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 Staffordshire is in Member Parliament.
In 1324 John Arderne [aged 24] was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1427 Humphrey Stafford [aged 27] was elected MP Staffordshire.
In March 1553 William Devereux of Merevale [aged 28] was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1572 John Fleetwood [aged 55] was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1586 William Bassett [aged 34] was elected MP Staffordshire.
Before 1601 John "Black Sir John" Egerton [aged 49] was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1607 John "Black Sir John" Egerton [aged 56] was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1621 William Bowyer [aged 33] was elected MP Staffordshire. He was re-elected in 1624 and 1626, April and November 1640.
In 1646 John Skeffington 2nd Viscount Massereene was elected MP Staffordshire which seat he held until 1647.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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In 1646 John Bowyer 1st Baronet [aged 22] was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1660 William Sneyd [aged 47] was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1678 Walter Bagot 3rd Baronet [aged 33] was elected MP Staffordshire which he held until 1695.
On 7th November 1695 Henry Paget 1st Earl Uxbridge [aged 32] was elected MP Staffordshire.
On 15th February 1704 Edward Bagot 4th Baronet [aged 30] was elected MP Staffordshire which seat he held until 1708.
In 1741 Walter Wagstaffe Bagot 5th Baronet [aged 38] was elected MP Staffordshire unopposed.
In 1747 Walter Wagstaffe Bagot 5th Baronet [aged 44] was elected MP Staffordshire in a fiercely fought contest. He stood down in 1754 in favour of his son William Bagot 1st Baron Bagot [aged 18].
In 1757 Henry Carteret 1st Baron Carteret [aged 22] was elected MP Staffordshire.
On 5th July 1768 John Wrottesley 8th Baronet [aged 23] was elected MP Staffordshire which seat he held for the remainder of his life.
In 1780 George Legge 3rd Earl Dartmouth [aged 24] was elected MP Horsham and MP Staffordshire. He chose to sit for the latter which he represented until 1784.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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On 8th April 1784 Edward Littleton 4th Baronet [aged 57] was elected MP Staffordshire unopposed.
In 1799 Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Granville [aged 25] was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1820 John Fletcher aka Boughey 2nd Baronet [aged 35] was elected MP Staffordshire which seat he held until his death in 1823.
In 1823 John Wrottesley 1st Baron Wrottesley [aged 51] was elected MP Staffordshire which seat he held until 1832.