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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.

Culture, Religious Buildings in England, Religious Buildings Geographically, Religious Buildings in Welsh March, Religious Buildings in Gloucestershire

St Mary's Church, Almonsbury Church of the Holy Cross, Avening All Saints Church, Bisley St Werburgh's Church, Bristol St John the Baptist Church, Bristol St Stephen's Church, Bristol St James' Church, Chipping Campden St Andrew's Church, Miserden St Andrew Saint Mary Magdalene's Church, Sherborne St Laurence's Church, Stroud St Leonard's Church, Tortworth Bristol Cathedral St James Priory, Bristol Flaxley Abbey Gloucester Cathedral Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucestershire St Oswald's Priory Kingswood Abbey, Gloucestershire Tewkesbury Abbey Hailes Abbey Winchcombe Abbey

Religious Buildings in Gloucestershire is in Religious Buildings in Welsh March.

St Mary's Church, Almonsbury [Map]

Church of the Holy Cross, Avening [Map]

All Saints Church, Bisley [Map]

St Werburgh's Church, Bristol [Map]

St John the Baptist Church, Bristol [Map]

St Stephen's Church, Bristol [Map]

St James' Church, Chipping Campden [Map]

St Andrew's Church, Miserden St Andrew [Map]

Saint Mary Magdalene's Church, Sherborne [Map]

St Laurence's Church, Stroud [Map]

St Leonard's Church, Tortworth [Map]

Bristol Cathedral [Map]

St James Priory, Bristol [Map]

Flaxley Abbey [Map]

Gloucester Cathedral [Map]

Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucestershire [Map]

St Oswald's Priory [Map]

Kingswood Abbey, Gloucestershire [Map]

Tewkesbury Abbey [Map]

Hailes Abbey [Map]

Winchcombe Abbey [Map]