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.
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Around 1453 Bishop Robert Sherbourne was born in Rolleston on Dove, Staffordshire.
In 1494 Bishop Robert Sherbourne [aged 41] was appointed Archdeacon of Buckingham and Archdeacon of Taunton.
In 1494 Bishop Robert Sherbourne [aged 41] was appointed Archdeacon Huntingdon.
Polydore Vergil [1470-1555]. [After 4th October 1497]. A rumor came to Flanders that Peter [aged 23] had achieved nothing, but rather was in chains, and this brought Princess Margaret [aged 51] many tears, for she had spent many fearful nights waiting news of his doings. Having done these things with success, Henry [aged 40], not unaware that the greatest enticement to wrongdoing is the hope of impunity, quickly held an inquisition so that he might henceforth keep his subjects loyal more easily. He discovered that there were many men, both in Devonshire and Someret, who had helped the Cornishmen with their money and provisions when they were undertaking this war, and afterwards when they were routed and fleeing homeward. And he decided to mulct these people of as much as they could pay, in proportion to the gravity of their offence. He assigned this responsibility to Sir Amyas Powlet [aged 40], who soon thereafter was given Robert Scherburn [aged 44], Dean of St. Paul's, as a colleague. They first swept like a gale through the fortunes of virtual the inhabitants of both counties, so that no man implicated in that capital affair could evade his deserved punishment. But they dealt more mildly with many men who had committed their misdeeds out of fear or compulsion, rather than free will.
In 1499 Bishop Robert Sherbourne [aged 46] was appointed Dean St Paul's Cathedral.
1503. Seal given to St Mary's Church, Rolleston on Dove [Map] by Bishop Robert Sherbourne [aged 50].
In 1508 Bishop Robert Sherbourne [aged 55] was appointed Bishop of St David's.
In 1508 Bishop Robert Sherbourne [aged 55] was appointed Bishop of Chichester.
On 6th July 1518 Bishop Henry Standish [aged 43] was consecrated as Bishop of St Asaph by Archbishop William Warham [aged 68] assisted by Bishop Robert Sherbourne [aged 65] and Bishop John Young [aged 55] (suffragan).
In 1520 the Grammar School, Rolleston on Dove was founded by Bishop Robert Sherbourne [aged 67]. When the new primary school was built in 1909, the Grammar school ceased to function.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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Chronicle of Edward Hall [1496-1548]. 25th May 1522. On Sunday the twenty-fifth day of May, the Lord Marques of Dorset [aged 44], the Bishop of Chichester [aged 69], and the Lord de la Warr [aged 65], with other noble men, at the water of Graveling, received the Emperor [aged 22] in the name of the King of England, and so the Emperor embraced them, and he having in his company many noble men, came toward Calice, where at the Turnpike in the lordship of Marke, he was received of Sir Edward Guildford [aged 48] Marshall of Calais, with fifty men of arms richly be seen, and also a hundred archers on horseback, then in passing forward toward Calais, the ordnance shot terribly, and into Calais he was received with procession, and then by the lord Barne deputy there, and the counsel of the town then was he received by the Mayor and Aldermen of the town, and then of the Mayor and Merchants of the Staple, and so conveyed to the Exchequer, and there lodged.
In 1536 Bishop Robert Sherbourne [aged 83] died.