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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Before 28th December 1804 [her father] George Augustus Nash and [her mother] Lydia Watson were married.
On 24th June 1826 Frederic Leighton (age 26) and Augusta Susan Nash (age 21) were married.
On 23rd November 1828 [her daughter] Alexandra Leighton was born to [her husband] Frederic Leighton (age 29) and Augusta Susan Nash (age 23). She married 7th March 1857 Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr.
On 3rd December 1830 [her son] Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton was born to [her husband] Frederic Leighton (age 31) and Augusta Susan Nash (age 25). at Scarborough, North Yorkshire [Map].
Around 1833 [her husband] Frederic Leighton (age 33) and Augusta Susan Nash (age 28) relocated to 22 Argyle Street, London.
On 10th September 1835 [her daughter] Augusta Leighton was born to [her husband] Frederic Leighton (age 35) and Augusta Susan Nash (age 30). She married 9th May 1859 Arthur Matthews.
In 1853 [her husband] Frederic Leighton (age 53) and Augusta Susan Nash (age 48) moved to 9 The Circus, Bath, to be near Fred's mother and also Augusta Susan's uncle, James Watson.
On 7th March 1857 [her son-in-law] Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr (age 41) and [her daughter] Alexandra Leighton (age 28) were married at Bath, Somerset [Map]. He died fifteen months later.
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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In 1859 [her husband] Frederic Leighton (age 59) and Augusta Susan Nash (age 54) travelled to Florence with their daughters Gussie and the recently widowed1 [her daughter] Alexandra aka Lina (age 30).
Note 1. Her husband [her former son-in-law] Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr (age 42) had died on 19th June 1858.
On 9th May 1859 [her son-in-law] Arthur Matthews and [her daughter] Augusta Leighton (age 23) were married.
In 1865 Augusta Susan Nash (age 60) died.
On 24th January 1892 [her former husband] Frederic Leighton (age 92) died at 11 Kensington-park-gardens.