Bellott v. Mountjoy
Bellott v. Mountjoy ("v." Or "v" for Latin "versus", German "against") was a legal battle at the Court of Requests in Westminster on May 11, 1612, in which William Shakespeare was heard as a witness.
Stephen Bellott sued his father-in-law, Christopher Mountjoy, for the outstanding £ 60 dowry agreed upon his marriage to Mary Mountjoy in 1604 and a promised £ 200 gift in Mountjoy's will.
The trial files were discovered in 1909 by Charles William Wallace and his wife Hulda and published in Nebraska University Studies in 1910 . Shakespeare is mentioned several times in it and also signed his statement. The files show that Shakespeare lived as a tenant in Mountjoy's house at the intersection of Silver and Monkwell Streets by Cripplegate , London , in 1604 . Witnesses testified that Shakespeare was involved in negotiating the dowry in 1604. Several people are named with whom Shakespeare was known, including George Wilkins , with whom Shakespeare is said to have worked.
During the trial, Shakespeare admitted that he was involved in the negotiations at the time but could no longer remember the details. The Court referred the case to then head of the Huguenot church in London, the Bellott 20 Nobel zusprach, which is just over £ 6. A year later, however, Montjoy had not yet paid.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bill Bryson : Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (German Shakespeare - as I see him ) (2007) - first chapter
- ^ FE Halliday : A Shakespeare Companion 1564-1964 (1964) - pages 59-60
- ^ Daniel Kornstein: Kill All the Lawyers? Shakespeare's Legal Appeal (2005) - pages 18-19