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Before 1659 Richard Spencer (age 54) and Martha Briggs were married.
In 1659 [her daughter] Martha Spencer was born to [her husband] Richard Spencer (age 54) and Martha Briggs. She married 24th February 1680 John The Younger Evelyn, son of John Evelyn and Mary Browne, and had issue.
On 10th October 1668 [her husband] Richard Spencer (age 63) died.
On or after 10th October 1668 John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet (age 29) and Martha Briggs were married. The license was dated 10th October 1668.
Around 1672 [her son] John Stonhouse 3rd Baronet was born to [her husband] John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet (age 33) and Martha Briggs. He married (1) before 28th August 1697 Mary Mellish and had issue (2) in or before 1705 Penelope Dashwood, daughter of Robert Dashwood 1st Baronet and Penelope Chamberlayne Lady Dashwood, and had issue.
John Evelyn's Diary. 27th November 1679. I went to see [her husband] Sir John Stonehouse (age 40), with whom I was treating a marriage between my son (age 59) and his [her daughter] daughter-in-law (age 20) [Note. Means step-daughter. Martha Spencer was the daughter of Martha Briggs who re-married John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet after her first husband [her former husband] Richard Spencer died in 1668].
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th December 1679. I went to meet [her husband] Sir John Stonehouse (age 40), and give him a particular of the settlement on my son (age 59), who now made his addresses to the young [her daughter] lady (age 20) his daughter-in-law [Note. Step-daughter], daughter of Lady Stonehouse.
John Evelyn's Diary. 21st February 1680. Shrove-Tuesday. My [her future son-in-law] son (age 25) was married to [her daughter] Mrs. Martha Spencer (age 21), daughter to my Lady Stonehouse by a [her former husband] former gentleman, at St. Andrew's [Map], Holborn, by our Vicar, borrowing the church of Dr. Stillingfleet (age 44), Dean of St. Paul's, the present incumbent. We afterward dined at a house in Holborn; and, after the solemnity and dancing was done, they were bedded at [her husband] Sir John Stonehouse's (age 41) lodgings in Bow Street, Convent Garden.
In 1700 [her husband] John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet (age 61) died. His son [her son] John (age 28) succeeded 3rd Baronet Stonhouse of Radley.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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Martha Briggs was born to [her father] Robert Briggs Merchant of St. Paul's Churchyard London.