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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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Calendar Inquisitions Miscellaneous is in Late Medieval Books.
1666. Commission to Edmund de la Beche, Robert Daundely, and James de Wodestok. Witness: — Edward, duke of Cornwall and earl of Chester, guardian of England. Berkhampstede. 22 April 13 Edward III. [1339.] By the council.
Town of Southampton.
Inquisition before the said Edmund and James. Romesy. Friday after Trinity.
Thomas de Bynedon and Robert de Farnefold, receivers of the king's wool in CO. Hants, according to the rate of a fifteenth, received before Michaelmas 12 Edward III at Southampton 136 sacks, 40 cloves, and 51bs. from divers hundreds, which was burnt and carried away by foreign enemies, who entered the town on Monday after Michaelmas.
John Mauduyt, sheriff of Wilts, Henry Burry, and Robert de Wodeford, receivers of the king's wool in co. Wilts, caused to be carried from co. Wilts to Southampton before Michaelmas 270 sarplers of wool, which were burnt and carried away as aforesaid, except 29 sarplers which came into the keeping of the said Robert and Henry after the burning.
Wilts.
Similar inquisition with similar findings as to the said 270 sarplers.
Hants.
Similar inquisition with similar findings as to the said 270 sarplers, and as to the said 136 sacks, 40 cloves, and 51bs., except a statement that 50 cloves thereof were carried away after the burning by Elhs Farman of Hungerford and others (named).
A transcript of the foregoing commission and inquisitions. Cf. Close Roll Calendar, p. 550. C. Inq. Misc. File 138. (12.)
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