=Page 32.=--_A chantry._ A church or a chapel (as here) endowed with lands or other revenues for the maintenance of one or more priests to sing or say mass daily for the soul of the donor or the souls of persons named by him. Cf. _Henry V._ iv. 1. 318:-- "I have built Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests Sing still for Richard's soul." =Page 40.=--_Present her at the leet, etc._ Complain of her for using common stone jugs instead of the quart-pots duly sealed or stamped as being of legal size. _A substantial ducking-stool, etc._ The _ducking-stool_ was kept up as a punishment for scolds in some parts of England until late in the 18th century. An antiquary, writing about 1780, tells of seeing it used at Magdalen bridge in Cambridge. He says: "The chair hung by a pulley fastened to a beam about the middle of the bridge; and the woman having been fastened in the chair, she was let under water three times successively, and then taken out.... The ducking-stool was constantly hanging in its place, and on the back panel of it was an engraving representing devils laying hold of scolds. Some time after, a new chair was erected in the place of the old one, having the same device carved on it, and well painted and ornamented." =Page 41.=--_Butts._ Places for the practice of archery, the _butts_ being properly the targets. =Page 45.=--_Pinfold._ Shakespeare uses the word in _The Two Gentlemen of Verona_ (i. 1. 114): "I mean the pound--a pinfold"; and in _Lear_ (ii. 2. 9): "in Lipsbury pinfold." It was so called because stray beasts were _pinned_ or shut up in it. =Page 46.=--_One wagon tract._ That is, track. _Tract_ in this sense is obsolete. =Page 49.=--_In which William Shakespeare was probably born._ We have no positive information on this point; but we know that John Shakespeare resided in Henley Street in 1552, and that he became the owner of this house at some time before 1590. The tradition that this was the poet's birthplace is ancient and has never been disproved. Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, one of the most careful and conservative of critics, says: "There can be no doubt that from the earliest period at which we have, or are likely to have, a record of the fact, it was the tradition of Stratford that the birthplace is correctly so designated"; and he himself accepts the tradition as almost certainly founded upon fact. The cut facing page 50, like that facing page 56, gives an idea of the interior appearance of these old houses. The room in which tradition says that Shakespeare was born is the front room on the second floor (what English people call the "first floor"), at the left-hand side of the house as seen in the cut on page 49.