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Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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Effigy in Whitworth Church, Durham is in Monumental Effigies of Great Britain.
THIS remarkable sculptured stone is about six feet in length. On the head of the figure is a cylindrical helmet: the apertures for the sight, and the weldings, or joints, are so arranged as to form a cross. This species of defence for the head was continued in use, with a slight variation in the form, until a much later period than that of the present subjecta. This effigy is in an attitude of defence: the shield is borne before the body, and in the right hand is the sword naked and erect. The surcoat extends only to the knee. The mails of the hauberk have either not been expressed, or are obliterated. The legs are crossed, designating a Crusader, and they appear to trample on a prostrate figure, intended, perhaps, for an infidel. At the right side is a couchant hound. The bearing on the shield is, barry, a bordure charged with bezants. These bearings do not belong to any family which are known to have existed in the North; the figure can therefore only be conjectured to represent one of the Lords of Whitworth. In one or two other places in the County are effigies sculptured in exactly similar costume, the work probably of the same handb.
Details. Profile. Plate 11. The top of the helmet.
Note a. See the real specimens extant. That of Edward the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral, delineated in this work. Two belonging to the Lords of Cobham are in the chancel of Cobham Church, Kent.
Note b. See Surtees's Durham, vol. III. p. 293, and the illustrative plates of that work.
