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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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Hospital of St Cross, Winchester, Parish of St Faith, Hampshire, South-East England, British Isles [Map]

Hospital of St Cross, Winchester is in Parish of St Faith, Winchester [Map].

Exterior of the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester [Map].

Letters of John Chamberlain 1.58. [17th January 1603] Dr. Bennett8 deane of Windsore is preferred to the bishopricke of Hereford: there is much canvassing for his Deanry, and mastership of St. Crosse9 which George Brooke [aged 34]10 wold faine ingrosse.

Note 8. Robert Bennet.

Note 9. The hospital of St. Cross, near Winchester [Map].

Note 10. Brother of Henry, eighth [11th] Lord Cobham.

On 25th March 1920 Bishop Edgar Jacob [aged 75] died at the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester [Map]. Memorial at the Cathedral Church St Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne [Map].

Brethren's Hall Hospital of St Cross, Winchester, Parish of St Faith, Hampshire, South-East England, British Isles [Map]

Interior of the Brethren's Hall [Map] at the Church of the Holy Cross in Winchester.