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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Barry

Barry is in Field.

Barry is a number of horizontal stripes.

                    Around 1577 George Gower [aged 37]. Portrait of Richard Drake [aged 42]. The heraldic escutcheon shows seven quarters as follows:
                
                    1: Drake of Ash Arms. Drake of Ash in the parish of Musbury, Devon.
                
                    2: Argent, on a chief gules three cinquefoils of the first; Billet of Ash.
                
                    3: Gules, on a fess argent two mullets sable; Hamton of Rockbere and Ash.
                
                    4: Ermine, on a chief indented sable three crosslets fitchee or; Orwey of Orwey and Ash.
                
                    5: Barry of seven argent and sable.
                
                    6: Azure, six lions rampant argent crowned Gules, 3, 2, 1; Forde of Forde.
                
                    7: Argent, two chevrons sable (Esse/Ash of Ash); Esse or Ash of Ash.

Lovell Arms. Barry nebuly of six or and gules. Source.

Basset Arms. Barry wavy of six or and gules.

Lusignan Arms. Barry argent and azure. Source.

Brandon Arms. Barry of ten argent and gules, a lion rampant or ducally crowned per pale of the first and second. Source.

Mortimer Arms. Barry or and azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second over all an inescutcheon argent. Source.