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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Knyvet Arms. Argent, a bend sable a bordure engrailed of the last. Source.

Lawson of Brough Hall Arms. Argent a chevron sable three martlets sable. Source.

Avenell Arms. Argent, a fess between five annulets gules. Modified from source.

Beresford Arms. Argent, crusilly fitchée sable, three fleurs-de-lis within a bordure engrailed of the second. Source.

Lucas Arms. Argent, a fess between six annulets gules.

Bishopp Arms. Argent on a Bend cottised Gules three Bezants. Source.

Lumley Arms. Argent a fess gules between three parrots vert, collared of the second. Source.

Boleyn Arms. Argent, a chevron gules between three bull's heads afrontée. Source.

Roger Lupton Arms. Argent, on a chevron between three wolf's heads and necks erased sable three lilies of the field on a chief gules between two escallops a Tau cross or. Arms granted to Roger Lupton by King Henry VII. The Tau cross was a symbol of Saint Anthony of Egypt and thus probably referred to his mastership of St Anthony's Hospital. The escallops were possibly bells, another symbol of Saint Anthony, of which two were often shown suspended from the cross member of a Tau cross. The wolves were canting references to his surname from the Latin Lupus, "a wolf", and Sable, three lilies argent, is the base part of the arms of Eton College [Map].

Braye Arms. Argent, a chevron between three eagle's legs erased sable. Source.

Broughton Arms. Argent, two bars gules a canton gules cross argent. Source.

Mansel Arms. Argent, a chevron between three maunches. Source.

Carey Arms. Argent, a bend sable, three roses of the first. Source.

Clere Arms. Argent on a fess azure, three eagles displayed or. Source.

Montagu Arms. Argent, three fusils conjoined in fess gules. Source.

Cockayne Arms. Argent, three cocks gules with legs, beaks, etc. sable. Source.

Cookes Arms. Argent, two chevronels between six martlets 3, 2 and 1 gules. Source.

Onslow Arms. Argent, a fess gules, between six Cornish Choughs proper. Source.

Decker Arms. Argent, a demi-buck gules between his forelegs an arrow erected in pale or. Source.

Paston Arms. Argent six fleurs de lis three two and one azure a chief indented or. Source.

Despencer Arms. Quarterly 1&4: Argent, 2&3: Gules, a fret or, over all a bend sable. Source.

Egerton Arms. Argent, a lion rampant gules between three pheons sable. Source.

Portugal Arms. Argent, in Cross azure each charged with ten plates. Source.

Portugal 1385 Arms. Argent, in Cross azure each charged with five plates in saltire charged with ten golden triple-towered castles and four fleur de lys in cross vert, Source.

Finch Arms. Argent, a chevron between three griffins passant sable. Source.

Portugal 1481 Arms. Argent, in Cross azure each charged with five plates in saltire charged with seven golden triple-towered castles. Source.

Joicey Arms. Argent three lozenges Sable within two bendlets invected gules between two miners' picks in bend proper. Source.

Savile Arms. Argent, a bend sable three owls of the same. Source.

Killigrew Arms. Argent, an eagle displayed with two heads sable a bordure of the second bezantée. The bezantée bordure indicates a connection to the ancient Earls of Cornwall. Source.

Slanning Arms. Argent, two pales engrailed gules over all on a bend azure three griffin's heads or.

Bertie Arms. Argent, three battering rams, barwise in pale proper, armed and garnished azure. Source.

Southwell Arms. Argent, three cinquefoils gules each charged with six annulets or. Source.

Booth Arms. Argent, three boar's heads erect sable. Source.

Brosse Arms. Argent, three garbs or. Source.

Spencer Arms. Quarterly 1&4: Argent, 2&3: Gules, a fret or, over all a bend sable.

Byron Arms. Argent, bendlets enhanced gules. Source.

Spring of Lavenham Arms. Argent, a chevron engrailed between three mascles gules. Source.

Conyngham Arms. Argent, a shake-fork between three mullets, sable. Source.

St Lo Arms. Argent, a bend sable. Source.

Dawnay Arms. Argent on a bend cotised sable three annulets of the field. Source.

Ford Arms. Argent, a wolf salient sable.

Hampden Arms. Argent, a saltire gules between four eagles displayed azure. Source.

Temple Arms. Argent two bars sable each charged with three martlets or.

Tennant Arms. Argent, two crescents in fess sable on a chief gules a boar's head couped of the first. Source.

Ashley Arms. Argent three bulls passant sable, armed and unguled or.

Tiptoft Arms. Argent, a saltire engrailed gules.

Brudenell Arms. Argent, a chevron gules between three morion caps azure pointed to the sinister. Source.

Trefusis Arms. Argent, a chevron between three spindles sable. Source.

Villiers Arms. Argent, on a cross gules five escallops. Source.

Wallop Arms. Argent a bend wavy sable. Source

Baron Annaly Arms. Argent, on a chevron engrailed gules, between three roses of the last, a cross crosslet or. Source.

Keilway Arms. Argent, two grozing irons in saltire sable between four Kelway pears proper. An example of Canting arms Kelway Pear = Keilway. Source

Woodville Arms. Argent, a fess and a canton conjoined gules. Source.

Bowes Lyon Arms. Quarterly 1&4 Argent a lion rampant azure, armed and langued gules within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second (for Lyon); 2&3 ermine three bows stringed palewise in fess proper (for Bowes).