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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Maternal Family Tree: Alice Squier Baroness North 1560
Alice Squier Baroness North was born to [her father] Oliver Squier of Southby in Hampshire.
Around 1527 Edward North 1st Baron North (age 31) and Alice Squier Baroness North were married.
Before 1528 Edward Maurfyn and Alice Squier Baroness North were married.
In 1528 [her husband] Edward Maurfyn died.
In 1530 [her son] Roger North 2nd Baron North was born to [her husband] Edward North 1st Baron North (age 34) and Alice Squier Baroness North.
Before 1550 [her son-in-law] William Somerset 3rd Earl of Worcester (age 23) and [her daughter] Christina North Countess of Worcester were married. She by marriage Countess Worcester. He the son of Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester (age 47).
In 1554 [her husband] Edward North 1st Baron North (age 58) was created 1st Baron North. Alice Squier Baroness North by marriage Baroness North.
Before 1558 [her son-in-law] Henry Scrope 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton (age 23) and [her daughter] Christina North Countess of Worcester were married. She by marriage Baroness Scrope of Bolton.
Around 1558 [her daughter] Christina North Countess of Worcester died.
Before 19th August 1560 Alice Squier Baroness North died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 19th August 1560. The xix day of August my lade Northe [was carried] from Charter howse toward Cambregshyre ... with a C [100] men in blake rydyng, and master Clarenshus (age 50) sett them in ordur, and a grett denur with venesun, wyne, and stronge bere.
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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Henry Machyn's Diary. 22nd August 1560. The xxij day of August was bered in Cambregshyre my lade North, the wyff of my [her former husband] lord North (age 64), with ij haroldes of armes, master Clarenshus (age 50) and master Somersett, and mony mornars in blake gownes; then cam a grett baner of armes borne; and then cam the corse kevered [covered] with a pall of blake welvett and armes, and banars borne abowtt the corse; and then cam mony women mornars in blake; and the plase and the chyrche hangyd with blake and armes, and after to the plase to dener, for ther was myche a-doo; and thys was at Cateleg my lord('s) place; and (blank) dyd pryche at the bereall, and was mony pore men and women that had gownes and met [meat] and drynke.
Note. P. 242. Funeral of lady North. Alice, daughter of Oliver Squyer, of Southby, near Portsmouth, widow of Edward Mirfyn of London (son of sir John Mirfyn, lord mayor in 1519,) and also widow of John Brigadine, of Northampton. After this, lord North married another lady who had had three husbands, and died himself before the end of 1565. The present lady was the mother of his children.
Around 1564 [her former husband] Edward North 1st Baron North (age 68) died.
[her daughter] Mary North was born to Edward North 1st Baron North and Alice Squier Baroness North.
[her daughter] Christina North Countess of Worcester was born to Edward North 1st Baron North and Alice Squier Baroness North. She married (1) before 1550 William Somerset 3rd Earl of Worcester, son of Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester, and had issue (2) before 1558 Henry Scrope 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton, son of John Scrope 8th Baron Scrope of Bolton and Catherine Clifford Baroness Scrope Bolton, and had issue.