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 Plymouth is in Member Parliament, Plymouth, Devon [Map].
In 1555 Thomas Carew [aged 28] was elected MP Plymouth.
In 1698 Charles Trelawny [aged 45] was elected MP Plymouth. He was re-elected in Feb 1701, Dec 1701, 1702, 1705 1708 and 1710.
In 1698 John Rogers 1st Baronet [aged 49] was elected MP Plymouth which seat he held until 1700.
In 1713 John Rogers 2nd Baronet [aged 36] was appointed Recorder of Plymouth and elected MP Plymouth. He was re-elected in 1715. He did not stand in 1722.
On 31st October 1723 Pattee Byng 2nd Viscount Torrington [aged 24] was elected MP Plymouth.
In 1728 Robert Byng [aged 25] was elected MP Plymouth.
In 1739 John Rogers 3rd Baronet [aged 30] was elected MP Plymouth which seat he held until the following year.
In 1771 Admiral Charles Hardy [aged 57] was elected MP Plymouth which seat he held until 1780.
On 5th June 1778 George Legge 3rd Earl Dartmouth [aged 22] was elected MP Plymouth which seat he held until 1780. He made his maiden speech 17th March 1779 against the bill for the relief of protestant dissenters.
In 1797 Francis Glanville [aged 34] was elected MP Plymouth which seat he held until 1802.
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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In 1832 John Collier [aged 62] was elected MP Plymouth which seat he held in 1835 and 1837. He stood down in 1841.
In 1852 Robert Collier 1st Baron Monkswell [aged 34] was elected MP Plymouth. He retained the seat till he became a member of the judicial committee of the privy council. Lord Cranworth made him a queen's counsel in 1854.
In 1900 Ivor Churchill Guest 1st Viscount Wimborne [aged 26] was elected MP Plymouth which seat he held until 1906.