NEWBURGH POLITICAL HISTORY

Today, I was surprised to find an interesting research paper that involved the Newburghs and many of the collateral families who inhabited Dorset, Somerset, Wilts etc.  This paper gives an interesting account of the history of the family who were involved with the Yorkists.

HOWEVER, the gentleman who wrote the paper was slim on details about the various John Newburghs who were part of this family history.  He did not cite original wills or IPM documents, and took his information from previous books that only guessed at the family tree. 

It doesn't appear that he had gone to the lengths of detailing each member named John, and he was unaware of the fact that there was more than one Roger. He also did not have wives and children appropriately named. Again, another historian has left out the Attemore's and mixed up the children.  So the political history is probably the only accurate information this scholar may have chronicled correctly.   

None-the-less as far as it can be determined after six centuries, he may have nailed down a little more information about the family's political affiliations.  The Beaufort affinity was Lancastrian, but the author mentions only the Stourton affinity.

You can download the paper here.  It was written as a MA dissertation by Robert Stansfield in 2002 at the University of Lancaster.

https://www.academia.edu/40924213/Political_Society_in_Yorkist_England_Somerset_and_Dorset_1461_91