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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Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester was born to [her father] John Brydges and [her mother] Agnes Ayloffe.
In 1520 [her father] John Brydges [aged 60] was appointed Lord Mayor of London.
Before 20th October 1528 [her future husband] John Paulet 2nd Marquess Winchester [aged 18] and Elizabeth Willoughby were married. He the son of [her future father-in-law] William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 45] and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester. They were half fifth cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
In 1530 [her father] John Brydges [aged 70] died.
Before 1536 Richard Sackville [aged 28] and Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester were married.
In 1536 [her son] Thomas Sackville 1st Earl Dorset was born to [her husband] Richard Sackville [aged 29] and Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester. He married 1555 Cicely Baker Countess Dorset and had issue.
Around March 1554 [her future husband] John Paulet 2nd Marquess Winchester [aged 44] and Elizabeth Seymour Baroness Cromwell Oakham [aged 36] were married. He the son of [her future father-in-law] William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 71] and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester. They were fifth cousins.
In 1555 Thomas Sackville 1st Earl Dorset [aged 19] and Cicely Baker Countess Dorset [aged 20] were married. He the son of Richard Sackville [aged 48] and Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester.
In 1560 Thomas Bishopp of Henfield in Surrey [aged 54] died. His son Thomas Bishopp 1st Baronet [aged 6] became a ward of [her husband] Richard Sackville [aged 53] and then his son Thomas Sackville 1st Earl Dorset [aged 24].
In 1565 [her son-in-law] Gregory Fiennes 10th Baron Dacre Gilsland [aged 25] and Anne Sackville Baroness Dacre of Gilsland were married. She by marriage Baroness Dacre Gilsland. She the daughter of Richard Sackville [aged 58] and Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 21st April 1566 [her husband] Richard Sackville [aged 59] died.
Before May 1571 John Paulet 2nd Marquess Winchester [aged 61] and Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester were married. He the son of William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 88] and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester.
On 10th March 1572 [her father-in-law] William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 89] died. On His son [her husband] John [aged 62] succeeded 2nd Marquess Winchester, 2nd Earl Wiltshire, 2nd Baron St John. Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester by marriage Marchioness Winchester.
On 4th November 1576 [her husband] John Paulet 2nd Marquess Winchester [aged 66] died. His son [her step-son] William [aged 44] succeeded 3rd Marquess Winchester, 3rd Earl Wiltshire, 3rd Baron St John. Agnes Howard Marchioness Winchester [aged 41] by marriage Marchioness Winchester.
In 1586 Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester died.
[her daughter] Anne Sackville Baroness Dacre of Gilsland was born to Richard Sackville and Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester. She married 1565 her fifth cousin Gregory Fiennes 10th Baron Dacre Gilsland, son of Thomas Fiennes 9th Baron Dacre Gilsland and Mary Neville Baroness Dacre of Gilsland, and had issue.
Survey London Volume 4 Chelsea Part II. More's estate was granted to Sir William Paulet [See Patent Roll, I Edward VI., pt. 3.] (first Marquess of Winchester): it was inherited by his son the second Marquess, and in 1575 passed to Gregory Fiennes, Lord Dacre of the South, and his wife Anne - the foundress of those charming almshouses, Emmanuel Hospital, Westminster, now destroyed - who was a daughter of the Marchioness of Winchester by her former husband, Sir Robert Sackville. Baroness Dacre, who died in 1595, left the house to Lord Burleigh, who is said to have lived here, and he was followed by his youngest son, Sir Robert Cecil, afterwards Earl of Salisbury, who took possession in 1597. It is to Cecil's passion for building, which was not exhausted until he had parted with his fortune in completing Hatfield, that we owe the earliest representations on paper of the house at Chelsea. In his Chelsea Old Church Mr. Randall Davies published a reproduction of a beautiful plan of the Chelsea Estate, preserved among the Hatfield papers, and the present writer in some further research among Lord Salisbury's MSS. found five plans to a larger scale, all of which have reference to Cecil's schemes for rebuilding Sir Thomas More's house. For a detailed examination of these plans, the reader is referred to the Architectural Review of March and May, 1911, but by the courtesy of the proprietors of the Review, the reproductions are included here.
