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Around 1505 Dean Hugh Weston was born at Burton-Overy, Leicestershire. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford University then Lincoln College, Oxford University.
On 8th January 1538 Dean Hugh Weston (age 33) was elected Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford University.
On 15th September 1541 Dean Hugh Weston (age 36) was collated Rector of St Nicholas Olave [Map].
On 19th September 1544 Dean Hugh Weston (age 39) was collated Rector of St Botolph's without Bishopgate.
On 17th October 1547 Dean Hugh Weston (age 42) was appointed Archdeacon of Cornwall.
On 18th September 1553 Dean Hugh Weston (age 48) was installed Dean of Westminster Abbey.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 22nd October 1553. The xxij of October dyd pryche at Powlles doctur Westun (age 48), dene of Westmynster, and [there at] evere gatt in Powlles cherche yerd wher mad, [to prevent the breaking in of] horses, and for grett throng of pepull, grett bars.
On 22nd January 1554 Dean Hugh Weston (age 49) was collated Archdeacon of Colchester.
On 23rd February 1554 Henry Grey 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 37) was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. Duke Suffolk, Marquess Dorset, Earl Huntingdon, Baron Ferrers of Groby, Baron Harington, Baron Bonville forfeit.
Dean Hugh Weston (age 49) acted as Confessor.
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The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 11th April 1554 Thomas Wyatt (age 33) was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map].
Dean Hugh Weston (age 49) acted as Confessor.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 10th December 1557. The Fryday x day of Desember was at Wyndsore deposyd of ys denry of Wyndsor doctur Weston (age 52).
In 1558 Dean Hugh Weston (age 53) died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 8th December 1558. The viij day of Desember was bered at the Sayvoy doctur Westun sum-tyme dene of Westmynster, with ij dosen torchys.