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Clovelly, Devon is in Devon.
Around 1154 Gervaise Giffard (age 32) died at Clovelly, Devon.
Around 1460 Jane Carew was born to Nicholas Carew (age 15) and Margery Dynham (age 24) at Clovelly, Devon.
Around 1466 Edmund Carew was born to Nicholas Carew (age 21) and Margery Dynham (age 30) at Clovelly, Devon.
In 1738 Zachary Hamlyn (age 61) purchased the manor of Clovelly, Devon.
On 22nd June 1759 Zachary Hamlyn (age 82) died. He was buried at All Hallows' Church Woolfardisworthy [Map]. He has a monument at All Saints Church Clovelly, Devon with the inscription: "To the memory of Zachary Hamlyn Esq. late of Lincoln's Inn and of Court in this parish who departed this life June 22d MDCCLIX in the LXXXII year of his age. Whose body lies interred in the parish church of Woolfardisworthy [Map]. He was a sincere Christian, a tender and beneficent relation, a faithfull and kind friend an inoffensive and chearfull companion. Exemplarily modest, diligent, capable, communicative, he acquired a handsome fortune not only unenvied but with the esteem and love of all who had the pleasure of knowing him". His great-nephew James Hammett aka Hamlyn 1st Baronet (age 24) inherited his estates including the manor of Clovelly, Devon, and adopted his surname and arms.
On 8th September 1819 Arthur Chichester 7th Baronet (age 29) and Charlotte Hamlyn-Williams (age 21) were married at Clovelly, Devon.
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The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1861 James Hamlyn-Williams 3rd Baronet (age 71) died. Baronet Hamlyn of Clovelly in Devon extinct. His daughter Susan Hester Hamlyn-Williams (age 37) and her husband Colonel Henry Edward Fane aka Hamlyn-Fane (age 43). inherited his estates including Clovelly, Devon.
On 27th December 1868 Colonel Henry Edward Fane aka Hamlyn-Fane (age 51) died. He was buried at Clovelly, Devon.
In 1884 Nevile Hamlyn Batson Fane (age 21) died. He was buried at Clovelly, Devon.
All Saints Church Clovelly, Devon, South-West England, British Isles
On 22nd June 1759 Zachary Hamlyn (age 82) died. He was buried at All Hallows' Church Woolfardisworthy [Map]. He has a monument at All Saints Church Clovelly, Devon with the inscription: "To the memory of Zachary Hamlyn Esq. late of Lincoln's Inn and of Court in this parish who departed this life June 22d MDCCLIX in the LXXXII year of his age. Whose body lies interred in the parish church of Woolfardisworthy [Map]. He was a sincere Christian, a tender and beneficent relation, a faithfull and kind friend an inoffensive and chearfull companion. Exemplarily modest, diligent, capable, communicative, he acquired a handsome fortune not only unenvied but with the esteem and love of all who had the pleasure of knowing him". His great-nephew James Hammett aka Hamlyn 1st Baronet (age 24) inherited his estates including the manor of Clovelly, Devon, and adopted his surname and arms.