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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.
St Mary's Church, Burford is in Burford, Shropshire [Map], Churches in Shropshire.
St Mary's Church, Burford [Map]. Monuments to the Rushout Family sculpted by Richard Westmacott.
St Mary's Church, Burford [Map]. Monument to Gilbert Cornwall.
On 22nd March 1354 Edmund Cornwall (age 74) died at Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map].
After 22nd March 1354. Monument to Edmund Cornwall (deceased) at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map]. Early Plate Bascinet and Gorget Period. Feet resting on a Lion. Curious laminated gorget.
Edmund Cornwall: Edmund Cornwall and Elizabeth Brampton were married. Around 1280 he was born to Richard Cornwall and Joan Fitzalan at Asthall Leigh, Oxfordshire. He a great grandson of King John of England. On 22nd March 1354 Edmund Cornwall died at Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map].
On 24th November 1426 Elizabeth Lancaster Duchess Exeter (age 63) died. She was buried at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map].
Around 1435 Edmund Cornwall (age 53) died in Cologne. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map].
On 11th November 1887 George Rushout 3rd Baron Northwick (age 76) died. Baron Northwich of Northwick Park in Worcestershire, Baronet Rushout of Northwick Park in Worcestershire extinct. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map].