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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: Parker of Devon
On 23rd July 1666 Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield was born to Thomas Parker (age 32).
On 23rd April 1691 Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield (age 24) and Janet Carrier Countess Macclesfield (age 30) were married.
Around 1696 [his son] George Parker 2nd Earl Macclesfield was born to Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield (age 29) and [his wife] Janet Carrier Countess Macclesfield (age 35).
Around 1700 [his daughter] Elizabeth Parker Lady Heathcote was born to Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield (age 33) and [his wife] Janet Carrier Countess Macclesfield (age 39).
Before August 1720 William Anson (age 64) and Isabella Carrier were married by which he became the brother-in-law to her sister's husband Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield (age 54).
In 1721 Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield (age 54) was created 1st Earl Macclesfield.
In 1725 Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield (age 58) impeached and unanimously, convicted of corruption for taking more than £100,000 in bribes (the equivalent of more than £11,000,000 today).
In 1725 Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield (age 58) was imprisoned until payment of his £30,000 fine was received at Tower of London [Map].
On 28th March 1727 Isaac Newton (deceased) was buried in Scientist's Corner, Westminster Abbey [Map]; the first scientist to be buried there. The service was performed by the Bishop of Rochester (age 74).
Before the funeral his body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, Cheyneygates, Westminster Abbey [Map]. His coffin was followed by most of the Fellows of the Royal Society.
The Pall Bearers were the Lord Chancellor Peter King 1st Baron King (age 58), James Graham 1st Duke Montrose (age 44), Robert Ker 2nd Duke Roxburghe (age 18), Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 71), Talbot Yelverton 1st Earl of Sussex (age 36) and Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield (age 60).
The Chief Mourner was Michael Newton 4th Baronet (age 32); his third cousin.
Voltaire observed, "He was buried like a king who had done well by his subjects.".
He was buried at Scientist's Corner, Westminster Abbey [Map] on 28th March 1727.; the first scientist to be buried there. The inscription on his John Michael Rysbrack (age 32) monument reads "Here is buried Isaac Newton, Knight, who by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced. Diligent, sagacious and faithful, in his expositions of nature, antiquity and the holy Scriptures, he vindicated by his philosophy the majesty of God mighty and good, and expressed the simplicity of the Gospel in his manners. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race! He was born on 25th December 1642, and died on 20th March 1726."
On 28th April 1732 Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield (age 65) died at Soho Square [Map]. His son [his son] George (age 36) succeeded 2nd Earl Macclesfield.
On 23rd August 1733 [his former wife] Janet Carrier Countess Macclesfield (age 72) died at Shirburn Castle [Map].
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Parker
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Parker
Great x 2 Grandfather: George or William Parker
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Parker of Parwick
GrandFather: George Parker
Father: Thomas Parker