After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was advising the Ottomans during this time and later, it was alleged, that he had been instrumental in persuading the Turks to reject the Russian arguments.

Some Oxfordians believe that Shakespeare acted as a " front man ," receiving the plays from Oxford and pretending to have written them, but others claim that he was simply a merchant from Stratford who had nothing to do with the theatre.

Philip Burton arrived at Stratford to help coach his former charge, and he noted in his memoir that Quayle and Richard Burton had their differences about the interpretation of the Prince Hal role.

Stratford claimed that Edward had violated the laws of the land by arresting royal officers.

The production was considered one of the highlights of a remarkable Stratford season, and led to Gielgud ( who had done little film work to that time ) playing Cassius in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film version.

* Joseph Hawley ( born 1603 in England ; died 1690 ), who had emigrated to America in 1629 and then settled in Stratford in 1650, later becoming Stratford's first town clerk.

It was originally called Hudson Town, after George Hudson, the " Railway King ;", but the settlement quickly became better known as Stratford New Town, which by 1862 had a population of 20, 000.

The 2010 United States Census reported that Stratford had a population of 1, 277.

In 1662, Stratford selectmen Lt. Joseph Judson, Captain Joseph Hawley and John Minor had secured all the written deeds of transfer from the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation for this vast territory that comprises the present-day towns of Trumbull, Shelton and Monroe.

Perrott then intended to sell the navigation, but when the Stratford Canal was being promoted, he had a clause inserted into the Bill to force the Worcester and Birmingham Canal to make payments to him in view of the expected drop in tolls that the Navigation would experience.

Meanwhile, the Upper Avon Navigation between Stratford and Evesham was owned by relatives of Lord Windsor, who had died in 1758, and its condition gradually deteriorated.

By 1962, LANT had raised over £ 50, 000, the 7 locks from Tewkesbury to Evesham were restored to working order, re-opening the Lower Avon, and plans were already being made to rebuild Evesham Town Lock and press on towards Stratford.

The other waterway to Stratford, the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, had been restored by the National Trust and was opened by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother exactly a month later, and her involvement caught the public's imagination.

The project, which involved the construction of nine new locks, reopening a navigation which had been derelict for over 100 years, was completed on 1 June 1974, when Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother returned to Stratford to declare it open.

By the late 1930s the southern section had become derelict, although a water supply was maintained, which the GWR used to supply its engine shed in Stratford.

When, in 1953 Theatre Workshop decided relocate to Stratford, London, MacColl, who had opposed that move, left the company and changed the focus of his career from acting and playwriting to singing and composing folk and topical songs.

He finally graduated from RADA in 1953 ; whilst there he had been offered ' spear-carrying ' roles at Stratford and he stayed there for 13 years, soon graduating to more significant roles and abandoning plans to move on after Peter Hall founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960.

Her stage career flourished after the war, and as a Shakespearean leading lady at Stratford, in London's West End and on tour in Australia, she had her pick of star parts.

Dick had recently moved to Stratford-upon-Avon, and took the bold decision to move the company from Aston to brand new premises on Masons Road, Stratford.

The same cast had previously performed the play at Canada's Stratford Festival ; Wellington essentially filmed the stage production without significant changes.

In 1662, Stratford selectmen Lt. Joseph Judson, Captain Joseph Hawley and John Minor had secured all the written deeds of transfer from the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation for this vast territory that comprises the present-day towns of Trumbull, Shelton and Monroe.

The section south of Stratford had always been the Cinderella end of the line, when there were operating problems it was common for trains to be turned short at Stratford.

Stratford was one of three ancient wards in the large parish of West Ham, in the Becontree hundred of Essex.

On returning to England in 1658, Lee bought land in Stratford, and in 1662 was recorded as owning a large house there.

In accordance with the government plans to boost housing supply, due to the rising population, there has been an increase in new housing developments in Aston Clinton: The Burnhams ( 19 dwellings ), Stratford Close ( 20 dwellings, 28 flats near the surgery, four detached houses to the south of London Road Pavilion Gardens ( 14 dwellings ) and The Willows ( three large detached houses ).

Stratford station is a large multilevel railway station in Stratford, east London.

There are also many well-known supermarkets that are accessible down the Stratford Road which include Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Iceland and a large Tesco superstore.

While used in East Anglia, with locos allocated to Stratford and March depots, they were found throughout the Eastern Region of BR with Finsbury Park sporting a large allocation along with the depots at Tinsley, Immingham and Thornaby.

In 1879, a large monument was erected in St John's churchyard in Stratford Broadway, to commemorate the thirteen and others who were executed or tortured in Stratford during the persecutions.

The river then forms a boundary for the Macallister Irrigation District, with Nuntin Creek joining 10 km below Stratford contributing a large amount of irrigation drainage to the river.

Many of the main access points to the station and some of the ( somewhat large ) parking areas are located in neighboring Stratford.

Jimmy Winston ( born James Edward Winston Langwith, 20 April 1945, Stratford, east London ) was the original keyboard player with Small Faces who rehearsed in the large function room above the Ruskin Arms, Manor Park, of which Jimmy's father Bill Langwith was the landlord.

The shopping centre is part of a large multi-purpose development project called Stratford City.

Westfield Stratford City has been reported to be the first large scale use of Pavegen floor tiles to harness kinetic energy.

Such a list would include towns famous for theatrical events ( Stratford, Niagara on the Lake ), musical events ( Tanglewood, Woodstock ), high concentrations of artisans working in one artistic area ( Nelsonville, Ohio ; Northport, Alabama ; Portland, Maine ; Oxford, Mississippi ); or which host large numbers of artists, actors, or writers ( Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Northampton, Provincetown, in Massachusetts ).

The most recognized arts towns in Canada are: Stratford, Ontario, home of the Stratford Festival of Canada and a large Shakespearean theatrical community ; and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, home of the Shaw Festival, preserving the work of George Bernard Shaw and other Edwardian playwrights, such as Galsworthy, restored 18th and 19th century buildings with historical interpretation ; and classes in costume and drama, academic conferences, and year round arts initiatives, all in a town with five museums and a population under 14, 000.

It breached the defences by Gunnings Bridge in Alcester and a large torrent of water flowed through the town and made a lake at the bottom of the High Street and Stratford Road.

Along with the new Stratford Junior High School, it helped usher in a wave of contemporary commercial and school architecture that defined much of Arlington until the 1980s.

In 1939, one of the world's first successful commercial helicopters was developed in Stratford by Igor Sikorsky and flown at his plant.

* The Connecticut School of Broadcasting maintains a location in Stratford and certifies students in television anchoring, commercial radio performance and journalism.

" Factory after factory was erected on the marshy wastes of Stratford and Plaistow, and it only required the construction at Canning Town of the Victoria and Albert Docks to make the once desolate parish of West Ham a manufacturing and commercial centre of the first importance and to bring upon it a teeming and an industrious population.