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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Scotland Lords Spiritual is in Scotland.
George Hepburn Bishop Isles was appointed Abbot Arbroath.
Donald Campbell Abbot Coupar Angus was appointed Abbot Coupar Angus.
Before 2nd October 1528 William Douglas Prior of Coldingham [aged 35] was appointed Abbot Holyrood.
On 9th January 1492 Archbishop of Glasgow was appointed Archbishop of Glasgow; the first Archbishop of Glasgow, holding as suffragans the bishop of Dunkeld, the bishop of Dunblane, the bishop of Argyll, and the bishop of Galloway.
Around May 1497 King James IV of Scotland [aged 24] nominated his brother James of Ross [aged 21] to be Archbishop of St Andrews. James of Ross was a minor, and so the revenues of the archbishopric would be controlled by King James.
On 28th November 1547 Archbishop John Hamilton [aged 35] was appointed ArchBishop of St Andrews.
Around August 1548 Cardinal David Beaton was consecrated as ArchBishop of St Andrews.
Archbishop Alexander Stewart was appointed ArchBishop of St Andrews.
Hugh Douglas was appointed Dean Brechin Cathedral.
In 1538 James Stewart 1st Earl of Moray Regent [aged 7] was appointed Prior of St Andrew's securing his income.
