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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University College, Oxford University is in Oxford University.
In 1440 John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 12] was educated at University College, Oxford University.
In 1578 William Glynne [aged 12] educated at University College, Oxford University.
Around 1600 John Paulett 1st Baron Paulett [aged 15] educated at University College, Oxford University.
In 1635 Philip Packer [aged 16] matriculated University College, Oxford University.
On 29th April 1636 John Tufton 2nd Baronet [aged 13] was educated at University College, Oxford University.
On 19th December 1668 Christopher Wray 2nd and 6th Baronet [aged 16] was educated at University College, Oxford University.
Around 1696 Jocelyn Sidney 7th Earl of Leicester [aged 14] educated at University College, Oxford University.
On 1st December 1710 Fulke Greville 6th Baron Brooke [aged 17] commened his education at University College, Oxford University.
On 24th February 1711 Fulke Greville 6th Baron Brooke [aged 18] died at University College, Oxford University. His brother William [aged 16] succeeded 7th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court in Warwickshire.
On 19th June 1725 Charles Noel Somerset 4th Duke Beaufort [aged 15] matriculated University College, Oxford University. He was awarded MA on 16th October 1727.
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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On 16th November 1726 Miles Stapylton 4th Baronet [aged 18] matriculated University College, Oxford University.
On 10th October 1732 Charles Lyttelton [aged 18] matriculated University College, Oxford University. He graduated BCL in March 1745.
In March 1771 Herbert Croft 5th Baronet [aged 20] matriculated University College, Oxford University.
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Shelley [aged 17] entered University College, Oxford, in April 1810, returned thence to Eton, and finally quitted the school at midsummer, and commenced residence in Oxford in October. Here he met a young Durham man, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, who had preceded him in the university by a couple of months; the two youths at once struck up a warm and intimate friendship. Shelley had at this time a love for chemical experiment, as well as for poetry, philosophy, and classical study, and was in all his tastes and bearing an enthusiast. Hogg was not in the least an enthusiast, rather a cynic, but he also was a steady and well-read classical student. In religious matters both were sceptics, or indeed decided anti-Christians; whether Hogg, as the senior and more informed disputant, pioneered Shelley into strict atheism, or whether Shelley, as the more impassioned and unflinching speculator, outran the easy-going jeering Hogg, is a moot point; we incline to the latter opinion. Certain it is that each egged on the other by perpetual disquisition on abstruse subjects, conducted partly for the sake of truth and partly for that of mental exercitation, without on either side any disposition to bow to authority or stop short of extreme conclusions. The upshot of this habit was that Shelley and Hogg, at the close of some five months of happy and uneventful academic life, got expelled from the university.
