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Published March 2025. The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.

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Biography of Henry Mildmay 1593-1668

Paternal Family Tree: Mildmay

1624 Happy Parliament

1625 Useless Parliament

1640 Short Parliament

1640 Long Parliament

1649 Trial of Charles I

1660 Indemnity and Oblivion Act

Around 1593 Henry Mildmay was born to Humphrey Mildmay (age 38).

On 09 Aug 1613 [his father] Humphrey Mildmay (age 58) died.

On 09 Aug 1617 Henry Mildmay (age 24) was knighted at Kendal [Map].

In Apr 1619 Henry Mildmay (age 26) and Anne Halliday (age 18) were married.

In Apr 1620 Henry Mildmay (age 27) was appointed Master of the Jewel Office.

On 08 Aug 1620 Henry Mildmay (age 27) entered at Gray's Inn.

In 1621 Henry Mildmay (age 28) was elected MP Maldon.

In 1623 [his son] William Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay (age 30) and [his wife] Anne Halliday (age 22).

Happy Parliament

On 03 Feb 1624 Henry Mildmay (age 31) was elected MP Westbury.

Useless Parliament

In 1625 Henry Mildmay (age 32) was elected MP Maldon during the Useless Parliament.

In 1628 Henry Mildmay (age 35) was elected MP Maldon.

Short Parliament

In Apr 1640 Henry Mildmay (age 47) was elected MP Maldon during the Short Parliament.

Long Parliament

In Nov 1640 Henry Mildmay (age 47) was elected MP Maldon during the Long Parliament.

On 21 Apr 1641 Henry Mildmay (age 48) voted against the attainder of Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Strafford (age 48).

Trial of Charles I

On 23 Jan 1649 King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 48) was tried at Westminster Hall [Map] by Henry Mildmay (age 56). The fifty-nine signatories of his Death Warrant were:

1 John Bradshaw

2 Thomas Grey

3 Oliver Cromwell

4 Edward Whalley

7 John Danvers

9 Henry Ireton

11 Hardress Waller

14 Major-General William Goffe

17 General Thomas Harrison

21 Admiral Richard Deane

27 Adrian Scrope

34 Richard Ingoldsby

42 John Jones

45 Major General Charles Fleetwood

54 Gregory Clement

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).

In Mar 1657 [his wife] Anne Halliday (age 56) died.

On 26 Apr 1659 [his son-in-law] Robert Brooke (age 22) and [his daughter] Anne Mildmay were married.

On 15 May 1660 Henry Mildmay (age 67) was ordered to attend the committee appointed to consider Charles II's reception, and give an account of the whereabouts of the crowns, robes, sceptres, and jewels belonging to the king.

After 15 May 1660 Henry Mildmay (age 67) was captured by Heneage Finch 3rd Earl Winchilsea (age 32) at Rye [Map].

Indemnity and Oblivion Act

On 29 Aug 1660 the Indemnity and Oblivion Act became law. The act was a general pardon for everyone who had committed crimes during the Civil War and Interregnum with the exception of certain crimes such as murder (without a licence granted by King or Parliament), piracy, buggery, rape and witchcraft, and people named in the act such as those involved in the regicide of Charles I.

Henry Mildmay (age 67) was excepted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act.

James Harington 3rd Baronet (age 52) was exempted. In 1661 his Baronetcy was forfeit for life.

On 01 Jul 1661 Henry Mildmay (age 68) was sentenced and degraded from his honours and titles and to be drawn every year on the anniversary of the king's sentence (27 Jan) upon a sledge through the streets to and under the gallows at Tyburn [Map], with a rope about his neck, and so back to the Tower of London [Map], there to remain a prisoner during his life.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27 Jan 1662. That being done we went home again. This morning, going to take water upon Tower-hill [Map], we met with three sleddes standing there to carry my Lord Monson (age 63) and Sir H. Mildmay (age 69) and another, to the gallows and back again, with ropes about their necks; which is to be repeated every year, this being the day of their sentencing the King (age 31).

On 31 Mar 1664 Henry Mildmay (age 71) was issued with a warrant for his transportation to Tangier [Map], but on account of his feeble health he was allowed a servant.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 14 May 1665. After dinner my wife and she and Mercer to Thomas Pepys's wife's christening of his first child, and I took a coach, and to Wanstead, Essex, the house where Sir H. Mildmay (age 72) died, and now [his son-in-law] Sir Robert Brookes (age 28) lives, having bought it of the Duke of Yorke (age 31), it being forfeited to him. A fine seat, but an old-fashioned house; and being not full of people looks desolately.

On 07 Jan 1666 [his daughter] Anne Mildmay died.

In 1668 Henry Mildmay (age 75) died at Tangier [Map].

[his daughter] Mary Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.

[his son] Henry Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.

[his daughter] Anne Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.

[his father] Humphrey Mildmay and Mary Capell were married.

[his daughter] Susan Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.

Royal Ancestors of Henry Mildmay 1593-1668

Kings Wessex: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 16 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 21 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 17 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 14 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 18 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 22 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Henry Mildmay 1593-1668

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Mildmay

GrandFather: Walter Mildmay

Great x 1 Grandmother: Agnes Read

Father: Humphrey Mildmay 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: James Walsingham

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Walsingham

Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Writtle

Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Writtle

GrandMother: Mary Walsingham 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Denny

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Denny

Great x 2 Grandfather: Edmund Denny

Great x 1 Grandmother: Joyce Denny 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Troutbeck

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Troutbeck 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Stanley Baroness Grey Codnor 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Troutbeck 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Henry Mildmay 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England