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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.
Antonini Itinerarium aka Antonine Itinerary is in Georgian Books.
Antonini Itinerarium aka Antonine Itinerary aka Gale's Itinerary by Thomas Gale was published posthumously, with notes, by his son Roger Gale (age 35).
Kennet
CUNETIO. At the sources of the river Cunetion (Kennett) stands a town of the same name. The whole neighborhood abounds with the remains of Castles and Mounds. I omit Aubury and Silbury, as they are works of uncertain origin: but at the hill which they call Martinsall hill, a rampart protrudes, which, with its square form, and a coin of Constantine unearthed not so long ago, argues that it was Roman. The neighboring field also bears three pyramidal stones, similar to those prostrate Hermes of the Isurians, whom the Devils Coits [Map]. The common people attribute the Devil to his name of Diabolic Discs.
CUNETIONE. ad fontes fluvii Cunetîonis (Kennett) stat oppidum ejusdem nominis. Vicina regio tota scatet Castrorum & Tumulorum reliquiis. Aubury & Silbury taceo utpote incertæ originis opera: sed ad collem quem vocant Martinsall hill fese prodit vallum, quod & forma quadrata, & Constantini nummus non ita pridem erutus, Romanum fuiise arguit. Ager etiam vicinus oftendit tres lapides pyramidales, Hermis illis Isurianis prorfus similes, quos Devils Coits. de vulgus Diabolo attribuit suo nomine Discorum Diabolicorum.