John of Eversden

John of Eversden or Everisden was an English chronicler.

Life John was presumably a native of one of the two villages of that name near Caxton, Cambridgeshire. He entered the Benedictine order, having been tonsured in 1255, 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).

In the following year, 1 June, he is mentioned in a bull of Boniface VIII confirming the election of Abbot Thomas, and in January 1307 he attended the Parliament at Carlisle as proctor for his abbot. Nothing further is known of his life, and although for centuries he was remembered as a chronicler, his chief work was published merely as a continuation of the work done on the Chronicon ex chronicis by Florence of Worcester, without a suspicion of its authorship, except that it was apparently written by someone connected with Bury. Some considerable extracts made from Eversden by Richard James are preserved in the Bodleian Library (James MS. vii. ff. 58–73).

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.