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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.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Flowers, Rose

Rose is in Flowers.

Baron Annaly Arms. Argent, on a chevron engrailed gules, between three roses of the last, a cross crosslet or. Source.

Duke Montrose Arms. Quarterly, 1&4 Graham Arms 2&3 Argent three roses gules barbed and seeded proper (Montrose).

Carey Arms. Argent, a bend sable, three roses of the first. Source.

Dunbar Arms. Gules a lion rampant argent on a bordure of the same eight roses of the field. Source.

Lennox Arms. Argent, a saltire between four roses gules. Source.

Oldham Arms. Sable, a chevron or between three owls argent on a chief of the second three roses gules. Possibly an example of canting arms where owl represents owl-dam. Source.

Vaux Arms. Chequy argent and gules, on a chevron azure, three roses or. Source.

Conway Arms. Sable, on a bend cotised argent a rose gules between two annulets of the first. Source.