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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Paternal Family Tree: Pellew
On 17th May 1752 [his father] Samuel Pellew [aged 40] and [his mother] Constantia Langford [aged 23] were married at St Maddern's Church, Madron [Map]. They had 4 sons and 2 daughters.
On 19th March 1757 Edward Pellew 1st Viscount Exmouth was born to Samuel Pellew [aged 45] and Constantia Langford [aged 28].
In 1764 [his father] Samuel Pellew [aged 52] died.
On 30th April 1768 [his step-father] Samuel Woodis [aged 31] and [his mother] Constantia Langford [aged 39] were married at St Maddern's Church, Madron [Map].
On 28th May 1783 Edward Pellew 1st Viscount Exmouth [aged 26] and Susan Frowde Viscountess Exmouth [aged 27] were married.
On 1st July 1786 [his son] Pownoll Bastard Pellew 2nd Viscount Exmouth was born to Edward Pellew 1st Viscount Exmouth [aged 29] and [his wife] Susan Frowde Viscountess Exmouth [aged 30]. He married (1) 1st October 1808 Eliza Harriet Barlow, daughter of George Hilaro Barlow 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Smith, and had issue (2) 15th April 1822 Georgiana Janet Dick Viscountess Pellew and had issue.
On 3rd April 1793 [his son] George Pellew was born to Edward Pellew 1st Viscount Exmouth [aged 36] and [his wife] Susan Frowde Viscountess Exmouth [aged 37]. He married 20th June 1820 Frances Addington, daughter of Henry Addington 1st Viscount Sidmouth, and had issue.
On 18th March 1796 Edward Pellew 1st Viscount Exmouth [aged 38] was created 1st Baronet Pellew of Treverry in Cornwall. He had saved the lives of almost four hundred troops, and passengers, by swimming out to the wrecked East Indiaman Dutton with a lifeline that saved almost all aboard. [his wife] Susan Frowde [aged 40] by marriage Lady Pellew of Treverry in Cornwall.
In 1799 [his son] Edward Pellew was born to Edward Pellew 1st Viscount Exmouth [aged 41] and [his wife] Susan Frowde Viscountess Exmouth [aged 43].
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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1804. James Northcote [aged 57]. Portrait of Edward Pellew 1st Viscount Exmouth [aged 46].
On 1st October 1808 Pownoll Bastard Pellew 2nd Viscount Exmouth [aged 22] and Eliza Harriet Barlow were married. They had two sons and one daughter.
Before 10th February 1812 [his mother] Constantia Langford [aged 83] died. She was buried at St Peter's Church, Freshford.
In 1814 Edward Pellew 1st Viscount Exmouth [aged 56] was created 1st Baron Exmouth of Canonteign. [his wife] Susan Frowde [aged 58] by marriage Baroness Exmouth of Canonteign.
On 10th December 1816 Edward Pellew 1st Viscount Exmouth [aged 59] was created 1st Viscount Exmouth. [his wife] Susan Frowde [aged 60] by marriage Viscountess Exmouth.
In 1820 [his son] Pownoll Bastard Pellew 2nd Viscount Exmouth [aged 33] and [his daughter-in-law] Eliza Harriet Barlow were divorced.
On 20th June 1820 [his son] George Pellew [aged 27] and [his daughter-in-law] Frances Addington [aged 27] were married.
On 15th April 1822 [his son] Pownoll Bastard Pellew 2nd Viscount Exmouth [aged 35] and [his daughter-in-law] Georgiana Janet Dick Viscountess Pellew [aged 22] were married.
On 23rd January 1833 Edward Pellew 1st Viscount Exmouth [aged 75] died. He was buried at St James the Apostle Church, Christow. His son Pownoll [aged 46] succeeded 2nd Viscount Exmouth, 2nd Baron Exmouth of Canonteign, 2nd Baronet Pellew of Treverry in Cornwall. He died in December of the same year. Georgiana Janet Dick Viscountess Pellew [aged 33] by marriage Viscountess Exmouth.
In 1837 [his former wife] Susan Frowde Viscountess Exmouth [aged 81] died.