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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.
Monumental Effigies of Great Britain by Thomas and George Hollis Part 2 is in Monumental Effigies of Great Britain by Thomas and George Hollis.
Bishop de Rupibus in Winchester Cathedral [Map]. Peter de Roches latinised as Peter de Rupibus ie Peter from the rocks.
A Knight Templar in Temple Church, London [Map].
A Lady of the Warblington Family in Warblington Church, Hampshire.
Sir William de Rhyther, (died 1308) in Rhyther Church.
William Rhyther: he and Lucy Ros were married. In 1250 he was born at Rhyther. In 1316 he died.
Elizabeth, wife of William Lord Montacute, (died 1354) in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford [Map].
Children of King Edward III of England on his tomb in Westminster Abbey [Map].
John Gower (died 1402) in St Saviour's Church, Southwark.