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In 1635 or 1636 Thomas Gale was born at Scruton, Hambleton.
On 1st January 1673 Thomas Gale (age 38) and Barbara Pepys were married.
After 1st January 1673 [his son] Roger Gale was born to Thomas Gale (age 38) and [his wife] Barbara Pepys at Impington. Some sources describe his birth on 27th September 1672 however this is inconsistent with his parents marriage on 1st January 1673.
In 1676 Thomas Gale (age 41) was appointed Prebendary St Paul's Cathedral.
In 1677 Thomas Gale (age 42) was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society.
On 17th December 1682 [his son] Samuel Gale was born to Thomas Gale (age 47) and [his wife] Barbara Pepys in the parish of St Faith's under St Paul's [Map].
John Evelyn's Diary. 29th January 1683. Supped at Sir Joseph Williamson's (age 49), where was a select company of our Society, Sir William Petty (age 59), Dr. Gale (age 48) (that learned schoolmaster of St. Paul's), Dr. Whistler, Mr. Hill, etc. The conversation was philosophical and cheerful, on divers considerable questions proposed; as of the hereditary succession of the Roman Emperors; the Pica mentioned in the preface to our Common Prayer, which signifies only the Greek Kalendarium. These were mixed with lighter subjects.
On 30th August 1687 [his daughter] Elizabeth Gale was born to Thomas Gale (age 52) and [his wife] Barbara Pepys in the parish of St Faith's under St Paul's [Map].
1689. Godfrey Kneller (age 42). Portrait of Thomas Gale (age 54).
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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 1689 [his wife] Barbara Pepys died.
John Evelyn's Diary. 10th March 1695. The new edition of Camden's "Britannia" was now published (by Bishop Gibson (age 26)), with great additions; those to Surrey were mine, so that I had one presented to me. Dr. Gale (age 60) showed me a MS. of some parts of the New Testament in vulgar Latin, that had belonged to a monastery in the North of Scotland, which he esteemed to be about eight hundred years old; there were some considerable various readings observable, as in John i., and genealogy of St. Luke.
John Evelyn's Diary. 29th September 1695. Very cold weather. Sir Purbeck Temple, uncle to my son Draper, died suddenly. A great funeral at Addiscombe. His lady being own aunt to my son Draper, he hopes for a good fortune, there being no heir. There had been a new meeting of the commissioners about Greenwich Hospital [Map], on the new commission, where the Lord Mayor, etc. appeared, but I was prevented by indisposition from attending. The weather very sharp, winter approaching apace. The King (age 44) went a progress into the north, to show himself to the people against the elections, and was everywhere complimented, except at Oxford, Oxfordshire [Map], where it was not as he expected, so that he hardly stopped an hour there, and having seen the theater, did not receive the banquet proposed. I dined with Dr. Gale (age 60) at St. Paul's school, who showed me many curious passages out of some ancient Platonists' MSS. concerning the Trinity, which this great and learned person would publish, with many other rare things, if he was encouraged, and eased of the burden of teaching.
In 1697 Thomas Gale (age 62) was appointed Dean of York.
On 8th April 1702 Thomas Gale (age 67) died.
Antonini Itinerarium aka Antonine Itinerary aka Gale's Itinerary by Thomas Gale was published posthumously, with notes, by his son [his son] Roger Gale (age 35).