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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: Pope
On 15th October 1573 William Pope 1st Earl Downe was born to John Pope (age 53).
On 24th June 1583 [his father] John Pope (age 63) died.
In 1585 Henry Wentworth 3rd Baron Wentworth (age 26) and [his future wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 24) were married. She by marriage Baroness Wentworth. They were fourth cousins.
In 1595 William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 21) and Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 34) were married.
In 1595 [his son] William Pope was born to William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 21) and [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 34).
In 1598 [his son] Thomas Pope 3rd Earl Downe was born to William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 24) and [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 37).
After 1603 [his son] Colonel Nathaniel Pope was born to William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 29) and [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 42) at Gloucestershire.
On 23rd July 1603 King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland (age 37) created a number Knights at the Royal Gardens Whitehall Palace:
Henry Savile 1st Baronet (age 24), William Morgan (age 43), George Carew, Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 46), Richard Musgrave 1st Baronet (age 18), James Calthorpe (age 44), Thomas Gresham (age 56), George Fane of Burston (age 22), Francis Fane 1st Earl of Westmoreland (age 23), Robert Chichester (age 25), William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 29), Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet (age 15), Thomas Berkeley (age 28), Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 40), William Herbert 1st Baron Powis (age 30), Anthony Irby (age 26), Drue Drury of Eccles and Rollesby in Norfolk and Arnold Lygon (age 45).
24th July 1603 Richard Browne (age 64).
Before 1612 [his step-son] Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Cleveland (age 20) and Anne Crofts Countess Cleveland were married. She by marriage Baroness Wentworth. They were second cousin once removed.
In 1615 [his son] William Pope (age 20) and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Watson Lady Penyston (age 15) were married. He the son of William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 41) and [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 54).
Before 1619 Robert "The Elder" Peake (age 67). Portrait of William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 45).
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 10th May 1625 [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth (age 64) died.
On 16th October 1628 William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 55) was created 1st Earl Downe.
Before 2nd June 1631 [his son] William Pope (age 36) died.
On 2nd June 1631 William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 57) died. His grandson [his grandson] Thomas (age 8) succeeded 2nd Earl Downe.