Before 1566 Richard Whalley of Kirton was born at Kirton, Nottinghamshire.
In 1579 Francis Barrington 1st Baronet [aged 19] and [his future sister-in-law] Joan Cromwell [aged 14] were married. She an aunt of Parliamentary leaders Oliver Cromwell and John Hampden. Her younger sister [his future wife] Frances Cromwell [aged 3] was mother to regicide Edward Whalley. They had four sons abd five daughters.
In 1595 Richard Whalley of Kirton [aged 29] was appointed High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire.
In July 1595 Richard Whalley of Kirton [aged 29] and Frances Cromwell [aged 19] were married at St Benet Sherehog Cordwainer Ward.
In 1602 Richard Whalley of Kirton [aged 36] was elected MP Boroughbridge.
Around 1607 [his son] Edward Whalley was born to Richard Whalley of Kirton [aged 41] and [his wife] Frances Cromwell [aged 31]. He married (1) 7th February 1626 Judith Duffield of Rochester in Kent and had issue (2) in or after 1633 Mary Middleton.
On 7th February 1626 [his son] Edward Whalley [aged 19] and [his daughter-in-law] Judith Duffield of Rochester in Kent were married at St Dunstan's Church Stepney.
In or after 1633 [his son] Edward Whalley [aged 26] and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Middleton were married.
Before 1635 Richard Whalley of Kirton [aged 69] and Anne Horsey [aged 59] were married.
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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Before 1635 Richard Whalley of Kirton [aged 69] died at Hinchinbrooke.
In 1639 [his former wife] Frances Cromwell [aged 63] died at Kirton, Nottinghamshire.