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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Cheyne Walk is in Chelsea.
Cheyne Walk was named after William Cheyne 2nd Viscount Newhaven.
Around 1850. Henry Pether [aged 50]. Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, London, by Moonlight.
Around July 1969 Keith Richards [aged 25] and Anita Pallenburg [aged 27] moved to 3 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
On 22nd December 1880 Mary Anne Evans aka George Eliot [aged 61] died at her house 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea
David Lloyd George lived at 10 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
David Lloyd George lived at 10 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1863. 2nd January 1863. Friday. 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
My dear Rose [aged 43]
I have asked Whistler to dinner Thursday next at 6. Will you meet him?
Your
D G Rossetti [aged 34]
Next Wednesday will do well for the Deed of Partnership
Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1863. 9th December 1863. 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
My dear Leathart [aged 43],
The picture of Whistler's [aged 29] which I mentioned was the unfinished Chinese one, since bought by Gambart [aged 49] & which was, as I thought, the one about which you wished to know.
The Thames picture is still unsold, and on enquiring of Whistler I find its price is 300 guineas. It is the noblest of all the pictures he has done hitherto, and is the one for your collection.
regards Legros' works, I yesterday saw for the first time a picture he is doing now, of Hamlet in his mother's chamber, where he kills Polonius, about 20 inches by 15 I suppose in size, it may be rather more, and a truly admirable work, the finest he has done in London as yet. He intends to ask 45 guineas for it. It is so very cheap proportionately to the other that I am induced to mention it to you, since it is a work which will stand the proximity of anything whatever, being most full & luminous in colour, though, like all his work, low in tone.
With kind remembrances to Mrs. Leathart[8].
I remain my dear Leathart
Yours ever truly
D G Rossetti [aged 35]
Dante Gabriel Rossetti lived at 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
19 to 26 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea cover the site of the original Chelsea Palace afterwards the residence of Hans Sloane 1st Baronet.
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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Ian Fleming lived at 24 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
Bram Stoker lived at 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
During the 1960s Mick Jagger [aged 16] and Marianne Faithfull [aged 13] lived at 48 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
After the death of her husband in April 1877, Anne Lea aka Merritt [aged 32] lived the rest of her life at 95 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. She made frequent trips between her home in England and the United States; she had exhibitions, garnered awards in both countries, and become a celebrated artist.
In 1895 John Tweed [aged 25] moved to 108 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea with his wife Edith Clinton, secretary to the National Society for Women's Suffrage. They lived there for rest of his life.
On 19th December 1851 Joseph Mallord William Turner [aged 76] died of 'natural decay' at the home of Sophia Caroline Booth at his cottage 119 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea aka Davis Place, Cremorne Road. He was buried in St Paul's Cathedral.
Around 1771 Belle Vue House 92 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea was constructed.
1873. Alice Boyd 14th of Penkill [aged 48]. Cappella di S. Clemente [Chapel of San Clemente/S Marks, Venice]. On a label attached to the reverse "Painted by Alice Boyd Bellevue House, Chelsea".
Lindsey House Cheyne Walk, Chelsea was subsequently divided into 96-101 Cheyne Walk.
On 1st May 1729 Brownlow Bertie 5th Duke Ancaster and Kesteven was born to Peregrine Bertie 2nd Duke Ancaster and Kesteven [aged 43] and Jane Brownlow Duchess Ancaster and Kesteven at Lindsey House Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. He married (1) 11th November 1762 Harriot Pitt (2) 2nd January 1769 Mary Anne Layard and had issue.
98 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea was the home of Marc Isambard Brunel and also his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel.