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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.
Charles Eamer Kempe 1837-1907 is in Stained Glass Window Makers.
On 29th June 1837 Charles Eamer Kempe was born.
St Mary the Virgin Church, Edelsborough [Map]. Stained glass window in the Chancel made in 1901 by Charles Eamer Kempe (age 63) as indicated by his motif of a wheatsheaf, aka garb, bottom left, which also appears on the Kempe armorial. The window depicts St Peterm Virgin and Child, Sy Nicholas i.e. the Natvitiy, Kings, Bishop William Waynflete, and is dedicated to the Revered Augustus Frederick Birch, who was vicar at the time of the 1867 restoration.
On 29th April 1907 Charles Eamer Kempe (age 69) died.
The majority of the windows at Clumber Chapel [Map] were designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.