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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MP Huntingdon is in Member Parliament.
1654 First Protectorate Parliament
1656 Second Protectorate Parliament
In March 1553 William Tyrwhitt (age 22) was elected MP Huntingdon.
In 1571 Tristram Tyrwhitt (age 41) was elected MP Huntingdon.
In 1614 Christopher Hatton of Clay Hall in Essex (age 35) was elected MP Huntingdon.
In April 1640 Robert Bernard 1st Baronet (age 39) was elected MP Huntingdon in the Short Parliament.
In 1654 John Bernard 2nd Baronet (age 23) was elected MP Huntingdon in the First Protectorate Parliament.
In 1656 John Bernard 2nd Baronet (age 25) was elected MP Huntingdon in the Second Protectorate Parliament.
In 1659 John Bernard 2nd Baronet (age 28) was elected MP Huntingdon in the Convention Parliament.
In 1659 John Bernard 2nd Baronet (age 28) was elected MP Huntingdon in the Third Protectorate Parliament.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 2nd January 1661. Up early, and being called up to my Lord he did give me many commands in his business. As about taking care to write to my uncle that Mr. Barnewell's papers should be locked up, in case he should die, he being now suspected to be very ill. Also about consulting with Mr. W. Montagu (age 43) for the settling of the £4000 a-year that the King had promised my Lord. As also about getting of Mr. George Montagu (age 38) to be chosen at Huntingdon this next Parliament, &c. That done he to White Hall stairs with much company, and I with him; where we took water for Lambeth, and there coach for Portsmouth, Hampshire [Map].
In 1713 Edward Montagu Viscount Hinchingbrooke (age 20) was elected MP Huntingdon.
In 1774 George Wombwell 1st Baronet (age 39) was elected MP Huntingdon which seat he held until 1780.
In 1784 Walter Rawlinson was elected MP Huntingdon which seat he held until 1790.