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Title
Memorial to John Heminge (1566–1630) and Henry Condell (1576 baptised–1627) (with William Shakespeare, 1564–1616)
Date
1895
Medium
bronze & stone
Accession number
EC2V_AY_S048
Acquisition method
donated by Charles Clement Walker of Shropshire
Work type
Bust
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Listing date
05/06/72
Access
at all times
Signature/marks description
back of bust:CHAS J ALLEN, SC 1895
Inscription description
inscribed on plinth just below bust: SHAKESPEARE; below is an open book with a small scroll above; on the scroll is: THE FIRST FOLIO; on the left page of the open book: MR WILLIAM / SHAKESPEARE'S / COMEDIES, / HISTORIES, & / TRAGEDIES, / Published according / to the True / Originall Copies, / LONDON / 1623; on the right page of the open book: We have but collected / them and done an / office to the dead . . . / without ambition either / of ſelfe-profit or fame; / onely to keepe the / memory of ſo worthy / a Friend & Fellowe alive / as was our SHAKESPEARE. / JOHN HEMINGE / HENRY CONDELL; on a plaque attached to the west face of the plinth: TO THE MEMORY OF / JOHN HEMINGE / AND / HENRY CONDELL / FELLOW ACTORS / AND PERSONAL FRIENDS / OF SHAKESPEARE / THEY LIVED MANY YEARS IN THIS / PARISH AND ARE BURIED HERE / TO THEIR DISINTERESTED AFFECTION / THE WORLD OWES ALL / THAT IT CALLS SHAKESPEARE / THEY ALONE / COLLECTED HIS DRAMATIC WRITINGS / REGARDLESS OF PECUNIARY LOSS / AND WITHOUT THE HOPE OF ANY PROFIT / GAVE THEM TO THE WORLD / THEY THUS MERITED / THE GRATITUDE OF MANKIND; at the bottom of the plinth: GIVEN TO THE NATION BY CHARLES CLEMENT WALKER ESQR/ LILLESHALL OLD HALL, SHROPSHIRE; on a plaque attached to the north face of the plinth: THE FAME OF SHAKESPEARE / RESTS ON HIS INCOMPARABLE DRAMAS / THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT HE EVER / INTENDED TO PUBLISH THEM / AND HIS PREMATURE DEATH IN 1616 / MADE THIS THE INTEREST OF NO ONE ELSE. / HEMINGE AND CONDELL / HAD BEEN CO-PARTNERS WITH HIM / IN THE GLOBE THEATRE SOUTHWARK, / AND FROM THE ACCUMULATED PLAYS THERE / OF THIRTY FIVE YEARS / WITH GREAT LABOUR SELECTED THEM / NO MEN THEN LIVING WERE SO COMPETENT / HAVING ACTED WITH HIM / IN THEM FOR MANY YEARS / AND WELL KNOWING HIS MANUSCRIPTS/ THEY WERE PUBLISHED IN 1623 IN FOLIO / THUS GIVING AWAY / THEIR PRIVATE RIGHTS THEREIN. / WHAT THEY DID WAS PRICELESS. / FOR THE WHOLE OF HIS MANUSCRIPTS / WITH ALMOST ALL THOSE OF THE DRAMAS / OF THE PERIOD HAVE PERISHED; on a plaque attached to the east face of the plinth: JOHN HEMINGE / LIVED IN THIS PARISH / UPWARDS OF FORTY TWO YEARS / AND IN WHICH HE WAS MARRIED / HE HAD FOURTEEN CHILDREN / THIRTEEN OF WHOM WERE BAPTIZED / FOUR BURIED, AND ONE MARRIED HERE / HE WAS BURIED HERE / OCTOBER 12 1630. / HIS WIFE WAS ALSO BURIED HERE. / HENRY CONDELL / LIVED IN THIS PARISH / UPWARDS OF THIRTY YEARS / HE HAD NINE CHILDREN / EIGHT OF WHOM WERE BAPTIZED HERE / AND SIX BURIED / HE WAS BURIED HERE / DECEMBER 29 1627. / HIS WIFE WAS ALSO BURIED HERE. / "LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT / BE THY COUNTRY'S THY GOD'S AND TRUTH'S" / HENRY VIII ACT 3 SCENE 2.