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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Dean of Rochester

Dean of Rochester is in Dean. See Rochester Cathedral [Map].

On 18th June 1541 Dean Walter Philips was appointed Dean of Rochester.

In 1611 Richard Milbourne was appointed Dean of Rochester and Chaplain to Henry Frederick Stewart Prince of Wales [aged 16]

On 6th February 1639 Bishop Henry King [aged 47] was appointed Dean of Rochester.

In 1673 Archbishop Thomas Lamplugh [aged 58] was appointed Dean of Rochester.

In 1732 Archbishop Thomas Herring [aged 39] was appointed Dean of Rochester.

In 1743 Bishop William Barnard [aged 46] was appointed Dean of Rochester.

The London Gazette 10776. Whitehall, October 31 [1765]

The King has been pleased to grant unto Benjamin Newcombe, Doctor of Divinity, the place and dignity of Dean of the Cathedral Church of Rochester, void by the resgination of Dr. William Markham.

In 1887 Dean Samuel Reynolds Hole [aged 67] was appointed Dean of Rochester.