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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.
Church of St Giles, Marston Montgomery is in Marston Montgomery, Derbyshire, Churches in Derbyshire.
Church of St Giles, Marston Montgomery [Map].
Church of St Giles, Marston Montgomery [Map]. Norman doorways, possibly later.
Font at Church of St Giles, Marston Montgomery [Map]. 12th Century.
Church of St Giles, Marston Montgomery [Map]. 12th Century with 13th and 18th Century alterations. Restored and extended 1875 by Henry St Aubyn.
Church of St Giles, Marston Montgomery [Map]. In memory of George and Francis Prince of Marston Park aged 84 and 85 years. Dedicated by their children February 1904.
Church of St Giles, Marston Montgomery [Map]. Window by Arthur Louis Moore (age 64) in memory of Lydia Anne Webb of [Map] who died 11th March 1913.
Arthur Louis Moore: In 1849 he was born in Brixton, London, one of nine children of a Clerkenwell clockmaker On 24th March 1939 he died in St Albans, Hertfordshire [Map].
Church of St Giles, Marston Montgomery [Map]. Window given by George Price of Dove House, Marston Montgomery [Map].
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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.
Church of St Giles, Marston Montgomery [Map]. War Memorial.
Church of St Giles, Marston Montgomery [Map]. Record of the names of the Rectors.