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Vivid and picturesque descriptions of various historic corners of England are those which Mr. Justin Winsor gives in his letter to the New York Evening Post. His last letter to that paper tells of a delightful jaunt through Southwark, the home of John Harvard...
...Southwark," says Mr. Winsor, "is now in the see of Rochester, and in the midst of the rebuilding of St. Saviour's Church, the old St. Mary Overy's, the good bishop-not unknown to us in America from his visits there-would interest all Harvardians in the shrine that the probable baptism of John Harvard within its walls has sanctified in their memories. It is certain that the St. Saviour's School, which formerly stood adjacent to the church, had in those early days the father of John Harvard among its governors. Amid the changes which Southwark has undergone...
...even then, and maybe possessing budding Puritan principles, may not have been unconscious of; while those evidences which lay about him might have given some strain to his devotional instincts. The upholders of the mimic scene were quite as striking figures in the boy's memory of what in Southwark he may have seen and must have heard. He could hardly have remembered the "forenoone knell of the great bell," as the church records tell the story, when Edmund Shakspere, in 1607, was buried in St. Saviour's, and when it is fair to suppose that the dead player...
Then ensues an interesting account of Capt. John Smith's connection with Southwark, of some of the earliest manuscript maps of Capt. Smith and Gov. Winthrop which bear a relevance to early New England history. In conclusion, Mr. Winsor gives it as his opinion that John Harvard was not acquainted with Capt. Smith since at the time of the latter's death in 1631, Harvard was still a student at Cambridge. Smith's name had been for some time one of romantic interest, however, and there was much truth in the epitaph put above his grave-"the grim King...
...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...