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Waller, Edmund 1606 -- 1687 Poet, born in Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, became an MP in 1621, and was a member of the Long Parliament in 1640. In 1643 he plunged into a conspiracy (Waller's plot) against parliament, was arrested, and banished, but returned to England in 1651. His collected poems were published in 1645.

Edmund Waller, the Poet, was born at Coleshill, 3 March 1606 and died at Beaconsfield 21 Oct 1687" He married, first, Anne Banks of London, 5 Jul 1631, and, second, Mary Breeze (or Breaux). He was educated at Eaton and King’s College, Cambridge, and was returned a member of Parliament for Amersham before he was 18 years old. In 1625 he was returned for Chipping-Wycombe, and sat for other places in several Parliaments, including the Long Parliament. Edmund and Sir William Waller, the Parliamentary General, were fifth cousins, one generation removed, and, though Sir William was nine years older, they were, essentially, contemporaries.

After Anne Banks’ death in 1634, Edmund courted Lady Dorothea Sydney, whom he celebrated in his verses under the name "Sacharissa" , and Lady Sophia Murray, whom he distinguished by the name of "Amoret", both without success’.

In Parliament, he at first opposed the Roundheads or liberal party, but retained his place in the Long Parliament openly expressing his royalist sentiments after the Civil War began. He was sent as a Commissioner from Parliament to the King.

Edmund again sat in Parliament, at intervals, until the reign of James II (1685-1688). One critic says, "His popularity in Parliament was great, but he did not take pains to understand its business, but only sought to gain applause, being a vain and empty, though a witty man." His poetry was celebrated for elegance and polish at a time when these graces had been largely replaced with moral depravity. Macaulay says, "The verse of Waller still breathed the sentiments which had animated a more chivalrous generation.

About this time occurred the incident called "Waller’s Plot", which failed. It's nature is obscure, though Edmund made an abject confession of all he knew, including the names of his confederates, including his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Tomkins, who was put to death over it. Edmund was imprisoned for a year, fined 10,000 pounds and exiled.

During this exile, the first book of his poems was published in 1645. Oliver Cromwell rose to power in 1644 and was Lord Protector in 1649, so Edmund’s unfortunate political scheme, occurred during the trying times of the Civil War. In 1653 he obtained permission from Cromwell to return to England and in 1654 he addressed a poem of elaborate praises to the Lord Protector. In 1656 he recommended Cromwell to assume the royal title.

"Edmund Waller, the poet, was born March 3d, 1605-6, married Anne Bankes July 5, 1631, married secondly, Mary Breese or Breaux, and died Oct. 21, 1687. By the first marriage there were no sons to survive infancy;
but by the second marriage he had
(1) Benjamin stated (according to a letter from Sir Wathen Phipps Waller, Bart.) to have died in Virginia;
2. Edmund of Beaconsfield, will dated 1699, d.s.p. at Bath and buried in the Quaker burying ground there;
3. Stephen LL.D., died Feb. 1707;
4. William, merchant of London;
5. Charles "of whom nothing is known."

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7 Benjamin Waller
7 Edmund Waller - 1699
7 William Waller
7 Stephen LLD Waller - 1707
7 Charles Waller

Edmund Waller (1606-1687) Selected Poems
A Panegyric
Of the Last Verses in the Book
On a Girdle
Song: Go Lovely Rose
The Dancer
The Self Banished
The Story of Phoebus and Daphine
To the King On His Navy
Upon His Majesty's Happy Return
Upon the Late Storm

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EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687) Inherited Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. In 1631 he married a London heiress who died three years later. He entered Parliament early and was at first a brilliant and active member of the opposition. Later he became a Royalist and in 1643 was the leader in a plot (`Waller's plot') to seize London for Charles I. For this he was imprisoned, fined and banished but, on betraying his associates, spared execution. He made his peace with Cromwell in 1651, and returned to England. He was received again into royal favor on the Restoration and was once more a member of Parliament.

The eighteenth century gave Waller rather more credit than he deserved for the development of the heroic couplet, deeming him, with Denham, the founder of the school of correct verse.
(From Oxford Anthology of English Poetry)

"........An earlier genius has left a memory at Beaconsfield -- not so venerable, it is true, as that of Edmund Burke, yet most pleasant to dwell upon -- a memory which, with strange
tenacity, attaches to the place far more closely, and with far more visible marks, than even the memory of Burke. That genius was Edmund Waller, the first lyric poet of his time, and the worthy precursor of Robert Burns, and Tom Moore, and other great lyrists that were to succeed. Beaconsfield was the favourite and constant residence of Waller in his lifetime, and it is in death his last earthly resting-place.
Edmund Waller's stately tomb in Beaconsfield churchyard tells us, in most graceful Latinity, that "he was of the poets of his time easily the prince: that when an octogenarian he did not abdicate the laurel he had won in his youth, and that his country's language owes to him the possible belief that if the muses should cease to speak Greek and Latin, they would love to talk in English."

One high-born dame, the Lady Dorothea Sidney, owes the perpetuation of her memory to having been, as Sacharissa, the chief subject of Waller's amatory verse, and Beaconsfield, through his choice, first became a place of note. Its earliest fame was Waller, and his memory hangs round it still. The visitor will find many a mark and memorial of Waller there. The poet's magnificent seat of Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, built by himself, but improved by his son, still remains. The Waller family left it years ago, when it became the property of another distinguished man, Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart, and at his demise it passed into other hands. It is now the property of Edward Levy Lawson, Esq., who is also Lord of the Manor at beaconsfield.
Waller had Sacharissa's portrait for constant contemplation infixed in the wainscot over the mantelpiece of his sitting-room, at his eat in Beaconsfield. That picture, which, he declared, "wonders so distant in one face disclosed," remained in the place he put it, until recently town away and sold. Alas! for the Gothic hand that took it down."
Vicissitudes of Families. Sir Bernard Burke. London:
Longmans, Green & Co., 1883, Vol. II, p. 114-6.

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*2nd Wife of Edmund Waller: +Anne Banks
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WILL OF BINGMAN WEEKS(80) J. Bryant Grimes North Carolina Wills and Inventories, pg. 441-442.
In the Name of God Amen, ys. Ninth Day of November in the Year of our Lord, one thousand, Seven hundred & Forty Four. I, Bingham Weeks, of Cartwright County, in North Carolina, being of sick and weak Body, but of Perfect Mind & Memory, Thanks be given unto almighty God for it , & Knowing it is appointed for all Men Once to Die, Do make & Ordain this to be my last Will & Testament, that is to say; First of all I give my Sold [sic] into the Hands of God that gave it; & for my Body, I recommend to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the Discretion of my Executors, Nothing Doubting but at the General Resurrection I shal receive the same again by the mighty Power of God that gave it; And as for Touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with, I give & Dispose of the same in the Manner & form following:

Item: I give and bequeath unto my two sons, Isaac Weeks & Jabas Weeks, the Tract of Land that I now dwell on with the Marsh thereunto belonging, to be Equally divided between them and their Heirs & Assigns for Ever. That is to say, my Son Jabas to have that Part of the Land that the Plantation & Houses is on, and Isaac to have the other Part with half the Marsh.

Item: I give to my Son, Theoflis Weaks, one Shilling, Sterling.
Item: I give to my Son, Archelas, One Shilling, Sterling.
Item: I give to my Son, Bingman, One Shilling , Sterling.
Item: I give to my Daughter, Lidde Witton, One Shilling, Sterling.
Item: I give to my Dafter, Mary Williams, One Shilling, Sterling.
Item: I give unto my Dafter, Christian Weake, One Shilling, Sterling.
Item: I give to my Dafter, Thankful Hicks, One Shilling, Sterling.
Item: my Will & Desire is for my Wife to have the Plantation in her Lifetime.
Item: I give to my Dafter, Elizabeth Weake, One Shilling.

Item: my Will and Desire is that my two Sons , Isaac & Jabas, do Each of them pay unto my Grand Son, Edward Weaks, the Sum of Ten Pounds, current money of Carolina, & upon Failure thereof to be Dispossessed of the Land before given.

Item: I give unto my well beloved wife, Mary Weake, Two Beds & Furniture, Two Cows & Horses, and all other Household Goods & all the Remaining Part of my Estate that is not yet given, During her Widowhood, She paying all my Lawful Debts. I also Depute and apoint my sd. Wife to be my whole & sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament, Ratifying and alowing this & no other to be my last Will & Testament, Disanulling all other Will formarly by me made.

In Testimony hereunto I have Set my Hand & Seal the year and date above written.
His Mark Signed: Bingham (B) Weaks

Signed, Sealed in the Presence of us, Jehosaphat Holland Francis Burns his Thomas T. Person mark Carteret County, North Carolina. June Court, 1745. These may certify that Thomas Person, one of the Evidences to the Within Will, in open Court made Oath that he Saw Benjamin Weeks, Decd., Sign & Seal the same: and that he also saw Jehosaphat Holland & Francis Burns, Evidence the same, And Mary Weekes, Widow, hath taken the Oath of an Executrix, and by the Court admitted to Record.

Dated at the Court House the 6th Day of June, Anno Domini, 1745. Teee. Geor. Read, Clk. Cur. Recorded in Will Book 6, pg. 62

"While Benjamin lived in MA. he owned a ferry that was given to him by his father-in-law, Isaac Chase as stated in the History of Martha's Vineyard, volume 1.

Benjamin moved southward and into Carteret Co. North Carolina about 1730. He lived in the area of White Oak River and died there in 1744. He is buried in the Weeks family Cemetery in the area.

The marriage date of he and Mary Chase, daughter of Isaac Chase and Mary Tilton, is somewhat in question. In the vital records of Tisbury, Massachusetts, under marriages, it lists Mary Chase and "Benjiman Weck" of Falmouth, 14 Jan. 1704 with as asterisk. The asterisk indicated that an intention had not been recorded. I assume that to mean that they announced their desire to marry at that time, but did not state a given time for that marriage to take place.(69 ) Going to the original vital records of Barnstable County, it lists "Beniamin Wekes and Mary Chaces Intentions of marring published May the 27th 1704."(70) The actual marriage could have occurred after that date.

he purchased Weepecket, a small four-acre island on the north side of Naushon. It had been originally acquired by Thomas Mayhew, who sold it to Matthew Mayhew in 1682. Mathew then sold it to Benjamin Weeks, of Falmouth, in 1714.(73)

By 1741 Benjamin and Mary Chase Weeks were in Carteret County, North Carolina. Where they were between 1716 and 1722 when their son, Isaac, was christened in Plymouth, and after 1729 when their son Jabez/Jabish was christened in Plymouth.

Benjamin and Mary Weeks first appear in the Carteret County records in 1741, when Benjamin made oath at the March term of Court for that year that he had in his family six white persons.

He and Mary were also to give evidence in a court case.(77) However, in 1732 there is mention of a Benjamin Weeks, Sr., in Court records and in 1730 there is an Onslow County land transaction involving Jonathan Weeks who is described as a "yeoman from Massachusetts Bay," indicating with a high degree of probability that Weeks family members were in North Carolina at least by this earlier date."

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Phoebe

ABT 1730 - ____

ID Number: I45159

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Francis A. ALVIS

ABT 1800 - ____

ID Number: I9340

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Art BLASINGAME

ABT 1890 - ____

ID Number: I2486

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PHILLIPA ISABELL CHICHLEY

ABT 1425 - 1463

ID Number: I93138

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Frances FIELDING

BET 1694 AND 1704 - 1752

ID Number: I32555

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Indiana (or Ann H.?) LINDSAY

1838 - ____

ID Number: I41838

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Theodore Poehler PENDLETON

ABT 1890 - ____

ID Number: I55330

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THOMAS I de SAVOIE Count of Savoie

20 Mar 1177 - 20 Jan 1233

ID Number: I16634

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Sir EDMUND WALLER of Beaconsfield

3 Mar 1606 - 21 Oct 1687

ID Number: I78988

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John WEBB

1785 - 1846

ID Number: I80534

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Benjamin WEEKES

4 Apr 1685 - Nov 1744

ID Number: I103125

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Samuel B. WHITELY

ABT 1843 - ____

ID Number: I956

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