Around 1520 Rowland Hayward was born to [his father] George Hayward.
In 1543 [his daughter] Elizabeth Hayward Baroness Knyvet was born to Rowland Hayward (age 23). She married (1) before 21st July 1597 Richard Warren (2) 21st July 1597 Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet.
In 1570 Rowland Hayward (age 50) was appointed Lord Mayor of London.
In 1571 Rowland Hayward (age 51) was knighted.
In 1591 Rowland Hayward (age 71) was appointed Lord Mayor of London.
Before 1592 [his son-in-law] Henry Townshend (age 54) and [his daughter] Susanna Hayward were married.
In 1592 [his daughter] Susanna Hayward died.
On 5th December 1593 Rowland Hayward (age 73) died at King's Place Hackney [Map].
On 2nd September 1597 Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 63) granted licence to the executors of Sir Rowland Hayward to sell King's Place [Map] in the Hackney in north London to Elizabeth Trentham, her brother Francis Trentham of Rocester (age 33), her uncle Ralph Sneyd (age 70), and her cousin, Giles Yonge (age 43). The acquisition of King's Place by Elizabeth Trentham and her relatives placed it 'beyond the reach of Oxford's creditors'.
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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[his daughter] Joan Hayward was born to Rowland Hayward. She married John Thynne and had issue.
[his daughter] Susanna Hayward was born to Rowland Hayward. She married before 1592 Henry Townshend.