Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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Rev. John Whitney
President of Georgetown University
My dear Fr. Whitney
I write with regard to the picture of Mrs Dahlgren, now hanging in one of the front drawing rooms. It was my intention, had this painting been a success, to present it to the College. Both Mrs Dahlgren and I [John Vinton Dahlgren], however, are not pleased with it, and have decided not to part with it. It was sent to the College entirely on the responsibility of the artist, who did so without consulting me. I will feel under obligation to you if you will have it boxed up, and stored in some room in the College until I return to N.Y. when I would like it expressed to me. Whatever this may cost the College pray let me know, and I will take pleasure in paying the…'
Before 1866 [her father] Joseph William Drexel [aged 32] and [her mother] Lucy Wharton [aged 24] were married.
On 22nd April 1868 Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Baroness Decies was born to [her father] Joseph William Drexel [aged 35] and [her mother] Lucy Wharton [aged 27].
On 25th March 1888 [her father] Joseph William Drexel [aged 55] died.
On 29th June 1889 John Vinton Dahlgren [aged 21] and Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Baroness Decies [aged 21] were married at St Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan.
After 1898. Adolfo Müller-Ury [aged 35]. Portrait of Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Baroness Decies [aged 29].
Jan 27/98.
My dear Fr. Richards:
Last summer you suggested to me that the University would like to possess a Portrait of Mrs Dahlgren [aged 29]. If your Board of Director[s are possessed of] the same mind I will present to it such a work by one of the most distinguished artists in the country. I speak of Mr Muller Ury. The character of the picture will be such as will befit the dignity of an institution of learning.
Some days since I saw Mr Thoarms of Hess & Co, and directed him when next in Washington to visit the Chapel, and determine upon the proper decorations of the walls. Trusting that this order will meet with your approval I am as ever your sincere friend
[her husband] John Vinton Dahlgren [aged 29].
On 11th August 1899 [her husband] John Vinton Dahlgren [aged 31] died of tuberculosis. His funeral was held on 18th August 1899, in Washington, D.C. at Georgetown University's Dahlgren Chapel, which had been constructed six years earlier as a memorial to the death of Dahlgren's infant son, Joseph.
In June 1901 Henry Symes Lehr [aged 32] and Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Baroness Decies [aged 33] were married at St Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan.
1905. Giovanni Boldini [aged 62]. Portrait of Mrs Henry Lehr aka Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Baroness Decies [aged 36].
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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On 30th July 1910 William Horsley-Beresford 4th Baron Decies [aged 45] died without issue. His brother [her future husband] John [aged 43] succeeded 5th Baron Decies of Decies in Waterford.
On 7th February 1911 [her future husband] John Beresford 5th Baron Decies [aged 44] and Helen Vivien Gould Baroness Decies [aged 17] were married. She by marriage Baroness Decies of Decies in Waterford. The difference in their ages was 26 years.
In 1912 [her mother] Lucy Wharton [aged 71] died.
On 3rd January 1929 [her husband] Henry Symes Lehr [aged 59] died of a brain malady at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
In 1935 Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Baroness Decies [aged 66] published "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age.
On 25th May 1936 John Beresford 5th Baron Decies [aged 69] and Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Baroness Decies [aged 68] were married. She by marriage Baroness Decies of Decies in Waterford.
In 1937 Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Baroness Decies [aged 68] published Turn of the World.
In 1942 [her husband] John Beresford 5th Baron Decies [aged 75] requested a divorce from his wife Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Baroness Decies [aged 73].
On 31st January 1944 [her husband] John Beresford 5th Baron Decies [aged 77] died. His son [her step-son] Arthur [aged 28] succeeded 6th Baron Decies of Decies in Waterford.
On 13th June 1944 Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Baroness Decies [aged 76] died at the Shelton Hotel, Manhattan. She was buried with her first husband and son in Washington, D.C. at Georgetown University's Dahlgren Chapel.
GrandFather: Francis Martin Drexel
Father: Joseph William Drexel
Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Baroness Decies
GrandFather: Thomas Lloyd Wharton
Mother: Lucy Wharton