Richard Chawrie

Family: London · Role: mayor of London · First appears: Edward IV 36

Life events

• c. 1480 · Edward IV granted exceptional royal favour to Richard Chawrie, entertaining him and London officials at Waltham.(Edward IV 36 · 📍 forrest of Waltham)
  • With: Edward IV
  • “Also this yéere was one Richard Chawrie maior of London, whome king Edward so greatlie fauoured, that he tooke him (with certeine of his brethren the aldermen, & commons of the citie of London) into the forrest of Waltham, where was ordeined for them a pleasant lodge of gréene boughs, in which lodge they dined with great chéere; & the king would not go to dinner vntill he saw them serued.”

Edward IV 36

• patron: Edward IV “Also this yéere was one Richard Chawrie maior of London, whome king Edward so greatlie fauoured, that he tooke him (with certeine of his brethren the aldermen, & commons of the citie of London) into the forrest of Waltham, where was ordeined for them a pleasant lodge of gréene boughs, in which lodge they dined with great chéere; & the king would not go to dinner vntill he saw them serued.”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.