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. ebts and Troubles The Privy Council clamped down on broggers and suspended licensed wool-dealing. John Shakespeare fell into debt and mortgaged some of his property. He stopped attending Anglican services, claiming to be afraid of meeting creditors - and he may also have declared his faith as a Catholic. His application to the Heralds' College for a coat of arms was rejected , and he was eventually expelled from the Stratford council for absenteeism. Will was by now attending the local grammar school and doing his bit to maintain the family honour.
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choolDays Then the whining schoofboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. As You Like It, ll.vii.145-7 In Elizabethan England, the grammar school day ran from 6:00 in the morning until 5:30 in the afternoon, six days a week. Lessons were spent learning Latin, translating to and from Latin, and memorizing and reciting Latin poetry and prose. zz zzz .... -- Will spent probably eight years studying Latin, covering grammar, logic, rhetoric, the drama of Terence and Plautus, Virgil, and Ovid's Metamorphoses, a favourite.

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. ebts and Troubles

The Privy Council clamped down on broggers and suspended licensed wool-dealing. John Shakespeare fell into debt and mortgaged some of his property. He stopped attending Anglican services, claiming to be afraid of meeting creditors - and he may also have declared his faith as a Catholic. His application to the Heralds' College for a coat of arms was rejected , and he was eventually expelled from the Stratford council for absenteeism.

Will was by now attending the local grammar school and doing his bit to maintain the family honour.

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