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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Maternal Family Tree: Joan Trelake 1573
In 1579 Francis Barrington 1st Baronet (age 19) and [his aunt] Joan Cromwell (age 14) were married. She an aunt of Parliamentary leaders Oliver Cromwell and John Hampden. Her younger sister [his mother] Frances Cromwell (age 3) was mother to regicide Edward Whalley. They had four sons abd five daughters.
In July 1595 [his father] Richard Whalley of Kirton (age 29) and [his mother] Frances Cromwell (age 19) were married at St Benet Sherehog Cordwainer Ward.
Around 1607 Edward Whalley was born to [his father] Richard Whalley of Kirton (age 41) and [his mother] Frances Cromwell (age 31).
On 7th February 1626 Edward Whalley (age 19) and Judith Duffield of Rochester in Kent were married at St Dunstan's Church Stepney.
After 7th February 1626 [his daughter] Frances Whalley was born to Edward Whalley (age 19) and [his wife] Judith Duffield of Rochester in Kent. She married 1650 Major-General William Goffe.
In or after 1633 Edward Whalley (age 26) and Mary Middleton were married.
Before 1635 [his father] Richard Whalley of Kirton (age 69) died at Hinchinbrooke.
Before 1635 [his father] Richard Whalley of Kirton (age 69) and Anne Horsey (age 59) were married.
In 1639 [his mother] Frances Cromwell (age 63) died at Kirton, Nottinghamshire.
On 29th January 1649 King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 48) fifty-seven commissioners signed King Charles' Death Warrant at Westminster Hall [Map]. Two further names were added subsequently.
4 Edward Whalley
10 Thomas Maulever 1st Baronet
14 [his future son-in-law] Major-General William Goffe
21 Admiral Richard Deane
42 John Jones
45 Major General Charles Fleetwood
55 John Downes
57 Thomas Scot
58 John Carew
The commissioners who sat at the trial but did not sign the Death Warrant included:
William Monson 1st Viscount Monson (age 50)
James Harington 3rd Baronet (age 41)
The Captain of the Guard was Daniel Axtell (age 27). The guards included Francis Hacker, Matthew Tomlinson (age 31).
The Solicitor-General was John Cook (age 41).
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Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes
Récits d’un bourgeois de Valenciennes aka The Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes is a vivid 14th-century vernacular chronicle written by an anonymous urban chronicler from Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and regional history from about 1253 to 1366, blending chronology, narrative episodes, and eyewitness-style accounts of political, military, and social events in medieval France, Flanders, and the Low Countries. The work begins with a chronological framework of events affecting Valenciennes and its region under rulers such as King Philip VI of France and the shifting allegiances of local nobility. It includes accounts of conflicts, sieges, diplomatic manoeuvres, and the impact of broader struggles like the Hundred Years’ War on urban life in Hainaut. Written from the perspective of a burgher (bourgeois) rather than a monastery or royal court, the chronicle offers a rare lay viewpoint on high politics and warfare, reflecting how merchants, townspeople, and civic institutions experienced the turbulence of the 13th and 14th centuries. Its narrative style combines straightforward reporting of events with moral and civic observations, making it a valuable source for readers interested in medieval urban society, regional politics, and the lived experience of war and governance in pre-modern Europe.
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Around 1650 [his son-in-law] Major-General William Goffe (age 45) and [his daughter] Frances Whalley (age 23) were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years.
In 27th July 1660 Edward Whalley (age 53) and his son-in-law, [his son-in-law] Major-General William Goffe (age 55), another regicide, landed at Boston, Massachusetts. They lived, thereafter, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Around 1675 Edward Whalley (age 68) died at Hadley, Hampshire.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Kings England: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Kings Franks: Great x 26 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 21 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 25 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Father: Richard Whalley of Kirton
Edward Whalley 17 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Morgan Williams
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Cromwell aka Williams 
14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cromwell 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Cromwell 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Katherine Cromwell 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Glossop
GrandFather: Henry Cromwell aka Williams 15 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Murfyn
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Mirfyn
Mother: Frances Cromwell 16 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Warren of Feering in Essex
Great x 1 Grandfather: Ralph Warren
GrandMother: Joan Warren
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Lake alias Davy of Cornwall 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Trelake