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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: Jermyn
Thomas Jermyn and Anne Spring were married.
Before 1482 [his father] Thomas Jermyn (age 28) and [his mother] Catherine Bernard were married.
Around 1482 Thomas Jermyn was born to Thomas Jermyn (age 29) and Catherine Bernard.
Around 1502 George Waldegrave (age 19) and [his future wife] Anne Drury (age 20) were married.
In November 1504 [his father] Thomas Jermyn (age 51) died.
In 1508 [his daughter] Margaret Jermyn was born to Thomas Jermyn (age 26) and Anne Spring (age 14).
In 1511 [his son] Ambrose Jermyn was born to Thomas Jermyn (age 29) and Anne Spring (age 17).
After 1528 Thomas Jermyn (age 46) and Anne Drury (age 46) were married.
In 1530 Thomas Jermyn (age 48) was appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk.
All About History Books
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 1530 Thomas Jermyn (age 48) was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk.
In 1530 [his son-in-law] William Clopton of Kentwell Hall (age 21) and [his daughter] Margaret Jermyn (age 22) were married.
On 10th March 1540 Thomas Jermyn (age 58) was knighted by Henry VIII (age 48).
In 1541 Thomas Jermyn (age 59) was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk.
In 1541 Thomas Jermyn (age 59) was appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk.
Around 1550 [his step-daughter] Anne Waldegrave (age 50) died.
On 1st August 1551 [his step-son] George Waldegrave (age 41) died.
On 8th October 1552 Thomas Jermyn (age 70) died.
All About History Books
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.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 21st October 1552. The xxj day of October was the feneralle of a gentyll knyght, ser Thomas Jarmyn (deceased), the best housekeper in the contey of Suffoke, with ys standard and ys penone of armes, cot-armur, target, and sword, and skochyons; and he kept a godly chapel of syngyng men, for the contray have a gret loss of ys deth, as any contrey in England.
Note. P. 27. Funeral of sir Thomas Jermyn. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 33 Hen. VIII. 1541. His brave housekeeping and goodly chapel of singing-men were kept at Rushbrooke hall, near Bury St. Edmund's, where his family had been seated from a very early period. He was the lineal ancestor of Henry Jermyn, created lord Jermyn of Edmundsbury by king Charles I. and earl of St. Alban's by Charles II.
On 8th June 1572 [his former wife] Anne Drury (age 90) died.