| Shakespeare’s Baptism Day |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.137 Friday, 30 March 2012
[1] From: Ward Elliott < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: March 29, 2012 2:14:56 PM EDT Subject: RE: SHAKSPER: KDC/RSC; Baptism; Fat
[2] From: Carol Barton < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: March 29, 2012 2:19:19 PM EDT Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: KDC/RSC; Baptism; Fat
[3] From: John Briggs < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: March 29, 2012 4:57:43 PM EDT Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Shakespeare’s Baptism Day
[4] From: Kelly Rivers < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: March 29, 2012 6:50:35 PM EDT Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: KDC/RSC; Baptism; Fat
[1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ward Elliott < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: March 29, 2012 2:14:56 PM EDT Subject: RE: SHAKSPER: KDC/RSC; Baptism; Fat
Google What day was I born? If it’s right, Shakespeare was baptized on a Wednesday and, therefore, supposed to have been born on a Sunday three days earlier.
But the child born on the Sabbath Day,
Ward Elliott
[2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Carol Barton < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: March 29, 2012 2:19:19 PM EDT Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: KDC/RSC; Baptism; Fat
In response to Hannibal’s inquiry: it was a Sunday. See http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html.
Best to all, Carol Barton
[3]------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Briggs < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: March 29, 2012 4:57:43 PM EDT Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Shakespeare’s Baptism Day
Hannibal Hamlin wrote:
>A quick question that someone surely has an answer for. > >What day of the week was April 26, 1564 (the day Shakespeare >was baptised)?
Wednesday, as I mentioned in my letter to the TLS two weeks ago :-)
John Briggs
[4]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kelly Rivers < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: March 29, 2012 6:50:35 PM EDT Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: KDC/RSC; Baptism; Fat
It was a Sunday.
Kelly Rivers Instructor Pellissippi State Community College
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