Adam Murimuth's Continuation and Robert of Avesbury’s 'The Wonderful Deeds of King Edward III'
This volume brings together two of the most important contemporary chronicles for the reign of Edward III and the opening phases of the Hundred Years’ War. Written in Latin by English clerical observers, these texts provide a vivid and authoritative window into the political, diplomatic, and military history of fourteenth-century England and its continental ambitions. Adam Murimuth Continuatio's Chronicarum continues an earlier chronicle into the mid-fourteenth century, offering concise but valuable notices on royal policy, foreign relations, and ecclesiastical affairs. Its annalistic structure makes it especially useful for establishing chronology and tracing the development of events year by year. Complementing it, Robert of Avesbury’s De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii is a rich documentary chronicle preserving letters, treaties, and official records alongside narrative passages. It is an indispensable source for understanding Edward III’s claim to the French crown, the conduct of war, and the mechanisms of medieval diplomacy. Together, these works offer scholars, students, and enthusiasts a reliable and unembellished account of a transformative period in English and European history. Essential for anyone interested in medieval chronicles, the Hundred Years’ War, or the reign of Edward III.
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Highgate Cemetery is in Highgate.
See: Highgate Cemetery West.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. Sacred to the Memory of Samuel Taylor Coleridge [deceased]. Poet, Philospher. Theologian. This truly great and good man resider for the last nineteen years of his life In this Hamlet. He quitted "the body of this death" July 25th 1834 In the sixty-second year of his age. Of his profound learning and discursive genius His literary works are an imperishable record. To his or private worth. His social and Christian virtues. James and Ann Gillman. The friends with whom he lived During the above period, dedicate this tablet. Under the pressure of a long And most painful disease. His disposition was unalterably sweet and angelic. He was an ever-enduring. ever-loving friend: The gentlest and kindest teacher: The most engaging home-companion. "O! framed for calmer times, and nobler hearts, O studious poet, eloquent for truth! Philosopher! condemning wealth and death. Yet docile, childlike, full of life and love." Here on thy monumental stone thy friends inscribe thy worth; Reader, for the world, mourn; A light has passed away from the earth; But, for this pious and exalted Christian, "Rejoice! and again, I say unto you rejoice!"
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. Here are deposited the remains of Sir John Peniston Milbanke, Bart.1, who departed this life on the 26th day of July, 1850, in the 75th year of his age.
Note 1. Sir J. P. Milbanke, Bart., was the seventh baronet. He was born on the 20th August, 1775 (second son of the fifth baronet) [Note. He was a grandson of the fifth baronet?], by Cornelia, daughter of Sir William Chambers, the noted architect. On the 19th March, 1826, he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his uncle, Sir Ralph Noel, who assumed that name by royal sign manual, and whose only daughter [aged 58] was the wife of Lord Byron, the poet, and mother of the Countess of Lovelace [aged 34]. Sir John was twice married. He died at Halvaby, Yorkshire.
On 7th April 1854 Catherine Louise Georgina Marlay [aged 23] died from childbirth three weeks after giving birth to her daughter Edith Katherine Manners [deceased] who had died at twelve days old. She was buried at Highgate Cemetery on 15th April 1854. Monument by William Calder Marshall [aged 41] erected in 1862 in a chapel at St Katherine's Church, Rowsley [Map] built for the purpose commissioned by her husband John Manners [aged 35], the future 7th Duke of Rutland.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. Lady Charlotte Beauclerk, daughter of William, 8th Duke of St Albans, Born 4th April, 1802. Died 12th August, 1842.
Henry Beauclerk [deceased], Died 22nd Jany., 1856. Aged 43 years.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. But thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Sacred to the Memory of Granville George Lord Radstock [deceased], C.B.1, Vice- Admiral of the Red; Born September 24th 1786; Died May 11th 1857. Distinguished by a calm courage, and rare simplicity and truthfulness of character; in early life his energies were devoted to the service of his country in war; in after-life his time and resources were consecrated to the present and eternal welfare of his fellowcountrymen and comrades. He trusted not, however, to his own merits; all his hope was fixed on his Saviour's cross.
Radstock, Baron (Granville-George Waldegrave), of Castle Town, Queens County, in the peerage of .Ireland, Vice-Admiral of the Red, naval aide-de-camp to the Queen, and C.B. He married August 7, 1823, Esther Caroline, youngest daughter of James Puget, Esq., of Totteridge, Hants. He left issue one son and two daughters. He became second Baron upon the decease of his father Augsut 20, 1825.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. Sacred to the memory of Edward Hodges Baily [aged 69], Esq., R.A., Who died May 22 May, 1867, aged 79 years. Also of Elizabeth [deceased], wife of the said Edward Hodges Baily, Esqre., R.A., Who died March 8th 1858, aged 70 years.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. Sacred To the Memory of Caroline, the beloved wife of Sir William E. Burnaby [aged 34], Bart., who died in London, 17th October, 1857, Aged 40 years.
Also In memory of Emma [deceased] Relict of Capt E. A. G. Burnaby, R.N., Who died March 1st 1859, Aged 65.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. In Memory of John Francis [deceased], Sculptor, Born Sep. 3, 1780, died Aug. 30, 1861.
Charles William, son of John and Mary Francis, Born Dec. 22, 1820, Died Feb. 23, 1849.
Mary, wife of John Francis, Born Sep. 20, 1779, Died Jan 29, 1855.
Elizabeth, widow of William Brown, Sculptor, and daughter of John and Mary Francis, Born April 11th 1807, died July 29th 1859.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. Here lie the Mortal Remains of Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir James Sanderson, Baronet, and the beloved wife of Richard Burdon Sanderson, Esqre., Died June 6th 1864, aged 67. "I rest in God."
In Memory of Richard Burdon Sanderson, of West Jesmond House, Northumberland, Esqre. Who died in the faith of Christ, at Montague Grove, Hampstead, February 10th 1865, aged 73. "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. William John Crole Wyndham, son of George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl Egremont, Died 16th November, 1865, aged 67 years. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." "To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." "In Thy presence is fulness of joy."
Captain Charles Crole, R.N., his brother, Died September 30th 1850, aged 55 years.
Major George Seymour Crole, 28th Regiment, his half brother, Died June 13th 1863, aged 64 years.
John Barker, Esqre Father-in-law to the above W. J. Crole Wyndham, Died July 18th 1863, aged 68 years.
Emily Charlotte Barker [deceased], mother-in-law to the above W. J. Crole Wyndham, Died January 12th 1866, Aged 77 years.
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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Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. Sacred to the Memory of Catherine Maria Foord Bowes, daughter of the late Sir John Johnson, Bart., widow of the late Major-General Foord Bowes, who fell at the storming of the forts at Salamanca in 1812. Her extensive benevolence and endearing qualities, gained the esteem and admiration of all who knew her Beloved in life and lamented in death. This tribute of affection is erected by her surviving sister and two brothers, a record of her. worth and their sorrow. She died at Anglesey, on the 5th February, 1850, aged 66 years, after a severe illness of six months, which she bore with Christian patience. — Proverbs 4 chaptr & 18 verse.
Also in Memory of Marianne [deceased], youngest daughter and last surviving child of the late Sir John Johnson, Bart., Died 1st Januart, 1868, aged 76. — Matthew chap. v. verse 3.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. The Right Honourable John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst, Three times Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, High Steward of the University of Cambridge. P.C., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S, &c, Born 21st May 1772, died 12th October, 1863.
Mary [deceased] the youngest daughter of John Singleton Copley, Esq., R.A., Born 23rd September, 1773, Died 23rd April, 1868.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. In Memory of Belinda [deceased], the beloved wife of Lord William Thynne [aged 65], Died August 1st 1869, aged 52.
On 3rd March 1879 William Kingdon Clifford [aged 33] died at Madeira to which he had travelled for his health. He was buried at Highgate Cemetery.
On 5th February 1889 James Smetham [aged 67] died. He was buried at Highgate Cemetery.
On 6th January 1902 Admiral Edward Southwell Sotheby [aged 88] died at 26 Green Street Mayfair. He was buried at Highgate Cemetery.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. Sir Charles Vincent Loraine, Bart., Born 20th July, 1807, Died in London 19th August, 1850. This monument was erected to his Memory bv his disconsolate widow.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. To the Dear Memory of My husband, Gabriel Rossetti, Born at Vasto Ammone, In the kingdom of Naples, 28th February, 1783; Died in London, 26th April, 1854, "He shall return no more, nor see his native country." — Jeremiahi xxii. 10. "Now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly." — Hebrews xi. 16.
Ah dio — ajutami tu. Also to the Memory of Elizabeth Eleanor, Wife of D. G. Rossetti (Eldest son of the above). Who departed on the 11th February, 1862, Aged 30.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. In Memory of Susan Emily Cunliffe wife of Lieut-General Sir Robt Cunliffe, Bart., C.B., of Acton Park, Denbighshire, Who departed this life November 11th 1856, Aged 51 years.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. Sacred to the Memory of Nicholas Westby1, of the county of Clare, Ireland, who departed this life August 24th 1860, Aged 72 years.
The Hon. Emily Susanna Laura Westby, Died June 1870. Aged 82 years. "In Thee, O Lord, have I put my trust, Let me never be confounded."
Note 1. He was the eldest surviving son and heir of William Westby, of Thornhill, in the county of Dublin, Esq., by Mary, his wife, daughter of George Fletcher, of Tottenham, Esq.; he married, 1815, the Hon. Emily Susanna Laura, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. Sir William Waldegrave, first Baron Radstock, of Castle Town, Admiral of the Red and G.C.B., by Cornelia, his wife, daughter of David Van Lennap, of Smyrna, Esq. His lineal ancestor, from whom he stood fourth in descent, was the Rev. Thomas Westby (son of George Westby, of Rawcliffe, co. Lancaster, Esq., a major in the army), of Clonmel, who, about the time of the Commonwealth, settled in Ireland; his family, which had flourished in Lancashire from early in the sixteenth century, had previously been seated at Westby, Ravenfield, Coningsburgh, Firsby, and elsewhere in the county of York; the Yorkshire and chief branch of the family became extinct in the male line by the death, in 1790, of George Westby (whose wife was Catherine, daughter and heir of John Hirst, of Clough House, CO. York, Esq., and great-granddaughter of George Westby, of Gilthwaite, Esq., who died 167 1), of Howarth Grange and Gilthwaite, Esq. The Westbys can show a long line of worthy ancestry, almost reaching to the Conquest, and among their alliances appear the names of Byron, Rokeby, Egerton, Worsley, Brereton, Tatton, Molyneux, Ashton, Odingsells, Shirley, Vaux, Reresby, Fitzwilliam, Shuiileworth, Wyrrall, Bright, Hirst, Spencer, D'Arcy, Beckwith, Cromwell, Levett, Norris, Souihwonh, Barton, Heeketh, Hatfield, Laughton, Talbot, and many others of equal importance. Gilbert Westbye was, temp. Henry III., High Sheriff of the county of Laocastei, foi twelve years, 1233 — 46. The Yorkshire and Lancashire County Histories and Heraldic Visitations, " Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica," together with the Harleian, Barritl, Holme, and other genealogical MS5., give much information satisfactorily proving the descent and former importance of the family. The annexed illuslralion is a facsimile of the family armorial bearings as given in the Visitation of Yorkshire. 15S4, Harl. MSS.,1394, and the following note appears above the pedigree in the MSS.; — "The crest and armes of John Weelby, of Movfbricke, in Com. Lancaslria;" from the Visitation of Lancashire, rGi3, Harl. MSS., 1437, we learn that these arms were: — "Geuen to John Westby, in co. York, 20 of May, 2 yere of Eliz., 1560, by Larawance Dalton."
On 30th August 1861 John Francis [aged 80] died at his home in Albany Street, Regent's Park. He was buried at Plot 3058 at Highgate Cemetery West.
On 4th December 1905 Henry Hugh Armstead [aged 77] died at 52 Circus Road, St John's Wood [Map]. He was buried at Highgate Cemetery West in a family grave.
Adam Murimuth's Continuation and Robert of Avesbury’s 'The Wonderful Deeds of King Edward III'
This volume brings together two of the most important contemporary chronicles for the reign of Edward III and the opening phases of the Hundred Years’ War. Written in Latin by English clerical observers, these texts provide a vivid and authoritative window into the political, diplomatic, and military history of fourteenth-century England and its continental ambitions. Adam Murimuth Continuatio's Chronicarum continues an earlier chronicle into the mid-fourteenth century, offering concise but valuable notices on royal policy, foreign relations, and ecclesiastical affairs. Its annalistic structure makes it especially useful for establishing chronology and tracing the development of events year by year. Complementing it, Robert of Avesbury’s De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii is a rich documentary chronicle preserving letters, treaties, and official records alongside narrative passages. It is an indispensable source for understanding Edward III’s claim to the French crown, the conduct of war, and the mechanisms of medieval diplomacy. Together, these works offer scholars, students, and enthusiasts a reliable and unembellished account of a transformative period in English and European history. Essential for anyone interested in medieval chronicles, the Hundred Years’ War, or the reign of Edward III.
Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback format.
On 26th April 1854 Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti [aged 71] died. He was buried in the Rossetti Family Grave at Highgate Cemetery.
On 17th February 1862 Elizabeth Siddal [deceased] was buried in the Rossetti Family Grave. Her husband placed his poems in the coffin with her remains.
On 8th April 1886 Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori [aged 85] died. She was buried in the Rossetti Family Grave.
On 29th December 1894 Christina Georgina Rossetti [aged 64] died. She was buried in the Rossetti Family Grave.
On 5th February 1919 William Michael Rossetti [aged 89] died. He was buried in the Rossetti Family Grave.
