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Davenport, James

Davenport, James,
vicar of Stratford 1787–1841 who passed on to Malone by 1790 a story deriving from his clerk's 85-year-old father, whose family had lived close to New Place, that Shakespeare planted the mulberry tree there ‘and that till this was planted there was no mulberry tree in that neighbourhood’. In 1609 James I had issued instructions to encourage the breeding of silkworms by growing more mulberry trees.

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