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Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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Maternal Family Tree: Margaret Ilam 1460
Audrey Gainsford was born to [her father] John Gainsford and [her mother] Audrey Shaa.
In November 1524 [her future husband] George Harper (age 21) and Lucy Peckham (age 20) were married.
In 1533 [her future husband] George Harper (age 29) was appointed Esquire to the Body.
In 1539 [her future husband] George Harper (age 35) was appointed Justice of the Peace Kent.
Before June 1556 George Harper (age 53) and Audrey Gainsford were married.
Before 12th December 1558 [her husband] George Harper (age 55) died.
After 12th December 1558 George Carleton (age 29) and Audrey Gainsford were married.
Before 27th January 1560 Audrey Gainsford died.
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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Henry Machyn's Diary. 27th January 1560. The xxvij day of January was cared from [Black] frers unto sant Martens at Ludgatt to be bered my lade Harper, by her furst hosband ser [her former husband] Gorge Harper knyght, and the wyff of [her husband] master Carlton (age 31), with a pennon of armes, and ij dosen and a d' of skochyons of armes, and re .. mad in the chyrche and hangyd with blake and armes; and haroldes of armes, master Clarenshux (age 50) and master Somersett, [and] mony morners in blake; the cheyff morner was ...
In January 1590 [her former husband] George Carleton (age 61) died.
George Taylor of Lingfield in Surrey and Audrey Gainsford were married.
Father: John Gainsford
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Shaa
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Shaa
GrandFather: John Shaa
Mother: Audrey Shaa
GrandMother: Margaret Ilam