Aston, John ___ 1602-1650g ___ British ___ courtier

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Little information can be found on the internet about John Aston. He kept a journal during the spring of 1639 when he was an assistant - 'Privy Chamber man extraordinary' - to king Charles I. The diary records a period when he was travelling with, or in advance of, the king from York to Berwick-on-Tweed to deal with the Scots.
A biography link
No Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1639 ___ military royalty historyeye

WEB TEXT LINKS
one extract
etext
good extracts

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
British Library, Manuscripts Collection

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Journal of John Aston
Six North Country Diaries 
 

May 2005, September 2008, March 2013
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.