On 30th August 1720 Samuel Whitbread was born.
Around 12th September 1761 [his daughter] Emma Maria Elizabeth Whitbread Baroness St John Bletso was born to Samuel Whitbread [aged 41] and [his future wife] Harriet Hayton. She married 2nd December 1780 Henry St John 13th Baron St John, son of John St John 12th Baron St John and Susanne Louise Simond, and had issue.
Before 18th January 1764 Samuel Whitbread [aged 43] and Harriet Hayton were married.
On 18th January 1764 [his son] Samuel Charles Whitbread was born to Samuel Whitbread [aged 43] and [his wife] Harriet Hayton at Cardington, Bedfordshire. He married 26th December 1787 Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Charles Grey 1st Earl Grey and Elizabeth Grey Countess Grey, and had issue.
In 1768 Samuel Whitbread [aged 47] was elected MP Bedford.
On 13th August 1769 Samuel Whitbread [aged 48] and Mary Cornwallis [aged 33] were married. She the daughter of Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis and Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis.
In 1770 [his daughter] Mary Whitbread Lady Grey was born to Samuel Whitbread [aged 49] and [his wife] Mary Cornwallis [aged 33]. She married 18th June 1795 George Grey 1st Baronet, son of Charles Grey 1st Earl Grey and Elizabeth Grey Countess Grey, and had issue.
On 28th December 1770 [his wife] Mary Cornwallis [aged 34] died.
On 2nd December 1780 [his son-in-law] Henry St John 13th Baron St John [aged 22] and [his daughter] Emma Maria Elizabeth Whitbread Baroness St John Bletso [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Baroness St John of Bletso.
On 26th December 1787 [his son] Samuel Charles Whitbread [aged 23] and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Grey were married. See Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings. She the daughter of Charles Grey 1st Earl Grey [aged 58] and Elizabeth Grey Countess Grey [aged 43].
In 1792 Samuel Whitbread [aged 71] was elected MP Steyning.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 18th June 1795 [his son-in-law] George Grey 1st Baronet [aged 27] and [his daughter] Mary Whitbread Lady Grey [aged 25] were married. Her brother Samuel [aged 31] had married her husband George's sister Elizabeth six years earlier. See Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings. He the son of Charles Grey 1st Earl Grey [aged 65] and Elizabeth Grey Countess Grey [aged 51].
On 11th June 1796 Samuel Whitbread [aged 75] died.