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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In or before 1665 [his father] Thomas Stayner [aged 24] and [his mother] Margery Fisher [aged 21] were married.
In 1665 Thomas Stayner was born to [his father] Thomas Stayner [aged 25] and [his mother] Margery Fisher [aged 22].
On 12th February 1684 Thomas Stayner [aged 19] and Dorothy Basse [aged 21] were married at Temple Church, London [Map].
In 1709 Thomas Stayner [aged 44] was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Masons.
After 29th April 1714. St Michael's Church, Stowe Nine Churches [Map]. Monument to Thomas Turner [deceased]. Sculpted by Thomas Stayner [aged 49]. Baldachin. Drapery. Baroque. The figure on the left is Faith who holds a model of a circular church. The figure on the right is Thomas Turner. Segmental Pediment. Moulded Cornice.
On 7th October 1733 Thomas Stayner [aged 68] died at West Hampton, Essex. He was buried at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.
In 1736 [his former wife] Dorothy Basse [aged 73] died.
