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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: Wotton
In 1499 Mary Wotton was born to Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe (age 44).
In May 1512 [her future husband] Henry Guildford (age 23) and Margaret Bryan were married.
In 1524 [her father] Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe (age 69) died.
In 1527 Hans Holbein The Younger (age 30). Portrait of Mary Wotton (age 28) when she was twenty-seven commissioned with that of her husband [her husband] Henry Guildford (age 38) possibly to celebrate their marriage. Hung with gold chains and embellished with pearls, Baroness Guildford embodies worldly prosperity, and with her prayer book she is also the very image of propriety.
Around 1527 Henry Guildford (age 38) and Mary Wotton (age 28) were married.
After 28th January 1531 [her future husband] Gawen Carew (age 47) and Anne Brandon were married.
In May 1532 [her husband] Henry Guildford (age 43) died.
Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic Henry VIII 1535. 27th February 1535. R. O. 275. Sir [her brother] Edward Wotton (age 45) to Cromwell (age 50).
Remonstrates against Cromwell's urging him by his letters to resign his patent of the stewardship of the abbey of Malling, the King having written to the abbess in favour of master Thomas Wyatt. Cromwell may be as much assured of his heart as Mr. Wyatt, and since the death of his brother-in-law, Sir [her former husband] Henry Guildford, he has always depended on Cromwell's friendship. The grant he obtained under the convent seal was in fulfilment of a promise of the abbess many years past. Would have waited on the King before, but has been lately with his sister Guldeford (age 36) and others, who have been with his cousin, Edward Brown, son of Sir Matthew Brown (age 59), who has died of the common plague. Asks Cromwell to relate the matter to the King. Supposes that when the abbess made the grant to Cromwell she had forgotten her promise to him, for, though he knew from the first of the death of Mr. Fisher, he waited for five or six days before writing to the abbess, thinking that few then would apply for so small an office. On first reading his letter she had forgotten the promise which he claimed as having been made within two years and less after her being made abbess. She was not dissembling in her answers either to the King or Cromwell. No effect can grow in law or conscience of her promise to Cromwell, so long after her promise to him. Begs Cromwell to be good master to her and her poor house. Bocton Malherbe [Map], Saturday, 27 Feb.
Hol., pp. 3. Add.: Secretary. Endd.
After 27th February 1535 Mary Wotton (deceased) died.
Before 1582 Gawen Carew (age 97) and Mary Wotton were married.
Between 11th October 1582 and 20th June 1585 [her former husband] Gawen Carew (age 98) died.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Nicholas Wotton
GrandFather: Nicholas Wotton
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Corbie
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Corbie
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Corbie