1605, when her father, a substantial burgher of the town, gave her away to young Robert Harvard, of Southwark. Who knows but that the poet, just then at work upon his Lear, may have stood in the crowd of friends about that altar and have heard the sweet voice of Katharine Rogers repeat her vows; who knows but, on his return to his desk, Shakespeare bore with him a reminiscence...
...perhaps the worst indignity to the name that the writer will mention, is found in a paper which contains a reference to property received by John and Johanna Man from John and Anna Harvard. On leaving England John Harvard and his wife sold what property they had in Southwark. The paper, mentioned above, was John Man's will. In it he speaks of "four houses or Tenements with the appurtenances thereunto belonging, scituate in Bermondsey streete in the parish of St. Olave in Southwarke and County aforesaid which I purchased of one - Harbert...
Charles B. Richards, superintendent of the Southwark Iron Works at Philadelphia and formerly of colt's armory at Harttord, will become professor of dynamic engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, beginning in the spring...