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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 23rd March 1854 Alfred Milner 1st Viscount Milner was born.
On 18th June 1894 Edward Herbert Gascoyne-Cecil (age 26) and [his future wife] Violet Milner (age 22) were married. He the son of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess Salisbury (age 64) and Georgina Alderson Marchioness of Salisbury (age 67).
The London Gazette 27318. Whitehall, May 27, 1901. THE King has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom unto Sir Alfred Milner (age 47), G.C.B., G.C.M.G., His Majesty's High Commissioner for South Africa and Administrator of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style and title of Baron Milner, of St. James's in the county of London, and of Cape Town in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
The London Gazette 27455. 15th July 1902. Whitehall, July 15, 1902.
The King has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Viscount of the said United Kingdom unto the Right Honourable Alfred, Lord Milner (age 48), GCB, GCMG, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Saint James's, in the county, of London, and of Cape Town, in the Cape Colony.
In 1921 Alfred Milner 1st Viscount Milner (age 66) was appointed 862nd Knight of the Garter.
On 26th February 1921 Alfred Milner 1st Viscount Milner (age 66) and Violet Milner (age 49) were married.
On 13th May 1925 Alfred Milner 1st Viscount Milner (age 71) died. Viscount Milner of Saint James's in London, and of Cape Town, in the Cape Colony, Baron Milner of St James' in London and Cape Town in the Cape of Good Hope extinct.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 10th October 1958 [his former wife] Violet Georgina Maxse Viscountess Milner (age 86) died.