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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.
Holinshed's Chronicle 1421 is in Holinshed's Chronicle.
After that done, he made great pu[...]ueyance for the coronation of his Q. & spouse, the faire Lady Katherine, whiche was done the daye of S. Mathie, beeing the 24. of February [1421], with all such Ceremonies and princelyke solemnitie as apperteined, and as in ye Chronicles of Robert Fabian is at large expressed. After the solemne feast of the Coronation once ended, the King as well to visit certayne places for devotion, by way of pilgrimage, as also to see in what state and ord[...]r diners parts of his Realm stoode, departed from the Q. appointing day and place where she should meete hym, and so journeyed forthe from place to place, thorough sundry Countreys, as well of Wales as Englande, and in every quarter where he came, hee heard with diligent eare the complaintes of sutors, & tooke order for the administration of justice both to high and lowe, causing manie mysdemeanors to be reformed. At length he came to the town of Leycester, where he foud the Quene according to the appointment before taken.