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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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Milton Mausoleum, Markham Clinton, Nottinghamshire, North-Central England, British Isles [Map]

Milton Mausoleum, Markham Clinton is in Markham Clinton, Nottinghamshire.

Milton Mausoleum, Markham Clinton [Map].

On 20th September 1822 Georgiana Elizabeth Mundy Duchess Newcastle under Lyne (age 33) died from childbirth. She had given birth to twins one of whom was stillborn, one survived thirteen days. Her 12th and 13th child. In 1823 her husband Henry (age 37), the 4th Duke, commissioned Robert Smirke, a celebrated architect, to design a Mausoleum at Milton. The building was consecrated in 1833 by the Archbishop of York and given the dedication of All Saints.

Monument in Milton Mausoleum, Markham Clinton [Map] sculpted by Richard Westmacott (age 47).

Georgiana Elizabeth Mundy Duchess Newcastle under Lyne: On 1st June 1789 she was born to Edward Miller Mundy. On 18th July 1807 Henry Pelham-Clinton 4th Duke Newcastle-under-Lyne and she were married in Lambeth Palace [Map]. She by marriage Duchess Newcastle under Lyme. He the son of Thomas Pelham-Clinton 3rd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyne and Anna Maria Stanhope Countess Lincoln.