John of Eversden
John of Eversden or Everisden, (
chronicler
.
Life
John was presumably a native of one of the two villages of that name near
cellarer there in 1300, when he made a "valida expedition" into Northamptonshire to carry out a claim of his monastery on the manor of Werketon (Warkton
).
In the following year, 1 June, he is mentioned in a
Chronicon ex chronicis by Florence of Worcester,[4] without a suspicion of its authorship, except that it was apparently written by someone connected with Bury.[4]
Manuscripts
The current edition was taken from a manuscript at
John of Oxnead.[5] Some considerable extracts made from Eversden by Richard James are preserved in the Bodleian Library
(James MS. vii. ff. 58–73).
Other works
Besides this main chronicle, which bears the title Series temporum ab initio mundi, Eversden was the author of Regna pristina Angliæ et eorum episcopatus, a list of names compiled about 1270, and preserved in manuscript at the College of Arms. To these writings Bale adds Concordantiæ divinæ Historiæ, Legum Medulla (poems) and Concordia Decretorum.
References
- ^ Luard, pref. to Bartholomæi de Cotton Historia Anglicana, p. lvii, 1859
- ^ Prynne, Records, iii. 920
- ^ Parliamentary Writs, i. 186, ed. F. Palgrave, 1827
- ^ a b Florentii Wigorniensis monachi chronicon ex chronicisii, ed. Thorpe, 1849
- ^ Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes, ed. Sir H. Ellis, 1859
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Eversden, John of". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.