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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On 9th February 1716 Mary Reynolds was born to [her father] Samuel Reynolds.
In 1740 Mary Reynolds (age 23) paid half of the £120 for her [her brother] brother's (age 16) education by Thomas Hudson (age 39).
In 1749 Mary Reynolds (age 32) paid for her [her brother] brother's (age 25) travel to Italy.
In 1750 [her daughter] Mary Palmer Marchioness Thomond was born to John Palmer of Palmer House Great Torrington Devon and Mary Reynolds (age 33). She married 25th July 1792 Murrough O'Brien 1st Marquess Thomond.
On 11th January 1762 Louis Francois Roubiliac (age 59) died. He was buried in St Martin in the Fields Church [Map]. His funeral was attended by [her brother] Joshua Reynolds (age 38) among many others. His apprentice Nicholas Read (age 29) took over his studio at 66 St Martin's Lane.
Around 1780. [her brother] Joshua Reynolds (age 56). Portrait of his sister Mary Reynolds (age 63).
On 25th July 1792 [her son-in-law] Murrough O'Brien 1st Marquess Thomond (age 66) and [her daughter] Mary Palmer Marchioness Thomond (age 42) were married. The difference in their ages was 24 years.
On 23rd August 1792 [her brother] Joshua Reynolds (age 69) died at his home in Leicester Fields. He was buried in St Paul's Cathedral [Map]. He bequesthed his niece [her daughter] Mary Palmer Marchioness Thomond (age 42) £100,000 in his will.
On 27th May 1794 Mary Reynolds (age 78) died.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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John Palmer of Palmer House Great Torrington Devon and Mary Reynolds were married.