Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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Glossop, Derbyshire is in High Peak, Derbyshire.
In 1290 Basingwerk Abbey [Map] gained a market charter for Glossop, Derbyshire [Map].
On 6th September 1774 Robert Slack of Little Hayfield and Ellen Bradbury were married at Glossop, Derbyshire [Map].
In 1791 Hannah Langley was born at Glossop, Derbyshire [Map].
On 23rd July 1810 Margaret Kershaw was born to William Kershaw and Mary Robinson. She was baptised on 7th August 1810 at Glossop, Derbyshire [Map]. She married 29th February 1832 Robert Slack and had issue.
In 1812 Azariah Chadwick was born to George Chadwick at Glossop, Derbyshire [Map]. He married 12th October 1831 Hannah Hinchcliffe and had issue.
On or before 19th September 1822 Eliza Wagstaff was born to John Wagstaff and Maria Robinson. She was baptised 19th September 1822 at Glossop, Derbyshire [Map]. She married in or after 1848 Robert Slack.
On 2nd May 1857 Eliza Wagstaff died. She was buried on 8th May 1878 at Glossop, Derbyshire [Map].
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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In July 1860 Azariah Chadwick died at Glossop, Derbyshire [Map].
In 1890 Betty Thewlis died at Glossop, Derbyshire [Map].
The Street, Derbyshire is a Roman Road that travels broadly south from Melandra aka Ardotalia [Map] to Wirksworth, Derbyshire [Map] where it joined another road which crossed the Derwent at Milford and ran on the east bank of the Derwent and to Derventio [Map] aka Derby.
For the early stages of the road information had been obtained from P. Wroe and P. Mellor (1971). A Roman Road between Buxton and Melandra Castle, Glossop (Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 1971, Volume 91).
From Melandra aka Ardotalia [Map] the road heads broadly south through Simmondley [Map], Higher Plainsteads Farm [Map], Abbots Chair [Map], Brookhouses, Hayfield [Map], through Little Hayfield, Derbyshire [Map], Bank Vale, Hayfield [Map]. In Hayfield it appears to have followed Kinder Road [Map] until it reached Spring Vale Road [Map] where it could cross the River Sett where the steep river cliff has ended. It continued more or less straight past Highgate Head Farm, Hayfield [Map], Peep o Day [Map] following the A624 until East Meats [Map] where it heads towards Gorsty Low [Map] then Breckend [Map] and Townend [Map]
The River Derwent rises on Bleaklow, Derbyshire [Map] after which it passes Bamford, Derbyshire [Map], Hope, Derbyshire [Map], Hathersage, Derbyshire [Map], Grindleford, Derbyshire [Map], Baslow, Derbyshire [Map], Chatsworth House, Derbyshire [Map] passing under Chatsworth Bridge [Map], Rowsley, Derbyshire [Map] which it is joined by the Derbyshire River Wye, Matlock, Derbyshire [Map], Matlock Bath, Derbyshire [Map], Cromford, Derbyshire [Map], Ambergate, Derbyshire [Map] where it is joined by the River Amber. After Ambergate, Derbyshire [Map] it passes Belper, Derbyshire [Map], Duffield, Derbyshire [Map] then flows through the centre of Derby, Derbyshire [Map] after which it joins the River Trent around 1.4 Km east of [Map].
On 22nd October 1556 George WATERHOUSE:
In dei noie Amen the xxiith day of October in the yeire of oure lorde god a thousand fyve hundred fiftie and Syxe I George WATERHOUSSE of the pishe of Glossop wythin the towneship of Bawdon in the Countie of Darby sicke in body & of good & pfecte mynd & memorie (lawded be god) make my testament contayininge therin my last wyll in manr & forme folowinge: ffirst I comend my soule to almightie god to be associate wyth the blessed copany of heaven & my body I comitt to Christen buriall wythin the church yard of Glossop beforsaid
Also I geve & bequeythe xxs to be bestowed upon oote meale & be distributed amonge poore folks at the dyrecons of my executors
Also I geve & bequeyth all the rest & remaynder of my goods ( my debts payed & my funerall expenses made) unto my mayster Raufe BRADLEY & his wyfe to distribute amonge theere daughter pvided always that Allice BRADLEY ther daughter have x£ s more than eny one of her sisters
Also I ordeyne & make Robert RATCLYFF pson of [Chetyll] & my seid Mr Raufe BRADLEY executors of this my last wyll to see the same trulie executed as I trust therin These beyinge wittnesses Wyllm [BYRCHYNHAUGH] Raufe KYNDER & Hugh FFOWLE [ ] & [oyrs]
These be the debts oghinge to me ye said George:
Imprimis John DOWNES of Taxal gen[ ] & John GOSLINGE of Choldhousse grounds x£ s
It Agnes DOWNES wyfe to ye Saml DOWNES of lente money vs
It Elyn SHEPLEY my sister of [Chunau] viijs viijd
It Cateran GOSLYNGE wyfe to ye same John GOSLYNGE xiijs iiijd
It Wyllm ROOBOTHM of Stryndes [ ] this is true dett oghinge unto me as I wyll answere at the day of Judgemente. xvijd
It Thoms MELLOR of Mellor xiijs iiijd
It the same Thoms due to be payed at [ ] Christmas yerlie vjs viijd tyll the holl sume befor sayd Be fullie [ ] up yt is to witt ye Sume of xxvjs viijd
It Edward MOORE of Marple x£ s
It Raufe SANDE of ye Towneship of Glossop ixs
It Robert STANDLEY of Disley xiijs iiijd
It Henry CLEATON of Haugh xviijs iijd
It John GREENE of Bugsworthe ijs
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7th October 1714. Robert Slack of Little Hayfield. Chesterfield, Derbyshire [Map]. Will Proved:
In the Name of God Amen This twenty ffourth day of December 1713. I Robert SLACKE the Eldest of Little Heafield [Map] in the Parrish of Glossop and County of Derby Yeom. Being Aged and infirme in Body but of sound and perfect Memory Praised be God for the same, and knowing the Certainty of Death and the uncertainty of the time when In obedience to the command of God and the example of the good King Hezechiah am minded to set my house in order and to settle my affairs in this world and to that end do Constitute make and ordaine this my last Will and Testamt in manner and form following ffirst, and principally I commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator, and to Jesus Christ to receive full pardon of all my Sins and to be made heire of Everlasting Life and an Inheritor of his Heavenly Kingdom, and my Body to the Earth from whence it was taken to be decently interred att, or in the Parochial Chappel at Heyfield [Map] as near unto the place where my late loveing wife Ann SLACKE was interred as will Conveniency may be, And for that Worldly Estate which the Lord in mercy far above my deserts hath bestowed upon my I dispose of the same as ffolloweth.
First my will and mind is that all my Lawfull debts wch of right I owe unto any man, with all my ffuneral Charges and expences shall be ffirst paid and discharged forth of my whole Estate. And whereas by Certaine Articles of Agreemt Indented bearing date on or about the twenty ffifth day of October Anno Domny 1684. made or mentioned to be made By and Between me the said Robert SLACK on the one part and Robert SLACK my late Son now dcd of the other part I the said Robert SLACK for divers Consideracons therein mentioned, Did grant all my Lands at Little Heafield [Map], and Chinley als Mainstonefield [Map], or els where in the said County of Derby unto my said Son his heires and Assignes for ever, part of the Consideracons of which said Grant were and are particularly menconed and expresses in and by the said Articles to be That I the said Robert SLACK should not only have and receive twelve pounds per Annu. during my life, Charged upon Certaine parcels of Land of the said granted premissess, But likewise had power to Charge my said Sonn his heires Executors and Administrators, with the payment of the Sume of ffifty pounds of lawfull Money after my decease to such person or persons, as by my last will and Testament or any other writeing to be by my executed under my hand and Seal I should direct [ ]att and appoint, As by relacon had to the said Articles may more fully and at large appear And whereas the said sume of twelve pounds p Annu. has for severall years Since my said Sons decease been unpaid and is now in Arrear for the space of Seven years or upwards which in the whole amounts to the Sume of ffifty six pound, It is my will and mind and I do therefore by this my last will and Testamt in pursuance of my power and as far as in me lyes give and devise all my right & interest of in & unto such arrearages of the said twelve pounds p Annu. as abovesaid as shall happen at my decease to be in Arrear & unpaid together with the said Sume of ffifty pounds Chargable as aforesaid unto Robert SLACK my Nephew upon Condicon Nevertheless that Hee the said Robert SLACK do and shall well and faithfully pay and discharge forth of the same such Legacys & Sumes of Money as are herein and hereafter mencond (viz) unto Elizabeth MORTON my Daughter the sume of Tenn shillings within the space of one year next after my decease, unto Ann HADFIELD my Daughter the Sume of Tenn pounds, within within (sic) the space of one year next after my decease, And unto Mary CARRINGTON my Daughter the like Sume of Tenn pounds to be paid likewise within the Space of One year next after my decease unto Dorathy SLACK my Daughter in law at Chunall [Map] the Sume of ffive shillings unto Dorathy SLACK my daughter in lw. at little Heafield the Sume of ffive shillings, unto William SLACK my Grandson the Sume of ffive shillings unto John SLACK his Brother the Sume of ffive shillings unto Ann FFOX my Grand daughter the Sume of ffive pounds when she shall have attained the Age of One and twenty years and shall be living at the time of my decease. Likewise unto Mary SLACK my Grand daughter the like Sume of ffive pounds in case she be living at the time of my decease, and shall attain to the like Age of one and twenty years and likewise unto Elizabeth SLACK my Grand daughter the like Sume of ffive pounds, if she shall attaine to the like Age of One and twenty years, and shall be living at the time of my decease Item I do bequeath unto every one of my Grandchildn excepting such as are already menconed the Sume of tenn shillings a piece to be paid within the space of one year next after my decease. Item all the rest residue and remainder of my whole Estate, Goods and Chattels whatsoever, ready Money at Interest and Creditts whatsoever after the aforesaid Sumes & Legacies are discharged I give and Bequeath the same unto my said Nephew Robert SLACK (excepting only one Guiney of Lawfull Money which I give unto my Sonn in law William CARRINGTON whom I desire to be aiding & assisting, to my said Nephew Robert SLACK in the promises) hereby Constituteing Ordaineing & appointing him my said Nephew Robert SLACK my full and Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, hopeing he will faithfully performe and discharge the trust I have hereby reposed in him revoaking all former Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made, and do declare this to by my last Will and Testamt In witness whereof I the said Robert SLACK the Testator my hand & seal have hereunto putt the day and year ffirst above written.
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Glossop War Memorial [Map] was unveiled on 26th March 1922, the same day as the identical Hadfield War Memorial. The sculptor Vernon March.
A procession of the Mayor (S. Bamforth), Lord Howard, Lord Doverdale (Edward Partington), the War Memorial Committee and other officials made their way from the Town Hall to Norfolk Square at 2.30pm. Lord Howard had been asked to unveil the War Memorial. He gave a short speech stating: ""that he felt much honoured in having been asked to unveil that monument, which all of them had subscribed to, to enable it to be raised in that square." "
The Rev. W. M. Martin-Ellis, Vicar of Whitfield, then performed the dedication of the Memorial. Four buglers then played "The Last Post". This was followed by the male voice choir singing Sullivan's "Homeland" and the buglers then played "The Reveille". The ceremony ended with the singing of the National Anthem.
Wreaths were then laid by the Mayor, Mr C. Haughton (who had lost three sons in the War) deposited on behalf of ex-servicemen. There were also wreaths from Mrs Partington (the ex-Mayor), the police, Mr Dickinson (headmaster of Glossop Grammar School) and many other organisations.
The Mayor, Lord Howard, Lord Doverdale and Council Officials along with the Glossop Old Band and Glossop Choral Society left immediately after the ceremony. They were due to perform the dedication of Hadfield War Memorial at 3.30pm.
Edward Partington 1st Baron Doverdale: On 28th September 1836 he was born. The London Gazette 29924. Whitehall, January 30, 1917. The King has been pleased, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to confer the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom upon Sir Edward Partington, Knight, and the heirs male of his Body lawfully begotten, by the name, style and title of Baron Doverdale, of Westwood Park, in the county of Worcester. On 5th January 1925 Edward Partington 1st Baron Doverdale died. His son Oswald succeeded 2nd Baron Doverdale of Westwood Park in Worcestershire. Clara Isabel Murray Baroness Doverdale by marriage Baroness Doverdale of Westwood Park in Worcestershire.
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On 11th November 1949 new plaques were unveiled on the Glossop War Memorial [Map].
The Glossop Chronicle reported:
"On a bitterly cold morning and with a few pale-green leaves fluttering on little trees round Norfolk-square a little fair-haired girl stepped up to the cenotaph, pointed to the fifth name from the bottom on the new plaque, and said "Look, mummy."
The place was Glossop, the occasion was Remembrance Day, and the little girl was Elizabeth Turner, of Mill-street, Glossop. The name of her father, Stanley Turner, killed in the 1939-45 war, was one of the new ones on the memorial to be unveiled by the Mayor (Councillor E. Higton) in a moving little ceremony.
It was Elizabeth's birthday on Sunday. She was eight months old when her father was killed.
Only the chimes of the Town Hall clock and the toll of a distant church bell broke the two minutes' silence in Glossop. Skies were overcast and dulled the brightness of the green lawns round the cenotaph. A rather sparse and overcoated crowd saw the Mayor unveil the two plaques affixed to the cenotaph "in grateful memory of those who died in the 1939-45 war."
The Rev. L. Lloyd Lister conducted the service and various organisations placed the wreaths on the memorial."
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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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On 27th September 1811 Hannah Hinchcliffe was born to Thomas Hinchliffe and Hannah Langley at Hadfield, Derbyshire [Map]. She married 12th October 1831 Azariah Chadwick and had issue.
In April 1848 Hannah Hinchcliffe died at Lower Barn Hadfield, Derbyshire [Map].
1851. 1851 Census Derbyshire Hadfield Page 36. Lower Barn Hadfield, Derbyshire [Map].
Azariah Chadwick. Head. 41.
George Chadwick. Son. 12.
On or before 13th February 1876 Harry Chadwick was born to George Chadwick and Sophia Smith at Hadfield, Derbyshire [Map]. He married 1st July 1901 Alice Haigh and had issue.
Harry Chadwick: On 1st July 1901 Harry Chadwick and Alice Haigh were married at All Saints Church, Glossop [Map]. In May 1923 Harry Chadwick died at Hayfield, Derbyshire [Map].
In 1883 Sophia Smith died at Hadfield, Derbyshire [Map].
The Street, Derbyshire is a Roman Road that travels broadly south from Melandra aka Ardotalia [Map] to Wirksworth, Derbyshire [Map] where it joined another road which crossed the Derwent at Milford and ran on the east bank of the Derwent and to Derventio [Map] aka Derby.
For the early stages of the road information had been obtained from P. Wroe and P. Mellor (1971). A Roman Road between Buxton and Melandra Castle, Glossop (Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 1971, Volume 91).
From Melandra aka Ardotalia [Map] the road heads broadly south through Simmondley [Map], Higher Plainsteads Farm [Map], Abbots Chair [Map], Brookhouses, Hayfield [Map], through Little Hayfield, Derbyshire [Map], Bank Vale, Hayfield [Map]. In Hayfield it appears to have followed Kinder Road [Map] until it reached Spring Vale Road [Map] where it could cross the River Sett where the steep river cliff has ended. It continued more or less straight past Highgate Head Farm, Hayfield [Map], Peep o Day [Map] following the A624 until East Meats [Map] where it heads towards Gorsty Low [Map] then Breckend [Map] and Townend [Map]
Melandra aka Ardotalia [Map] was a Roman Fort near Glossaop in Derbyshire constructed by Cohors Primae Frisiavonum-The First Cohort of Frisiavones assisted by the 3rd Cohort of Bracara Augustani.
The Street, Derbyshire is a Roman Road that travels broadly south from Melandra aka Ardotalia [Map] to Wirksworth, Derbyshire [Map] where it joined another road which crossed the Derwent at Milford and ran on the east bank of the Derwent and to Derventio [Map] aka Derby.
For the early stages of the road information had been obtained from P. Wroe and P. Mellor (1971). A Roman Road between Buxton and Melandra Castle, Glossop (Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 1971, Volume 91).
From Melandra aka Ardotalia [Map] the road heads broadly south through Simmondley [Map], Higher Plainsteads Farm [Map], Abbots Chair [Map], Brookhouses, Hayfield [Map], through Little Hayfield, Derbyshire [Map], Bank Vale, Hayfield [Map]. In Hayfield it appears to have followed Kinder Road [Map] until it reached Spring Vale Road [Map] where it could cross the River Sett where the steep river cliff has ended. It continued more or less straight past Highgate Head Farm, Hayfield [Map], Peep o Day [Map] following the A624 until East Meats [Map] where it heads towards Gorsty Low [Map] then Breckend [Map] and Townend [Map]
Archaeologia Volume 3 Section XXVI. An Account of an undescribed Roman Station [Melandra aka Ardotalia [Map]] in Derbyshire. By the Reverend Mr. Watson; in a Letter to the Reverend Mr. Norris, Secretary. Read at the Society of Antiquaries, Dec. 10, 1772.
The Street, Derbyshire is a Roman Road that travels broadly south from Melandra aka Ardotalia [Map] to Wirksworth, Derbyshire [Map] where it joined another road which crossed the Derwent at Milford and ran on the east bank of the Derwent and to Derventio [Map] aka Derby.
For the early stages of the road information had been obtained from P. Wroe and P. Mellor (1971). A Roman Road between Buxton and Melandra Castle, Glossop (Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 1971, Volume 91).
From Melandra aka Ardotalia [Map] the road heads broadly south through Simmondley [Map], Higher Plainsteads Farm [Map], Abbots Chair [Map], Brookhouses, Hayfield [Map], through Little Hayfield, Derbyshire [Map], Bank Vale, Hayfield [Map]. In Hayfield it appears to have followed Kinder Road [Map] until it reached Spring Vale Road [Map] where it could cross the River Sett where the steep river cliff has ended. It continued more or less straight past Highgate Head Farm, Hayfield [Map], Peep o Day [Map] following the A624 until East Meats [Map] where it heads towards Gorsty Low [Map] then Breckend [Map] and Townend [Map]
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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After 1842 Thomas Hinchliffe died at Waterside Glossop, Derbyshire [Map].
On 30th July 1841 Christopher Slack was born to Robert Slack and Margaret Kershaw at Whitfield [Map].
On 2nd September 1883 James William Shaw and Sarah Mellor were married at St James' Church, Whitfield, Glossop. He a Spinner, she a Cardroom Hand. Both resident in Hayfield by Charles Bruce Ward. His father James Shaw, her father Abraham Mellor. Witnessed by James Thornley and Robert Thornley.