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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.
In or before 1536 Edward Cordell was born to John Cordell of Long Melford, Suffolk and Emma Webbe.
In 1558 Edward Cordell (age 22) was elected MP Portsmouth.
In 1563 Edward Cordell (age 27) was elected MP Bridgnorth.
In 1571 Edward Cordell (age 35) was elected MP East Looe.
In or before 1574 George Digby (age 23) and [his future wife] Abigail Heveningham (age 23) were married. They were fifth cousin once removed.
In or before 1586 Edward Cordell (age 50) and Elizabeth Harrison were married.
In 1586 [his wife] Elizabeth Harrison died.
After April 1587 Edward Cordell (age 51) and Abigail Heveningham (age 37) were married.
Before 9th December 1590 Edward Cordell (age 54) sold his manor of Fakenham to his kinsman Thomas Cordell, a London merchant, for £4,200 and in the same year purchased the parsonage of Colshill.
On 9th December 1590 Edward Cordell (age 54) died. He was buried at St Dunstan's in the West, Fleet Street [Map] where his wife [his wife] Abigail Heveningham (age 40) commissioned a monument, His will was proved 20 Jan 1591. He left to his wife and sole executrix all his freehold and other lands in several counties, together with his house in Fleet Street, and made provision for the almshouse his brother had founded at Long Melford.
In 1611 [his former wife] Abigail Heveningham (age 61) died
Father: John Cordell of Long Melford, Suffolk
GrandFather: Henry Webbe of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire
Mother: Emma Webbe