Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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Around 1504 Bishop Ralph Baines was born.
On 18th November 1554 Bishop Ralph Baines [aged 50] was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 18th November 1554. The xviij day of November dyd pryche at Powlles crosse [Map] the nuw bysshope of Lynckolne, doctur White [aged 44], late the warden of Wynchaster.
The sam day was consecratyd nuw [bishops], on bysshope of Brystow [aged 59], and a-nodur byshope of Lycheffeld and Coventre [aged 50].
Henry Machyn's Diary. 21st June 1559. The xxj day of June was v bysshopes deprevyd, the bysshope of Lychfeld and Coventre [aged 55], and the bysshope of Carley [aged 52], the bysshope of Westchester, the bysshope of Landaffh [aged 87], and the bysshope of ( ).
On 18th November 1559 Bishop Ralph Baines [aged 55] died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. On or after 4th January 1560. The (blank) day was bered doctur Bayne, late byshope of Lychfeld and Coventre, in sant Donstons in the west [Map].
Note. P. 221. Funeral of the late bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. Ralph Baynes, elected 10 Nov. 1554; also deprived 1559. He died some weeks before Dr. Oglethorpe, when his burial at St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street, was thus entered in the parish register: "1559, Nov. 24. Mr. Doctor Banes." Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. vol. iv. p. 116.