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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
New Jersey is in United States of America.
Around 1645 George Carteret 1st Baronet (age 35) renamed New Netherlands to New Jersey.
Franklin Lakes New Jersey, United States of America, Americas, Continents
In August 1939 Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (age 48) and Kathleen Woodward (age 27) moved to America. They lived at Franklin Lakes New Jersey.
On 4th May 1978 Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (age 87) died at Franklin Lakes New Jersey.
Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States of America, Americas, Continents
Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States of America, Americas, Continents
Sandy Hook, Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States of America, Americas, Continents
On 30th December 1783 Hamilton Douglas (age 20) died of exposure while commanding the barge of Assistance being caught in a snowstorm while looking for deserters and wrecked at Sandy Hook, Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Mount Kemble Plantation, New Jersey, United States of America, Americas, Continents
On 8th December 1758 General Thomas Gage (age 39) and Margaret Kemble (age 24) were married at her father's plantation Mount Kemble Plantation, New Jersey. They had eleven children.
New Brunswick New Jersey, United States of America, Americas, Continents
On 6th January 1718 William Gage 2nd Viscount Gage was born to Thomas Gage 1st Viscount Gage (age 17) and Benedicta Maria Theresa Hall Viscountess Gage in New Brunswick New Jersey.
On 10th March 1719 General Thomas Gage was born to Thomas Gage 1st Viscount Gage (age 18) and Benedicta Maria Theresa Hall Viscountess Gage in New Brunswick New Jersey.
In 1734 Margaret Kemble was born to Peter Kemble at New Brunswick New Jersey.
On 8th May 1821 William Henry Vanderbilt was born to Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt (age 26) and Sophia Johnson at New Brunswick New Jersey. Coefficient of inbreeding 3.12%.
Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Americas, Continents
On 19th April 1700 Timothy Shelley was born to John Shelley (age 34) and Helen Bysshe (age 33) in Newark, New Jersey.
On 21st June 1731 Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet was born to Timothy Shelley (age 31) and Johanna Plume (age 27) in Newark, New Jersey.
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE (1792–1822), English poet, was born on the 4th of August 1792 was born at Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex. He was the eldest child of Timothy Shelley (1753–1844) (age 38), M.P. for Shoreham, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Pilfold, of Effingham, Surrey. His father was the son and heir of Sir Bysshe Shelley (age 61), Bart. (d. 1815), whose baronetcy (1806) was a reward from the Whig party for political services. Sir Bysshe's father Timothy had emigrated to America, and he himself had been born in Newark, New Jersey; but he came back to England, and did well for himself by marrying successively two heiresses, the first, the mother of Timothy, being Mary Catherine, daughter of the Rev. Theobald Michell of Horsham. He was a handsome man of enterprising and remarkable character, accumulated a vast fortune, built Castle Goring, and lived in sullen and penurious retirement in his closing years. None of his talent seems to have descended to his son Timothy, who, except for being of a rather oddly self-assertive character, was indistinguishable from the ordinary run of commonplace country squires. The mother of the poet is described as beautiful, and a woman of good abilities, but not with any literary turn; she was an agreeable letter-writer. The branch of the Shelley family to which the poet Percy Bysshe belonged traces its pedigree to Henry Shelley, of Worminghurst, Sussex, who died in 1623. These Worminghurst or Castle Goring Shelleys are of the same stock as the Michelgrove Shelleys, who trace up to Sir William Shelley, judge of the common pleas under Henry VII., thence to a member of parliament in 1415, and to the reign of Edward I., or even to the epoch of the Norman Conquest. The Worminghurst branch was a family of credit, but not of special distinction, until its fortunes culminated under the above-named Sir Bysshe.
Somerset New Jersey, United States of America, Americas, Continents
In 1697 Elizabeth Carteret (age 43) died at Somerset New Jersey.
West Jersey New Jersey, United States of America, Americas, Continents
Essex County West Jersey New Jersey, United States of America, Americas, Continents
Elizabethtown, Essex County West Jersey New Jersey, United States of America, Americas, Continents
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In December 1682 Philip Carteret (age 43) died at Elizabethtown, Essex County West Jersey New Jersey.