Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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St John's College, Cambridge University is in Cambridge University.
Around 1517 Anthony Denny [aged 15] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
On 19th September 1522 Bishop George Day [aged 21] became a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1527 Roger Lupton [aged 71] established six scholarships to St John's College, Cambridge University [Map], to be awarded exclusively to boys from Sedbergh School with a preference for founder's kin
Around 1528 John Cheke [aged 13] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1530 Thomas Hoby was born to William Hoby of Leominster in Herefordshire and Katherine Forden. In 1546 he matriculated St John's College, Cambridge University [Map]. He married 27th June 1558 Elizabeth Cooke and had issue.
Around 1535 Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth [aged 10] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In May 1535 William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley [aged 14] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1537 Bishop George Day [aged 36] became Master of St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around 1540 Thomas Cromwell was born to Gregory Cromwell 1st Baron Cromwell Oakham [aged 20] and Elizabeth Seymour Baroness Cromwell Oakham [aged 22]. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1542 Bishop John Christopherson became a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around 1542 William Dethick was born to Gilbert Dethick [aged 32]. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around October 1548 Thomas Carew [aged 21] was educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around 1549 Thomas Browne [aged 14] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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Around April 1549 Charles Willoughby 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham [aged 12] was educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around 1550 Thomas Sackville 1st Earl Dorset [aged 14] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
On 18th March 1558 Bishop Richard Howand [aged 17] was admitted pensioner at Christ's College, Cambridge University [Map], but he migrated to St John's College, Cambridge University [Map], where he graduated B.A. in 1561.
Around 1564 Edward Stafford [aged 12] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around 1572 Ralph Eure 3rd Baron Eure [aged 13] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1574 Philip Howard 13th or 20th Earl of Arundel [aged 16] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1574 Bishop John Still [aged 40] was appointed Master of St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
On 20th July 1577 Bishop Richard Howand [aged 36] was admitted as Master of St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1585 Edward Denny 1st Earl Norwich [aged 15] was educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In October 1585 Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton [aged 11] admitted at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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On 6th June 1589 Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton [aged 15] graduated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around 1609 Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Strafford [aged 15] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1615 Algernon Percy 10th Earl of Northumberland [aged 12] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1619 James Wriothesley [aged 13] entered at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around 1624 Thomas Fairfax 3rd Lord Fairfax [aged 11] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around 1635 Charles Cecil [aged 16] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around 1647 Francis North 1st Baron Guildford [aged 9] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
John Evelyn's Diary. 31st August 1654. This evening, to Cambridge; and went first to St. John's College [Map], well built of brick, and library, which I think is the fairest of that University. One Mr. Benlowes has given it all the ornaments of pietra commessa, whereof a table and one piece of perspective is very fine; other trifles there also be of no great value, besides a vast old song-book, or Service, and some fair manuscripts. There hangs in the library the picture of John Williams, Archbishop of York, sometime Lord Keeper, my kinsman, and their great benefactor.
Around 1664 James Cecil 3rd Earl Salisbury [aged 16] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1666 Robert Marsham 4th Baronet [aged 15] matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
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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In 1667 Titus Oates [aged 17] transferred to St John's College, Cambridge University [Map] leaving the same year without a degree.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 8th October 1667. And then to the garden, and there eat many grapes, and took some with us and so away thence, exceeding well satisfied, though not to that degree that, by my old esteem of the house, I ought and did expect to have done, the situation of it not pleasing me. Here we parted with Lowther [aged 26] and his friends, and away to Cambridge, it being foul, rainy weather, and there did take up at the Rose [Map], for the sake of Mrs. Dorothy Drawwater, the vintner's daughter, which is mentioned in the play of Sir Martin Marrall. Here we had a good chamber, and bespoke a good supper; and then I took my wife, and W. Hewer [aged 25], and Willet, it holding up a little, and shewed them Trinity College [Map] and St. John's Library [Map], and went to King's College Chapel [Map], to see the outside of it only; and so to our inne, and with much pleasure did this, they walking in their pretty morning gowns, very handsome, and I proud to find myself in condition to do this; and so home to our lodging, and there by and by, to supper, with much good sport, talking with the Drawers concerning matters of the town, and persons whom I remember, and so, after supper, to cards; and then to bed, lying, I in one bed, and my wife and girl in another, in the same room, and very merry talking together, and mightily pleased both of us with the girl. Saunders, the only violin in my time, is, I hear, dead of the plague in the late plague there.
In 1671 Henry Hobart 4th Baronet [aged 14] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
On 6th February 1671 William Robinson 1st Baronet [aged 15] was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
On 30th April 1695 Richard Anguish aka Allin 1st Baronet [aged 36] was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1699 Nicholas Leke 4th Earl Scarsdale [aged 17] admitted at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1716 William Craven 3rd Baron Craven [aged 16] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1722 Samuel Pegge [aged 17] became a pensioner and scholar of St John's College, Cambridge University [Map], graduating BA in 1725, MA in 1729.
Around 1738 Peter Burrell [aged 13] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around 1747 Henry Carteret 1st Baron Carteret [aged 12] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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In 1753 Henry Carteret 1st Baron Carteret [aged 18] graduated Master of Arts: Cambridge University at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around 1760 Robert Bertie 4th Duke Ancaster and Kesteven [aged 3] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
On 18th August 1760 Patrick Blake 1st Baronet [aged 18] was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
On 17th September 1763 Charlton Leighton 4th Baronet [aged 16] was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1767 John Henniker-Major 2nd Baron Henniker [aged 14] was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge University [Map]. He graduated MA in 1771 by Royal Mandate.
Around 1772 Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr [aged 17] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
Around 1786 William Charles Keppel 4th Earl Albermarle [aged 13] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1787 Thomas Thynne 2nd Marquess of Bath [aged 21] graduated Master of Arts: Cambridge University at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
On 8th June 1797 Henry William Powlett 3rd Baron Bayning was born to Charles Townshend 1st Baron Bayning [aged 67] and Annabella Smith-Powlett [aged 42]. He was educated at Eton College [Map] and St John's College, Cambridge University [Map]. Coefficient of inbreeding 3.24%.
Around 1800 John Lumley-Savile 8th Earl Scarborough [aged 11] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1815 Frederick Henniker 2nd Baronet [aged 22] graduated from St John's College, Cambridge University [Map] with a BA.
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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In 1815 Thomas Cecil [aged 17] graduated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1829 Thomas Neville Abdy 1st Baronet [aged 18] matricuated St John's College, Cambridge University [Map]. He graduated in 1833 with a BA.
Around 1837 William Alleyne Cecil 3rd Marquess Exeter [aged 11] educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1859 George Body [aged 18] matriculated St John's College, Cambridge University [Map] being awarded BA in 1862, MA in 1876, MA ad eundem in 1884 and DD in 1885.
On 29th October 1868 William Vere Reeve Fane aka King-Fane was born to William Dashwood Fane [aged 52] and Susan Millicent Reeve [aged 52] at 2 Norfolk Crescent. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map]. He married 16th May 1895 Helen Beatrice Newman and had issue.
In 1930 William Law Williams 8th Baronet [aged 22] graduated from St John's College, Cambridge University [Map] with a BA.