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.'
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Southampton, Hampshire is in Hampshire.
1904. John Benjamin Stone [aged 65]. Photograph of the town walls at Southampton, Hampshire [Map].
On 6th July 1841 Captain Ebenezer Jones [aged 43] and Caroline Rainier [aged 33] were married at All Saints Church, Southampton.
On 31st October 1852 Elizabeth Crow of Middlesex died. She was buried at All Saints Church, Southampton.
1904. John Benjamin Stone [aged 65]. Photograph of the Bargate, Southampton [Map].
Around 1579 Bishop Arthur Lake [aged 9] educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton.
On 2nd August 1415 Thomas Grey of Werke and Heaton [aged 30] was beheaded at North Gate Southampton, Hampshire [Map] for his role in the Southampton Plot.
On 5th August 1415 two executions of those involved in the Southampton Plot took place at the North Gate aka Bargate [Map]:
Richard of Conisbrough 1st Earl Cambridge [aged 30] was beheaded. His son Richard [aged 3] succeeded 2nd Earl Cambridge.
Henry Scrope 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham [aged 42] was beheaded. His brother John [aged 27] succeeded 4th Baron Scrope of Masham.
In 1361 Richard Pembridge [aged 41] was appointed Constable of Southampton Castle.
St Denys Priory is also in Priories in England.
Close Rolls 1339-41. 22nd March 1339. To the prior of St. Swithin's, Winchester, collector in the diocese of Winchester of the triennial tenth granted by the clergy of the province of Canterbury. Order to permit the rectors of Holy Rood, St. Michael's and All Saints' churches, Southampton, and the prior of St. Denys near Southampton to have respite until St. Peter ad Vincula next for the sums of that tenth due from them since Southampton was burned by the king's enemies, so that in the meantime the council may ordain what is to be done, as the houses and buildings in the said parishes and the churches are burned, and the issues do not now suffice to pay for the maintenance of a priest at any of the churches or the pensions due therefrom or any other charges, and the prior, to whom the churches owe pension (pensionare existunt), has besought the king to order the rectors and himself to be discharged of the said tenth
Close Rolls 1339-41. 24th October 1339. To the abbot (sic) of St. Swithun's, Winchester, collector in the diocese of Winchester, of the triennial tenth granted by the clergy of the province of Canterbury. Order to permit the rectors of the churches of Holy Rood, St. Michael and All Saints, Southampton, and the prior of St. Denis near Southampton, to whom the churches are pensionary, to have respite until the quinzaine of Michaelmas next for the sums for the said tenth from the time of the burning of those churches and the houses in the parishes thereof by the raid of the king's enemies on Southampton, so that what is necessary to be done in the matter may be ordained in the meantime by the council, as the rectors and prior have besought the king to discharge them of the said tenths, as they have nothing except the oblations brought by the parishioners for the maintenance of the priest of any of those churches, for paying the pensions due thereon and for maintaining other charges. By C.
In 634 Bishop Birinus of Dorchester came to England landing at Hamwic where he founded St Mary's Church, Southampton. He was appointed Bishop of Dorchester.
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.
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In 634 Bishop Birinus of Dorchester came to England landing at Hamwic where he founded St Mary's Church, Southampton. He was appointed Bishop of Dorchester.