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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.
Cotton's Abridgement is in Modern Era.
1657. An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London: From the Reign of King Edward the Second, Unto King Richard the Third, of All the Parliaments Holden in Each Kings Reign, and the Several Acts in Every Parliament: Together with the Names and Titles of All the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons, Summoned to Every of the Said Parliaments. Collected by Sir Robert Cotton; revised... by William Prynne. 1657.
The Stileof the said Duke was, John the Son of the King of England, Duke of Guiene, and Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester, Steward of England.
Henry Bowet Clarke for being of Counsell, of the device made to the Duke of Hereford expressed before in tis. 87. Was adjudged to dye, and forfeit as a Traytor, notwithstanding he was after pardoned of life, and banished the Realm.
6th October 1399. The Parliament holden at Westminster the Munday in the Feast of St. Faith in the First year of King Henry the Fourth,
6th October 1399. 1 The same Monday being the 6th of October Thomas de Arundell, Archbishop of Canterbury, by the Kings commandement, who then sate in his Royall Estate in the great Hall at Weftminster, there being present the Lords and Commons, declared how that a Parliament was summoned by King Richard, to be holden there the Tuesday mext before, the which summons was undone and void by the acceptation of the renouncing of the same King Richard, and deposing of him, made the same Tuesday in the presence of the King, Lords, and Commons, as by the Process hereafter shall ppear.
13 After this the same day Henry Duke of Lancaster; accompanied with the persons aforefaid, with the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, the Lords of Roos, Willoughby and of Bargaveny, came into the Tower into the presence of the said King Richard, where, after familiar talk had between the King; the Duke, and Arch Bishop of Canterbury and sundry chearfull countenances; In the end the same King, callng all them that were present, said openly That he was ready to make his aforefaid Renunciation; and thereupon it was offered that the Instrument should be read by an Order. The same King notwithstanding willingly and chearfully took and throughIy read the same Instrument, in effect following.