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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.
Chronicle of Greyfriars 1542 is in Chronicle of Greyfriars.
13th February 1542. And the 13th day of February was the Queen Katherine (age 19) and Lady Rocheford (age 37) be-heddyd within the tower, and there burryd.
28th March 1542. And the 28th day of March there was an affray made at the Counter in Breadstreet [Map] of a sergeant at arms of the parliament house by Robert Tomsone the yeoman and Thomas Craker of the same house for arrest of Robert Taylor sergeant of maysse, the which master shreffes ware sent for to the council, and they were sent unto the tower of London, and were there a three or four dayes.
10th March 1542. And the 10th day of March was a maid boiled in Smithfield for poisoning of diverse persons.