Biography of Anne Broughton -1562
Before 1513 [her future husband] Thomas Cheney (age 27) and Frideswide Frowyk were married.
On 24 May 1539 Thomas Cheney (age 54) and Anne Broughton were married.
On 31 May 1540 [her son] Henry Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne was born to [her husband] Thomas Cheney (age 55) and Anne Broughton.
Before 16 Dec 1558 [her step-son] John Cheney (age 45) and Margaret Neville (age 36) were married. He had been a ward of her father George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Bergavenny. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
Before 16 Dec 1558 [her step-son] John Cheney (age 45) died.
On 16 Dec 1558 [her husband] Thomas Cheney (age 73) died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 20 Apr 1562. The xx day of May they begane to make for my lady Chenne, for here buryall, a grett baner of armes [of] nuw damaske and wroth with fyne gold, and a xij dosen of skochyons of bokeram, ij dosen and vj of taffata [wrought with] fyne gold; and the sam day was Hare Machyn [the author] iijxx and vj yere, [the which] was Wedynsday in Wytsonwyke.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 16 May 1562. The xvj day of May died my lady Chenne, latt wyff of ser [her former husband] Thomas Cheyne, the warden of v porttes, and ded at Todyngton.
Henry Machyn's Diary. After 25 May 1562. [The .. day of May was the funeral of lady Cheyne, late wife of ser [her former husband] Thomas Cheyne councillor to] kyng Edward the vj and unto quen Mary and queen Elesabett (age 28) tyll he ded, and she was beried at Toddington [Map] with mony mornars; master Garter (age 52) and master Norrey (age 64) [were] the haroldes, and (the) dene of Powlles (age 45) dyd pryc[h the sermon,] for ther was grett chere, and a grett dole [as ever] in that contrey sene-iij mylles from Donstabull.
Note. P. 282. Funeral of lady Cheney. See the note on sir Thomas Cheney in p. 369. There is an effigy of the lady at Toddington; see the Topographer, 1846, vol. i. p. 156.