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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Biography of Somerset Fox 1618-1689

Before 1618 [his uncle] Somerset Fox of Gwernygo in Montgomeryshire and [his mother] Anne Long were married.

On 18th January 1618 Somerset Fox was born to [his uncle] Somerset Fox of Gwernygo in Montgomeryshire and [his mother] Anne Long.

In 1643 [his uncle] Somerset Fox of Gwernygo in Montgomeryshire died.

In May 1654 Somerset Fox (age 36), Peter Vowell, and Fox's cousin John Gerard were arrested for plotting to attack Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell's bodyguard with a party of cavalry, and to assassinate him as he travelled to Hampton Court. Fox's role was allegedly to recruit apprentices for the plot.

On 30th June 1654, at a trial by the High Court of Justice sitting in Westminster Hall, Somerset Fox (age 36) pleaded guilty to treason; one of only two men ever to do so. Vowell and Gerard were found guilty and executed. As he had confessed, Fox was sentenced to be transported to Barbados.

After 1660 Somerset Fox (age 41) returned following the Restoration and was granted a pension of £300 by Charles II.

In 1670 Somerset Fox (age 51) was elected MP Ludlow at a by-election.

In 1689 Somerset Fox (age 70) died unmarried.

Ancestors of Somerset Fox

GrandFather: Edward Fox

Father: Somerset Fox of Gwernygo in Montgomeryshire

Somerset Fox

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Long

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Long

Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Long

GrandFather: Walter Long

Mother: Anne Long

Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Boteville

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Thynne

Great x 1 Grandfather: John Thynne

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Eynns

Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Eynns

GrandMother: Catherine Thynne

Great x 4 Grandfather: James Gresham

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Gresham

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Gresham

Great x 1 Grandmother: Christian Gresham

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Lynne

Great x 2 Grandmother: Audrey Lynne