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The 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." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
The Mayor of Bristowe is Kalendar by Robert Ricart is in Late Medieval Books.
1484 [Mayoral Year]. Henriecus Vaghan, Maior.
This yere, the xv day of Octobre [1484], was the grettest flode and the grettist wynde at Bristowe and in the cuntrey there abouts that euer was seen, and grete hurt doon in merchaunts sellers in wode and salt; shippes lost at Kyngrode, the Anthony of Bristowe and a ship of Bilbowe set a lond at Holow bakkes, and other botes and cokkes lost; Saltmerssh drowned, corne, catell, and houses borne awey with the see, and moche people drowned, to the noumebre of cc. and mo.
[2nd November 1483] And sone after Herry Duc of Buks (age 29) was bihedded at Sarum.
1[July 1483]. And this yere the two sonnes of King E. were put to scylence in the Towre of London.
Note 1. This is written by Ricart in the margin, as though he had gone on and forgotten it.