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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.
Sprotts Chronicle is in Georgian Books.
6. In the first yere of king E. a Parlament was callid at Weftmynfter the iiiith. day of September, and upon the vth, day of the fame moneth John Mowbray duke of Northfolke dyid, and. thereupon inmediately Richard, yongift brothir of the king, was creatid duke of Glouceftir, and John Mowbray fon of the forefaide John was creatid duke of Northfolke on Alhalowen day: And in the fame folempnite Harry Bowchier erle of Ewe was creatid Erle of Effex: he weddid Isabel fuftir to R. Duke of York fadir to king E. And alfo William Nevile lorde Fawkenbridge uncle to the king was creatid erle of Kent, in the which feasons grw many grudgis fecretely.
20th February 1462. In fo much that Harry Vere lorde Awbry accufid his owne fadir erle of Oxforde of trefon, wheruppon they were bothe takin the xiith. day of February in the same Yere and brougt to the toure att London, and fhortely theruppon the xxth, day of the fame moneth bothe the fadir-and the fon were brougt unto the toure hill, where they fuffrid deth bothe on one day: how be it the cronicques late made affermith that therle fhuld be executid vi, dayes after: for it was a pitivous figt to fee theime bothe fadir and fon in fuch diftreffe.
Item the fame yere was takin Sir Baldewine Fulford and behedid att Briftow.