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The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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Around 1584 Isaac Penington was born to [his father] Robert Penington.
Around 1615 Isaac Penington (age 31) and Abigail Allen were married.
In 1638 Isaac Penington (age 54) was elected Sheriff of London.
On 29th January 1639 Isaac Penington (age 55) was appointed Alderman of Bridge Without Ward.
In April 1640 Isaac Penington (age 56) was elected MP City of London in the Short Parliament.
In November 1640 Isaac Penington (age 56) was elected MP City of London in the Long Parliament which seat he held until 1653.
In 1642 Isaac Penington (age 58) was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London [Map].
On 16th August 1642 Isaac Penington (age 58) was elected Lord Mayor of London.
In 1644 Isaac Penington (age 60) was appointed Governor of the Levant Company which position he held until 1654.
Before 16th December 1661 Isaac Penington (age 77) and Mary Young were married.
Before 16th December 1661 Isaac Penington (age 77) was tried for High Treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London [Map].
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 16th December 1661 Isaac Penington (age 77) died at the Tower of London [Map].
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 15th November 1665. After dinner who comes in but my Lady Batten, and a troop of a dozen women almost, and expected, as I found afterward, to be made mighty much of, but nobody minded them; but the best jest was, that when they saw themselves not regarded, they would go away, and it was horrible foule weather; and my Lady Batten walking through the dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes, she dropped one of her galoshes in the dirt, where it stuck, and she forced to go home without one, at which she was horribly vexed, and I led her; and after vexing her a little more in mirth, I parted, and to Glanville's (age 47), where I knew Sir John Robinson (age 50), Sir G. Smith (age 50), and Captain Cocke (age 48) were gone, and there, with the company of [his daughter] Mrs. Penington, whose father, I hear, was one of the Court of justice, and died prisoner, of the stone, in the Tower [Map], I made them, against their resolutions, to stay from houre to houre till it was almost midnight, and a furious, darke and rainy, and windy, stormy night, and, which was best, I, with drinking small beer, made them all drunk drinking wine, at which Sir John Robinson made great sport.
[his daughter] Judith Penington was born to Isaac Penington and Abigail Allen.