SHAKESPEARE MULBERRY TREE .
This was planted by Garrick in the garden of East Cliff-house, (being a cutting from the one at Stratford-on-Avon,) when on a visit to his friend, Mr. Capel. Most of the mulberry trees in Hastings are shoots from the same .
SIR CLOUDESLY SHOVELL,
said to be a native of Hastings, was born in 1650. The house in which he lived stood on the spot now occupied by 117, [[All Saints Street|All Saints-street==, and was taken down in 1838. Entick, in his Naval History, says, his parents were in low circumstances, and having a relation of the name of Cloudesly, they bestowed that name upon their son, in hopes of recommending him to the notice of the said relation ; but this failing, he was put apprentice to a shoemaker, but taking a great liking to the sea, he went as a cabin boy under the protection of Sir Christopher Mynns.
The monument erected to his memory by Queen Anne in Westminster Abbey, states that " He was shipwrecked on the rocks of Scilly, in his voyage from Toulon, the 22nd October, 1707, at night, in the 57th year of his age. His body was flung on the shore, and buried with others in the sands ; but being soon after taken up, was placed under this monument, which his royal mistress has caused to be erected, to commemorate his steady loyalty and extraordinary virtues."
