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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 Horsham is in Member Parliament.
In 1529 Henry Hussey of Slinfold (age 34) was elected MP Horsham.
In 1545 Anthony Wingfield (age 58) was elected MP Horsham.
In March 1553 Henry Hussey (age 34) was elected MP Horsham.
In 1614 Thomas Vavasour (age 54) was elected MP Horsham.
In 1628 Dudley North 4th Baron North (age 26) was elected MP Horsham.
In 1661 John Covert 1st Baronet (age 40) was elected MP Horsham which seat he held until his death in 1679.
In 1669 Orlando Bridgeman 1st Baronet (age 19) was elected MP Horsham.
In 1705 Charles Eversfield (age 21) was elected MP Horsham which seat he held until 1710 when he was returned for Sussex and Horsham and chose to sit for Sussex.
On 12th June 1721 Charles Eversfield (age 37) was elected MP Horsham which seat he held until 1741.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1741 Richard Mill 5th Baronet (age 51) was elected MP Horsham unopposed.
In 1780 George Legge 3rd Earl Dartmouth (age 24) was elected MP Horsham and MP Staffordshire. He chose to sit for the latter which he represented until 1784.
On 30th November 1780 George Osborn 4th Baronet (age 38) was elected MP Horsham at a by-election.
In 1804 James Edward Harris 2nd Earl Malmesbury (age 25) was elected MP Horsham.
In 1812 John Aubrey 6th Baronet (age 72) was elected MP Horsham which seat he held until 1820.
In 1827 Nicholas William Ridley-Colborne 1st Baron Colborne (age 47) was elected MP Horsham which seat he held until 1832.
In 1848 Edward George Fitzalan Howard 1st Baron Howard (age 29) was elected MP Horsham.
In 1880 Henry Aubrey-Fletcher 4th Baronet (age 44) was elected MP Horsham which seat he held until 1885.