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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.
Paternal Family Tree: Acland
Before 1620 John Acland and Elizabeth Rolle were married.
Around 1552 John Acland was born to John Acland.
On 5th October 1553 [his father] John Acland died.
In 1586 John Acland (age 34) was elected MP Saltash.
On 15th March 1604 John Acland (age 52) was knighted by King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland (age 37) at the Tower of London [Map].
On 27th January 1607 John Acland (age 55) was elected MP Devon.
On 14th February 1620 John Acland (age 68) died without issue. He was buried in Broad Clyst Church Broad Clyst, Devon. His heir was his seventy year old brother [his brother] Hugh Acland (age 77) who survived him by two years.