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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 1673 Richard Gildart was born to James Geldart and Elizabeth Sweeting of Middleham, Yorkshire.
On 2nd November 1697 Richard Gildart (age 24) became a Freement of the Liverpool Corporation.
In 1707 Richard Gildart (age 34) and Ann Johnson (age 16) were married. They had seven sons and six daughters.
In 1714, 1731 and 1736 Richard Gildart (age 41) was elected Mayor of Liverpool.
On 25th April 1731 [his son] Thomas Gildart was born to Richard Gildart (age 58) and [his wife] Ann Johnson (age 40).
In 1734 Richard Gildart (age 61) was elected MP Liverpool which seat he held until 1754.
In 1742 [his wife] Ann Johnson (age 51) died.
In 1752 Richard Gildart (age 79) was a founding member of the African Company of Merchants.
Around 1752 Joseph Wright of Derby (age 17). Portrait of "Richard Gildart (age 79)".
On 25th January 1770 Richard Gildart (age 97) died.