He entered the Benedictine order, having been tonsured in 1255,[1] and became a member of the Bury St Edmunds Abbey.
He was 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).
Another manuscript, mentioned by older biographers of Eversden, is preserved in the College of Arms (Norfolk MS. 30), and extends as far as 1296 in one handwriting; it is thence continued until 1301, after which date there is a break until 1313, "when a few slight notices occur, 1334, in another hand, and in a third an entry of 1382"[1] The inference is that the work of Eversden himself ended in 1301, if not in 1296, and this chronicle is only original for the last portion.
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.