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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.
1348-1350 Black Death Plague Outbreak is in 1340-1349 Plague and Crecy.
In June 1348 the 1348-1350 Black Death Plague Outbreak arrived in England. The first of many occurrences. It is estimated to have killed between 25 to 60 percent of the population of around six million. The outbreak lasted through 1349 recurring in 1362, 1369 and regularly thereafter until its last significant outbreak in The Great Plague of 1666.
On 11th September 1349 Bonne Luxemburg Queen Consort France (age 34) died of plague in Maubisson, Pontoise.
Annales of England by John Stow. 1348. There began amongst the East Indians and Tartarians a certaine pestilence, which at length waxed so general, infecting the middle region of the ayre so greatly, that it destroyed the Saracens, Turks, Syrians, Palestinians, and the Grecians with a woonderfull or rather incredible death, in so much that those peoples, being exceedingly dismaid with the terrour therof, consulted amongst themselves and thought it good to receive the Christian faith and Sacraments, for they had intelligence that the Christians which dwelt on this side the Greekish sea were not so greatly (more then common custome was) troubled with sicknesse and mortalitie. At length this terrible slaughter passed over into those countries which are on this side the Alpes, and from thence to the partes of Fraunce which are called Hesperia, and so by order along into Germany and Dutchland. And the seventh yeere after it began, it came into England and first began in the townes and ports joyning on the sea coasts, in Dorsetshire, where, even as in other countries, it made the country quite void of inhabitants, so that there were almost none left alive. From thence it passed into Devonshire and Somersetshire, even unto Bristow, and raged in such sort that the Glocestershire men would not suffer the Bristow men to have any accesse unto them or into their countrey by any meanes. But at length it came to Glocester, yea even to Oxford, and London, and finally it spred over all England, and so wasted and spoyled the people that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive.
In 1348 John Savoy (age 10) died of plague during the 1348-1350 Black Death Plague Outbreak.
In 1348 John Barcelona (age 31) died of plague.
On 6th June 1349 William Harcourt (age 49) died of plague at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 20th September 1349 Archbishop Simon Islip was elected Archbishop of Canterbury. His two predecessors Archbishop Thomas Bradwardine (deceased) and Archbishop John de Ufford having died of plague in quick succession during the 1348-1350 Black Death Plague Outbreak.
Before 21st September 1349 Hugh Fitzhugh Fitzhenry (age 15) died. Possibly by plague given the 1348-1350 Black Death Plague Outbreak occurring at this time.
On 29th September 1349 Margaret Wake Countess Kent (age 52) died of plague. Her son John (age 19) succeeded 4th Baron Wake of Liddell and inherited her dower lands and the estates she had inherited from her brother Thomas Wake 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell.
On 26th March 1350 Alfonso "Avenger" XI King Castile (age 38) died of plague. His son Peter (age 15) succeeded I King Castile.
John of Fordun's Chronicle. 167. Pestilence among men.
In the year 1350, there was, in the kingdom of Scotland, so great a pestilence and plague among men (which also prevailed for a great many years before and after, in divers parts of the world — nay, all over the whole earth), as, from the beginning of the world even unto modern times, had never been heard of by man, nor is found in books, for the enlightenment of those who come after. For, to such a pitch did that plague wreck its cruel spite, that nearly a third of mankind were thereby made to pay the debt of nature. Moreover, by God's will, this evil led to a strange and unwonted kind of death, insomuch that the flesh of the sick was somehow puffed out and swollen, and they dragged out their earthly life for barely two days. Now this everywhere attacked especially the meaner sort and common people; — seldom the magnates. Men shrank from it so much that, through fear of contagion, sons, fleeing as from the face of leprosy or from an adder, durst not go and see their parents in the throes of death.