In 1485 Lettice Peniston was born.
In 1505 [her daughter] Mary Knollys was born to [her future husband] Robert Knollys [aged 24] and Lettice Peniston [aged 20].
Around 1510 Robert Knollys [aged 29] and Lettice Peniston [aged 25] were married.
Around 1512 [her son] Francis Knollys was born to [her husband] Robert Knollys [aged 31] and Lettice Peniston [aged 27] at Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire. He married 26th April 1540 Catherine Carey and had issue.
Around 1516 [her daughter] Joan Knollys was born to [her husband] Robert Knollys [aged 35] and Lettice Peniston [aged 31]. She married 1536 Charles Wingfield and had issue.
In or before 1520 [her future husband] Thomas Tresham [aged 20] and Mary Parr [aged 19] were married. They were fourth cousin once removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
Around 1521 [her husband] Robert Knollys [aged 40] died. He was buried at St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate.
In 1521 John Tresham [aged 59] died. His son [her future husband] Thomas Tresham [aged 21] inherited Rushton Hall who commissioned further building work.
After 1521 Robert Lee [aged 38] and Lettice Peniston [aged 36] were married.
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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Around 1536 [her son-in-law] Charles Wingfield [aged 23] and [her daughter] Joan Knollys [aged 20] were married.
In 1539 [her husband] Robert Lee [aged 56] died.
On 26th April 1540 [her son] Francis Knollys [aged 28] and [her daughter-in-law] Catherine Carey [aged 16] were married.
In or before 1551 [her son] Benedict Lee and [her daughter-in-law] Margaret Pakington were married.
Before 10th July 1557 Thomas Tresham [aged 57] and Lettice Peniston [aged 72] were married.
Before 10th July 1557 Lettice Peniston [aged 72] died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 10th July 1557. The x day of July was bered at Peterborow [Map] my lade Tressam [aged 72], with iiij baners, and a herse of wax, (blank) torchys, and a iiij dossen of skochyons.
On 8th March 1559 [her former husband] Thomas Tresham [aged 59] died. His grandson Thomas Tresham [aged 16] inherited Rushton Hall who enclosed the park, and constructed the surviving Triangular Lodge (1594-7) and the Hawkfield Tower (1593-8) which does not survive. He also made alterations to the house, and began the construction of Lyvedon New Bield with its extensive formal gardens, around 15km east-north-east of Rushton.
[her son] Benedict Lee was born to Robert Lee and Lettice Peniston. He married in or before 1551 Margaret Pakington and had issue.
[her son] Henry Knollys was born to Robert Knollys and Lettice Peniston.