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Dr. John Hall & Richard Hall Families THE RAINSFORD FAMILY WITH SIDELIGHTS ON SHAKESPEARE, SOUTHAMPTON, HALL and HART Embracing 1000 years of the RAINSFORD family and their successive partakings in the main lines of national life BY EMILY A. BUCKLAND. “ In winter’s tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales.’ —King Richard II (illorrester: Phillips & Probert, Ltd., The Caxton Press. CHAPTER IX. Dr. John Hall. “ Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let’s choose executors, and talk of Wills ; And yet not so,—for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? , < .AA. .A/, AA. .JA Tv '7V* *75* '7V' Tv* And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.” {King Richard II). C. C. Stopes’ “ Shakespeare’s Contemporaries,” writes :— Dr. Hall married Shakespeare’s daughter, Sus¬ annah, on June. 5th, 1607, he being thirty-two, and she twenty-five ; their only daughter, Elizabeth, was baptized at Stratford-on-Avon, February 21st, 1608. He must have remained on friendly terms with his father-in-law, because he and his wife were left residuary legatees, and the executors of Shakes¬ peare’s Will ; and they proved the Will in London, in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Registry, June, 1616. The Doctor shortly afterwards removed to New Place, and in 1617, and also in 1623, he was elected Burgess (or bailiff) of Stratford-on-Avon, but was excused from that office on account of his pro¬ fessional engagements. In that year, his mother-in- law, Ann Hathaway, died, the love of Shakespeare’s youth, and whom he married December 1582. * * * The affidavit of Shakespeare’s marriage to Ann Hathaway is to be seen in its original Latin form, and also translated into English, in the church of S. Michael, Worcester, now used as the Ecclesiastical Record Office. 164 DR. JOHN HALL The touching ideas of her epitaph were doubt¬ less Susannah’s, put into Latin by Dr. Hall ; they go far to repel the unpleasant suggestions so many writers on Shakespeare have made on Ann Hathaway :— “ Thou, my mother, gavest me life, thy breast and milk ; alas, for such great bounty to me, I shall give thee a stone ; how much rather, I would intreat the good angel to move the stone, so that thy figure might come forth, as did the Body of Christ. But my prayers avail nothing. Come quickly, O Christ. My mother lies closed in the tomb ; she will rise again and seek the stars.” Dr. John Hall was a deeply religious man who felt the constant presence of an ever-living God. He faithfully attended Catholics, Protestants and Puri¬ tans alike, with a devotion that undermined his health. On his tombstone is written:— “ Here lyeth the body of John Hall, Gent. He married Susannah, daughter and co-heiress of William Shakespeare, Gent., and deceased Nov. 25th, Anno 1635, aged 60 years.” It is not known who wrote his epitaph, trans¬ lated as follows :— “Here is interred Hall, most famed in medical art, awaiting the glorious joys of the Kingdom of God. Worthy was he by his deserts, to surpass Nestor in years ; but impartial Time snatches away all men on earth. Lest anything be wanting in the tomb, his most faithful spouse is there ; and he has the companion of life now also in death,” DR. JOHN HALL 165 He had left a house in London to his wife, a house and a meadow in Acton to his daughter Eliza¬ beth ; and his study of books to his son-in-law, Thomas Nash. Elizabeth died before her second husband, Sir John Barnard, and was buried, February 17th, 1669/70 at Abington Northamptonshire. She made a Will leaving him everything for life ; and fully disposed of all her property thereafter to the Harts, the Hathaways and her own friends and relatives. Her second husband did not put up any tombstone to her memory, and on his death in 1674, his children by his first wife, in recording his epitaph, did nothing to commemorate the only daughter of the distinguished Dr. Hall, and the grand-child and last lineal descendant of the much more distinguished William Shakespeare. A brass plate has since been placed in Abington Church by Stanley Cooper, Esq., of Oxford, in remembrance of her. Alfred Ransford, writes in “ Notes and Queries,” October 24th and 31st, 1931, under “ John Hall, Shakespeare’s son-in-law, and Hall of Idlicote,” as follows :— “ Dr. John Hall, Shakespeare’s son-in-law, the distinguished and fashionable physician, who was born in 1575, and died in 1635, is to be identified, without doubt, with the John Hall who matriculated at Oxford from Balliol on February 4th, 1592, being described as a native of Worcestershire, and son of a gentleman, aged sixteen, taking his B.A. degree in 1595, and his M.A. in 1598. (Historical Register of the University of Oxford, i, ii, ii 187, iii 190). It is not known from what part of Worcester¬ shire he came, but this may be indicated with a 166 DR. JOHN HALL. considerable amount of certainty, as the City of Worcester, or its immediate neighbourhood. We learn from the Worcestershire Visitations, Nash’s History of Worcestershire and the Victoria History (Vol: IV) that there was a family of Hall, who lived at Henwick, part of which is now merged in the Borough of Worcester included in Hallow. Branches of this family spread to Bromsgrove, Esbury (East- bury) and Suckley. The Bishops of Worcester held land called Woodhall, which formed part of the Manor of Hallow, until this was confiscated, under the Commonwealth and sold to William Combe in 1648 (? of the Combes of Astley). Suckley Manor, in early times, belonged to the Hungerfords, who were a branch of the Warwick¬ shire Ardens. 'Sir John Hungerford, by his Will dated 1524 (Warwickshire Visitations 176) left Suckley to his son, Sir Anthony Hungerford. In 1571, the Manor was sold to Edward Colles of Leigh. The Halls of Suckley and Lulsley bore the same Arms as the Halls of Henwick. It has been suggested that Dr. John Hall was the son of Richard Hall of Idlicote, but the fact that Dr. John Hall bore a different Coat of Arms from Richard Hall, was felt to be a difficulty. Alfred Ransford proves that they were not father and son, but distant cousins, representing different branches of the same family tree, viz., the Fitz-Williams, who bore the Talbot Arms. An ancestor, Edward Hall, married a Great Tew heiress and discarded his own Arms, the talbots or dogs, and adopted the de Preaux Arms, Argent an eagle displayed gules. DR. JOHN HALL 167 Dr. John Hall was not connected directly with the Tew heiresses, and bears the ancient Arms of the Fitzwilliams, with a difference ; Sable three talbots’ heads erased argent ; still to be seen on his grave¬ stone in Stratford-on-Avon Church, Alfred Ransford continues :— “ Richard Hall, gentleman, of Idlicote, Co. Warwick, who died 22nd August, 1602, and was buried 26th August, as recorded in the Idlicote Parish Registers, bore for his Arms the eagle dis¬ played. In the Gloucestershire Visitations, p. 145, these Arms are ascribed to John Hall, of Idlicote, that Christian name being given in error, ‘ John ’ should read ‘ Richard.’ The Longdon and Cumberland Rainsfords also bore Argent an eagle displayed gules. Richard Hall’s remote ancestors were of Great- ford Hall, Co. Lincolnshire, and bore, according to Robson (Vol. I) Argent a chevron engrailed between three talbots’ heads erased sa. Crest, out of a ducal coronet on a plume of feathers thereon, a demi-lion rampant of the first. According to Burke’s “ Landed Gentry,” Vol I, p. 526, they also bore, Argent a chevron engrailed, between three talbots’ heads erased, sa., a star of six points wavy or. Crest, a talbot’s head, erased, sa., spotted, or. Motto : “ Remember, and forget not.” The Halls of Leices¬ ter bore for their arms, Azure crusily, sa, three talbots’ heads erased, of the last (Robson, Vol. I). Fairbairn’s “ Book of Crests ” (Book II, p. 247) gives for their crest, a talbot’s head, sa. Motto : “Remember, and forget not.” These Leicestershire Halls were descended from those of Worcestershire, trom whom we derive Dr. John Hall, Shakespeare’s 168 DR. JOHN HALL son-in-law. The Halls and Rainsfords were cousins, quartering the same Arms, and living on intimate terms with one another on their respective estates ; Swerford Park, the chief seat of the Halls, and Great Tew Park, the principal seat of the Rainsfords, ad¬ joined. From Swerford Park branches of the Halls spread to South Newenton, Barford St. Michael, about 3 miles north-east of Swerford, Banbury, about 7 miles to the north-east, and Idlicote, Co. Warwick. At the same time with the Halls there were also branches of their Rainsford cousins living at Banbury ; and the intimacy of the two families was increased when, in 1526, William Rains¬ ford, representing a younger branch of the Tew Rainsfords, settled at Clifford Chambers, about 2 miles from Stratford-on-Avon. William Rainsford’s great-grandson, Sir Henry Rainsford, married Ann Goodere (Drayton’s ‘ Idea ’) who was attended by Dr. John Hall.” Mr. E. A. B. Barnard in his recent book,“ New Links with Shakespeare,” tells us that the documents on which his book is based were found in 1925 in an old chest, which for many years had been lying in an upper room at Hanley Court, in the parish of Hanley William, near Tenbury, Co.
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