Did William shakespeare's father get fined?

Answer 1

Not exactly. On 29 April 1552, the town records of Stratford record that John Shakespeare was fined a shilling, along with Humphrey Reynolds and Adrian Quiney, for making an unauthorised dunghill - sterquinarium, or midden heap - in front of the house of a neighbour, the wheelwright William Chambers. The law recorded that he ought to have dumped his sewage on the communal muck-hill at the rural end of Henley Street. Mr. Shakespeare knew enough not to start a pit of excrement outside of his own house. Phew!

Answer 2

Yes, indeed. He and some others built their sewage disposal (which was basically a hole they dumped sewage into) really close to a neighbour's house. The neighbour complained and as a result John Shakespeare and the others were fined (and presumably told that they had to cart it to the end of the street from then on).

Answer 3

Hey, Shakespeare's father was no fool. He wouldn't make a dunghill outside his own house. He (and some other guys) made it outside a neighbour's house. The neighbour complained and Mr. Shakespeare was fined.

Answer 4

Not quite. When you flush the toilet, it goes down the drain, but they didn't have flushable toilets in Shakespeare's day. When you did your business it was dumped in a pit down the street later. Shakespeare's dad and some of his neighbours got tired of going all the way to the end of the street to dump out the potty, so they built a new pit--right in front of a neighbour's house! Whether they did it because they were lazy or because they didn't like the neighbour I don't know, but they did get fined for it.

Answer 5

Yes, he and several others were fined for creating a midden (a sewage pit) right next to a neighbour's house. The neighbour not surprisingly complained and the offenders were forced to pay a fine.

Answer 6

Yes, partly. He was fined (along with others) for building a sewage pit (a midden) outside a neighbour's house, not outside his own. The neighbour complained, hence the fines.

Answer 7

Actually, it was worse, because he made the dunghill outside his neighbour's house! The neighbour complained, and who can blame him?

Answer 8

Unfortunately it was outside his neighbour's house, not Mr. Shakespeare's. The neighbour complained about it, hence the fine.

Answer 9

yes