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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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[24th July 1469] Lord Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) was taken in a battle by Banbury with Robin of Redesdale and his fellows on S. James' Eve (Jul 24) 1469, and was taken to Northampton, and there beheaded, and Lord Richard Herbert likewise with others.
Memorandum, quod dominnus Herbert fuit captus in bello juxta Banbery cum Robarto Ryddesdale & sociis suis in vigilia S. Jacobi apostoli, a. r. Edwardi ixo & fuit ductus ad villam de Northehampton & ibi erat decollatus, & dominus Ric. Herber similiter cum aliis.
On Aug. 12 [1469] in the same year Lord Rivers then Treasurer of England was beheaded at Gosford Green [Map], and Lord John Woodville, his son, likewise; they had been taken at Chepstow.
Item, xijo die Augusti eodem anno dominus le Revers tunc thesaurarius Anglie fuit decollattus apud Gosfordgrene & dominus Joh. Wodvyle, filius eius similiter, qui capti fuerunt apud Chapstowe.