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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.
The Ancient Kalendars and Inventories is in Victorian Books.
Victorian Books, The Ancient Kalendars and Inventories Volume 1
After 5th August 1305. In the hanaper, among the rods, at such a sign.
Certain letters from Philip, King of France, John, King of Scotland, and Haakon, King of Norway, granting safe-conduct to William Wallace in their respective kingdoms, for travel to and from. Also included were some letters of ordinance and confederation made for the said William by certain magnates of Scotland. These letters were found with William Wallace when he was captured, and they were brought to the King (of England) at Kingston [by Sir John de Segrave].
In hanapio de virgis ad tale signu.
46. Quedam lre Phi Regis Franc, Johis Reg Scoc t Haqini Reg Norwag de conductu p eosdem Reges Willo le Waleys concesso in regnis eodem Regū eundo t redeundo cu quibʒd lřis de ordinacoibʒ t confederacoibʒ p quosdam Magnates Scoc psato Willo sce que lre invente suunt cu eodm Willo qando capt fuit t Dno R apud Kyngeston apportate [p Dnm J. de Segave.]