On 03 Nov 1311 Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 27) exiled.

Diary of Anne Clifford 1603. Around 03 Nov 1603. The next day we went to North Hall where we found my Aunt of Warwick something ill and melancholy. She herself had not been there passing a month, but lay at Sir Moyle Finch’s in Kent by reason of the great plague which was then much about North Hall. Not long after Michaelmas my Uncle and Aunt Russell, their son, my Lady of Bedford, my Mother and I gave all allowance to Mr Chambers, my aunt’s steward, in which sort the house was kept. During our being there I used to wear my hair coloured velvet every day and learned to sing and play on the bass viol of Jack Fenkins, my aunt’s boy.

After 03 Nov 1612. Church of St Peter and St Paul, Easton Maudit [Map]. Monument to Christopher Yelverton (deceased) and Margaret Catesby was buried at Church of St Peter and St Paul, Easton Maudit [Map]. Early canopied Jacobean Hooded Monument with eight daughters shown on one side, four sons on the other. The posts support a canopy of two semicircular arches with coffered soffits, urn ornaments at the angles, and shields of arms.

Christopher Yelverton: In 1536 he was born to William Yelverton and Amy Fermor. Before 29 Jun 1566 Christopher Yelverton and Margaret Catesby were married. On 24 Nov 1597 he was appointed Speaker of the House of Commons. On 31 Oct 1612 Christopher Yelverton died at his seventy room house in Easton Maudit.

Margaret Catesby: In 1543 she was born to Thomas Catesby of Whiston. In 1611 Margaret Catesby died.

On 03 Nov 1616 Spencer Compton 2nd Earl of Northampton (age 15) was appointed Knight of the Bath.

Diary of Anne Clifford 1617. 03 Nov 1617. The 3rd I went to see my Lady St. John, from there I went to Austin Friars where I wept extremely to remember my dear and blessed Mother. I was in the chamber where I was married and went into most of the rooms in the house, but found very little or nothing of all the stuffs and pictures remaining there. From thence I went to my Lo [blank in MS.] and so to Whitehall, where my [Lady ?] Ruthven and my Lady Arundel told me that the next day I should speak to the King, for my Lady Arundel was exceedingly kind to me all this time.

Note 1. The 4th day King James kissed me when I was with him, and that was the first time I was so near King James as to touch him.

On 03 Nov 1660 John Gauden Bishop was elected Bishop of Exeter.

Pepy's Diary. 03 Nov 1660. Saturday. At home all the morning. In the afternoon to White Hall, where my Lord and Lady were gone to kiss the Queene's (age 50) hand. To Westminster Hall [Map], where I met with Tom Doling, and we two took Mrs. Lane to the alehouse, where I made her angry with commending of Tom Newton and her new sweetheart to be both too good for her, so that we parted with much anger, which made Tom and me good sport. So home to write letters by the post, and so to bed.

Pepy's Diary. 03 Nov 1662. Thence to my Lord Sandwich (age 37), from whom I receive every day more and more signs of his confidence and esteem of me. Here I met with Pierce the chyrurgeon, who tells me that my Baroness Castlemaine's (age 21) is with child; but though it be the King's, yet her Lord (age 28) being still in town, and sometimes seeing of her, though never to eat or lie together, it will be laid to him. He tells me also how the Duke of York (age 29) is smitten in love with my Lady Chesterfield (age 22)¹ (a virtuous lady, daughter to my Lord of Ormond (age 52)); and so much, that the Duchess of York (age 25) hath complained to the King (age 32) and her father (age 53) about it, and my Lady Chesterfield (age 22) is gone into the country for it. At all which I am sorry; but it is the effect of idleness, and having nothing else to employ their great spirits upon.

Note 1. Lady Elizabeth Butler (age 22), daughter of James Butler (age 52), first Duke of Ormond, second wife of Philip Stanhope (age 28), second Earl of Chesterfield. She died July, 1665 (see "Memoires de Grammont", chap. viii.). Peter Cunningham thinks that this banishment was only temporary, for, according to the Grammont Memoirs, she was in town when the Russian ambassador was in London, December, 1662, and January, 1662- 63. "It appears from the books of the Lord Steward's office... that Lord Chesterfield (age 28) set out for the country on the 12th May, 1663, and, from his 'Short Notes' referred to in the Memoirs before his Correspondence, that he remained at Bretby, in Derbyshire, with his wife, throughout the summer of that year" ("Story of Nell Gwyn", 1852, p. 189).

Pepy's Diary. 03 Nov 1664. So home to supper and to bed. This night Sir W. Batten (age 63) did, among other things, tell me strange newes, which troubles me, that my Lord Sandwich (age 39) will be sent Governor to Tangier [Map], which, in some respects, indeed, I should be glad of, for the good of the place and the safety of his person; but I think his honour will suffer, and, it may be, his interest fail by his distance.

Pepy's Diary. 03 Nov 1665. Was called up about four o'clock and in the darke by lanthorne took boat and to the Ketch and set sayle, sleeping a little in the Cabbin till day and then up and fell to reading of Mr. Evelyn's (age 45) book about Paynting¹, which is a very pretty book.

Note 1. This must surely have been Evelyn's "Sculptura, or the History and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper", published in 1662. The translation of Freart's "Idea of the Perfection of Painting demonstrated" was not published until 1668.

Pepy's Diary. 03 Nov 1665. Carrying good victuals and Tom with me I to breakfast about 9 o'clock, and then to read again and come to the Fleete about twelve, where I found my Lord (the Prince (age 45) being gone in) on board the Royall James, Sir Thomas Allen (age 32) commander, and with my Lord an houre alone discoursing what was my chief and only errand about what was adviseable for his Lordship to do in this state of things, himself being under the Duke of Yorke's (age 32) and Mr. Coventry's (age 37) envy, and a great many more and likely never to do anything honourably but he shall be envied and the honour taken as much as can be from it.

Pepy's Diary. 03 Nov 1667. By and by Roger (age 50) went, and Mr. Turner spent an hour talking over my Lord Sandwich's (age 42) condition as to this Parliament, which we fear may be bad, and the condition of his family, which can be no better, and then having little to comfort ourselves but that this humour will not last always in the Parliament, and that [it] may well have a great many more as great men as he enquired into, and so we parted, and I to my chamber, and there busy all the evening, and then my wife and I to supper, and so to bed, with much discourse and pleasure one with another.

Pepy's Diary. 03 Nov 1668. So home, and there to supper, and I observed my wife to eye my eyes whether I did ever look upon Deb., which I could not but do now and then (and to my grief did see the poor wretch look on me and see me look on her, and then let drop a tear or two, which do make my heart relent at this minute that I am writing this with great trouble of mind, for she is indeed my sacrifice, poor girle); and my wife did tell me in bed by the by of my looking on other people, and that the only way is to put things out of sight, and this I know she means by Deb., for she tells me that her Aunt was here on Monday, and she did tell her of her desire of parting with Deb., but in such kind terms on both sides that my wife is mightily taken with her. I see it will be, and it is but necessary, and therefore, though it cannot but grieve me, yet I must bring my mind to give way to it. We had a great deal of do this day at the Office about Clutterbucke¹, I declaring my dissent against the whole Board's proceedings, and I believe I shall go near to shew W. Pen (age 47) a very knave in it, whatever I find my Lord Brouncker (age 48).

Note 1. See note to February 4th, 1663-64.

Evelyn's Diary. 03 Nov 1690. Went to the Countess of Clancarty (age 48), to condole with her concerning her debauched and dissolute son (age 22), who had done so much mischief in Ireland, now taken and brought prisoner to the Tower [Map].

Roger Whitley's Diary. 03 Nov 1690. Monday, Angell, Crosse, Gibbons,&c. came before dinner; at dinner came Edwards, Bridge, Murray, Deane, Lloyd, Hemthorne, Norbery, Browne, &c. after dinner Farington, a shoemaker with him; then 2 Skinners; they went past 4; one Hall, a Tanner came in the morning to see Joseph; Thomas Hughes & another Welsh Bayley came in the evening about Revenue accounts.

On 03 Nov 1690 Richard Power 1st Earl Tyrone (deceased) was buried in St Peter's Church, Farnborough.

On 03 Nov 2004 Anthony Ashley-Cooper 10th Earl of Shaftesbury (age 66) arrived in Nice, France to meet with his estranged wife Jamila Ben M'Barek Countess of Shaftesbury (age 43). On 05 Nov 2004 Anthony Ashley-Cooper 10th Earl of Shaftesbury (age 66) disappeared.