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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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Maternal Family Tree: Joan Trelake 1573
In 1579 Francis Barrington 1st Baronet (age 19) and [his aunt] Joan Cromwell (age 14) were married. She an aunt of Parliamentary leaders Oliver Cromwell and John Hampden. Her younger sister [his mother] Frances Cromwell (age 3) was mother to regicide Edward Whalley. They had four sons abd five daughters.
In July 1595 [his father] Richard Whalley of Kirton (age 29) and [his mother] Frances Cromwell (age 19) were married at St Benet Sherehog Cordwainer Ward.
Around 1607 Edward Whalley was born to [his father] Richard Whalley of Kirton (age 41) and [his mother] Frances Cromwell (age 31).
On 7th February 1626 Edward Whalley (age 19) and Judith Duffield of Rochester in Kent were married at St Dunstan's Church Stepney.
After 7th February 1626 [his daughter] Frances Whalley was born to Edward Whalley (age 19) and [his wife] Judith Duffield of Rochester in Kent. She married 1650 Major-General William Goffe.
In or after 1633 Edward Whalley (age 26) and Mary Middleton were married.
Before 1635 [his father] Richard Whalley of Kirton (age 69) died at Hinchinbrooke.
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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Before 1635 [his father] Richard Whalley of Kirton (age 69) and Anne Horsey (age 59) were married.
In 1639 [his mother] Frances Cromwell (age 63) died at Kirton, Nottinghamshire.
On 29th January 1649 King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 48) fifty-seven commissioners signed King Charles' Death Warrant at Westminster Hall [Map]. Two further names were added subsequently.
4 Edward Whalley
10 Thomas Maulever 1st Baronet
14 [his future son-in-law] Major-General William Goffe
21 Admiral Richard Deane
42 John Jones
45 Major General Charles Fleetwood
55 John Downes
57 Thomas Scot
58 John Carew
The commissioners who sat at the trial but did not sign the Death Warrant included:
William Monson 1st Viscount Monson (age 50)
James Harington 3rd Baronet (age 41)
The Captain of the Guard was Daniel Axtell (age 27). The guards included Francis Hacker, Matthew Tomlinson (age 31).
The Solicitor-General was John Cook (age 41).
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Around 1650 [his son-in-law] Major-General William Goffe (age 45) and [his daughter] Frances Whalley (age 23) were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years.
In 27th July 1660 Edward Whalley (age 53) and his son-in-law, [his son-in-law] Major-General William Goffe (age 55), another regicide, landed at Boston, Massachusetts. They lived, thereafter, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Around 1675 Edward Whalley (age 68) died at Hadley, Hampshire.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Kings England: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Kings Franks: Great x 26 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 21 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 25 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Father: Richard Whalley of Kirton
Edward Whalley 17 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Morgan Williams
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Cromwell aka Williams 
14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cromwell 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Cromwell 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Katherine Cromwell 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Glossop
GrandFather: Henry Cromwell aka Williams 15 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Murfyn
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Mirfyn
Mother: Frances Cromwell 16 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Warren of Feering in Essex
Great x 1 Grandfather: Ralph Warren
GrandMother: Joan Warren
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Lake alias Davy of Cornwall 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Trelake