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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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In 1497 Robert Keilway was born to Robert Keilway (age 14).
In 1533 Alexander Unton (age 39) and [his future wife] Cecily Bulstrode (age 18) were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years.
In or after 1537 [his father] Robert Keilway (deceased) died.
In 1545 Robert Keilway (age 48) was elected MP Bristol.
In 1546 Robert Keilway (age 49) was appointed Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries.
In 1547 Robert Keilway (age 50) was elected MP Bristol.
After 16 Dec 1547 Robert Keilway (age 50) and Cecily Bulstrode (age 32) were married.
In 1549 Robert Keilway (age 52) was appointed Custos Rotulorum Berkshire.
In 1552 Robert Keilway (age 55) was appointed Serjeant at Law.
Around 1554 [his daughter] Anne Keilway Baroness Harington was born to Robert Keilway (age 57) and [his wife] Cecily Bulstrode (age 39).
On 29 Apr 1555 [his step-son] Edward Unton (age 21) and Anne Seymour Countess of Warwick (age 17) were married. They had seven children. She the daughter of Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset and Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset (age 58). She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
In 1559 Robert Keilway (age 62) was elected MP Steyning.
In 1573 [his son-in-law] John Harington 1st Baron Harington (age 33) and [his daughter] Anne Keilway Baroness Harington (age 19) were married. His father James Harrington (age 62) gave him Burley-on-the-Hill House as a wedding present.
On 21 Feb 1581 Robert Keilway (age 84) died. His only child [his daughter] Anne Keilway Baroness Harington (age 27) and her husband [his son-in-law] John Harington 1st Baron Harington (age 41) inherited the Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire [Map] and Coombe Abbey [Map] estates.
After 21 Feb 1581. Church of St Peter and St Paul, Exton, Rutlandshire [Map]. Elizabethan Period monument to Robert Keilway (deceased). This memorial is attributed by Pevsner to Nicholas Johnson and by others to Nicholas Stone. Made of various marbles, a large standing wall monument of 1580, richly decorated and with a recumbent and kneeling figures of the whole family, in an aedicule, capped by obelisk, arms, etc.
His grandson Kelwey who died aged 21 weeks.
His grand-daughter Lucy Harrington Countess Bedford (age 1).
His feet resting on a horse with its head turned back.
His arms quartered 1: Keilway Arms.
A separate wall mounted monument to Robert Keilway with the inscription "Here lies Robert Keylway a distinguished esquire among civilians (whilst he lived), renowned for talent, learning and virtue, who loved retirement, lived as a Christian and died in the Lord on the 21st of February 1581 in the year of our Salvation, 1580, and the 84th year of his age. He left Anne his sole heiress and only dearly loved daughter married to John Harrington of Exton, Knt, whom he had always affectionately loved as a son and friend, by which Anne the said John had during the life of the aforesaid Robert two children, a son, Kelwey, who died Dec. 2nd, 1570, 21 weeks old, and lies buried here with his grandfather, and also a daughter Lucy still surviving, and may God grant her a long life. To pay, therefore, a just tribute to so dear and affectionate a parent and to leave to posterity an evidence of their deep gratitude, the said John and Anne have raised this. Monument and dedicated to their father, Keylwey, and their son Keylwey (to their lasting memory if it so please God) and design it, if God will, as a sepulchre for themselves also".
Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. ... and on Saturday, the 16th day of the same month, having finished the fifth part of my Lord Coke's Reports, I began Keilway's Reports, which I read afterwards with more satisfaction and delight than I had done formerly any other piece of our common law.
