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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.
On 31st October 1864 Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang was born.
In 1908 Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang (age 43) was elected Archbishop of York.
On 26th July 1928 Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang (age 63) was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
On 4th December 1928 Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang (age 64) was enthroned Archbishop of Canterbury.
On 30th October 1930 Princess Margaret was baptised at the Chapel Buckingham Palace by Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang (age 65). Her aunt Rose Constance Bowes-Lyon Countess Granville (age 40) was godmother.
On 5th December 1945 Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang (age 81) died.