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The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Paternal Family Tree: Waller
In 1636 Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne was born to Hardress Waller (age 32).
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 15th March 1661. At the office all the morning. At noon Sir Williams both and I at a great fish dinner at the Dolphin, given us by two tax merchants, and very merry we were till night, and so home. This day my wife and Pall went to see my Baroness Kingston (age 25), her brother's lady.
In 1666 [her father] Hardress Waller (age 62) died at Mont Orgueil, Jersey.
In 1667 William Petty and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne (age 31) were married.
In 1671 Anne Petty Countess Kerry was born to William Petty and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne (age 35). She married 1692 Thomas Fitzmurice 1st Earl Kerry and had issue.
Around 1673 Charles Petty 1st Baron Shelburne was born to William Petty and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne (age 37). He married 1696 Mary Williams Baroness Shelburne.
John Evelyn's Diary. 22nd March 1675. Supped at [her husband] Sir William Petty's, with the Bishop of Salisbury, and divers honorable persons. We had a noble entertainment in a house gloriously furnished; the master and mistress (age 39) of it were extraordinary persons. Sir William was the son of a mean man somewhere in Sussex, and sent from school to Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, but was most eminent in Mathematics and Mechanics; proceeded Doctor of Physic, and was grown famous, as for his learning so for his recovering a poor wench that had been hanged for felony; and her body having been begged (as the custom is) for the anatomy lecture, he bled her, put her to bed to a warm woman, and, with spirits and other means, restored her to life. The young scholars joined and made a little portion, and married her to a man who had several children by her, she living fifteen years after, as I have been assured. Sir William came from Oxford to be tutor to a neighbor of mine; thence, when the rebels were dividing their conquests in Ireland, he was employed by them to measure and set out the land, which he did on an easy contract, so much per acre. This he effected so exactly, that it not only furnished him with a great sum of money; but enabled him to purchase an estate worth £4,000 a year. He afterward married the daughter of [her father] Sir Hardress Waller; she was an extraordinary wit as well as beauty, and a prudent woman.
On 22nd October 1675 Henry Petty 1st Earl Shelburne was born to William Petty and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne (age 39). He married 1699 Arabella Boyle Countess Shelburne, daughter of Charles Boyle 3rd Baron Clifford and Jane Seymour.
On 16th May 1687 [her husband] William Petty died.
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The 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." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 13th December 1688 Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne (age 52) was created 1st Baroness Shelburne for life only by King James II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 55). Her son [her son] Charles Petty 1st Baron Shelburne (age 15) was created 1st Baron Shelburne.
In 1692 [her son-in-law] Thomas Fitzmurice 1st Earl Kerry (age 24) and [her daughter] Anne Petty Countess Kerry (age 21) were married. She the daughter of [her former husband] William Petty and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne (age 56).
In or before 1696 [her son] Charles Petty 1st Baron Shelburne (age 22) and [her daughter-in-law] Mary Williams Baroness Shelburne were married. He the son of [her former husband] William Petty and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne (age 59).
In 1696 [her son] Charles Petty 1st Baron Shelburne (age 23) died.
In 1699 [her son] Henry Petty 1st Earl Shelburne (age 23) and [her daughter-in-law] Arabella Boyle Countess Shelburne (age 28) were married. He the son of [her former husband] William Petty and Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne (age 63).
In February 1708 Elizabeth Waller 1st Baroness Shelburne (age 72) died.
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Waller
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Waller of Groombridge
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Waller of Groombridge
Great x 1 Grandfather: Walter Waller of Groombridge
GrandFather: George Waller
Father: Hardress Waller