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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Paternal Family Tree: Graham of Plump in Kirkandrews
In March 1649 Colonel James Graham was born to George Graham 2nd Baronet [aged 25] in Norton Conyers, North Yorkshire.
On 28th January 1654 [his grandfather] Richard Graham 1st Baronet [aged 71] died. His son [his father] George [aged 30] succeeded 2nd Baronet Graham of Esk in Cumberland.
On 19th March 1658 [his father] George Graham 2nd Baronet [aged 34] died. His son [his brother] Richard [aged 8] succeeded 3rd Baronet Graham of Esk in Cumberland.
On 2nd August 1670 [his brother] Richard Graham 1st Viscount Preston [aged 20] and [his sister-in-law] Ann Howard Viscountess Preston [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of Charles Howard 1st Earl Carlisle [aged 41] and Anne Howard Countess Carlisle.
John Evelyn's Diary. 10th June 1673. Came to visit and dine with me my Lord Viscount Cornbury [aged 11] and his Lady [aged 10]; Lady Frances Hyde, sister to the Duchess of York; and [his future wife] Mrs. Dorothy Howard [aged 22], Maid of Honour [Note. Dorothy Howard and Colonel James Graham [aged 24] were married in 1675 - may be an example of Evelyn writing his diary retrospectively she being referred to as 'Mrs' although possibly the term was used irrecspective of marriage - see John Evelyn's Diary 9th October 1671]. We went, after dinner, to see the formal and formidable camp on Blackheath, Greenwich [Map], raised to invade Holland; or, as others suspected for another design. Thence, to the Italian glass-house at Greenwich, Kent [Map], where glass was blown of finer metal than that of Murano [Map], at Venice.
John Evelyn's Diary. 11th July 1675. In this journey, went part of the way Mr. James Graham [aged 26] (since Privy Purse to the Duke [aged 41]), a young gentleman exceedingly in love with Mrs. Dorothy Howard [aged 24], one of the maids of honor in our company. I could not but pity them both, the mother not much favoring it. This lady was not only a great beauty, but a most virtuous and excellent creature, and worthy to have been wife to the best of men. My advice was required, and I spoke to the advantage of the young gentleman, more out of pity than that she deserved no better match; for, though he was a gentleman of good family, yet there was great inequality.
John Evelyn's Diary. 15th July 1675. This was a journey of adventures and knight-errantry. One of the lady's servants being as desperately in love with Mrs. Howard's [aged 49] woman, as Mr. Graham [aged 26] was with her [his future wife] daughter [aged 24], and she riding on horseback behind his rival, the amorous and jealous youth having a little drink in his pate, had here killed himself had he not been prevented; for, alighting from his horse, and drawing his sword, he endeavored twice or thrice to fall on it, but was interrupted by our coachman, and a stranger passing by. After this, running to his rival, and snatching his sword from his side (for we had beaten his own out of his hand), and on the sudden pulling down his mistress, would have run both of them through; we parted them, not without some blood. This miserable creature poisoned himself for her not many days after they came to London.
On 22nd November 1675 Colonel James Graham [aged 26] and Dorothy Howard [aged 24] were married the license being that date.
John Evelyn's Diary. 11th November 1677. I was all this week composing matters between old Mrs. Howard [aged 51] and Sir Gabriel Sylvius, upon his long and earnest addresses to [his sister-in-law] Mrs. Anne [aged 24], her second daughter, maid of honor to the Queen [aged 38]. My friend, Mrs. Godolphin [aged 25] (who exceedingly loved the young lady) was most industrious in it, out of pity to the languishing knight; so as though there were great differences in their years, it was at last effected, and they were married the 13th, in Henry VII.'s Chapel [Map], by the Bishop of Rochester [aged 52], there being besides my wife [aged 42] and Mrs. Graham [aged 26], her sister, Mrs. Godolphin, and very few more. We dined at the old lady's, and supped at Mr. Graham's [aged 28] at St. James's.
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 12th May 1681 [his brother] Richard Graham 1st Viscount Preston [aged 31] was created 1st Viscount Preston. [his sister-in-law] Ann Howard Viscountess Preston [aged 31] by marriage Viscountess Preston.
John Evelyn's Diary. 15th September 1685. I accompanied Mr. Pepys [aged 52] to Portsmouth [Map], whither his Ma* [aged 51] was going the first time since his coming to the Crowne, to see in what state the fortifications were. We tooke coach and six horses, late after dinner, yet got to Bagshot that night. Whilst supper was making ready I went and made a visit to Mrs. Graham [aged 34], some time maid of honour to ye Queene Dowager [aged 46], now wife to James Graham, Esq [aged 36] of the privy purse to the King; her house being a walke in the forest, within a little quarter of a mile from Bagshot towne. Very importunate she was that I would sup, and abide there that night, but being obliged by my companion, I return'd to our inn, after she had shew'd me her house, wch was very commodious and well furnish'd, as she was an excellent housewife, a prudent and virtuous lady. There is a parke full of red deere about it. Her eldest son was now sick there of the small-pox, but in a likely way of recovery, and other of her children run about, and among the infected, wnh she said she let them do on purpose that they might whilst young pass that fatal disease she fancied they were to undergo one time or other, and that this would be the best: the severity of this cruell disease so lately in my poore family confirming much of what she affirmed.
John Evelyn's Diary. 22nd October 1685. I accompanied my Lady Clarendon to her house at Swallowfield in Berks, dining by the way at Mr. Graham's [aged 36] lodge at Bagshot; the house, new repair'd and capacious enough for a good family, stands in a Park [Map]. Hence we went to Swallowfield; this house is after the antient build ing of honourable gentlemen's houses, when they kept up antient hospitality, but the gardens and waters as elegant as 'tis possible to make a flat, by art and industrie, and no meane expence, my lady being so extraordinarily skill'd in ye flowery part, and my lord in diligence of planting; so that I have hardly seene a seate whrch shews more tokens of it than what is to be found here, not only in the delicious and rarest fruits of a garden, but in those innumerable timber trees in the ground about the seate, to the greatest ornament and benefit of the place. There is one orchard of 1000 golden, and other cider pippins; walks and groves of elms, limes, oaks, and other trees. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweete shrubbs, that it per fumes the aire. The distribution also of the quarters, walks, and parterres, is excellent. The nurseries, kitchin garden full of ye most desireable plants; two very noble Orangeries well furnished; but above all, the canall and fishponds, the one fed with a white, the other with a black running water, fed by a quick and swift river, so well and plen tifully stor'd with fish, that for pike, carp, breame and tench, I never saw any thing approching it. We had at every meale carp and pike of size fit for the table of a Prince, and what added to ye delight was to see the hundreds taken by the drag, out of which, the cooke standing by, we pointed out what we had most mind to, and had carp that would have ben worth at London twenty shillings a piece. The waters are flagg'd about with Calamus aromaticus, with wch my lady has hung a closet, that retains the smell very perfectly. There is also a certaine sweete willow and other exotics: also a very fine bowllng-greene, meadow, pasture, and wood; in a word, all that can render a country seate delightful. There is besides a well furnish'd library in ye house.
On 22nd November 1695 [his brother] Richard Graham 1st Viscount Preston [aged 46] died. His son [his nephew] Edward [aged 16] succeeded 2nd Viscount Preston, 4th Baronet Graham of Esk in Cumberland.
In 1701 [his wife] Dorothy Howard [aged 50] died.
On 5th March 1709 [his son-in-law] Henry Bowes Howard 4th Earl Berkshire 11th Earl Suffolk [aged 23] and [his daughter] Catherine Graham Countess Berkshire and Suffolk were married. They were first cousins.
In 1730 Colonel James Graham [aged 80] died.
[his daughter] Mary Graham was born to Colonel James Graham and Dorothy Howard.
[his son] Richard Graham was born to Colonel James Graham and Dorothy Howard.
[his son] Henry Graham was born to Colonel James Graham and Dorothy Howard.
The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel Volume 1 Chapters 1-60 1307-1342
The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel offer one of the most vivid and immediate accounts of 14th-century Europe, written by a knight who lived through the events he describes, and experienced some of them first hand. Covering the early decades of the Hundred Years’ War, this remarkable chronicle follows the campaigns of Edward III of England, the politics of France and the Low Countries, and the shifting alliances that shaped medieval warfare. Unlike later historians, Jean le Bel writes with a strong sense of eyewitness authenticity, drawing on personal experience and the testimony of fellow soldiers. His narrative captures not only battles and sieges, but also the realities of military life, diplomacy, and the ideals of chivalry that governed noble society. A key source for Jean Froissart, Le Bel’s chronicle stands on its own as a compelling and insightful work, at once historical record and literary achievement. This translation builds on the 1905 edition published in French by Jules Viard, adding extensive translations from other sources Rymer's Fœdera, the Chronicles of Adam Murimuth, William Nangis, Walter of Guisborough, a Bourgeois of Valenciennes, Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke and Richard Lescot to enrich the original text and Viard's notes.
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[his daughter] Catherine Graham Countess Berkshire and Suffolk was born to Colonel James Graham and Dorothy Howard. She married 5th March 1709 her first cousin Henry Bowes Howard 4th Earl Berkshire 11th Earl Suffolk and had issue.
[his son] William Graham was born to Colonel James Graham and Dorothy Howard.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Fergus Graham of Plump in Kirkandrews-upon-Esk in Cumberland 
GrandFather: Richard Graham 1st Baronet
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Bell of Scotsbrig in Middlebie
Great x 1 Grandmother: Sibill Bell
Father: George Graham 2nd Baronet
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Musgrave of Cumcatch in Cumberland 
GrandMother: Catherine Musgrave