In 1509 Anthony Browne was born to Wistan Browne.
In 1545 Anthony Browne [aged 36] was elected MP Lostwithiel.
In 1545 Anthony Browne [aged 36] was elected MP Great Bedwyn.
In March 1553 Anthony Browne [aged 44] was elected MP Preston.
In October 1553 Anthony Browne [aged 44] was elected MP Preston.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 5th November 1553. The sam day at after-non dyd prych master Feknam [aged 38] at sant Sthevyns in Walbroke, and ther wher serten pepull mad besenes for the sermon, and ther wher juge Browne [aged 44], ser Rownland Hyll [aged 55], ser Rechard Dobes [aged 22], ser John Yorke [aged 43]; and sum wher sent to the mare [mayor], and to the Conter.
In April 1554 Anthony Browne [aged 45] was elected MP Scarborough.
In November 1554 Anthony Browne [aged 45] was elected MP Maldon.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 20th April 1557. The xx day of Aprell dyd pryche docthur Yonge at santt Mare spyttylle; and ther was my lord mare [aged 57] and xxv althermen, none lackyng butt master Wodderoff, the wyche makyth the full nom bur of xxvj; and my lord Broke the cheff justes, and my lord justes Browne [aged 48], and my ser John Baker, and ser Roger Chamley, and mony nobull gentyllmen, with the holl cete [whole city] boythe old and yonge, boythe men and women.
On 11th May 1560 Thomas Wendy [aged 60] died. He was buried at All Saints Church, Haslingfield [Map].
In his will he left his Thomas Percy [aged 32], nephew of his former employer, in his will a silver ewer and basin "in remembrance of such benefits which I have received at the hands of my very good lord and late master the late earl of Northumberland his uncle".
He left Anne Preston Baroness Geneville Beaudasert and Parr Kendal his lands at Coton and Whitwell, Cambridgeshire 'as a poor token of the good will which I have ever borne to her ladyship and in remembrance that in that place she had her first acquaintance with my lord her husband [aged 54]'.
He also remembered Anthony Browne [aged 51], Henry Percy 8th Earl of Northumberland [aged 28], Humphrey Radclyffe [aged 51] and Richard Weston [aged 33].
In 1567 Anthony Browne [aged 58] died.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 5th October 1588 Anthony Browne was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.