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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Paternal Family Tree: Walpole
In 1650. Unknown Painter. Portrait of unknown person previously believed to be Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole.
On 8th December 1678 Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole was born to [his father] Colonel Robert Walpole (age 28).
In 1700 [his brother] Robert Walpole 1st Earl Orford (age 23) and [his sister-in-law] Catherine Shorter (age 18) were married. She brought dowry of £20,000.
On 18th November 1700 [his father] Colonel Robert Walpole (age 50) died.
Before 25th July 1713 [his brother-in-law] Charles Townshend 2nd Viscount Townsend (age 39) and [his sister] Dorothy Walpole Viscountess Townsend (age 26) were married. She by marriage Viscountess Townsend.
On 21st July 1720 Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole (age 41) and Mary Magdalen Lombard (age 25) were married.
On 12th June 1723 [his son] Horatio Walpole 1st Earl Orford was born to Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole (age 44) and [his wife] Mary Magdalen Lombard (age 28). He married 12th May 1748 Rachel Cavendish, daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire, and had issue.
On 25th February 1725 [his daughter] Mary Walpole was born to Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole (age 46) and [his wife] Mary Magdalen Lombard (age 30). She married 20th June 1764 Captain Maurice Suckling.
In 1726 [his brother] Robert Walpole 1st Earl Orford (age 49) was appointed 545th Knight of the Garter by King George I (age 65).
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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On 29th March 1726 [his sister] Dorothy Walpole Viscountess Townsend (age 39) died although the circumstances are somewhat mysterious; possibly smallpox.
On 25th October 1727 [his son] Thomas Walpole was born to Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole (age 48) and [his wife] Mary Magdalen Lombard (age 32). He married 14th November 1753 Elizabeth Vanneck, daughter of Joshua Vanneck 1st Baronet and Mary Anne Daubuz Lady Vanneck, and had issue.
In 1728 [his son] Richard Walpole was born to Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole (age 49) and [his wife] Mary Magdalen Lombard (age 33). He married before 17th August 1798 Margaret Vanneck, daughter of Joshua Vanneck 1st Baronet and Mary Anne Daubuz Lady Vanneck.
On 3rd May 1736 [his son] Robert Walpole was born to Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole (age 57). He married (1) 8th May 1780 Dinah aka Diana Grosett and had issue (2) 10th May 1785 Sophia Stert and had issue.
On 3rd March 1738 [his brother] Robert Walpole 1st Earl Orford (age 61) and [his sister-in-law] Maria Skerritt (age 36) were married. They had been companions for many years before they married. She bringing £30,000 to the marriage. She appears to have died three months later as a consequence of a miscarriage. The difference in their ages was 25 years.
On 6th February 1742 [his brother] Robert Walpole 1st Earl Orford (age 65) was created 1st Earl Orford.
On 18th March 1745 [his brother] Robert Walpole 1st Earl Orford (age 68) died. His son [his nephew] Robert (age 44) succeeded 2nd Earl Orford. Margaret Rolle Countess Orford (age 36) by marriage Countess Orford.
On 12th May 1748 [his son] Horatio Walpole 1st Earl Orford (age 24) and [his daughter-in-law] Rachel Cavendish (age 20) were married. She the daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire (age 49) and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire (age 49).
Letters of Horace Walpole. 12th May 1752. Arlington Street. To George Montagu Esq (age 39).
You deserve no charity, for you never write but to ask it. When you are tired of yourself and the country, you think over all London, and consider who will be proper to send you an account of it. Take notice, I won't be your gazetteer; nor is my time come for being a dowager, a maker of news, a day-labourer in scandal. If you care for nobody but for what they can tell you, you must provide yourself elsewhere. The town is empty, nothing in it but flabby mackerel, and wooden gooseberry tarts, and a hazy east wind. My sister is gone to Paris; I go to Strawberry Hill in three days for the summer, if summer there will ever be any.
If you want news you must send to Ireland, where there is almost a civil war, between the Lord Lieutenant and Primate on one side (observe, I don't tell you what that side is), and the Speaker on the other, who carries questions by wholesale in the House of Commons against the Castle; and the teterrima belli causa is not the common one.
Reams of scandalous verses and ballads are come over, too bad to send you, if I had them, but I really have not. What is more provoking for the Duke of Dorset (age 64), an address is come over directly to the King (not as usual through the channel of the Lord Lieutenant), to assure him of their great loyalty, and apprehensions of being misrepresented. This is all I know, and you see, most imperfectly.
I was t'other night to see what is now grown the fashion, Mother Midnight's Oratory.309 It appeared the lowest buffoonery in the world even to me, who am used to my uncle Horace (age 73). There is a bad oration to ridicule, what it is too like, Orator Henley; all the rest is perverted music: there is a man who plays so nimbly on the kettle-drum, that he has reduced that noisy instrument to an object of sight; for, if you don't see the tricks with his hands, it is no better than ordinary: another plays on a violin and trumpet together: another mimics a bagpipe with a German flute, and makes it full as disagreeable. There is an admired dulcimer, a favourite salt-box, and a really curious jew's-harp. Two or three men intend to persuade you that they play on a broomstick, which is drolly brought in, carefully shrouded in a case, so as to be mistaken for a bassoon or bass-viol; but they succeed in nothing but the action. The last fellow imitates * * * * * curtseying to a French horn. There are twenty medley overtures, and a man who speaks a prologue and an epilogue, in which he counterfeits all the actors and singers upon earth: in short, I have long been convinced, that what I used to imagine the most difficult thing in the world, mimicry, is the easiest; for one has seen for these two or three years, at Foote's and the other theatres, that when they lost one mimic, they called,Odd man!" and another came and succeeded just as well.
Adieu! I have told you much more than I intended, and much more than I could conceive I had to say, except how does Miss Montagu?
P. S. Did you hear Captain Hotham's bon-mot on Sir Thomas Robinson's making an assembly from the top of his house to the bottom? He said, he wondered so many people would go to Sir Thomas's, as he treated them all de haut en bas.
Note 309. "Among other diversions and amusements which increase upon us, the town," says the Gentleman's Magazine for January 1752, "has been lately entertained with a kind of farcical performance, called 'The Old Woman's Oratory,' conducted by Mrs. Mary Midnight and her family, intended as a banter on Henley's Oratory, and a puff for the Old Woman's Magazine."-E.
On 14th November 1753 [his son] Thomas Walpole (age 26) and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Vanneck (age 21) were married. She the daughter of his business partner Joshua Vanneck 1st Baronet (age 52). A Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings; her sister [his future daughter-in-law] Margaret Vanneck (age 10) had married his brother [his son] Richard Walpole (age 25).
On 4th January 1756 Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole (age 77) was created 1st Baron Walpole of Wollerton.
On 5th February 1757 Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole (age 78) died at Wickmere, Norfolk. His son Horatio (age 33) succeeded 2nd Baron Walpole of Wollerton.
After 5th February 1757. Church of St Andrew, Wickmere [Map]. Graves slabs to Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole (deceased) and [his grandson] William Walpole (age 1).
William Walpole: Around 1756 he was born to Horatio Walpole 1st Earl Orford and Rachel Cavendish. On 21st December 1764 William Walpole died.
In 1783 [his former wife] Mary Magdalen Lombard (age 88) died.
Great x 2 Grandfather: Calybut Walpole of Houghton 
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Walpole
GrandFather: Edward Walpole of Houghton
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Edward Barkham 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Barkham
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Frances Berney
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Barkham
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Rolfe
Great x 1 Grandmother: Susan Barkham
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Crouch
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jane Crouch
Father: Colonel Robert Walpole
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Crane 1st Baronet
GrandMother: Susan Crane
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Alington
Great x 2 Grandfather: Giles Alington
Great x 1 Grandmother: Susan Alinton