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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.
Baronet Marjoribanks of Lees in Berwickshire is in Baronetcies of Nova Scotia Alphabetically.
The London Gazette 16969. Whitehall, December 27, 1814
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the following Gentlemen respectively, and the heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten, viz.
Sir Alexander Campbell, Knt. Major-General in the Army, and Lieutenant-General and Commander of the Forces in the Isle of France.
The Right Honourable William McMahon, Master of the Rolls in Ireland.
George Buchan Hepburn, of Smeaton, in the county of Haddington, Esq. late one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland.
The Right Honourable John Marjoribanks (age 51), Lord Provost of the city of Edinburgh. [Baronet Marjoribanks of Lees in Berwickshire]
John Silvester, of Yardley-House, in the county of Essex, Esq. Recorder of the city of London.
Thomas Hugh Clifford, of Tixall, in the county of Stafford, Esq.
John Simeon, of Grazeley, in the county of Berks, Esq.
Guy Campbell, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, and Major in the 6th Regiment of Foot.
Gilbert King, of Charlestown, in the county of Roscommon, Esq. Colonel in the Army.
John Jackson, of Ailsey, in the county of Bodford, Esq.
Henry Steuart, of Allanton, in the county of Lanerk, Esq. with remainder to his son in law, Ranald or Reginald Macdonald, of Stalfa, and his heirs male.
George Griffiths Williams, of Llwyny Wormwood, in the county of Carmarthen, Esq.
David Dundas, of Richmond, in the county of Surrey, and of Llanelly, in the county of Carmarthen, Esq. Serjeant-Surgeon to the King.
Robert Holt Leigh, of Whitley, in the county of Lancaster, Esq. with remainder to the heirs male of Holt Leigh, of Whitley, Esq. deceased, father of the said Robert Holt Leigh.
Edmund Antrobus, of Antrobus, in the county of Chester, and of Rutherford, in the county of Roxburgh, Esq. with remainder to his nephew, Edmund Antrobus (age 22), jun. Esq. and his heirs male, and in default of such issue, to his nephew, Gibbs Crawford Antrubus (age 21), Esq. and his heirs male, both sons of his late brother, John Antrobus, Esq. deceased.
Samuel Egerton Brydges, of Denton-Court, in the county of Kent, Esq.
Jonathan Wathen Waller (age 45), of Braywick-Lodge, in the county of Berks, and of Twickenham, in the county of Middlesex, Esq.
John Compton Domville, of Santry-House, in the county of Dublin, Esq.
Thomas Preston, of Beeston St. Lawience, in the county of Norfolk, Esq.
Rose Price, of Treagwainton, in. the county of Cornwall, Esq.
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