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The 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." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire is in Northamptonshire.
Around 1341 John Woodville was born at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map].
In 1390 Joan Bittelsgate was born to Thomas Bittelsgate (age 40) and Joan Beauchamp (age 30) at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map].
In 1396 Thomas Bittelsgate (age 46) and Joan Beauchamp (age 36) were married at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map].
Around 1400 Humphrey Stafford was born in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map].
After 8th September 1403 John Woodville (deceased) died at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map].
Around 1437 Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England was born to Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers (age 32) and Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford (age 22) at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map].
Around 1438 Anne Woodville Viscountess Bourchier was born to Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers (age 33) and Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford (age 23) at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map].
In 1441 Anne Stafford was born to Humphrey Stafford (age 41) in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map].
On 29th November 1441 Richard Woodville (age 56) died at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map].
In 1447 Bishop Lionel Woodville was born to Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers (age 42) and Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford (age 32) in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map].
On 1st May 1464 King Edward IV of England (age 22) and Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 27) were married at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map]. Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford (age 49), Elizabeth's mother, being the only witness. The date not certain. She the daughter of Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers (age 59) and Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford. He the son of Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York and Cecily "Rose of Raby" Neville Duchess York (age 48). They were sixth cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England.
Chronicle of Edward Hall [1496-1548]. 12th August 1469. The Northamptonshire men, with diverse of the Northern men by them procured, in this fury made them a captain, and called him Robin of Redesdale, and suddenly came to the manor of Grafton [Map], where the earl Rivers (age 64) father to the Queen (age 32) then lay whom they loved not, and there by force took the said earl and sir John (age 24) his son, and brought them to Northampton [Map], and there without Judgement stroke of their heads, whose bodies were solemnly interred in the Blackfriars at Northampton.
Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic Henry VIII 1528. 22nd July 1528. R. O. 4546. Hennege to Wolsey.
This day I received your letter, with one to the chapter of Lincoln, in favour of my brother, the archdeacon of Oxford, for the deanery of Lincoln; which, without your aid, had not taken effect. As the plague is at Grafton [Map], the King will not go there. As for your wish that Wilson should have some promotion, the King is in doubt whether he shall give the archdeaconry of Oxford to Mr. Wilson or Dr. Bell. The King cannot write, in consequence of his head, and begs you will send him the presentation of the prebend of Ripon, as you promised him. The vicarage you gave to Dr. Wilson was resigned to Dr. Daycots for a pension five years ago. The King wishes you to dispatch the earl of Angus's servant. He will not fail to send you "these letters of Ireland" in two or three days, but his head is not the best, or he would have dispatched them now. He desires you to be good lord to his barber Penne, for the daughter and ward unto your Grace, of one Chevall, within the liberties of St. Alban's, for his money. It is not in value above £12 a year, her father hath tangled it so, and laid it to mortgage for £60. Cade can inform you of the truth. Ampthill [Map], 22 July, about 7 in the afternoon. Signed.
Pp. 2. Add. Endd. Wolsey has written at the back "intangellyd."
On 27th July 1558 Frances Giffard (age 38) died at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [Map].
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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.
Diary of Anne Clifford. 25th June 1603. The same night my Mother (age 42) and I and my Aunt Vavisor (age 43) rid on horseback through country, and went to a gentleman's house where the Lady Elizabeth (age 6)1 her Grace lay, which was the first I ever saw her, my Lady Kildare and the Lady Harrington (age 49) being her governesses. The same night we returned to Sir Richard Knightley's [Map].
Note 1. Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of lords and ladies and other people that the county could scarce lodge them. From there the Court removed and were banqueted with great royalty by my father at Grafton [Map] where the King and Queen (age 28) were entertained with speeches and delicate presents at which time my Lord and the Alexanders did run a course at the field where he hurt Henry Alexander very dangerously. Where the Court lay this night I am uncertain. At this time of the King's being at Grafton, my Mother was there, but not held as mistress of the house, by reason of the difference between my Lord and her, which was grown to a great height. The night after, my Aunt of Warwick, my Mother and I (as I take it,) lay at D™ Challoner's, where my Aunt of Bath and my Uncle Russell met us, which house my grandfather of Bedford used to lie much at, being at Amersham. James I (age 37) and Anne of Denmark, born 1596. [ED.]