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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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Martha Briggs was born to Robert Briggs Merchant of St. Paul's Churchyard London.
Before 1659 Richard Spencer (age 54) and Martha Briggs were married.
In 1659 [her daughter] Martha Spencer was born to [her husband] Richard Spencer (age 54) and Martha Briggs.
On 10th October 1668 [her husband] Richard Spencer (age 63) died.
On or after 10th October 1668 John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet (age 29) and Martha Briggs were married. The license was dated 10th October 1668.
Around 1672 [her son] John Stonhouse 3rd Baronet was born to [her husband] John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet (age 33) and Martha Briggs.
John Evelyn's Diary. 27th November 1679. I went to see [her husband] Sir John Stonehouse (age 40), with whom I was treating a marriage between my son (age 59) and his [her daughter] daughter-in-law (age 20) [Note. Means step-daughter. Martha Spencer was the daughter of Martha Briggs who re-married John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet after her first husband [her former husband] Richard Spencer died in 1668].
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th December 1679. I went to meet [her husband] Sir John Stonehouse (age 40), and give him a particular of the settlement on my son (age 59), who now made his addresses to the young [her daughter] lady (age 20) his daughter-in-law [Note. Step-daughter], daughter of Lady Stonehouse.
John Evelyn's Diary. 21st February 1680. Shrove-Tuesday. My [her future son-in-law] son (age 25) was married to [her daughter] Mrs. Martha Spencer (age 21), daughter to my Lady Stonehouse by a [her former husband] former gentleman, at St. Andrew's [Map], Holborn, by our Vicar, borrowing the church of Dr. Stillingfleet (age 44), Dean of St. Paul's, the present incumbent. We afterward dined at a house in Holborn; and, after the solemnity and dancing was done, they were bedded at [her husband] Sir John Stonehouse's (age 41) lodgings in Bow Street, Convent Garden.
In 1700 [her husband] John Stonhouse 2nd Baronet (age 61) died. His son [her son] John (age 28) succeeded 3rd Baronet Stonhouse of Radley.