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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.
Paternal Family Tree: Boscawen
In 1628 Edward Boscawen was born to Hugh Boscawen (age 50) and Margaret Rolle (age 28) in the King Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey [Map].
On 19th December 1635 [his mother] Margaret Rolle (age 35) died.
On 9th January 1641 [his father] Hugh Boscawen (age 63) died.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 3rd October 1666. Waked betimes, mightily troubled in mind, and in the most true trouble that I ever was in my life, saving in the business last year of the East India prizes. So up, and with Mr. Hater and W. Hewer (age 24) and Griffin to consider of our business, and books and papers necessary for this examination; and by and by, by eight o'clock, comes Birch (age 51), the first, with the lists and books of accounts delivered in. He calls me to work, and there he and I begun, when, by and by, comes Garraway (age 49)1, the first time I ever saw him, and Sir W. Thompson (age 37) and Mr. Boscawen (age 38). They to it, and I did make shift to answer them better than I expected. Sir W. Batten (age 65), Lord Bruncker (age 46), Sir W. Pen (age 45), come in, but presently went out; and Sir J. Minnes (age 67) come in, and said two or three words from the purpose, but to do hurt; and so away he went also, and left me all the morning with them alone to stand or fall.
Note 1. William Garway, elected M.P. for Chichester, March 26th, 1661, and in 1674 he was appointed by the House to confer with Lord Shaftesbury respecting the charge against Pepys being popishly affected. See note to the Life, vol. i., p, xxxii, and for his character, October 6th, 1666.
In or before 1675 Edward Boscawen (age 46) and Jael Godolphin (age 31) were married.
In 1675 [his daughter] Anne Boscawen Lady Evelyn was born to Edward Boscawen (age 47) and [his wife] Jael Godolphin (age 32).
Around 1680 [his son] Hugh Boscawen 1st Viscount Falmouth was born to Edward Boscawen (age 52) and [his wife] Jael Godolphin (age 37).
John Evelyn's Diary. 15th August 1685. Came to visite us Mr. Boscawen (age 57) with my [his brother-in-law] Lord Godolphin's (age 40) little son (age 6), with whose education hither his father had intrusted me.
On 28th October 1685 Edward Boscawen (age 57) died.
John Evelyn's Diary. 6th September 1696. I went to congratulate the marriage of a daughter of Mr. Boscawen to the [his son-in-law] son (age 24) of Sir Philip Meadows; she is niece to my [his brother-in-law] Lord Godolphin (age 51), married at Lambeth [Map] by the Archbishop (age 59), 30th of August. After above six months' stay in London about Greenwich Hospital, I returned to Wotton, Surrey [Map].
[his daughter] Dorothy Boscawen was born to Edward Boscawen and Jael Godolphin.
[his father] Hugh Boscawen and [his mother] Margaret Rolle were married. The difference in their ages was 22 years.