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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Berkeley Square, Mayfair is in Mayfair.
On 9th July 1677 William Berkeley [aged 71] died at Berkeley Square, Mayfair. He was buried in St Mary's Church Twickenham, Richmond [Map].
On 23rd May 1804 George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey [aged 30] and Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey [aged 19] were married at Berkeley Square, Mayfair. She the daughter of John Fane 10th Earl of Westmoreland [aged 44] and Sarah Anne Child Countess of Westmoreland. He the son of George Bussy Villiers 4th Earl Jersey [aged 68] and Frances Twysden [aged 51].
On 16th November 1805 John Ponsonby 4th Earl Bessborough [aged 24] and Maria Fane [aged 18] were married at Berkeley Square, Mayfair. She the daughter of John Fane 10th Earl of Westmoreland [aged 46] and Sarah Anne Child Countess of Westmoreland. He the son of Frederick Ponsonby 3rd Earl Bessborough [aged 47] and Henrietta Frances Spencer Countess Bessborough [aged 44].
On 12th December 1807 William Craven 1st Earl Craven [aged 37] and Louisa Brunton Countess Craven [aged 22] were married at his house in Berkeley Square, Mayfair. He the son of William Craven 6th Baron Craven and Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg-Ansbach [aged 56].
In October 1809 Georgiana Caroline Scott Baroness Selsey [aged 82] died at Berkeley Square, Mayfair.
On 19th August 1810 George Henry Cavendish was born to William Cavendish [aged 27] and Louisa O'Callaghan at Berkeley Square, Mayfair. He married 4th July 1835 Louisa Lascelles, daughter of Henry Lascelles 2nd Earl Harewood and Henrietta Sebright Countess Harewood, and had issue.
On 14th August 1831 Benjamin Hobhouse 1st Baronet [aged 74] died at Berkeley Square, Mayfair. His son John [aged 45] succeeded 2nd Baronet Hobhouse of Chantry House Wiltshire and Westbury College in Gloucestershire. Julia Tomasina Hay Lady Hobhouse by marriage Lady Hobhouse of Chantry House Wiltshire and Westbury College in Gloucestershire.
On 26th June 1832 Elizabeth Dashwood Duchess Manchester [aged 92] died at Berkeley Square, Mayfair. She was buried at Kimbolton.
Adeline Horsey Recollections. From Badminton we went on a visit to Lord Forester at Willey Park, Shropshire, where I met Lady Jersey [aged 56] and her daughter, Lady Clementina Villiers [aged 18].
Lady Jersey was the greatest grande dame in London Society, and her house in Berkeley Square, Mayfair was the centre of the Tory party. She knew all the artistic and literary celebrities of the day, and her popularity was most remarkable. Lady Clementina Villiers was a beautiful and accomplished girl, and everybody loved her. Once when some one said to her father [aged 68] that "no one was perfect", Lord Jersey replied: "There is one who is perfect - there is Clementina". Many suitors proposed for her, a most persistent one being the Duke d'Ossuna, a grandee of Spain, and an immensely rich man. He must have been deeply in love with the beautiful English girl, for he used to keep many drawings and portraits of Lady Clementina in his palace at Madrid.
"Those whom the gods love die young", and so it was with Clementina Villiers; she was taken ill during a visit to Germany with her mother and only returned to England to die.
Her portraits were in all the "Books of Beauty" of the day, but although they faithfully portray her perfect features, they cannot convey the beauty of colour and changing expression that were her greatest charms.
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 22nd June 1904 Richard Boyle 9th Earl Cork [aged 75] died at Berkeley Square, Mayfair. His son Charles [aged 42] succeeded 10th Earl Cork.
Before 15th June 1778 Cecil Bishopp 6th Baronet [aged 77] owned a house at 11 Berkeley Square, Mayfair which was subsequently bought from his heirs by Horace Walpole 4th Earl Orford [aged 60] in 1779.
On 19th June 1877 Admiral Henry John Rous [aged 82] died at 13 Berkeley Square, Mayfair.
On 12th April 1792 John "Radical Jack" Lambton 1st Earl Durham was born to William Henry Lambton [aged 28] and Anne Barbara Frances Villiers [aged 20] at 14 Berkeley Square, Mayfair. He married (1) 1st January 1812 Harriet Cholmondeley, daughter of George Cholmondeley 1st Marquess Cholmondeley and Unamed Saint Albin, and had issue (2) 9th December 1816 Louisa Elizabeth Grey Countess Durham, daughter of Charles Grey 2nd Earl Grey and Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby Countess Grey, and had issue.
On 10th December 1861 Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick was born to Charles Henry Maynard [aged 47] and Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy [aged 22] at 27 Berkeley Square, Mayfair. She married 30th April 1881 her fourth cousin once removed Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke, son of George Greville 4th Earl Warwick 4th Earl Brooke and Anne Charteris Countess Warwick, and had issue.
The Times. 28th January 1937. The Duke Of Norfolk And Miss Strutt.
Princess Alice Countess of Athlone [aged 53] and Major-General the Earl of Athlone [aged 63], and Prince Arthur of Connaught [aged 54] were present yesterday afternoon at the marriage at Brompton Oratory of the Duke of Norfolk, Premier Peer and Hereditary Earl Marshal of England, and the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt [aged 20], only daughter of Lord Belper [aged 53] and the Countess of Rosebery [aged 44].
Princess Alice wore a mink coat over a dress of burgundy-red crepe, with a small red hat to match.
The Oratory was decorated with four large stands of flowers, placed at the chancel steps. They were in mixed shades of red and included amaryllis lilies, poinsettia, anthuriums, roses, carnations, and red leaves. While the guests were arriving the organist played Mendelssohn's Allegretto from the Fourth Sonata, Elgar's Allegro Maestoso from the First Sonata, and the prelude and fugue in E flat, and the organ choral "Mortify us by Thy Goodness" by J. S. Bach.
The bride arrived with her father, Lord Belper, and was loudly cheered by the crowd outside the Oratory, who broke through the police cordon. She walked up the nave to Handel's March from the Occasional Oratorio, and was met by Father Talbot and Father John Cuddon. Miss Strutt wore a classically simple dress of silver lame, cut on straight sheath lines with long tight sleeves and a high round roll collar. The skirt just touched the ground and was continued at the back to form a long square train. She wore a girdle of silver cord knotted in front. Her long veil of white tulle fell from a simple coronet of orange-blossom and green leaves, and she carried a sheaf of arum lilies. She was followed by six little pages-Robin Herbert, Timothy Hunloke, Bob McCreery, John Scrope, George Vivian-Smith, and Michael Watt; and by six bridesmaids-Lady Katharine [aged 25] and Lady Winefride Howard [aged 23] (sisters of the bridegroom), Lady Anne Bridgeman [aged 23], the Hon. Pamela Digby [aged 16], Miss Gillian Drummond, and Miss Nancy Malcolmnson. The bridegroom's [aged 28] racing colours, pale blue and scarlet, were introduced into the dresses and suits of the attendants. The pages were in pale blue satin suits piped with scarlet, and the bridesmaids wore dresses of sky-blue corded crepe, with touches of scarlet at the waistline. They had high rounded necklines with long bell sleeves and their headdresses of red bavardia were massed in front. They carried bouquets of red flowers, including tulips, amaryllis lilies, carnations, and euphorbia. The bridegroom gave them brooches showing his and his bride's initials in rubies and diamonds. The Earl of Eldon [aged 37] was best man.
The marriage service was very short and non-choral, as the bride is not a Roman Catholic. After they had plighted their troth Father Ronald Knox gave an address from the centre of the transept. The bride and bridegroom remained kneeling at the chancel steps, facing the altar. They then went in procession to the vestry, where the registrar, Mr. J. P. Bond, conducted the civil ceremony.
Afterwards the bride and bridegroom left for 38, Mayfair (the residence of the Earl of Rosebery [aged 55]), where the Countess of Rosebery held a reception. The bride went away for the honeymoon in a dress of black and red shot silk taffeta, under a broadtail coat with a fur cap to match.
Among those present at the Oratory were:
The Earl and Countess of Rosebery.
The Duchess of Norfolk [aged 60].
Lady Rachel Howard [aged 32].
Lady Belper.
the Hon. Alexander [aged 24] and the Hon. Michael Strutt [aged 23], the Hon. Mrs. Parry-Evans. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Vernon Malcolmsonson, Lord and Lady Aberdare, the Hon. Margaret Strutt, the Hon. Mrs. Frank Hormsby, etc.
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On 29th March 1875 Sophia Catherine Coventry Lady Gresley and Des Voeux died at 39 Berkeley Square, Mayfair.
On 10th June 1888 Captain Harold Fox-Pitt Lubbock was born to John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury [aged 54] and Alice Lane Fox-Pitt Baroness Avebury [aged 26] at 39 Berkeley Square, Mayfair. He married 10th June 1914 Dorothy Charlotte Forster Baroness Wardington and had issue.
On 16th May 1839 Edward Clive 1st Earl Powis [aged 85] died at 45 Berkeley Square, Mayfair. He was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Bromfield. His son Edward [aged 54] succeeded 2nd Earl Powis. Lucy Graham Countess Powis [aged 45] by marriage Countess Powis.
On 7th May 1891 Edward Herbert 3rd Earl Powis [aged 72] died unmarried at 45 Berkeley Square, Mayfair. He was buried in St Mary's Church, Welshpool. His nephew George [aged 28] succeeded 4th Earl Powis. Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis [aged 26] by marriage Countess Powis.
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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On 10th January 1810 Charles Bennet 6th Earl Tankerville was born to Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville [aged 33] and Corisande Armandine Sophie Léonie Hélène Gramont Countess Tankerville [aged 27] at Charles Street, Berkeley Square. He married 29th January 1850 Olivia Montagu Countess Tankerville, daughter of George Montagu 6th Duke Manchester and Millicent Sparrow Duchess Manchester, and had issue.
On 29th April 1815 General James Stuart [aged 74] died without issue at Charles Street, Berkeley Square.
On 28th March 1818 George Greville 4th Earl Warwick 4th Earl Brooke was born to Henry Greville 3rd Earl Warwick 3rd Earl Brooke Warwick Castle [aged 38] and Sarah Elizabeth Savile Countess Warwick [aged 32] at Charles Street, Berkeley Square. He married before 9th February 1853 Anne Charteris Countess Warwick, daughter of Francis Charles Charteris 9th Earl of Wemyss and Louisa Bingham Countess Wemyss, and had issue.
On 17th March 1820 Richard Cornwallis Neville 4th Baron Braybrooke was born to Richard Griffin 3rd Baron Braybrook [aged 36] and Jane Cornwallis Baroness Braybrook [aged 21] at Charles Street, Berkeley Square. He married 1852 Charlotte Graham-Toller, daughter of Hector John Graham-Toler 2nd Earl of Norbury.
The Times. 25th January 1865. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. The marriage of the Earl of Coventry [aged 26] and Lady Blanche Craven [aged 22], third daughter of Earl Craven [aged 55], was solemnized yesterday morning at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The bridegroom and the friends of both families assembled at the church at 11 o'clock, and shortly afterwards were joined by the bride, accompanied by her mother, the Countess Craven [aged 48]. The bride was received by her father at the church door, and, attended by eight bridesmaids, proceeded at once to the communion table, in front ot which a numerous company had assembled, including the Earl [aged 65] and Countess of Clarendon [aged 54] and Lady Emily Villiers [aged 22], the Countess of Verulam [aged 40] and Lady Harriet Grimston [aged 20], Viscount [aged 49] and Viscountess Folkestone [aged 43] and Hon. Miss Bouverie, the Countess of Sefton [aged 27] and Lady Cecilia Molyneux, Viscount Chelsea [aged 24], and Lady Caroline Townley [aged 27] and Miss Townley, Viscount Uffington [aged 23], Sir Henry [aged 58] and Lady Sophia Des Voeux, Hon. Mr. and Mrs Coventry, Hon. Gerald [aged 35] and Lady Maria Ponsonby [aged 28], Mr. Oswald andl Miss Oswald, Dr. Quin, Mr. Cecil Boothby [aged 51], Mr. James Oswald, Miss Talbot, Viscount [aged 32] and Viscountess Grey de Wilton [aged 28], Lady Evelyn Bruce [aged 25], Hon. Mrs. Grimston and Miss Grimston, &c.
The Hon. and Rev. Edward Grimston [aged 52], uncle of the bride, performed the religious rite. After the registration of the marriage the wedding party left the church, and procceded to the Earl and Countess Craven's mansion in Charles-street, Mayfair. At 2 o'clock the newly-wedded couple took their departure for Croome Court, the Earl of Coventry's seat, near Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire [Map], there to pass the honeymoon. At Croome Pirton and Severn Stoke, Worcestershire, the marriage was celebrated yesterday by the tenantry and neighbours of the Earl of Coventry. The tenantry of the Crome Pirton and Severn Stoke estates, to ths number of about 100, dined together in two parties yesterday at Severn Stoke and High-green. At Pirton and Severn Stoke garlands of evergreens and flags were hung out over the roads, and at night a bonfire was lighted at High-green. The rejoicings have extended over all his Lordship's large estates in the southern portion of Worcestershire. The inhabitants of Worcester [Map] celebrated the marriage by hoisting flags from tile windows and streamers across the streets. The bells from the various churches rang merry peals all day.
On 24th January 1865 George Coventry 9th Earl Coventry and Blanche Craven Countess Coventry were married. She by marriage Countess Coventry. She the daughter of William Craven 2nd Earl Craven and Emily Mary Grimston Countess Craven.
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On 24th December 1824 Adeline Horsey Countess Cardigan was born to Spencer de Horsey [aged 34] and Louisa Rous [aged 25] at 6 Charles Street, Berkeley Square. She married 28th September 1858 James Brudenell 7th Earl Cardigan, son of Robert Brudenell 6th Earl Cardigan and Penelope Cooke Countess Cardigan.
On 7th March 1812 William Eliot 2nd Earl St Germans [aged 44] and Charlotte Robinson [aged 22] were married at Earl of Powis' House Mayfair. She died sixteen months later. The difference in their ages was 22 years.
On 6th February 1764 Jacob Garrard Downing 4th Baronet [aged 47] died without issue at Hill Street, Berkeley Square. Baronet Downing of East Hatley in Cambridgeshire extinct. The will of George Downing 3rd Baronet stated the estate should be left to establish a Cambridge college in his name if Jacob Garrard Downing 4th Baronet had no son. Jacob Garrard Downing 4th Baronet, however, left the estate to his widow Margaret Price leading to forty years of litigation.
On 17th March 1794 Edward Cust 1st Baronet was born to Brownlow Cust 1st Baron Brownlow [aged 49] and Frances Bankes Baroness Brownlow at Hill Street, Berkeley Square.
On 18th April 1802 George Howard 7th Earl Carlisle was born to George Howard 6th Earl Carlisle [aged 28] and Georgiana Cavendish Countess Carlisle [aged 18] at Hill Street, Berkeley Square. He was educated at Eton College [Map].
On 6th September 1844 Julia Maria Petre Lady Brooke-Pechell [aged 54] died at Hill Street, Berkeley Square.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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On 3rd November 1849 Samuel John Brooke-Pechell 3rd Baronet [aged 64] died without issue at Hill Street, Berkeley Square. His brother George [aged 60] succeeded 4th Baronet Brooke-Pechell of Pagelsham in Essex.
On 16th April 1868 William Abdy 7th Baronet [aged 89] died at 20 Hill Street, Berkeley Square. Baronet Abdy of Felix Hall in Kelveden in Essex extinct.
On 29th June 1860 George Brooke-Pechell 4th Baronet [aged 70] died without surviving male issue at 27 Hill Street, Berkeley Square. His first cousin once removed George [aged 41] succeeded 5th Baronet Brooke-Pechell of Paglesham in Essex.
On 7th February 1874 Olive Eleanor Custance was born to Frederick Hambleton Custance [aged 29] at 12 John Street Mayfair. She married 4th March 1903 Alfred Bruce "Bosie" Douglas.
On 30th March 1811 William Petty-Fitzmaurice was born to Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice 3rd Marquess Lansdowne [aged 30] and Louisa Emma Fox-Strangways Marchioness of Lansdowne [aged 25] at Lansdowne House Mayfair. He married 1834 his sixth cousin Augusta Lavinia Priscilla Ponsonby, daughter of John Ponsonby 4th Earl Bessborough and Maria Fane, and had issue.
On 21st August 1836 William Petty-Fitzmaurice [aged 25] died at Lansdowne House Mayfair.