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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Around 1607 Kenrick Eyton was born to [his father] Gerard Eyton of Eyton in Denbighshire.
On 14th October 1646 Kenrick Eyton (age 39) was one of the commissioners to arrange the surrender of Denbigh Castle to General Thomas Mytton.
In 1660 Kenrick Eyton (age 53) was elected MP Flintshire.
In August 1660 Kenrick Eyton (age 53) was appointed King's Attorney at Chester.
In July 1661 Kenrick Eyton (age 54) was appointed Prothonotary and Clerk of the Crown for Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire.
In 1670 Kenrick Eyton (age 63) was appointed Second Justice of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales for Anglesey, Caernarfon and Merioneth.
Before 29th November 1676 [his son-in-law] Henry Bunbury 2nd Baronet (age 19) and [his daughter] Mary Eyton were married.
Before 21st November 1681 Kenrick Eyton (age 74) and Eleanor Mutton were married.
On 21st November 1681 Kenrick Eyton (age 74) died.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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[his daughter] Mary Eyton was born to Kenrick Eyton and Eleanor Mutton. She married before 29th November 1676 Henry Bunbury 2nd Baronet, son of Thomas Bunbury 1st Baronet, and had issue.