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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Bishop Samuel Parker 1640-1688

In 1640 Bishop Samuel Parker was born in Northampton [Map].

In June 1666 Bishop Samuel Parker [aged 26] was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1670 Bishop Samuel Parker [aged 30] was appointed Archdeacon of Canterbury.

In 1686 Bishop Samuel Parker [aged 46] was appointed Bishop of Oxford by King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 52].

In 1687 Bishop Samuel Parker [aged 47] was appointed Magdalen College, Oxford University by the Ecclesiastical Commission when the fellows refused to elect any of the king's nominees. This act became one of the most celebrated episodes leading up to King James's [aged 53] abdication.

On 21st March 1688 Bishop Samuel Parker [aged 48] died at Magdalen College, Oxford University.

John Evelyn's Diary. 23rd March 1688. Dr. Parker, Bishop of Oxford [deceased], who so lately published his extravagant treatise about transubstantiation, and for abrogating the test and penal laws, died. He was esteemed a violent, passionate, haughty man, but yet being pressed to declare for the Church of Rome, he utterly refused it. A remarkable end!