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		<title>Was John Shakspere a dissident nonconformist?</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2011/07/21/was-john-shakspere-a-dissident-nonconformist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a book titled Shakespeare, Puritan and Recusant, published in 1897, author Thomas Carter makes a convincing argument that the apparent troubles brought on the Shakspere family beginning around 1576 were due neither to Catholicism nor debt, but to John &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2011/07/21/was-john-shakspere-a-dissident-nonconformist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=4237&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I didn&#8217;t review Shapiro</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t review Shapiro because I didn&#8217;t read his book. I used to pay attention to Stratfordians.  I’d argue with them, pointing out the holes in their logic, pointing to the facts, the “smoking guns,” that require a courtier, a &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2010/06/04/why-i-didnt-review-shapiro/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=3045&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evidence for Oxford&#8217;s childhood with Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it so important to know exactly when de Vere came to live with Sir Thomas Smith? Sometimes a single fact can become the key to an entire period in history, with an inverted pyramid of evidence demanding a &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2010/02/09/evidence-for-oxfords-childhood-with-smith/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=2554&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More nine-inch nails in the Stratford coffin</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2010/01/16/more-nine-inch-nails-in-the-stratford-coffin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of the overwhelming evidence for Oxford as Shakespeare can be found in the eight years he spent with his tutor, Sir Thomas Smith, from age 4 to 12.  Not only did Smith own most of the important works that &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2010/01/16/more-nine-inch-nails-in-the-stratford-coffin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=2455&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Bringing in the May&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2009/05/04/bringing-in-the-may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luckily for literature, Oxford spent the early years of his childhood in the upper Thames valley , one of the last areas where there is evidence that some of these ancient “merrymaking” rituals still held sway).  Though condemned by Edward VI, during de Vere’s years in the Smith household at Ankerwyke, it seems the old ways had one final fling under Catholic Mary.  <a href="http://politicworm.com/2009/05/04/bringing-in-the-may/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=488&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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