Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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Allen Apsley and Anne Carew were married.
In 1567 Allen Apsley was born to [his father] John Apsley.
On 9th December 1599 Francis Wenman was born to Francis Wenman of Caswell. He was born posthumously three months after his father's death. He became the ward of Allen Apsley (age 32). He married in or before 1630 Anne Sandys and had issue.
On 5th June 1605 Allen Apsley (age 38) was knighted at Ireland.
On 23rd October 1615 Allen Apsley (age 48) and Lucy St John (age 22) were married at St Ann Blackfriars Church. The difference in their ages was 26 years.
In 1616 [his son] Captain Allen Apsley was born to Allen Apsley (age 49) and [his wife] Lucy St John (age 23). He married 1645 Frances Petre and had issue.
On 3rd March 1617 Allen Apsley (age 50) was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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Letters of the Court of James I 1618. 20th October 1618. London. Reverend Thomas Lorkin to Thomas Puckering 1st Baronet (age 26).
What I wrote concerning Sir Fulk Greville (age 64), the last week, holds current still; there is some alteration about his successor; for, instead of Sir Allen Apsley (age 51), they now nominate Sir Henry Spiller to be the only man. I formerly signified how his majesty, upon good grounds, had forbidden the French agent the court. To pay us back in the same coin (though not upon so just a cause), the French king hath dismissed, likewise, Mr. Becher, and means, as we hear, to second that disgust by another of more importance, the cashiering of the Scots guard.
In 1620 Allen Apsley (age 53) founded as New England Company.
In 1620 [his daughter] Lucy Apsley was born to Allen Apsley (age 53) and [his wife] Lucy St John (age 27). She married John Hutchinson.
On 24th May 1630 Allen Apsley (age 63) died.
On 11th October 1658 [his former wife] Lucy St John (age 65) died.