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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Baron Jeffreys

Baron Jeffreys is in Baronies of England Alphabetically, Baronies of England Chronologically, Extinct Baronies of England.

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                    1685. 1st.  George "Hanging Judge" Jeffreys 1st Baron Jeffreys [aged 39] created.
                
                    18th April 1689. 2nd. Son  John Jeffreys 2nd Baron Jeffreys [aged 15] succeeded.
                
                    9th May 1703. 2nd.  John Jeffreys 2nd Baron Jeffreys extinct.

In 1685 George "Hanging Judge" Jeffreys 1st Baron Jeffreys [aged 39] was created 1st Baron Jeffreys.

John Evelyn's Diary. 31st October 1685. I din'd at our greate Lord Chancellor Jefferies [aged 40], who us'd me with much respect. This was the late Chief Justice who had newly ben the Western Circuit to try the Monmouth conspirators, and had formerly don such severe justice amongst the obnoxious in Westmr Hall [Map], for which his Ma* [aged 52] dignified him by creating him first a Baron, and now Lord Chancellor. He had some years past ben conversant at Deptford; is of an assur'd and undaunted spirit, and has serv'd the Court interest on all the hardiest occasions; is of nature cruel and a slave of the Court.

On 18th April 1689 George "Hanging Judge" Jeffreys 1st Baron Jeffreys [aged 43] died. His son John [aged 15] succeeded 2nd Baron Jeffreys.

Before 15th November 1698 John Jeffreys 2nd Baron Jeffreys [aged 25] and Charlotte Herbert Viscountess Windsor [aged 22] were married. She by marriage Baroness Jeffreys. She the daughter of Philip "Infamous Earl" Herbert 7th Earl Pembroke 4th Earl Montgomery and Henrietta Kéroualle Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

On 9th May 1703 John Jeffreys 2nd Baron Jeffreys [aged 29] died. Baron Jeffreys extinct.