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.
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Around 1519 Bishop Edmund Allen was born.
In 1536 Bishop Edmund Allen (age 17) was elected Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 10th October 1558. The x day of October was bered in sant Faythe [Map] mastores Alene, the wyff of master (blank) Allen [Note. possibly Bishop Edmund Allen (age 39)], with ij [white] branchys, and xviij torchys, and iiij gret tapurs, and [many] morners in blake, and all the belles of Powlles, and ....
Before 27th July 1559 Bishop Edmund Allen (age 40) was elected Bishop of Rochester although he died before being installed.
On 27th July 1559 Bishop Edmund Allen (age 40) died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 30th August 1559. The sam tym afterward was bered in the body of the chyrche master Allen (deceased), nuw electyd bysshope of Rochaster, with a fuw clarkes syngyng, and ther dyd pryche for hym master Huntyngtun the prycher-the wyche he had a wyf and viij [8] chylderyn.