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Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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In 1691 Lancelot Blackburne became a Canon of Exeter, and in 1705 Dean of Exeter
On 10th December 1658 Lancelot Blackburne was born.
On 25th September 1681 Lancelot Blackburne (age 22) was ordained a deacon at Christ Church by John Fell (age 56), Bishop of Oxford, and travelled to the West Indies.
On 2nd September 1684 Lancelot Blackburne (age 25) and Catherine Talbot were married at the Savoy Chapel Royal [Map].
Before 1685 [his brother-in-law] Bishop William Talbot (age 26) and Mary Stoughton were married.
In 1699 [his brother-in-law] Bishop William Talbot (age 41) was appointed Bishop of Oxford.
In 1715 [his brother-in-law] Bishop William Talbot (age 57) was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Garter.
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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In 1715 Lancelot Blackburne (age 56) was appointed Archdeacon of Cornwall.
On 23rd April 1715 [his brother-in-law] Bishop William Talbot (age 57) was appointed Bishop of Salisbury.
In 1716 Lancelot Blackburne (age 57) travelled to Hanover as the personal chaplain to King George I.
In 1717 Archdeacon Lancelot Blackburne (age 58) was appointed Bishop of Exeter.
In 1718 [his brother-in-law] Bishop William Talbot (age 60) was appointed Dean Chapel Royal.
In the year 1719 William Borlase (age 22) was admitted, by Lancelot, Bishop of Exeter (age 60), to déacon’s orders, and by the same ordained priest in 1720.
In 1722 [his brother-in-law] Bishop William Talbot (age 64) was appointed Bishop of Durham.
In 1723 Bishop Lancelot Blackburne (age 64) was appointed Lord High Almoner which office he held for life.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1724 Bishop Lancelot Blackburne (age 65) was appointed Archbishop of York.
On 9th June 1726 [his wife] Catherine Talbot died.
On 23rd March 1743 Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne (age 84) died at his home in Downing Street.
Letters of Horace Walpole. [11th December 1780] I believe, Sir, that I may have been over-candid to Hogarth, and fail his spirit and youth and talent may have hurried him into more real caricatures than I specified . yet he certainly restrained his bent that way pretty early. Charteris403 I have seen; but though Some years older than you, Sir, I cannot say I have at all a perfect idea of him: nor did I ever hear the curious anecdote you tell me of the banker and my father. I was much better acquainted with bishop Blackbourne. He lived within two doors of my father in Downing Street, and took much notice of me when I was near man. It is not to be ungrateful and asperse him, but to amuse you, if I give you some account of him from what I remember404. He was perfectly a fine gentleman to the last, to eighty-four; his favourite author was Waller, whom he frequently quoted. In point of decorum, he was not quite so exact as you have been told, Sir. I often dined with him, his mistress, Mrs. Conwys, sat at the head of the table, and Hayter405, his natural son by another woman, and very like him, at the bottom, as chaplain: he was afterwards Bishop of London. I have heard, but do not affirm it, that Mrs. Blackbourne, before she died, complained of Mrs. Conwys being brought under the same roof. To his clergy he was, I have heard, very imperious. One story I recollect, which showed how much he was a man of this world: and which the Queen herself repeated to my father. On the King's last journey to Hanover, before Lady Yarmouth came over, the Archbishop being With her Majesty, said to her, "Madam, I have been with your minister Walpole, and he tells me that you are a wise woman, and do not mind your husband's having a mistress." He was a little hurt at not being raised to Canterbury on Wake's death, and said to my father, "You did not think on me: but it is true, I am too old, I am too old." Perhaps, Sir, these are gossiping stories, but at least they hurt nobody now.
Note 403. The notorious Colonel Francis Charteris, to whom Hogarth has accorded a conspicuous place in the first plate of his Harlot's Progress. Pope describes him as "a man infamous for all manner of vices," and thus introduces him into his third Moral Essay:
"Riches in effect,
No grace of Heaven, or token of th' Elect;
Given to the fool, the mad, the vain, the evil,
To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, and the devil!"
He died in Scotland, in 1731, at the age of sixty-two. The populace, at his funeral, raised a great riot, almost tore the body out of the coffin, and cast dead dogs, etc. into the grave along with it.-E.
Note 404. See the note to vol. i. p. 314, letter 101.-E.
Note 405. For a refutation of Walpole's assertion, that Bishop Hayter was a natural son of bishop Blackbourn's, see vol. ii. p. 100, letter 39.-E.
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