Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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In 1662 Captain John Smith was born at Purton.
On 17th February 1680 Captain John Smith (age 18) and Mary Warner (age 17) were married at Purton. She the daughter of Augustine Warner (age 38).
Around 20th February 1681 [his daughter] Mildred Smith was born to Captain John Smith (age 19) and [his wife] Mary Warner (age 18) at Purton. She married 17th August 1700 Robert Porteus Senior and had issue.
On 14th April 1698 Captain John Smith (age 36) died at Purton.
On 12th November 1700 [his former wife] Mary Warner (age 37) died at Warner Hall.