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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.
All Saints' Church, Brocklesby is also in Churches in Lincolnshire.
On 10th August 1875 Charlotte Anderson-Pelham Lady Copley (age 64) died. She was buried at All Saints' Church, Brocklesby [Map].
All Saints' Church, Brocklesby [Map]. After 1914. Memorial to Charles Pelham (age 26) sculpted by Charles Sargeant Jagger (age 28). Inscription: "Vincit Amor Patrae. To the glory of God and in memory of Charles Sackville Pelham Lord Worsley Lieutenant Royal Horse Guards who fell at Zandvoorde 30th October 1914 aged 27. This monument erected by his sorrowing family and the tenantry of the estate. he died as few men get the chance to die fighting to save a world's morality he died the noblest death a man may die fighting for god and right and liberty and such a death is immortality.
Newsham Abbey, Lincolnshire is also in Abbeys in England.
In 1143 Newsham Abbey, Lincolnshire [Map] was founded by Peter of Gousla in 1143. It was a daughter house of the Abbey of Licques, near Calais, and the first Premonstratensian house established in England.
In 1152 Easby Abbey, Yorkshire [Map] was foundfed by Roald, Constable of Richmond Castle. The Premonstratensians wore a white habit and became known as the White Canons. The Abbey was a daughter house of Newsham Abbey, Lincolnshire [Map]; the third Premonstratensian house founded in England.
The River Till rises near Stow [Map] from where it flows past Sturton by Stow [Map], Broxholme [Map] to Saxilby [Map] where it is joined by the Foss Dyke which provides an inter-connection with the River Trent after which it flows to Lincoln, Lincolnshire [Map] where it joins the River Witham.
St Peter and St Paul Church, Cherry Willingham is also in Churches in Lincolnshire.
St Peter and St Paul Church, Cherry Willingham [Map]. "Monument to Robert Featherby, died 1834, of ashlar with inner 4 centred arch and angel brackets below".
The River Witham rises near South Witham, South Kesteven [Map] from where it flows past North Witham, South Kesteven [Map], Colsterworth, South Kesteven [Map], Easton, South Kesteven [Map] to Great Ponton, South Kesteven [Map] where it is joined by the Cringle Brook.
From Great Ponton, South Kesteven [Map] the River Witham flows through Grantham [Map], Belton, Grantham [Map], past Barkston, South Kesteven [Map], Marston, South Kesteven [Map] and Hougham, South Kesteven [Map], Westborough, South Kesteven [Map], Long Benington, South Kesteven [Map], Claypole, South Kesteven [Map], Beckingham, North Kesteven [Map], Norton Disney, North Kesteven [Map], Bassingham, North Kesteven [Map], Haddington, North Kesteven [Map], Aubourn, North Kesteven [Map] through the centre of Lincoln, Lincolnshire [Map] where it joined by the River Till.
From Lincoln, Lincolnshire [Map] it flows under Five Mile Bridge [Map], past Bardney Abbey [Map], Kirkstead [Map], under Tattershall Bridge [Map] after which it is joined by the River Bain
After Tattershall the River Witham flows through canalised sections under Lanrick Bridge [Map], past Anton's Gowt [Map] to Boston [Map] where it is joined by the South Forty Foot Drain. After Boston [Map] the River Witham flows into the The Wash around eight kilometres away.
In 1837, Huntingdonshire was transferred to the Diocese of Ely and the Bishop of Lincoln's official residence was changed from Bishop of Lincoln's Palace, Buckden [Map] to Riseholme Hall, Lincolnshire, the newly established episcopal palace at Riseholme in Lincolnshire.
In 1851 Bishop John Kaye (age 67) commissioned the building of St Mary's Church, Riseholme; the Bishops official residence Riseholme Hall was nearby.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 18th February 1853 Bishop John Kaye (age 69) died at Riseholme Hall, Lincolnshire. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Riseholme.
In 1851 Bishop John Kaye (age 67) commissioned the building of St Mary's Church, Riseholme; the Bishops official residence Riseholme Hall was nearby.
On 18th February 1853 Bishop John Kaye (age 69) died at Riseholme Hall, Lincolnshire. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Riseholme.
On 20th March 1885 Bishop Christopher Wordsworth (age 77) died. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Riseholme. Monument at Lincoln Cathedral [Map] where he has a monument by Bodley and Garner. The design by Thomas Garner is supposed to have been influenced by the nearby Burghersh tombs.
Bishop Christopher Wordsworth: On 30th October 1807 he was born to Christopher Wordsworth and Priscilla Lloyd. On 22nd February 1869 he was appointed Bishop of Lincoln. On 24th February 1869 Bishop Christopher Wordsworth was ordained and consecrated Bishop of Lincoln by Archbishop Campbell Tait.
The River Till rises near Stow [Map] from where it flows past Sturton by Stow [Map], Broxholme [Map] to Saxilby [Map] where it is joined by the Foss Dyke which provides an inter-connection with the River Trent after which it flows to Lincoln, Lincolnshire [Map] where it joins the River Witham.
Sixhills Monastery [Map] was founded in the 12th Century as a nunnery of the Gilbertine Order.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. As for the Earl of Atholl [John Stathbogie (age 40)], who had fled from that castle and, after some time, had been captured, although the queen of England and many magnates begged the king on his behalf that his life be spared, because he was a close kinsman1 to the lord king of England, the king ordered that he be brought to London and hanged higher than the others. And because he was found to be a deceiver, although a relative, the king commanded that after being hanged he should be beheaded and burned, and this was done [on 7th November 1306]. Christopher de Seton, who had married the new king's sister Mary [a mistake for Christina Bruce (age 33)], and was an Englishman, having been captured in the castle of Loch Doon, and afterwards his wife and many others as well, the king ordered to be brought to Dumfries, where the knight [John Comyn] had been killed, and there to be drawn, hanged, and beheaded. The same sentence was passed on two of his brothers and on all the others who had agreed to and taken part in the death of Lord John Comyn; and this was done by the special command of the king. The wife of Christopher, the king placed in the monastery of Sixhills [Map] in Lindsey, and the daughter of the new king he placed in the monastery of Watton [Map]. The lord king gave to Lord Edmund de Mauley (age 25) the manor of Seaton in Whitby Strand, which had belonged to Christopher, and other lands he had held in Northumberland the king gave to Lord William le Latimer (age 30). The lands of the new king the lord king divided among his magnates in this way: he gave the Valley of Annandale to the Earl of Hereford, who had married the daughter of the king of England; Ayr and Ayrshire he gave to Lord Robert de Clifford (saving, however, the right of the church of Durham); Tothenham, Tothenhamschire, and the manor of Wrothell in the southern parts he gave to other magnates. The earldom of Carrick, which the new king had held by maternal inheritance, the king of England gave to Lord Henry de Percy; and the earldom of Atholl he gave to the Earl of Gloucester, who had married the king's daughter after the death of Gilbert de Clare, the former earl of Gloucester. Thus he bore the title of earl by right of his wife, not by inheritance, for he had been a mere and unremarkable knight when he married her, by the name of Ralph Monthermer (age 36).
Comitem vero de Asechel, qui ab isto castro fugerat et post aliquod intervallum captus fuerat, cum regina Angliæ et multi magnates rogarent pro eo ad regem ne sanguis ejus effunderetur, pro eo quod fuit proximus parens domino regi Angliæ, jussit rex Londoniis adduci et cæteris excelsior suspendi. Et quia seductor inventus qui consanguineus extiterat, præcepit rex post suspensionem decollari eum et comburi, quod factum est. Christoforum autem de Sethon, qui sororem novi regis duxerat nomine Mariam, et esset Anglicus, cum in castro de Lochdor captus esset, et post uxorque sua et multi alii, jussit rex adduci apud Dunfrees ubi militem occiderat, ibique trahi, suspendi et decollari. Simile judicium habuerunt duo fratres sui, et omnes alii qui morti domini Johannis Comyn consenserunt et interfuerunt; et hoc ex speciali præcepto regis. Uxorem vero Christofori posuit rex in monasterio de Thyxsel in Lindesay, et filiam novi regis posuit in monasterio de Watton. Deditque dominus rex domino Eadmundo de Malo-lacu manerium de Seton in Wytebystrand, quod erat Christofori, et alias suas terras quas habuit in Northumberland dedit rex domino Willelmo le Latymer. Terras vero novi regis dispersit dominus rex inter magnates suos hoc modo; dedit enim Vallem Anandiæ comiti de Herford, qui filiam regis Angliæ duxerat in uxorem; Hert vero et Herternes dedit domino Roberto de Clifforde, salvo tamen jure ecclesiæ Dunolmensis; Thotenham et Thotenhamschyre et manerium de Wrothell in partibus australibus dedit aliis magnatibus suis; comitatum vero de Karrik, quem ex hæreditate materna habuerat ipse novus rex, dedit rex Angliæ domino Henrico de Percy; comitatum autem de Asechel dedit rex comiti Gloucestriæ, qui filiam regis post mortem Gilberti de Clare quondam comitis Gloucestriæ, duxerat; sicque nomen comitis habebat ab uxore, non ab hæreditate, fuerat enim miles simplex et segnis quando eam duxerat, nomine Radulphus Monhermer.
Note 1. John Strathbogie, 9th Earl Atholl, and King Edward I, were half first cousins twice removed. Strathbogie was a great great grandson of King John through his illegitimate son Richard.
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The River Till rises near Stow [Map] from where it flows past Sturton by Stow [Map], Broxholme [Map] to Saxilby [Map] where it is joined by the Foss Dyke which provides an inter-connection with the River Trent after which it flows to Lincoln, Lincolnshire [Map] where it joins the River Witham.
The River Till rises near Stow [Map] from where it flows past Sturton by Stow [Map], Broxholme [Map] to Saxilby [Map] where it is joined by the Foss Dyke which provides an inter-connection with the River Trent after which it flows to Lincoln, Lincolnshire [Map] where it joins the River Witham.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 873. This year went the army against the Northumbrians, and fixed their winter-quarters at Torksey in Lindsey. And the Mercians again made peace with the army.