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William of Worcester's Chronicle of England

William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.

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Archaeologia Volume 5 Section 2

Archaeologia Volume 5 Section 2 is in Archaeologia Volume 5.

In an adjacent field, without: Mr. Morgan's garden, is the hollow circular spot, known at Caerleon by the name of Arthur's Round Table which is generally supposed to be a Roman work, and to have served by way of amphitheatre. In this case it must be considered as one of the Castrensian kind, like that; at Richborough castle, not far from Sandwich in Kent, and many others. Stukeleyt mentions one at Silchester, and another three miles from Redruth in Cornwall. Probably the round entrenchment between Perith and Shap in Westmoreland, described by Salmonu, and compared: by him to a cockpit, or wrestling ring, is of the same kind. It asfo goes:by the name of Arthur's Round Tables as does that on the castle-wall at Winchester. Such temporary amphitheatres were probably the only ones used by the Romans in the distant provinces; since their more pompous edifices of this kind seem to have been confined to Italy, France, Spain, the coals of the Adriatic, and the neighbouring province of Helvetia, &c. Lipfius has given us a lift of such of these superb buildings, of which there are any remains, in his learned book De amphitheatris extra Romam.

Note t. Iter Curiosum, I. p. 156.

Note u. Survey, p. 637. Pennant, Tour 1769, p. 256. pi. 19. Stukeley II. 43. pi. 8a, Gibson's Camden Brit.