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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.
Effigy of Sir Robert du Bois is in Monumental Effigies of Great Britain.
THIS effigy, carved in oak, commemorates Sir Robert du Bois, one of the Lords of Fersheld, in Norfolk, who died in 1311, and was buried in the church there, of which his family were the patrons. As early as the eleventh century, William du Bois gave two garbs or sheaves of every three growing on certain lands of his demesne to the Priory of Thetford. Sir Robert du Bois, his descendant, married Christian, daughter of Sir William Latimer. The arms of Du Bois, Ermine, a cross Sable, have been painted on the surcoat of the figure. Bloomfield describes them as extant in his time on another part of the tomb, quartering Latimer, Gules, a cross potence Or.
Details. 1. One of the ermines on the surcoat. 2,3,4. Decorations on the sword-belt and scabbard. 5. Sword, belt, and sheath, enlarged. 6. Leathers of the spur.