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​D'AVENANT, Sir WILLIAM (1606–1668), poet and dramatist, born in Oxford at the latter end of February 1605–6, was baptised at St.

Martin's Church in that city 3 March in the same year. He was the second son of John D'Avenant, vintner and proprietor of a hostelry subsequently known as the Crown tavern. John D'Avenant was a man of reputation.

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At his death in 1621 he was mayor of Oxford. By his will, proved 21 Oct. 1622, which was printed in a very limited edition in 1866 by Mr. J. O. Halliwell (Phillipps), it is provided that the inn is to be kept open as a tavern for the better relief of his ​children, and that two of his youngest daughters shall keep the bar by turns.

With regard to his second son (William), he wills that ‘he shall be put to prentice to some good marchant or other tradesman.’ Besides William, John D'Avenant had three sons—Robert (a fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, preferred to t