On or before 18th November 1554 Samuel Backhouse was born. He was baptised 18th November 1554.
On 16th September 1581 Samuel Backhouse (age 26) and Elisabeth Borlase were married.
From 1593 until his death Samuel Backhouse (age 38) was Justice of the Peace Berkshire.
On 17th January 1593 [his son] William Backhouse was born to Samuel Backhouse (age 38) and [his wife] Elisabeth Borlase. He married 1637 Anne Richards and had issue.
In 1600 Samuel Backhouse (age 45) was High Sheriff of Berkshire during which time he was visited by Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 66).
In 1604 Samuel Backhouse (age 49) was elected MP New Windsor.
In 1614 Samuel Backhouse (age 59) was elected MP Ayslesbury in the Addled Parliament.
On 24th June 1626 Samuel Backhouse (age 71) died.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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[his son] John Backhouse was born to Samuel Backhouse and Elisabeth Borlase.