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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Martha Briggs was born to Robert Briggs Merchant of St. Paul's Churchyard London.
Before 1659 Richard Spencer [aged 54] and Martha Briggs were married.
In 1659 [her daughter] Martha Spencer was born to [her husband] Richard Spencer [aged 54] and Martha Briggs. She married 24th February 1680 John The Younger Evelyn, son of John Evelyn and Mary Browne, and had issue.
On 10th October 1668 [her husband] Richard Spencer [aged 63] died.
On or after 10th October 1668 John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet [aged 29] and Martha Briggs were married. The license was dated 10th October 1668.
Around 1672 [her son] John Stonhouse 3rd Baronet was born to [her husband] John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet [aged 33] and Martha Briggs. He married (1) before 28th August 1697 Mary Mellish and had issue (2) in or before 1705 Penelope Dashwood, daughter of Robert Dashwood 1st Baronet and Penelope Chamberlayne Lady Dashwood, and had issue.
John Evelyn's Diary. 27th November 1679. I went to see Sir John Stonehouse [aged 40], with whom I was treating a marriage between my son [aged 59] and his daughter-in-law [aged 20] [Note. Means step-daughter. Martha Spencer was the daughter of Martha Briggs who re-married John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet after her first husband Richard Spencer died in 1668].
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th December 1679. I went to meet [her husband] Sir John Stonehouse [aged 40], and give him a particular of the settlement on my son [aged 59], who now made his addresses to the young lady [aged 20] his daughter-in-law [Note. Step-daughter], daughter of Lady Stonehouse.
John Evelyn's Diary. 21st February 1680. Shrove-Tuesday. My [her future son-in-law] son [aged 25] was married to Mrs. Martha Spencer [aged 21], daughter to my Lady Stonehouse by a former gentleman, at St. Andrew's [Map], Holborn, by our Vicar, borrowing the church of Dr. Stillingfleet [aged 44], Dean of St. Paul's, the present incumbent. We afterward dined at a house in Holborn; and, after the solemnity and dancing was done, they were bedded at Sir John Stonehouse's [aged 41] lodgings in Bow Street, Convent Garden.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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In 1700 [her husband] John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet [aged 61] died. His son John [aged 28] succeeded 3rd Baronet Stonhouse of Radley.