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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On 18th November 1882 Percy Wyndham Lewis was born to [his father] Charles Edward Lewis and [his mother] Anne Stuart Prickett, reputedly on his father's yacht off the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. He parents separated when he was around eleven years old at which time he returned to England with his mother and began his education at Rugby School, and after, aged 16, the Slade School of Art.
1912. Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 29). "The Dancers".
1913. George Charles Beresford (age 48). Portrait of Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 30).
1917. George Charles Beresford (age 52). Portrait of Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 34).
In January 1917 Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 34) was posted to the newly-raised 330th Siege Battery, RGA. 330th Siege Battery embarked on 24 May 1917 for the Western Front. It served on the Flanders coast and then at Ypres during the Third Ypres offensive. Much of Lewis's time was spent in Forward Observation Posts looking down at apparently deserted German lines, registering targets and calling down fire from batteries massed around the rim of the Ypres Salient.
1921. Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 38). Self-portrait as Tyro.
1923-1935. Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 40). Portrait of Edith Sitwell (age 35).
1929. George Charles Beresford (age 64). Portrait of Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 46).
1939. Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 56). Portrait of Ezra Pound.
1946. Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 63). Portrait of Nigel Trevithick Tangye (age 36).
Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes
Récits d’un bourgeois de Valenciennes aka The Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes is a vivid 14th-century vernacular chronicle written by an anonymous urban chronicler from Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and regional history from about 1253 to 1366, blending chronology, narrative episodes, and eyewitness-style accounts of political, military, and social events in medieval France, Flanders, and the Low Countries. The work begins with a chronological framework of events affecting Valenciennes and its region under rulers such as King Philip VI of France and the shifting allegiances of local nobility. It includes accounts of conflicts, sieges, diplomatic manoeuvres, and the impact of broader struggles like the Hundred Years’ War on urban life in Hainaut. Written from the perspective of a burgher (bourgeois) rather than a monastery or royal court, the chronicle offers a rare lay viewpoint on high politics and warfare, reflecting how merchants, townspeople, and civic institutions experienced the turbulence of the 13th and 14th centuries. Its narrative style combines straightforward reporting of events with moral and civic observations, making it a valuable source for readers interested in medieval urban society, regional politics, and the lived experience of war and governance in pre-modern Europe.
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On 7th March 1957 Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 74) died.