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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Keeper of the Privy Seal is in Keeper.
In 1320 Robert de Baldock was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal.
On 4th May 1389 Bishop Edmund Stafford was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal.
From 1396 to 1397 Bishop Guy Mone Aka Mohun was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal.
On 28th July 1461 Bishop Robert Stillington was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal.
On 1st November 1461 Bishop Robert Stillington was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal.
In May 1474 Bishop John Russell was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal.
On 25th May 1523 Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal.
John Evelyn's Diary. 23rd January 1683. Sir Francis North, son to the Lord North, and Lord Chief Justice, being made Lord Keeper on the death of the Earl of Nottingham, the Lord Chancellor, I went to congratulate him. He is a most knowing, learned, and ingenious man, and, besides being an excellent person, of an ingenious and sweet disposition, very skillful in music, painting, the new philosophy, and politer studies.
John Evelyn's Diary. 22nd December 1685. Our patent for executing the office of Privy Seal during the absence of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, being this day seal'd by the Lord Chancellor, we went afterwards to St James's, where the Court then was on occasion of building at Whitehall; his Ma* deliver'd the seale to my Lord Tiviot and myselfe, the other Commissioners not being come, and then gave us his hand to kisse. There were the two Venetian Ambassadors, and a world of company; amongst the rest the first Popish Nuncio that had ben in England since the Reformation, so wonderfully were things chang'd, to the universal jealousy.
The London Gazette 26496. Crown Office, March 19, 1894.
The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent to appoint the Right Honourable Edward, Lord Tweedmouth, to be Keeper of the Privy Seal.