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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: Wordsworth
William Wordsworth 1770-1850 is in Poets.
On 7th April 1770 William Wordsworth was born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson at Wordsworth House.
In 1783 [his father] John Wordsworth died. [his sister] Dorothy Wordsworth (age 11) was sent to live with her aunt Elizabeth Threlkeld in Halifax.
In 1802 William Wordsworth (age 31) and Mary Hutchinson were married.
In 1840 Henry William Pickersgill (age 57). Portrait of William Wordsworth (age 69).
On 23rd April 1850 William Wordsworth (age 80) died.