This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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Paternal Family Tree: Lubbock
In 1833 [his father] John Lubbock 3rd Baronet [aged 29] and [his mother] Harriet Hotham [aged 22] were married. They had eleven children.
On 30th April 1834 John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury was born to John Lubbock 3rd Baronet [aged 31] and Harriet Hotham [aged 23].
On 22nd October 1840 [his grandfather] John Lubbock 2nd Baronet [aged 66] died. His son [his father] John [aged 37] succeeded 3rd Baronet Lubbock of Lammas in Norfolk.
On 10th April 1856 John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 21] and Ellen Frances Horden Lady Lubbock were married.
On 4th October 1858 [his son] John Lubbock 2nd Baron Avebury was born to John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 24] and [his wife] Ellen Frances Horden Lady Lubbock.
On 16th December 1861 [his son] Norman Lubbock was born to John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 27] and [his wife] Ellen Frances Horden Lady Lubbock. He married 2nd April 1919 his first cousin Edith Harriet Lubbock.
On 21st June 1865 [his father] John Lubbock 3rd Baronet [aged 62] died. His son John [aged 31] succeeded 4th Baronet Lubbock of Lammas in Norfolk. [his wife] Ellen Frances Horden Lady Lubbock by marriage Lady Lubbock of Lammas in Norfolk.
Nænia Cornubiæ by William Borlase Lanyon Cromlech. Coming further South the combined researches of Sir R. C. Hoare and Thomas Bateman, Esq., tabulated by Sir John Lubbock [aged 37], show that out of some 500 interments explored with care, only thirty-seven were extended, while 112 were contracted, the rest being burnt.
On 12th February 1873 [his mother] Harriet Hotham [aged 62] died.
Around 1875 John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 40] bought Silbury Hill [Map] and certain lands within or near the Circle in order to prevent further damage to the stones.
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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John Lubbock 1879. Arbor Low [Map]1 By Sir John Lubbock [aged 44], Bart., M.P., F.R.S., F.S.A.
Note 1. I have to express my profound indebtedness to Sir John Lubbock, for permitting the "Reliquary" to be the medium of giving to the antiquarian world this important paper, read by him, on the spot-at Arbor Low itself-before the Members of the British Association, on the 23rd of August, in the present autumn. Sir John in the hand, placed his MS. in my hands for publication, and I feel that by so doing he has not only conferred a favour on myself, but a great boon on all of archæology. L. JEWITT [aged 62].
On 17th May 1884 [his wife] Ellen Frances Horden Lady Lubbock died.
On 17th May 1884 John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 50] and Alice Lane Fox-Pitt Baroness Avebury [aged 22] were married. She by marriage Lady Lubbock of Lammas in Norfolk. The difference in their ages was 27 years. She the daughter of Augustus Henry Fox Pitt-Rivers [aged 57] and Alice Margaret Stanley [aged 56].
On 30th March 1886 [his daughter] Irene Lubbock was born to John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 51] and [his wife] Alice Lane Fox-Pitt Baroness Avebury [aged 24] She married 5th December 1905 Edward Henry Pelham.
On 10th June 1888 [his son] Captain Harold Fox-Pitt Lubbock was born to John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 54] and [his wife] Alice Lane Fox-Pitt Baroness Avebury [aged 26] at 39 Berkeley Square, Mayfair. He married 10th June 1914 Dorothy Charlotte Forster Baroness Wardington and had issue.
On 10th June 1888 [his son] Eric Fox Pitt Lubbock was born to John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 54] and [his wife] Alice Lane Fox-Pitt Baroness Avebury [aged 26].
The London Gazette 27156. Whitehall, January 22, 1900. The Queen [aged 80] has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom unto the Right Honourable Sir John Lubbock [aged 65], of Lamas [Map], in the county of Norfolk, High Elms [Map], in the county of Kent, and Avebury [Map], in the county of Wilts, Bart, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Avebury, of Avebury, in the county of Wilts. [[his wife] Alice Lane Fox-Pitt Baroness Avebury [aged 38] by marriage Baroness Avebury of Avebury in Wiltshire.]
On 17th October 1900 [his son] Maurice Fox Pitt Lubbock was born to John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 66] and [his wife] Alice Lane Fox-Pitt Baroness Avebury [aged 38]. He married 9th January 1926 his second cousin Mary Katherine Adelaide Stanley, daughter of Arthur Stanley 5th Baron Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield, 4th Baron Eddisbury, and had issue.
On 5th December 1905 [his son-in-law] Edward Henry Pelham [aged 28] and [his daughter] Irene Lubbock [aged 19] were married.
1911. Hubert Von Herkomer [aged 61]. Portrait of John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 76].
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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Before 1913. John Collier [aged 62]. Portrait of John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 78].
On 28th May 1913 John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 79] died. His son John [aged 54] succeeded 2nd Baron Avebury of Avebury in Wiltshire, 5th Baronet Lubbock of Lammas in Norfolk.
On 11th March 1947 [his former wife] Alice Lane Fox-Pitt Baroness Avebury [aged 85] died.
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Lubbock
Great x 2 Grandfather: Reverend William Lubbock
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Webster
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Lubbock
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cooper
GrandFather: John Lubbock 2nd Baronet
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Woodrow of Hobis in Norfolk
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Woodrow
Father: John Lubbock 3rd Baronet
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Entwistle of Rusholme in Manchester
GrandMother: Mary Entwistle
John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury
Mother: Harriet Hotham 