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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In 1849 John Charlton was born to Samuel Charlton at Bamburgh, Northumberland [Map].
In 1882 John Charlton [aged 33] and Kate Vaughan were married.
1884. John Charlton [aged 35]. Portrait of Godfrey Morgan 1st Viscount Tredegar [aged 52].
Between 1893 and 1894. John Charlton [aged 44]. Frederick Courtenay Morgan [aged 58] and his daughter Violet Wilhelmina Morgan [aged 32] in front of Ruperra Castle, Monmouthshire [Map].
Frederick Courtenay Morgan: On 24th May 1834 he was born to Charles Morgan 1st Baron Tredegar and Rosamund Mundy at Ruperra Castle, Monmouthshire [Map]. He was educated at Eton College [Map]. On 9th January 1909 Frederick Courtenay Morgan died.
Violet Wilhelmina Morgan: On 23rd September 1860 she was born to Frederick Courtenay Morgan. On 28th August 1894 Major Basil St John Mundy and she were married. They were first cousin once removed. On 22nd December 1943 Violet Wilhelmina Morgan died.
On 1st July 1895 [his son] Captain John Macfarlane Charlton was born to John Charlton [aged 46] and [his wife] Kate Vaughan.
Between 1896 and 1897. John Charlton [aged 47]. Portrait of Godfrey Morgan 1st Viscount Tredegar [aged 64], with His Skye Terrier, 'Peeps'.
1905. John Charlton [aged 56]. The Charge of the Light Brigade, the Battle of Balaclava, 25th October 1854, with Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar [aged 73], Astride His Horse, "Sir Briggs".
Before 1910. John Charlton [aged 60]. Portrait of John Poyntz Spencer 5th Earl Spencer [aged 74].
On 24th June 1916 [his son] Lieutenant Hugh Vaughan Charlton was killed in action whilst serving with the 7th Northumberland Fusiliers on the Western Front.
On 1st July 1916 [his son] Captain John Macfarlane Charlton [aged 21] was killed in action on his twenty-first birthday on the first day of the Battle of the Somme seven days after the death of his elder brother Lieutenant Hugh Vaughan Charlton.
On 10th November 1917 John Charlton [aged 68] died at Banks House, Lanercost.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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[his son] Lieutenant Hugh Vaughan Charlton was born to John Charlton and Kate Vaughan.