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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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MP Eye is in Member Parliament.
In 1589 Edward Grimston (age 60) was elected MP Eye.
In 1621 Roger North of Mildenhall (age 43) was elected MP Eye.
In 1624 Henry Crofts (age 33) was elected MP Eye.
In 1625 Roger North of Mildenhall (age 47) was elected MP Eye which seat he held until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.
In April 1640 Roger North of Mildenhall (age 63) was elected MP Eye. He was re-elected in Nov 1640 and sat until 1648 when he was excluded by Pride's Purge.
On 8th December 1680 Charles Fox (age 20) was elected MP Eye in the interest of his brother-in-law Charles Cornwallis 3rd Baron Cornwallis (age 24). He appears to have been underage at the time.
In 1685 John Rous 2nd Baronet (age 29) was elected MP Eye which seat he held until 1689.
In 1698 Spencer Compton 1st Earl Wilmington (age 25) was elected MP Eye.
On 14th August 1727 Stephen Cornwallis (age 23) was elected MP Eye.
In 1774 Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds (age 22) was elected MP Eye.
In 1829 Philip Sidney 1st Baron De Lisle and Dudley (age 28) was elected MP Eye which seat he held until 1831.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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Before 1852 Edward Kerrison 1st Baronet (age 75) was elected MP Eye.
In 1852 Edward Kerrison 2nd Baronet (age 30) was elected MP Eye which seat he held until 1866 when he stood down.