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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 North-Central England, Religious Buildings in Leicestershire

St Mary the Virgin Church, Bottesford, Leicestershire Church of St Mary and St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill St Mary the Virgin Church, Coleorton St Michael and All Angels Church, Edmondthorpe, Leicestershire St Luke's Church Gaddesby, Leicestershire Church of St Thomas Becket, Skeffington Greyfriars Church Leicester, Leicestershire Church of the Annunciation of our Lady of the Newark All Saints Church Rotherby St Mary Magalene's Church Stapleford, Leicestershire St Guthlac's Church, Stathern Holy Trinity Church Staunton Harold, Leicestershire Church of St Mary and All Saints, Stoughton Belvoir Priory Croxton Abbey Greyfriars Priory Leicester, Leicestershire Leicester Cathedral Hasting's Chapel, St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Religious Buildings in Leicestershire is in Religious Buildings in North-Central England.

St Helen's Church Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire [Map]

St Mary the Virgin Church, Bottesford, Leicestershire [Map]

Church of St Mary and St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill [Map]

St Mary the Virgin Church, Coleorton [Map]

St Michael and All Angels Church, Edmondthorpe, Leicestershire [Map]

St Luke's Church Gaddesby, Leicestershire [Map]

Church of St Thomas Becket, Skeffington [Map]

Greyfriars Church Leicester, Leicestershire [Map]

Church of the Annunciation of our Lady of the Newark [Map]

All Saints Church Rotherby [Map]

St Mary Magalene's Church Stapleford, Leicestershire [Map]

St Guthlac's Church, Stathern [Map]

Holy Trinity Church Staunton Harold, Leicestershire [Map]

Church of St Mary and All Saints, Stoughton [Map]

Belvoir Priory [Map]

Croxton Abbey [Map]

Greyfriars Priory Leicester, Leicestershire [Map]

Leicester Abbey

Leicester Cathedral [Map]