William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Archaeologia Cambrensis 1913 Page 100 is in Archaeologia Cambrensis 1913.
Proceeding past Dyffryn House, formerly known as Worlton, the Cambrians inspected the cromlech and tumulus, ¾ mile to the north at Tinkinswood, where Mr. T. H. Thomas, R.C.A., delivered an instructive lecture on the cromlechs in the district. Dr. Boyd Dawkins was of opinion that they belonged to the Bronze Age, which would make them about 4000 years old. He could not accept the theory of Rev. J. Griffiths of Llangynwyd, that the cromlech had any astronomical bearing, seeing that prehistoric man had no knowledge of astronomy. The weight of the capstone, which is the largest in Great Britain and is supported by four uprights, has been estimated at 55 tons. Its extreme length is 25 feet, its greatest width 16 ft., its average thickness 2 ft. 4 in. There are remains of a large stone circle. In the adjoining field are several other blocks of stone that may be parts of an avenue, or ruined cromlechs, a cistfaen 4 ft. by 2 ft., and about a mile to the north-west on the opposite side of the Cowbridge road to the Cottrell Lodge is a standing stone, probably one of the uprights of a cromlech.1 The smaller, but no less interesting, cromlech at Maes y felin, on the way to St. Lythan's, was also described by Mr. T. H. Thomas. The stone used in the construction of these megalithic monuments is magnesian limestone of the district.