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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Effigy of Lady and Child is in Monumental Effigies of Great Britain.
THIS singular monument is in Scarcliffe Church, Derbyshire [Map]. The style in which it is executed shows it to be of the thirteenth century. The head is surmounted with a very elegant circlet, and rests on a couchant lion; the hair is disposed in braids; the tunic is confined at the neck by a large fermail or broach; a band appears to attach the mantle to the shoulders, and is held in the right hand; the mantle is caught up under the right arm. The left supports a male child, who displays a long scroll, on which has been inscribed in uncial characters some leonine verses, which are now much defaced.
HIC SV......MVLIER IACET INTVMVLATA:
CONSTANS.............:
...........PROLES RE....ERE HVMATA:
CVM PECC..............VACVATA:
CRIMINE PVRGATA CVM PROLE IOIIANNE BEATA:
.................DELOCATA. AMEN:
Details. 1. Profile of the head, showing the hair, &c. 2. The circlet enlarged.