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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.
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Plate CII. Thomas Leman, at Southacre [Map], 1534.
Blomefield’s Norf. vi. 83.
Another bachelor of arts, but with what appears to be a cassock, in addition to his gown. He is to be noticed as being the first without the tonsure. In this year the authority of the Pope in this kingdom was formally renounced by Parliament, to which, perhaps, may be attributed the alteration which from this time took place in the hair of the clergy. He was rector of Southacre thirty-two years.
Plate CVI. Thomas Childes, In St. Lawrence’s Church [Map], Norwich, 1452.
Blomefield’s Norf. iv. 267.
Though little can be said in favour of the knowledge or execution displayed in these figures, the moral intention is deserving of praise. It was wished to remind men that the robes of pride will shortly be exchanged for the winding-sheet, and that beauty and strength are hastening to the period when they will become as the spectre before them. This species of memorial [Cadaver] appeared in stone effigies, in the preceding century, on the tomb of an ecclesiastic; but that before us is the first I meet with in brass, and it may be considered early; for Gough, i. 112, says, that the oldest figure he knows of a skeleton in brass, is A. D. 1471. Of Thomas Childes himself, I find nothing more than is mentioned in the epitaph.
Plate CVIII. John Brigge (deceased), at Salle [Map], 1454.
Blomefield’s Norf. iv. 216.
This person was the descendant of an ancient family at Salle, who, before the time of Edward I. assumed the surname of De Ponte or Pontibus, 7. e. at Brigge or at Brigges, as the ancient family of the Fountains of the same place assumed theirs of De Fonte or Fontibus, at the Fountain or Fountains, much about the same time ; the one dwelling by the spring, and the other by the bridge over the current that flowed from it: the eldest branches of both families continued at Salle till they united in one, in the middle of the sixteenth century. (Vid. Blomef. loc. sup. cit.)
John Brigge of Salle: Before 1454 he was born to John Atte Brigge. In 1481 he died.