John Stone's Chronicle

It is preserved in a single manuscript, MS 417,[1] in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

[2] The Chronicle was begun in 1467 by John Stone, a Benedictine monk of Christ's Church, Canterbury.

[4] The Chronicle contains much information on Christ's Church and is local in focus, but it does occasionally come to bear on wider events.

Stone describes the entry of Jack Cade into London during the rebellion of 1450, and the ensuing execution of James Fiennes on Cheapside:[2] On the third day of July following [1450], the aforesaid captain [Cade] entered the city of London and accepted the keys to the gates of the city.

For 1466, he describes a visit of the diplomat Ludovico da Bologna, Patriarch of Antioch, trying to drum up support for an anti-Ottoman alliance:[5] In the year of the Lord 1466, on the twelfth day of the month of December, namely, on the vigil of St Lucy the Virgin, there came to Canterbury [...] the Lord Patriarch of Antioch, who, in honor of the king and queen, had here four dromedaries and two camels.