 His spirit was broken, he obeyed and soon after, in February 1677, he died.In 1675, on the death of Shakespeare’s granddaughter Lady Barnard, he had bought New Place in Stratford upon Avon, The house originally built by Sir Hugh Clopton in 1483/85, purchased by the poet in 1597.Walker was buried in Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, where a Latin epitaph on the wall of the Lady Chapel commemorates him.