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Around 1615 Humphrey Briggs 2nd Baronet was born to Moreton Briggs 1st Baronet (age 28).
Around 1630 Humphrey Briggs 2nd Baronet (age 15) and Elizabeth Carey were married. Unclear as to whether she was his first or second wife?
In 1646 Humphrey Briggs 2nd Baronet (age 31) was elected MP Wenlock.
Around 1648 Humphrey Briggs 2nd Baronet (age 33) and Elizabeth Wilbraham (age 26) were married.
Around 1650 [his son] Humphrey Briggs 3rd Baronet was born to Humphrey Briggs 2nd Baronet (age 35) and [his wife] Elizabeth Wilbraham (age 28).
Around 1650 [his father] Moreton Briggs 1st Baronet (age 63) died. His son Humphrey (age 35) succeeded 2nd Baronet Briggs of Haughton in Shropshire.
On 24th June 1659 [his wife] Elizabeth Wilbraham (age 37) died.
In 1665 Humphrey Briggs 2nd Baronet (age 50) was appointed High Sheriff of Shropshire.
In or before 1670 [his son] Humphrey Briggs 3rd Baronet (age 19) and [his daughter-in-law] Barbara Wyndham (age 20) were married.
Before 1691 Humphrey Briggs 2nd Baronet (age 75) and Magdalen Corbet (age 60) were married. There was no issue from the marriage.
In 1691 Humphrey Briggs 2nd Baronet (age 76) died. His son [his son] Humphrey (age 41) succeeded 3rd Baronet Briggs of Haughton in Shropshire.
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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.
In 1698 [his former wife] Magdalen Corbet (age 68) died.