November 28: Shagspeare-Hathwey Bond Posted
On 28 November 1582, a bond of £40 was posted to allow for an expedited marriage between William Shagspeare and Anne Hathwey. William was 18 years old. Because he had not yet reached the age of majority, William needed his father’s permission to marry. Anne was 26; well above the age when most women at the time had already married.
In sixteenth century England, for a couple like William and Anne, the first formal action was traditionally Crying the Banns. This was when the couple announced their intention to marry. Crying the Banns would be done on three consecutive Sundays to give time for anyone to come forward who had objections or knew of impediments the marriage. However, it was possible for a couple to speed up the process by posting a bond—as William and Anne did. When the bond was posted, the Crying of the Banns only needed to be done once.
One of the reasons a couple would want to post a bond was if the woman was pregnant; something that was estimated to be the case of up to 30% of marriages at the time William and Anne posted their bond. Anne’s pregnancy was one of the reasons that the couple posted a bond for an expedited marriage. Another reason is that church law prevented marriages from taking place from Advent Sunday—which in 1582 was December 2—until the middle of January. The pregnant Anne could not delay her wedding that long.
As PBS explains, William Shagspeare looked “like a perfect candidate for the Jerry Springer show. He is a teenage father, perhaps pressured into marrying his older wife, living with her and their child in the cramped family home, without a job and unable now to go to university or take up an apprenticeship.”
William’s prospects did look grim. However, before his death on 23 April 1616, William Shakespeare would become a distinguished playwright and poet. Anne would survive her husband by seven years and died on 6 August 1623.
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Photo Caption: Title page of the First Folio by William Shakespeare. 1623. The engraving is by Martin Droeshout.
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This story is pretty scandalous! I really enjoyed it. incidents like that have been happening all throughout history. i never William Shagspeare was in one!