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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Solicitor General is in Miscellaneous.
In 1569 Thomas Bromley (age 39) was appointed Solicitor General.
On 28th June 1581 Thomas Egerton 1st Viscount Brackley (age 41) was appointed Solicitor General.
After April 1660 Heneage Finch 1st Earl Nottingham (age 38) was appointed Solicitor General.
In 1675 Francis Winnington (age 40) was appointed Solicitor General.
In 1679 Heneage Finch 1st Earl Aylesford (age 30) was appointed Solicitor General.
In 1687 William Williams 1st Baronet (age 53) was appointed Solicitor General.
John Evelyn's Diary. 8th July 1701. My grandson (age 19) went to Sir Simon Harcourt (age 39), the Solicitor General, to Windsor, Berkshire [Map], to wait on my Lord Treasurer. There had been for some time a proposal of marrying my grandson to a daughter (age 26) of Mrs. Boscawen (age 58), sister of my Lord Treasurer (age 56), which was now far advanced.
In 1720 Thomas Marlay (age 40) was appointed Solicitor General for Ireland.
On 13th May 1729 Francis Fane (age 31) was appointed Solicitor General.
In April 1782 John Lee (age 50) was appointed Solicitor General which position he held until Jul 1782.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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In 1868 John Duke Coleridge 1st Baron Coleridge (age 47) was appointed Solicitor General.