Boadicea

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Boadicea Haranguing the Britons

Wild pagan, warrior queen, vengeful woman, scourge of the Romans, destroyer of Londinium (London); call her what you will, Boadicea’s name has come down to us as a force to reckoned with.

Her name is spelled various ways; Boadicea, Boudicca, Boudica. Nobody knows for sure the ‘correct’ spelling. She was the Queen of the Iceni people who lived in what is now county Norfolk and northern Suffolk.

As the story goes, in the year 60 A.D. her husband, the King Prasutagus, before he died willed his territory in three parts, to his two Continue reading →

James Markham of Earls Colne

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St. Andrew Church, Earls Colne, Essex

All we know of James Markham is from the parish register of Earls Colne, and that isn’t very much. I have hunted through well over 200 sets of parish registers for the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Middlesex and London and still haven’t found a baptismal record for this James Markham. If he was baptized at St. Andrew in Earls Colne there is no record of it. Continue reading →

Nathaniel Ward Biography

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Nathaniel Ward, clergyman, born between the years 1578 and 1580; died in Shenfield, England, in 1652. Cotton Mather, in the “Magnalia,” gives his birthplace as Haverhill, England, which is probably correct; and the date of his birth as “about 1570,” which is evidently wrong. Continue reading →

The Will of Samuel Ward of Ipswich

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SAMUEL WARD, the elder, of Ipswich, clerk, 19 October, 1639, proved 24 April, 1640, by Nathaniel and Joseph Ward, sons of the deceased and executors of his will; Continue reading →