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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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Frank Cadogan Cowper is in Painters.
On 28th December 1876 [his father] Frank Cowper (age 27) and [his mother] Edith Elise Cadogan (age 17) were married. They had ten children.
On 16th October 1877 Frank Cadogan Cowper was born to [his father] Frank Cowper (age 28) and [his mother] Edith Elise Cadogan (age 18) at Wicken, Northamptonshire.
In 1890 [his father] Frank Cowper (age 40) and [his mother] Edith Elise Cadogan (age 30) were divorced.
1901. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 23). "An Aristocrat Answering the Summons to Execution".
1903. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 25). "Fanny, Sketch of a girl in crinoline dress".
1905. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 27). "St Agnes in Prison Receiving from Heaven the 'Shining White Garment".
1907. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 29). "Vanity". The picture borrows motifs from Giulio Romano's portrait of Isabella d'Este at Hampton Court, a picture which had inspired the young Burne-Jones half a century earlier.
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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1908. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 30). "Venetian Ladies Listening to "Rapunzel sings from the Tower."
1909. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 31). "Venetian Ladies Listening to "The Serenade" on the Grand Canal."
1912. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 34). "The Morning of the Nativity".
1913. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 35). Portrait of William Walter Carlile 1st Baronet (age 50).
William Walter Carlile 1st Baronet: On 15th June 1862 he was born. In 1885 he and Blanche Anne Cadogan were married. On 3rd January 1950 he died. Baronet Carlile of Gayhurst in BucKinghamshire extinct.
1918. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 40). "The Bluebird". Painted at 2 Edwardes Square Studios, a southerly outpost of the artists' colony in Holland Park that had sprung up in the later nineteenth-century under the leadership of the President of the Royal Academy, Sir Frederic Leighton.
1919. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 41). "Our Lady of The Fruits of The Earth."
1919. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 41). "Vanity II."
1920. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 42). Portrait of Violet Miriam Nightingale Clay Baroness Vernon (age 25).
1926. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 48). "La Belle Dame sans Merci."
1928. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 50). "Titania Sleeps."
On 28th May 1930 [his father] Frank Cowper (age 81) died.
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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On 18th November 1933 [his mother] Edith Elise Cadogan (age 74) died.
1946. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 68). "Joan Saxton, a Student Nurse Who Trained at Cirencester Memorial Hospital".
Before 1958. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 80). "The Ugly Duckling."
Before 1958. Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 80). "The Golden Bowl."
On 17th November 1958 Frank Cadogan Cowper (age 81) died.