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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.
Baronet Burroughs of Castle Bagshaw in County Wicklow is in Baronetcies of the United Kingdom Alphabetically.
The London Gazette 15744. Whitehall, October 13, 1804
The King, has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great England and Ireland unto Sir Robert Ainslie (age 74), of Great Torrington, in the County of Lincoln, Knight, late His Majefty's Ambassador at the Ottoman Porte, and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, with Remainder to Robert Sharpe Ainslie (age 47), of Market Stainton, in the said County of Lincoln, Esq.; Nephew of the said Sir Robert Ainslie, and Son of General George Ainslie, deceased, and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully-begotten.
The King has also been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Baronet of the said, United Kingdom to William Burroughs (age 51), Esq; late Advocate-General of Bengal and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten.
On 1st June 1829 William Burroughs 1st Baronet (age 76) died. Baronet Burroughs of Castle Bagshaw in County Wicklow extinct.