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WILLIAM WORCESTER (c. 1415-c. 1482)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 821 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:WORCESTER (c. 1415-c. 1482)  , See also:English chronicler, was a son of See also:William of See also:Worcester, a See also:Bristol See also:citizen, and is some-times called William Botoner, his See also:mother being a daughter of See also:Thomas Botoner . He was educated at See also:Oxford and became secretary to See also:Sir See also:John See also:Fastolf . When the See also:knight died in 1459, Worcester, although one of his executors, found that nothing had been bequeathed to him, and with one of his colleagues, Sir William Yelverton, he disputed the validity of the will . How-ever, an amicable arrangement was made and Worcester obtained some lands near See also:Norwich and in See also:Southwark . He died about 1482 . Worcester made several journeys through See also:England, and his See also:Itinerarium contains much See also:information . The survey of Bristol is of the highest value to antiquaries . Portions of the See also:work were printed by See also:James Nasmith in 1778, and the See also:part See also:relating to Bristol is in James Dallaway's Antiquities of Bristowe (Bristol, 1834) . Worcester also wrote Annales rerum Anglicarum, a work of some value for the See also:history of England under See also:Henry VI . This was published by T . See also:Hearne in 1728, and by See also:Joseph See also:Stevenson for the " Rolls " See also:series with his Letters and Papers illustrative of the See also:Wars of the English in See also:France during the Reign of Henry VI . (1864) .

Stevenson also printed here collections of papers made by Worcester respecting the wars of the English in France and See also:

Normandy . Worcester's other writings include the last Ada domini Johannis Fastolf . See the Paston Letters edited by J . See also:Gairdner (1904); and F . A . Gasquet, An Old English See also:Bible and other Essays (1897) .

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