There was a HABERDASHER's wife of small wit near him,
Art Neuendorffer
<<Gilbert Shakspere was a HABERDASHER at St. Bride's in 1597 when
he & a local shoemaker put up £19 bail, in the court of Queen's Bench,
for the clockmaker William SAMPSON>> -Honan's _Shakespeare a Life_
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, 1593
Dedication: T O M Y D E A R E L A D I E
AND SISTER, THE COUN-TESSE OF PEMBROKE.
... Read it then at your idle tymes, and the follyes your good
judgement wil finde in it, blame not, but laugh at. And so, looking
for no better stuffe, then, as in an HABERDASHERS shoppe, glasses,
or feathers, you will continue to love the writer, who doth
excedinglie love you ; and most most HARTElie praies you may long
live, to be a principall ORNAMENT to the familie of the Sidneis.
Your loving Brother: Philip Sidnei.
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Date "HABERDASHER" was first used: 1280
HABERDASHER, n. [Prob. fr. Icel. hapurtask trumpery, trifles,
perh. through French. It is possibly akin to E. haversack, and
to Icel. taska trunk, chest, pocket, G. tasche pocket,
and the orig. sense was perh., peddler's wares.]
1. A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread. [Obs.]
2. A dealer in items of men's clothing: hats, gloves, neckties, etc.
3. A dealer in drapery goods, e.g., laces, silks, trimmings, etc.
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HABERDASHER from hapertas, a cloth the width of which was settled
by Magna Charta. A "hapertas-er" is the seller of hapertas-erie.
"To match this saint there was another,
As busy and perverse a brother,
An HABERDASHER of small wares
In politics and state affairs." - Butler: Hudibras, iii. 2.
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<<As has been observed, Shakespeare's eldest daughter, Susanna, was
married on June 5, 1607, to John Hall, a learned man, a distinguished
physician and a noted citizen. Scandal erupted in the Hall household
in 1613. As a consequence, on July 13, Susanna sought a writ of
slander & brought action for defamation (cf. _Measure for Measure_,
II. i.) in the Consistory (an Ecclesiastical) Court at Worcester.
Susanna's charge was against John LANE , whose uncle,
Richard Lane, Shakespeare had asked to be one of the witnesses
for the commission out of Chancery on the Lambert controversy
(through which Shakespeare lost his mother's inheritance finally
in 1599) and had been of Shakespeare's party in the suit
to Chancery on the Stratford tithes. John LANE(Jr.)
had accused Shakespeare's daughter by saying Susanna
"...had the running of the reins
and had been naught (i.e. immoral) with
Rafe (Ralph) Smith & John Palmer."
"Sassafras (believed to be a specific for syphilis)"
Rafe (Ralph) Smith was a Stratford HABERDASHER & HATTER;
his uncle was Hamlet Sadler, the close friend of Shakespeare
(for whom he named his son). The males of the 2nd generation
of close acquaintances were a threat to the reputation
of his daughters; and in the case of Judith, to come, and,
at first, Susanna, the Shakespeares struck back at the male
contemporaries of the son William no longer had. With this court case,
Susanna has become subject to precisely the slanderous accusation
of adultery as in something of a prophetic manner for Shakespeare's
biography was Hermione in The Winter's Tale, anticipated by Desdemona
in Othello. John LANE, "...a ne'er-do-well, was some years later hailed.
into court for riot and libels against the vicar and aldermen, and was
then described as a drunkard." John LANE did not appear in court
to support the rumors he had spread and was excommunicated.>>
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The Ashbourne Portrait: by David Kathman
<<In 1940, Charles Wisner Barrell, an Oxfordian, had X-rays made of the
Ashbourne Portrait, which revealed that the painting had been altered at
some point in the past to look more like Shakespeare (in particular, the
hairline had been pushed back to make the subject bald). Barrell claimed
that the original portrait had been of the Earl of Oxford; he claimed
that a coat of arms visible in his X-ray photos was that of the Earl's
second wife, and that the subject's ring depicted a boar, one of the
Earl's symbols. He also found initials which he interpreted as "C.K.,"
which he in turn interpreted as referring to Cornelius Ketel,
who painted one of the two known portraits of Edward de Vere.
Barrell published his findings in Scientific American.
However, in 1979 the painting undewent a restoration in preparation for
a Folger exhibition. Some of the paint was removed, and it turned out
that the coat of arms in the painting was not that of Oxford's second
wife at all, but that of Sir Hugh Hamersley, a prominent member of
the HABERDASHER's Company and onetime Lord Mayor of London. Also,
the painting contains the age of the sitter (47 years old) and the date
(1611), which fits Shakespeare; however, the restoration revealed that
the last "1" in the date had been altered from a 2." Hugh Hamersley,
it turns out, was born in 1565 (one year after Shakespeare),
and thus was 47 years old in 1612.>>
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The City Livery Companies and Their Heraldry © L G Pierson, 1986
http://www.kwtelecom.com/heraldry/livery/pierson.html
<<The HABERDASHERS found a commercial winner in the pin.
It is said that £50,000 was paid annually to import
this little item, but by the end of the reign of Elizabeth I
the HABERDASHERs were making it themselves. Essential to the
well-dressed woman, whose husband made her suitable allowance,
the trade soon gave rise to the expression "pin money".>>
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http://www.kwtelecom.com/heraldry/livery/pierson.html
<<The lion in the arms of the Merchant Taylors is the lion
of England and may be connected with royal favours,
as the company was granted a number of royal letters patent
and included many royal personages in its list of members.
Several kings of England have been Freemen of the Company. Both
the Merchant Taylors & the HABERDASHERS received in charters
granted by Henry VII the distinctive epithet of "Merchant".>>
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The HABERDASHER heapeth wealth by hats. --GASCOIGNE.
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King Henry EIGHT Act 5, Scene 4
Man: There was a HABERDASHER's wife of small wit near him,
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Eight days before Shakspere's death his brother-in-law William HARTTE
the HATTER ['HATTER' is an anagram of 'HARTTE'] died.
Descendants of Mr.W.H. (and wife Joan S. HARTTE) are still alive!
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A little more than KIND, and less than KIN:
Chettle's 'KIND-HARTE's Dream':
"Shall KIN with KIN and KIND with KIND confound?"
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"Chess One" <inn...@verizon.net> wrote
> HARTYKYN: A term of endearment [excuse the pun!!]
> //Palsgrave's Acolastus, 1540.
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King Henry EIGHT Act 5, Scene 4
Man: That fire-drake did I hit three times on the head,
and three times was his nose discharged against me;
he stands there, like a mortar-piece, to blow us.
There was a HABERDASHER's wife of small wit near him,
that railed upon me till her PINKED PORRINGER
fell off her head, for kindling such a combustion
in the state. I missed the meteor once,
and hit that woman; who cried out 'Clubs!'
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Echoes -- Lewis Carroll (1869)
Lady Clara VERE de VERE
Was eight years old, she said:
EVERy ringlet, lightly SHAKEn, ran itself in GOLDEN THREAD.
She took her little PORRINGER:
Of me she shall not win renown:
For the baseness of its nature shall have strength to drag her down.
"Sisters and brothers, little Maid?
There stands the inspector at thy door:
Like a dog, he hunts for boys who know not two and two are four."
"KIND HEARTS are more than coronets,"
She said, and wondering looked at me:
"It is the dead unhappy night, and I must hurry home to tea."
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<<KIND HEARTS and Coronets is a black comedy, presented in
a coolly elegant style with the most articulate and literate of all
Ealing screenplays. The title was taken from a Tennysonian couplet
quoted by one of the characters:
'KIND HEARTS are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood';
in France the film was called Noblesse Oblige.>>
http://www.britmovie.co.uk/studios/ealing/filmography/54.htm
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September 9, 1566, 12 yr. old Philip Sidney visits Stratford
September 9, 1543, 9 mo. old Mary Queen of Scots crowned
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Tuesday September 9, 1943, Lorenzo's birthday.
Tuesday September 9, 1746, JOHN WARD plays Othello in Stratford.
Tuesday September 9, 1634, Lt. Hammond (Ham.Lt.) visits Stratford.
Friday September 9, 1513, Sidney's grandpere knighted at Flodden Field
Friday September 9, 1608, Shakespeare's mother, Mary, buried
Friday September 9, 1603, George Carey dies from MERCURY POISONING!
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<<The (MAD) Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this;
but all he said was,
'Why is a RAVEN like a WRITING-DESK?'>>
[A. Poe & Dante wrote on both.]
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_Sylvie and Bruno Concluded_ by Lewis Carroll
The Other Professor is to recite a Tale of a Pig-
-I mean a Pig-Tale," he corrected himself.
"It has Introductory VERsEs at the beginning, and at the end."
"It ca'n't have Introductory VERsEs at the end, can it?" said Sylvie.
"Wait till you hear it," said the Professor: "then you'll see.
I m not sure it hasn't some in the middle, as well." Here he rose
to his feet, and there was an instant silence through the
Banqueting-Hall: they evidently expected a speech.
Little Birds are writing
Interesting books,
To be read by cooks:
Read, I say, not roasted--
Letterpress, when toasted,
Loses its good looks.
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Art Neuendorffer