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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, Nantwich is in Nantwich, Cheshire, Churches in Cheshire.
Around 1340 the building of the current St Mary's Church, Nantwich was commenced in the Decorated Style. Interrupted by the Black Death the building was completed in the Perpendiucalr Style around 1400.
Around 1384. St Mary's Church, Nantwich. Alabaster monument to David Craddock, Mayor of Bordeaux, Justicar of Wales and a money-lender to Richard II, found buried under the chancel floor during the 19th-century restoration.
After 21st December 1614. St Mary's Church, Nantwich. Monument to Thomas Smith of Hough in Cheshire commissioned by his wife Anne Brereton. The monument, carved by Hugh Hall, was originally in St Chad's Church, Wybunbury but moved to Nantwich in 1982. Stuart Period.
Thomas Smith of Hough in Cheshire: Around 1545 he was born to Lawrence Smith and Anne Fouleshurst. On 21st January 1561 he and Anne Brereton were married. On 21st June 1614 he died. Notes of the Churches of Cheshire. The alabaster tomb [at St Chad's Church, Wybunbury] with two recumbent effigies of a knight in plate armour, and lady, has the inscription: Here lyeth Sr Thomas Smith of Haigh Kt and Dame Anne his wife daughter to Sr William Brereton of Brereton Kt who had issue one sonn and one daught'r wch Sr Thomas died the 21st of December 1614 whose ladie in remembrance gave him this monument.
Anne Brereton: In December 1546 she was born to William Brereton and Jane Warburton. After 1614 Anne Brereton died.
After 1807. St Mary's Church, Nantwich. Monuments to William Sprout, Edward Vincent Bayley, Roger Wilbraham and others.
