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Temple Grafton

Temple Grafton,
one of the ‘Shakespeare villages’, 5 miles (8 km) west of Stratford. On her marriage, Anne Hathaway was described as being ‘of Temple Grafton’. A conjectured explanation is that the marriage took place there. If so it is likely to have been performed by the vicar John Frith, described in a Puritan survey of 1576 as ‘an old priest and unsound in religion’ (implying that he was a Catholic), who ‘can neither preach nor read well’, and whose ‘chiefest trade is to cure hawks that are hurt or diseased, for which purpose many do usually repair to him’.

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