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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.
Lisle Letters is in Tudor Books.
Tudor Books, Lisle Letters Volume 5
1137. Thomas Warley to Honor Grenville Viscountess Lisle (age 44). 7th April 1538.
Right honourable and my special good Lady, my bounden duty most humbly evermore remembered to my good lord and your good ladyship, pleaseth it your goodness to be advertised that Mistress Katharine and Mistress Anne are merry and in good health, and desire your ladyship of your daily blessing. And Mrs. Katharine desires you to be so good lady to her as to give her a gown of Russells worsted and a kirtle Bruges satin, a neck-collar, a partlet of velvet, and some money, for she is moneyless and lacks shoon, which she would buy if she had money. And Mrs. Anne saith that your ladyship promised her a frontlet, which she looks for, and she saith the vj score pearls which she hath received be all rags, and too few to serve for a past.
Also, my Lady of Wiltshire (deceased) deceased on Wednesday last past in London besides Baynards Castle, and Mistress Elizabeth Plantagenet (age 22), my lord's daughter, is sick of an ague at her brother's in the Whitefriars: but thanks be to God the worst is past, and to-morrow Sir John Dudley, my lady, and Mrs. Elizabeth and all the household remove to Kew besides Richmond. Also, my Lord Mayor, Sir Richard Gresham (age 53), desires my lord to send him a piece of French wine that is very good, and the price, and he will pay the money to the bringer thereof incontinent.
News here be none but such as I think your ladyship hath heard of ere this; which be but coarse; that is, to wit Mr. Mantell and his servants did hurt George Wynkfeld, and much business had [....1], but that the King's Council have taken up the cause. Item, o[ne]1 Wolfe, the Earl of Hertford's servant, fought with a master of fence in Saint Martin's and killed him, and is now in sanctuary in Westminster. And one of my Lord Admiral's servants did kill another in Westminster; and Mr. Gawen Carew and [his serva]nt fought with a sergeant and his yeoman, and the yeoman [w]as slain and the sergeant sore hurt; and Mr. Carew is in the Counter and his servant in Newgate. Also one of my Lord Privy Seal's servants called Gawen should have be[en] arrested, and fought with the sergeants, and he is sore hurt; and after xl gentlemen and serving men beat all the officers at the Counter into houses. And because these news be no better I am sorry to write them.
This day or tomorrow I trust my Lord's licence to come over shall be signed and sealed, and incontinent, all matters laid apart, both Husy and I will come to Calais with the licence, and wait on my Lord.
Tomorrow the King's Grace removes from Westminster to Croydon, and will keep his Easter at Greenwich. Also Sir Francis Bryan will be at Calais within these iij days for he rides ambassador to the French King. And Doctor Bonner and Doctor Haynes ride ambassadors to the Emperor this week.
Other news as yet I know none whereof I may make your Ladyship participant; trusting that your Ladyship, considering my suits and business, of your special goodness will pardon and hold me excused that I have not written to your good Ladyship according to my duty, and as I gladly would, as knoweth the most blessed Trinity, who increase and conserve my good Lord and your good Ladyship in honour and long life, and make [you] shortly a merry grandfather and grandame.
ffrom London, the vij'" day of Aperll with the Rude hand of your most bownden servant
Thomas Warley
Mr. Nedham, Clerk of the Council, desireth my lord to send up Mr. Cokeson's answer shortly, or else he feareth a 'tachment will be awarded against him, for my Lord Chancellor's controller laboureth sore on Mr. Wingfield's side, for he was brought up with the Wingfields. And he said that my Lord Chancellor would write a letter to my Lord concerning the same. Also Mr. [....]1 shewed me that when my lord cometh he shall be sure of a lodging in his house where Sir Francis Bryan did lie when he was here continuing. And I have enquired of Sir Francis Bryan's servants of Mr. George Basset, and they say he is at Ampthill, merry; and applieth his learning very well with certain of the King's wards, and every man praiseth him for his towardness and good conditions.
(XIII i 696; XIV 44)
Note 1. The edge of manuscript is demaged here.
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