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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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John Hynde 1480-1550

Around 1480 John Hynde was born.

Before 1530 John Hynde [aged 49] and Ursula Curson were married.

Around 1532 [his son] Francis Hynde was born to John Hynde [aged 52] and [his wife] Ursula Curson.

On 4th November 1545 John Hynde [aged 65] was knighted.

On 5th November 1545 John Hynde [aged 65] was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas.

On 17th October 1550 John Hynde [aged 70] died. He was buried at St Dunstan's in the West, Fleet Street [Map] on the 23rd October 1550.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 23rd October 1550. The xviij day of October was bered Juge Hynde [deceased] in sant Donstones parryche in the whest [Map], with standard, cot, elmet, sword, and penon, target, and a harold, and Juges ij and ij to-gether, and then serjantes of coyffe ij and ij together, and then clarkes syngyng, and my lade Hynde dyd make anodur standard, and a cote armur, and a penon, and a elmet, and target, and sword, to be had at the moynthe myn[d] in the contrey for hym, and a grett dolle of monay and of mett and drynk, and gownes to the pore; for ther was myche a doo ther for hym.

Note. Funeral of judge Hynde. Sir John Hynde, made a serjeant at law 1535, a judge of the Common Pleas 1546. When Nicholas Charles surveyed the church of St. Dunstan's in the West, the armorial insignia of sir John Hynde (made by our diarist) were remaining over his tomb: see them described in Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. 1837, vol. iv. p. 100. Nicholas Charles was wrong in styling him "Chief Justice of the Common Pleas."