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• Stratford-upon-Avon, England: New Place memorial plate in the garden of Nash House (photo (c) Ulrike Boehm; all rights reserved).
  The inscription reads:
  • "On this site stood fom 1483 to 1702 the house called New Place which Shakespeare purchased in 1597, and where he died on 23. April 1616.
  • The residence passed successively to Shakespeare's elder daughter Mrs. Susanna Hall who died in 1649, and to her daughter Elizabeth, Shakespeare's only granddaughter and last surviving descendant, who died in 1670.
  • Subsequently the house was owned in turn by Sir Edward Walker Carter King of Arns., and by his son-in-law Sir Hugh Clpton.
  • In 1702 the edifice was completely rebuilt by Sir Hugh Clopton and in 1756 it was acquired as a summer residence by the Rev. Frances Gastrell, who demolished it in 1759. Since that year the land has remained vacant."

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