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St Giles' in the Fields Church is in Great Queen Street, St Giles' in the Fields, Churches in Camden.
On 1st June 1583 George Carew (age 85) died. He was buried at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
On 14th December 1626 Thomas Richardson (age 57) and Elizabeth Beaumont (age 49) were married at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. There was no issue from the marriage.
On 4th December 1637 John Borlase 1st Baronet (age 18) and Alice Bankes Lady Borlase were married at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. His brother William Borlase (age 17) married her sister Joanna Bankes.
Before 13th November 1639 Peregrine Bertie (age 55) died. He 13th November 1639 Peregrine Bertie was buried at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
On 28th April 1642 Francis Newport 1st Earl Bradford (age 22) and Diana Russell Countess Bradford were married at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. She the daughter of Francis Russell 4th Earl Bedford and Catherine Brydges Countess Bedford (age 62).
On 13th February 1646 Christopher Wray (deceased) was buried at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
On 1st May 1651 Edmund Alleyn 2nd Baronet (age 19) and Frances Gent Lady Allen (age 15) were married at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. She brought an estate of about £600 a year to the marriage. Arabella, their only daughter, who was heir to her brother Edmund Alleyn 3rd Baronet, eventually inherited their large estates. She married firstly, Francis Thompson; secondly, the Honorable George Howard. Under her will, dat. 20 June 1746, these estates passed in 1751 (after the death of Arthur Dobbs to whom she had conveyed them for life) to her cousin Sir Edmund Aleyn, the 8th Bart.
On 9th June 1655 Gilbert Holles 3rd Earl de Clare (age 22) and Grace Pierrepont Countess de Clare (age 22) were married at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. He the son of John Holles 2nd Earl de Clare (age 59) and Elizabeth Vere Countess Clare.
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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.
On 27th June 1655 Robert Montagu 3rd Earl Manchester (age 21) and Anne Yelverton Countess Manchester (age 25) were married at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. He the son of Edward Montagu 2nd Earl Manchester (age 53) and Anne Rich Viscountess Mandeville.
On 23rd March 1658 Henry Wright 1st Baronet (age 21) and Ann Crew Lady Wright were married at the St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 15th May 1660. After that the judge, I and my boy by coach to Scheveling again, where we went into a house of entertainment and drank there, the wind being very high, and we saw two boats overset and the gallants forced to be pulled on shore by the heels, while their trunks, portmanteaus, hats, and feathers, were swimming in the sea. Among others I saw the ministers that come along with the Commissioners (Mr. Case1 among the rest) sadly dipped.
Note 1. Thomas Case, born 1598, was a famous preacher and a zealous advocate for the Solemn League and Covenant, a member of the assembly of divines, and rector of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields [Map]. He was one of the deputation to Charles II at Breda [Map], and appointed a royal chaplain. He was ejected by the Act of Uniformity, but remained in London after his ejection. Died May 30th, 1682.
On or before 1st July 1662 Henry Wright 2nd Baronet was born to Henry Wright 1st Baronet (age 25) and Ann Crew Lady Wright. He was baptised on 1st July 1662 at the St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
On 28th September 1663 Edward Pickering (age 45) and Dorothy Weld (age 30) were married at the St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
On 2nd June 1664 Stephen Anderson 1st Baronet (age 20) and Mary Glynne Lady Anderson (age 15) were married at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 10th July 1664. Thence with my Lady Jemimah and Mr. Sidney to St. Gyles's Church [Map], and there heard a long, poore sermon.
On 22nd August 1667 Bishop Alexander Hyde (age 75) died at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 3rd October 1667. He gone, I thence to my Lady Peterborough (age 45), who sent for me; and with her an hour talking about her husband's pension, and how she hath got an order for its being paid again; though, I believe, for all that order, it will hardly be; but of that I said nothing; but her design is to get it paid again: and how to raise money upon it, to clear it from the engagement which lies upon it to some citizens, who lent her husband money, without her knowledge, upon it, to vast loss. She intends to force them to take their money again, and release her husband (age 45) of those hard terms. The woman is a very wise woman, and is very plain in telling me how her plate and jewels are at pawne for money, and how they are forced to live beyond their estate, and do get nothing by his being a courtier. The lady I pity, and her family. Having done with her, and drunk two glasses of her meade, which she did give me, and so to the Treasurer's Office, and there find my Lord Bruncker (age 47) and Sir W. Pen (age 46) at dinner with Sir G. Carteret (age 57) about his accounts, where I dined and talked and settled some business, and then home, and there took out my wife and Willet, thinking to have gone to a play, but both houses were begun, and so we to the 'Change [Map], and thence to my tailor's, and there, the coachman desiring to go home to change his horses, we went with him into a nasty end of all St. Giles's [Map], and there went into a nasty room, a chamber of his, where he hath a wife and child, and there staid, it growing dark too, and I angry thereat, till he shifted his horses, and then home apace, and there I to business late, and so home, to supper, and walk in the garden with my wife and girle, with whom we are mightily pleased, and after talking and supping, to bed.
On 22nd January 1669 Alice Leigh 1st Duchess Dudley (age 91) died in the parish St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. She was buried at Church of the Virgin Mary, Stoneleigh [Map]. Duke Dudley extinct since it was created for life only.
In 1671 Toby Tyrrell 3rd and 2nd Baronet (age 53) died in St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. His son Thomas (age 37) succeeded 4th Baronet Tyrrell of Thornton in Buckinghamshire, 3rd Baronet Tyrrell of Thornton in Buckinghamshire.
On 19th February 1672 Bethel Wray 5th Baronet (age 49) died. He was buried at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. His half first cousin once removed Christopher (age 20) succeeded 6th Baronet Wray of Glentworth in Lincolnshire.
Before 31st August 1679 Christopher Wray 2nd and 6th Baronet (age 27) died. On 31st August 1679 Christopher Wray 2nd and 6th Baronet was buried at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. His brother William (age 26) succeeded 3rd Baronet Wray of Ashby in Lincolnshire, 7th Baronet Wray of Glentworth in Lincolnshire.
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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.
On or before 9th February 1684 George Browne died. He was buried on 9th February 1684 at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
John Evelyn's Diary. 8th September 1686. Dr. Compton, Bishop of London (age 54), was on Monday suspended, on pretense of not silencing Dr. Sharp (age 41) [NOTE. Assumed to be the subsequent Archbishop?] at St. Giles's [Map], for something of a sermon in which he zealously reproved the doctrine of the Roman Catholics. The Bishop having consulted the civilians, they told him he could not by any law proceed against Dr. Sharp without producing witnesses, and impleaded according to form; but it was overruled by my Lord Chancellor (age 41), and the Bishop sentenced without so much as being heard to any purpose. This was thought a very extraordinary way of proceeding, and was universally resented, and so much the rather for that two Bishops, Durham (age 53) and Rochester (age 51), sitting in the commission and giving their suffrages the Archbishop of Canterbury (age 69) refused to sit among them. He was only suspended ab officio, and that was soon after taken off. He was brother to the Earl of Northampton, had once been a soldier, had traveled in Italy, but became a sober, grave, and excellent prelate.
On or before 7th July 1688, the date he was baptised at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map], Lieutenant-General John Cope was born to Henry Cope (age 43).
On or before 23rd December 1688 Anthony Browne 2nd Baronet died. He was buried on 23rd December 1688 at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. His brother John succeeded 3rd Baronet Browne of Caversham.
On 20th March 1691 Rear-Admiral John Chicheley (age 51) died. He was buried at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
John Evelyn's Diary. 5th October 1694. I went to St. Paul's [Map] to see the choir, now finished as to the stone work, and the scaffold struck both without and within, in that part. Some exceptions might perhaps be taken as to the placing columns on pilasters at the east tribunal. As to the rest it is a piece of architecture without reproach. The pulling out the forms, like drawers, from under the stalls, is ingenious. I went also to see the building beginning near St. Giles's [Map], where seven streets make a star from a Doric pillar placed in the middle of a circular area; said to be built by Mr. Neale, introducer of the late lotteries, in imitation of those at Venice [Map], now set up here, for himself twice, and now one for the State.
On 30th March 1695 Francis Howard 5th Baron Howard (age 51) died at Lingfield, Surrey. He was buried at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. His son Thomas (age 13) succeeded 6th Baron Howard of Effingham.
On or before 14th January 1696, the date her burial at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map] was recorded, Frances Gage Lady Tresham died.
On 20th February 1703 Thomas Cave 3rd Baronet (age 21) and Margaret Verney Lady Cave were married at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
On 1st August 1712 George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu was baptised at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
On 13th February 1718 George Brydges Rodney 1st Baron Rodney was baptised at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
In 1818 Margaret Lanchester (age 34) died. She was buried at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
All About History Books
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.
On 11th February 1822 Arthur William Devis (age 59) died of apoplexy at Caroline Street Bedford Square Camden. He was buried at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].