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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.
Around 1712 [his father] Thomas Brereton aka Salusbury (age 28) and [his mother] Mary Trelawny (age 23) were married. They had four sons and a daughter.
Around 1715 Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton was born to Thomas Brereton aka Salusbury (age 31) and Mary Trelawny (age 26).
Around 1730 [his mother] Mary Trelawny (age 41) died.
Around 1731 [his father] Thomas Brereton aka Salusbury (age 47) and Catherine Lloyd were married. There was no issue from the marriage.
In September 1742 Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton (age 27) was appointed Recorder of Liverpool which office he held for fifty-six years until he died in 1798.
On 9th March 1756 [his father] Thomas Brereton aka Salusbury (age 72) died. His son Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton (age 41) inherited Shotwick Park, Cheshire.
In 1762 Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton (age 47) was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1763 Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton (age 48) was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
In 1775 Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton (age 60) was appointed Constable of Flint Castle.
In 1775 Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton (age 60) was elected MP Ilchester which seat he held until 1780.
Archaeologia Volume 9 Appendix. 22nd May 1788. Owen Salusbury Brereton (age 73), Esq. V. P. exhibited a beautiful coloured drawing of a window in the parish-church of Brereton [Map], one of the oldest in the county-palatine of Chester; but the date of it is not exactly known1. In the lower compartments are four figures representing the four persons who slew Thomas Becket at the high altar in Canterbury cathedral, 1170. They are in complete armour, with drawn swords in their hands, and on pendant scrolls are inscribed their names; William Tracy, Richard Britton, Reginald Fitzurse, and Hugh Morrel. A fifth figure, exactly correiponding with these, in the centre compartments, bears, on the like scroll, these words, Martyrum Thomam. In three compartments of the Upper division of the window are two priests [Note. In the original the word priests is crossed out, and the word "saints" written in the margin.], and between them a figure episcopally habited, most probably intended for Becket himself. Under the five lower figures, after their names are these words tended for two hexameter lines:
Martyrum Thomam fieri fecere beatum
Anno milleno centeno septuageno.
[Note. The above two lines in Gothic script]
Under these the following inscription represented in the opposite page:
"Left this monument in Glase being in the upper window of the North syde the chauncell of Brereton churche shoulde be broken, I Sir Will'm Brereton, knight, to the end hyt may remayne in memorie to the posteritie, have caused the same to be heare purtred, the 25th of Marche, 1608. W. Brereton."
Note 1. See Pl. XXIII.
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Archaeologia Volume 10 Section IV. Some Observations on the Paintings in the Window of Brereton Church [Map]. By the Rev. Samuel Pegge (age 85), in a Letter to Owen Salusbury Brereton (age 74), Esq. Vice President. Read Nov. 26, 1789.
On 8th September 1798 Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton (age 83) died at his home in Windsor, Berkshire [Map].
On 22nd September 1798 Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton (deceased) was buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map].
In 1802 William Lewis Trelawny aka Salusbury-Trelawny 8th Baronet (age 20) assumed the additional surname of Salusbury under Royal licence, as required by a provision in the will of his cousin Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton. He, Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton was a son of [his mother] Mary Trelawny who was sister of his grandfather [his uncle] Captain William Trelawny.
Kings Wessex: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 18 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 24 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 19 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 20 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 18 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 21 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 25 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
GrandFather: Edward Brereton of Chester
Father: Thomas Brereton aka Salusbury
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Fletcher of Chester
GrandMother: Mary Fletcher
Owen Brereton aka Salusbury-Brereton 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Trelawny
Great x 3 Grandfather: Johnathan Trelawny
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Reskymer
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Trelawny 1st Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Killigrew
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Killigrew 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Cooke 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Jonathan Trelawny 2nd Baronet 13 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
GrandFather: Brigadier-General Henry Trelawny 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Seymour 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Seymour 1st Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Walshe
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Seymour 2nd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Arthur Champernowne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Champernowne Baroness Seymour
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Seymour 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Killigrew
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Killigrew
Great x 2 Grandmother: Dorothy Killigrew Baroness Seymour 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Cooke
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Cooke 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Fitzwilliam 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Mother: Mary Trelawny 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Matthew Hals 1676 of Efford in Cornwall
GrandMother: Rebecca Hals