Southwark Cathedral

This guide to Southwark Cathedral in London threads together two burials weeks apart in 1607: the baptism of young John Harvard, whose gift later founded Harvard University, and the burial of Edmund Shakespeare, William's younger brother, who came to London chasing a stage career of his own. It traces the details behind each record, the shillings paid for Edmund's funeral bell, and the priory that has stood on this riverbank since 1106, beneath Gothic arches built in the thirteenth century.