Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire is in Altrincham, Cheshire.
On 20th October 1556 George Booth 1st Baronet was born to William Booth at Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire. He married 1590 Katherine Anderson Lady Dunham Massey and had issue.
On 28th November 1579 William Booth died at Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire.
In 1593 Mary Booth was born to George Booth 1st Baronet [aged 36] and Katherine Anderson Lady Dunham Massey [aged 25] at Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire.
In 1595 William Booth was born to George Booth 1st Baronet [aged 38] and Katherine Anderson Lady Dunham Massey [aged 27] at Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire. He married 1619 Vere Egerton and had issue.
On 26th April 1636 William Booth [aged 41] died at Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire. He was buried at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon [Map].
On 13th February 1639 Katherine Anderson Lady Dunham Massey [aged 71] died at Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire.
On 24th October 1652 George Booth 1st Baronet [aged 96] died at Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire. His grandson George [aged 29] succeeded 2nd Baronet Booth of Dunham Massey.
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On 5th April 1629 Vere Egerton [aged 33] died. She was buried at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon [Map] on 4th May 1629.
On 26th April 1636 William Booth [aged 41] died at Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire. He was buried at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon [Map].
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 23rd March 1691 Mary Langham Countess Warrington [aged 39] died. She was buried at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon [Map].
The inscription of his monument:
"Beneath lieth the body of the right hon'ble Henry Booth, earl of Warrington, and baron Delamer of Dunham Massey, a person of unblemished honour, impartial justice, strict integrity, an illustrious example of steady and unalterable adherence to the liberties and properties of his country in the worst of times, rejecting all offers to allure, and despising all dangers to deter him therefrom, for which he was thrice committed close prisoner to the Tower of London, and at length tried for his life upon a false accusation of high treason, from which he was unanimously acquitted by his peers, on 14 January, MDCLXXX V/VI which day he afterwards annually commemorated by acts of devotion and charity: in the year MDCLXXXVIII he greatly signalised himself at the Revolution, on behalf of the protestant religion and the rights of the nation, without mixture of self-interest, preferring the good of his country to the favour of the prince who then ascended the throne; and having served his generation according to the will of God was gathered to his fathers in peace, on the 2d of January, 169¾, in the XLIId year of his age, whose mortal part was here entombed on the same memorable day on which eight years before his trial had been."
"Also rest by him the earthly remains of the r. hon'ble Mary countess of Warrington, his wife, sole daughter and heir of sir James Langham [aged 71], of Cottesbrooke, in the county of Northamptom, [sic] knt. and bart. a lady of ingenious parts, singular discretion, consummate judgement, great humility, meek and compassionate temper, extensive charity, exemplary and unaffected piety, perfect resignation to God's will, lowly in prosperity and patient in adversity, prudent in her affairs, and endowed with all other virtuous qualities, a conscientious discharger of her duty in all relations, being a faithful, affectionate, and observant, wife, alleviating the cares and afflictions of her husband by willingly sharing with him therein; a tender, indulgent, and careful mother, a dutiful and respectful daughter, gentle and kind to her servants, courteous and beneficent to her neighbours, a sincere friend, a lover and valuer of all good people, justly beloved and admired by all who knew her, who having perfected holiness in the fear of God, was by him received to an early and eternal rest from her labours, on 23 March 1690/1, in the XXXVIIth year of her age, calmly and composedly meeting and desiring death with joyful hope and steadfastness of faith, a lively draught of real worth and goodness, and a pattern deserving imitation, of whom the world was not worthy. Heb. XI. 38."
On 2nd January 1694 Henry Booth 1st Earl Warrington [aged 41] died. He was buried at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon [Map]. His son George [aged 18] succeeded 2nd Earl Warrington, 3rd Baron Delamer, 4th Baronet Booth of Dunham Massey.
The inscription of his monument:
"Beneath lieth the body of the right hon'ble Henry Booth, earl of Warrington, and baron Delamer of Dunham Massey, a person of unblemished honour, impartial justice, strict integrity, an illustrious example of steady and unalterable adherence to the liberties and properties of his country in the worst of times, rejecting all offers to allure, and despising all dangers to deter him therefrom, for which he was thrice committed close prisoner to the Tower of London, and at length tried for his life upon a false accusation of high treason, from which he was unanimously acquitted by his peers, on 14 January, MDCLXXX V/VI which day he afterwards annually commemorated by acts of devotion and charity: in the year MDCLXXXVIII he greatly signalised himself at the Revolution, on behalf of the protestant religion and the rights of the nation, without mixture of self-interest, preferring the good of his country to the favour of the prince who then ascended the throne; and having served his generation according to the will of God was gathered to his fathers in peace, on the 2d of January, 169¾, in the XLIId year of his age, whose mortal part was here entombed on the same memorable day on which eight years before his trial had been."
"Also rest by him the earthly remains of the r. hon'ble Mary countess of Warrington, his wife, sole daughter and heir of sir James Langham, of Cottesbrooke, in the county of Northamptom, [sic] knt. and bart. a lady of ingenious parts, singular discretion, consummate judgement, great humility, meek and compassionate temper, extensive charity, exemplary and unaffected piety, perfect resignation to God's will, lowly in prosperity and patient in adversity, prudent in her affairs, and endowed with all other virtuous qualities, a conscientious discharger of her duty in all relations, being a faithful, affectionate, and observant, wife, alleviating the cares and afflictions of her husband by willingly sharing with him therein; a tender, indulgent, and careful mother, a dutiful and respectful daughter, gentle and kind to her servants, courteous and beneficent to her neighbours, a sincere friend, a lover and valuer of all good people, justly beloved and admired by all who knew her, who having perfected holiness in the fear of God, was by him received to an early and eternal rest from her labours, on 23 March 1690/1, in the XXXVIIth year of her age, calmly and composedly meeting and desiring death with joyful hope and steadfastness of faith, a lively draught of real worth and goodness, and a pattern deserving imitation, of whom the world was not worthy. Heb. XI. 38."
On 9th July 1759 Thomas Assheton [aged 80] died.
Monument at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon [Map] by Westmacott, inscribed:
In a vault near this place were interred the remains of Thomas Assheton, of Ashley, esq. on the 9th day July, 1759, aged 64; and in the same vault Harriet Assheton, who died at Manchester, Jan. 1773, aged 74; also the remains of Thomas Assheton Smith [aged 34], of Ashley, esq. son of the above Thomas and Harriet, who died April 16th, 1774, aged 49 years, to whose memory William Henry Assheton, esq. erects this monument.
Over the inscription is an elegant female figure habited in a loose robe, and leaning on the light knee, the hair dishevelled: she holds a brass pencil in the right hand, and rests her cheek upon the other. Under the figure:
Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus
Tarn cari capitis.1
Note 1. Virgil's Eclogues (Eclogue V, line 42): "What shame or limit can there be to the longing for so dear a head?"
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon [Map]. January 1788. On another mural monument: Sacred to the memory of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall, esq. of Jamaica, and late of Ashlej' in this county, who died on the 27th day of Jan. 1788, in the 38th year of his age: also Martha his wife, the second daughter of Marsden Kenyon, esq. of Manchester, who died on the 14th day of Jan. 1780, in the 26th year of her age.