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.
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Abbreviations is in Long Barrows of the Cotswolds.
ABBREVIATIONS
A.J. ... Archeological Journal.
Arch. ... Archæologia.
Arch. Camb ... Archæologia Cambrensis.
Brit. Bars ... Greenwell's British Barrows, 1877.
Cran. Brit ... Crania Britannica (2 vols., 1865).
J.A.I. ... Journal of the (Royal) Anthropological Institute.
J.B.A.A. ... Journal of the British Archæological Association.
Proc. C.N.F.C. ... Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club.
Trans. B. & G.A.S. ... Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society.
W. ... Archæological Handbook of the County of Gloucester, by G. B. Witts, C.E. (1883). W .34, etc., means NO 34 in his list of Long Barrows and on his map.
W.A.M. ... Wiltshire Archeological Magazine (Devizes).
V.C.H. ... Victoria County History.
N.O.A.S .... Transactions Of the North Oxfordshire Archæological Society.
Antiq. Journ. ... Antiquaries' Journal.
P.P. No. 6 ... Ordnance Survey Professional Paper No. 6 (published by H.M. Stationery Offce, 1922). against the Reference Numbers indicates that the site is marked on the quarter-inch map accompanying (see end of volume).