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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 Roger de Kerdeston is in Monumental Effigies of Great Britain.
THIS monument is in the chancel of Reepham church, Norfolk. The family of Kerdeston held a manor of the same name in Reepham parish as early as the reign of Henry the Third. Sir Roger de Kerdeston died in the 11th year of the reign of Edward III 1337. His military habits are represented by the bed of stones on which he reposes. The male and female figures delineated in Plate III. adorn the base of his tomb. They probably represent his children, or relatives, as mourners, and are most interesting specimens of the costume of the fourteenth century.
Details. Plate 1. Hilt of the sword, genouilliere, and part of the cuisses. Plate II. 1. Side view of the sword-hilt, with part of the belt and scabbard. 2. Agrafe or clasp of the belt. 3. Lace attaching the basinet to the camail. Plate III. Mourners on the base of the tomb.
