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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Before 1478 [his father] Richard Chamberlayne of Shirburn [aged 39] and [his mother] Sybilla Fowler [aged 29] were married.
Around 1484 Edward Chamberlayne was born to Richard Chamberlayne of Shirburn [aged 46] and Sybilla Fowler [aged 35].
On 28th August 1496 [his father] Richard Chamberlayne of Shirburn [aged 58] died.
Before 1504 Edward Chamberlayne [aged 19] and Cecily Verney [aged 18] were married.
Before 1504 [his son] Leonard Chamberlain was born to Edward Chamberlayne [aged 19]. He married (1) before 1533 Dorothy Newdigate (2) before 20th November 1552 Margery Unknown (3) before 29th November 1554 Dorothy Andrews of Woodstock (4) after 5th May 1557 Anne Blount.
In 1509 Edward Chamberlayne [aged 25] was appointed Esquire to the Body.
In July 1517 Edward Chamberlayne [aged 33] served at a Royal Banquet at Greenwich, Kent [Map].
In June 1520 Henry VIII [aged 28] hosted Field of the Cloth of Gold at Balinghem [Map].
Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset [aged 42] carried the Sword of State.
Bishop John Stokesley [aged 45] attended as Henry VIII's chaplain.
Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye [aged 36], Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth [aged 42], Anthony Poyntz [aged 40], William Coffin [aged 25], William "Great" Courtenay [aged 43], Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex [aged 37], William Paston [aged 41], William Denys [aged 50], Richard Cecil [aged 25], William Parr 1st Baron Parr of Horton [aged 37], Ralph Neville 4th Earl of Westmoreland [aged 22], John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt [aged 40], Henry Guildford [aged 31], Marmaduke Constable [aged 40], William Compton [aged 38], William Blount 4th Baron Mountjoy [aged 42], Thomas Cheney [aged 35], Henry Willoughby [aged 69], John Rodney [aged 59], John Marney 2nd Baron Marney [aged 36], William Sidney [aged 38], John de Vere 14th Earl of Oxford [aged 20], John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford [aged 49], Edmund Walsingham [aged 40], William Skeffington [aged 55] and Thomas West 8th Baron De La Warr 5th Baron West [aged 63] attended.
William Carey [aged 20] jousted.
William Sandys 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne [aged 50] organised.
Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford [aged 15] attended.
Thomas Brooke 8th Baron Cobham [aged 50], Robert Willoughby 2nd Baron Willoughby 10th Baron Latimer [aged 48], Anthony Wingfield [aged 33], William Scott [aged 61], Thomas Wriothesley [aged 32], Bishop Thomas Ruthall [aged 48], Margaret Dymoke aka Mistress Coffin [aged 20] and Edward Chamberlayne [aged 36] were present.
In 1525 [his mother] Sybilla Fowler [aged 76] died.
In 1529 Edward Chamberlayne [aged 45] was elected MP Wallingford.
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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Before 1533 [his son] Leonard Chamberlain [aged 29] and [his daughter-in-law] Dorothy Newdigate [aged 27] were married.
Letters and Papers. 7th January 1536. R. O. St. P. I. 452. 37. Sir Edward Chamberleyn [aged 52] and Sir Edm. Bedyngfeld [aged 57] to Cromwell [aged 51].
This 7th Jan., about 10 a.m., the Lady Dowager [aged 50] was annealed with the Holy ointment, Chamberleyn and Bedyngfeld being summoned, and before 2 p.m. she died. Wishes1 to know the King's [aged 44] pleasure concerning the house, servants, and other things. The groom of the Chamber here can cere her. Will send for a plumber to close the body in lead.
Note 1. The letter, though signed by two, is written throughout in the first person singular,— apparently by Bedingfield, who was steward of Catharine's household, though he signs second.
Around 1543 Edward Chamberlayne [aged 59] died.
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Chamberlain
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Chamberlain
GrandFather: Richard Chamberlain
Father: Richard Chamberlayne of Shirburn
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Knyvet 
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Knyvet
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Knyvet
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Botetort
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Botetort
GrandMother: Margaret Knyvet
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Clifton 
GrandFather: Richard Fowler
Mother: Sybilla Fowler
Great x 4 Grandfather: Simon Danvers 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Danvers
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Danvers
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Danvers
GrandMother: Joan Danvers