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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Paternal Family Tree: Aubrey
Mary Aubrey was born to John Aubrey 1st Baronet and Mary South.
On 18th June 1646 [her future husband] William Montagu [aged 28] and Elizabeth Freman were married.
In or before 1650 [her father] John Aubrey 1st Baronet [aged 43] and [her mother] Mary South were married.
On 7th December 1651 William Montagu [aged 33] and Mary Aubrey were married.
On 30th November 1654 [her sister-in-law] Elizabeth Montagu Countess Lindsey died.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 2nd January 1662. An invitation sent us before we were up from my Lady Sandwich's [aged 37], to come and dine with her: so at the office all the morning, and at noon thither to dinner, where there was a good and great dinner, and the company, [her husband] Mr. William Montagu [aged 44] and his Lady (but she seemed so far from the beauty that I expected her from my Lady's talk to be, that it put me into an ill humour all the day, to find my expectation so lost), Mr. Rurttball and Townsend and their wives.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 20th January 1664. At his lodgings this morning there came to him [her husband] Mr. W. Montague's [aged 46] fine lady, which occasioned my Lord's calling me to her about some business for a friend of hers preferred to be a midshipman at sea. My Lord recommended the whole matter to me. She is a fine confident lady, I think, but not so pretty as I once thought her. My Lord did also seal a lease for the house he is now taking in Lincoln's Inn Fields, which stands him in 250 per annum rent.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 30th December 1667. Thence to the Old Exchange [Map] together, he telling me that he believes there will be no such turning out of great men as is talked of, but that it is only to fright people, but I do fear there may be such a thing doing. He do mightily inveigh against the folly of the King [aged 37] to bring his matters to wrack thus, and that we must all be undone without help. I met with Cooling at the Temple-gate, after I had been at both my booksellers and there laid out several pounds in books now against the new year. From the 'Change [Map] (where I met with Captain Cocke [aged 50], who would have borrowed money of me, but I had the grace to deny him, he would have had 3 or £400) I with Cocke and Mr. Temple (whose wife was just now brought to bed of a boy, but he seems not to be at all taken with it, which is a strange consideration how others do rejoice to have a child born), to Sir G. Carteret's [aged 57], in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and there did dine together, there being there, among other company, [her husband] Mr. Attorney Montagu [aged 49], and his fine lady, a fine woman.
On 19th May 1671 [her sister-in-law] Frances Montagu Countess Rutland [aged 57] died at Bottesford, Leicestershire.
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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In 1679 [her father] John Aubrey 1st Baronet [aged 73] died. His son [her brother] John [aged 29] succeeded 2nd Baronet Aubrey of Llantrithyd in Glamorganshire. Margaret Lowther Lady Aubrey by marriage Lady Aubrey of Llantrithyd in Glamorganshire.
On 10th March 1700 Mary Aubrey died.
In 1706 [her former husband] William Montagu [aged 88] died at Weekley, Leicestershire.
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Aubrey
GrandFather: Thomas Aubrey
Father: John Aubrey 1st Baronet
GrandMother: Mary Mansell 
GrandFather: Richard South
Mother: Mary South