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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.
A History of the County of Brecknockshire is in Victorian Books.
A History of the Couty of Brecknockshire By Theophilus Jones, Deputy Registrar of the Archdry of Brecon.
Victorian Books, A History of the County of Brecknockshire Volume 2
Victorian Books, A History of the County of Brecknockshire Volume 2 Part 2
This Cromlech [Gwernvale Long Barrow [Map]], one end of which adjoined the Brecon turnpike road on the south side, was immediately opposite Gwernvale, about half a mile from Crickhowel: it consisted as usual of a huge tablet of unhewn stone mounted upon five supporters pitched edgewise in the ground, the superincumbent stone or cover, inclining to the south and open in the front to the north: it was placed on a high mound, long overrun with brush wood and brambles, and formerly there seem to have been stones placed edgewise, also round what is now almost a semicircle; whether before the turnpike road was made, they extended so as to describe an irregular circle, I know not, but I am inclined to think that the appearance of the spot was materially altered by the intersection of the highway, and that upon that occasion the workmen, either from curiosity or accident, anticipated our attempt to make discoveries under the Cromlech; in that case the object, though far different from ours, was probably equally unsuccessful .