This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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Died of sweating sickness is in Disease. See Sweating Sickness.
In June 1517 Thomas Clinton 8th Baron Clinton [aged 27] died of sweating sickness. His son Edward [aged 5] succeeded 9th Baron Clinton.
On 15th October 1517 Thomas Grey 11th Baron Grey of Wilton [aged 20] died of sweating sickness. He was buried at the St Peter's Church, Merton. His brother Richard [aged 10] succeeded 12th Baron Grey of Wilton.
In June 1528 Francis Poyntz [aged 43] died of sweating sickness.
On 22nd June 1528 William Carey [aged 28] died of sweating sickness. He was buried at Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire [Map].
On or before 30th June 1528 John Stanley [aged 18] died of sweating sickness; probably, the sweating sickness given there was an outbreak at the time. See Letters 1528 1440.
On 30th June 1528 William Compton [aged 46] died of sweating sickness. His son Peter Compton [aged 5] became a ward of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey [aged 55].. In his will he left Anne Stafford Countess Huntingdon [aged 45] a life interest in property in Leicestershire and founded a chantry where prayers would be said daily for her soul.
On 14th July 1551 Henry Brandon 2nd Duke of Suffolk [aged 15] died of sweating sickness at the Bishop of Lincoln's Palace, Buckden [Map]. His brother Charles [aged 14] succeeded 3rd Duke Suffolk, 3rd Viscount Lisle.
Charles Brandon 3rd Duke of Suffolk died of sweating sickness an hour or so after his brother also at the Bishop of Lincoln's Palace, Buckden [Map]. Duke Suffolk, Viscount Lisle extinct.
They were buried at St Mary's Church, Buckden [Map]
Charles Brandon 3rd Duke of Suffolk: In 1537 he was born to Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk and Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk. Henry Machyn's Diary. 22nd September 1551. The xxij day of September was the monyth['s mind of the] ij dukkes of Suffoke [Henry Brandon 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Charles Brandon 3rd Duke of Suffolk] in Chambryge-shyre, with [ij] standards, ij baners grett of armes and large, and banars rolles of dyver armes, with ij elmets, ij [swords, ij] targetts crownyd, ij cotes of armes, ij crests, and [ten dozen] of schochyons crounyd; and yt was grett pete of [their] dethe, and yt had plesyd God, of so nobull a stok they wher, for ther ys no more left of them.
On 2nd July 1551 Edward Grey 3rd Baron Grey of Powis [aged 48] died of sweating sickness. Baron Grey of Powis abeyant.
By an inquisition taken at Montgomery, 5 Edward VI, 1551, after the death of Edward last Lord Powes, it appears "that Edward Grey Lord Powes in his life suffered a recovery, and made a deed of feoffment, and made a will and codicil, whereby in default of lawful issue of his own body, he limited the inheritance of his whole estate to Edward Grey, his bastard son by Jane Orwell, daughter of Sir Lewis Orwell, Knight, and the other heirs of his body, with remainders to his daughters by the said Jane Orwell, and the heirs of their bodies, successively, with remainders in fee to his own right heirs." And the jury find, that the said Edward Grey was his consanguineus et heres in remanen', which, by a decree of the Court of Wards, 27 Elizabeth, hereafter mentioned, is explained to be hæres factus. See "The Feudal Barons of Powys".
On 4th July 1551 Gregory Cromwell 1st Baron Cromwell Oakham [aged 31] died of sweating sickness. His son Henry [aged 13] succeeded 2nd Baron Cromwell Oakham.
On 10th July 1551 John Luttrell [aged 32] died of sweating sickness.
On 12th July 1551 Thomas Speke [aged 43] died, probably of sweating sickness.
On 13th July 1551 John Wallop [aged 61] died of sweating sickness.